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Happy Turkey Day! You did save the innards of your jack-o-lantern to make pumpkin pie, didn't you?

TARHEELERS: Russ Neale writes from Boone, N.C. (900 State Farm Road, 28607), that he and Nancy were married in 1959 and moved to Salt Lake City. They've been in North Carolina for about a decade where Nancy is directing the social work degree program at Appalachian State University and Russ is an adjunct on the psychology faculty as well as in private practice. Both have their doctorates and three children: Aleda, married and in grad school at UNC-Chapel Hill; Erica is in Togo, West Africa, with the Peace Corps; and Graham just finished his senior year in college.

More recently moved to North Carolina is Don Freund (352 N. Sharon Amity Rd., Charlotte 28211) who's an obstetrical gynecologist at Kaiser Parmanente.

EMPIRE STATERS: Mary Jane Devitt missed the mid-winter mini since she was mired in rewriting procedure manuals for the joint commission on accreditation of hospitals. "A labor of love" says Mary Jane who is a rare breed: biology major with English and fine arts minors. At last check she was at 80 Murray Ave., Goshen, NY 10924.

Bill Stone (222 E 80th St., NYC 10021) was named associate creative director at Doremus and Company (Big Apple ad agency). Invited to a special birthday party for Dolph Cramer, Bill told him he was happy to find Dolph was older than himself. Quipped Dolph, "Yes, and I always have been." How 'bout them apples!

CANADIAN CAPER: It says, "Aside from his teaching duties at Carleton University, Dr. Peter Johnson has worked in the north on many research projects for the federal government and Smithsonian Institute, focusing on the archaeology of the Eastern Arctic. A physical geographer, he also has a specialty in the remote sensing of glaciologic and geomorphological phenomena." Got that? Pete (Box 121, Manotick, Ont., Canada KOA 2NO) says Ellie's Canadian crafts shop (The Weavers' House) is doing well. "Martha is winding up an M.A. at the University of Toronto. Sigrid is a volunteer in a national park in Malawi in east central Africa." Last summer Pete again ran a two-week "Arctic Experience" including white-water rafting, hiking, and boat excursions on Frobisher Bay.

COMMUNICATOR KUDO: Last May at the commencement exercises of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Dave Hitchcock was given the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy. Nice going for a guy who started as a mail boy at CBS and is now deputy associate director for management, U.S. Information Agency. Congrats, Dave!

FLORIDA FORAYS: Curt Kimball (3902 W. 73rd Terrace, Prairie Village, KS 66208) spent a week with the K.C. Royals spring training at Fort Myers. He's been a volunteer for their ticket-selling operations for several years and says he can get ducats for you if you're in town during the season.

Frank Harrington was in Orlando for a Dartmouth Seminar and saw Bill and TerriCarpenter as well as Ben and Jean Benner (3001 Troy Drive, Orlando 32806).

That's about it for now. Time to ask Santa for a new ribbon for the typewriter. If you've got one, please use it to send along a note on what you're doing, or not doing.

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