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Former head agent Hartley Webster is well on his way to becoming a preacher after a lifetime in business. In July Hartley started a one-year internship at South Church in Andover, Mass., where he is serving as interim minister of pastoral care. He's completed his first year at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., where he is enrolled in a Master of Arts in Theological Studies program with a concentration in pastoral counseling. He's got two more years of study.

For those of us who attended the passages sessions at our 25th reunion, the change of direction is no surprise. Nonetheless, it's good to see Hartley is far along the road, and that he's landed a position at such a famous church. (Just look into the history of why there's an Andover and a North Andover. Hint: it's church related.)

Tony Horan says he wants "to start giving back all that was given me via the Dartmouth endowment." So he's founded the North American Urological Institute "whose primary function is to find ways to do a better job on cancer of the prostate, the number two killer of men by cancer. The institute will attempt to treat premalignant lesions and treat established active cancer with an early double hormone protocol."

Red Facher writes that Mort Lynn's daughter Allison is among the members of the class of 1991, which started this fall. Red's son Scott is a '90, and was concertmaster of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra during winter term and played junior varsity lacrosse in spring term.

Duck Eicke has taken a new job at the University of Mississippi as a faculty psychologist with the department of . family medicine in the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, after having been in Oxford, Miss. "Looking forward to the change and challenge," he writes.

Bill Blue has headed back to California after eight years in Kentucky. "I have been appointed vice president of international marketing for the Kahlua Group, a division of Allied-Lyons (a British firm) to form an international division for the group," he writes. "Had great success doing the same for Brown-Forman in Louisville."

Bill says he's happy to be back in his home state, but quickly adds that he's traveling abroad about 30 percent of the time. He's been happily married, to Cynthia, for 21-and-a-half years; Wendy, 19, is a sophomore at the University of Southern California, Scott, 18, is a high school senior, and Brent is an 8th grader. Bill's motto, as a 6- handicap golfer: "Golf course diplomacy and friendship all over the world for world peace."

Steve Bickel has been promoted to executive vice president of American General Corp., responsible for the Houston-based insurance company's actuarial, tax, and public and governmental affairs operations. He had been senior vice president and actuary for AGC, the parent company. He has been with the firm for 22 years. According to Insurance Record, he is an authority on life insurance taxation.

Dave Birney and wife Meredith Baxter Birney have been back on campus performing his original production of The Diaries ofAdam and Eve, which according to the UnionLeader, he adapted from a pair of works by Mark Twain. Hopkins Center audiences got the chance to discuss the works after each performance. It was their fourth summer on campus since he was a visiting professor of drama in 1980. Meredith is an honorary member of the class of 1982. "We have real roots here." Birney told the newspaper. "We feel it's renewing for us."

Ken Quickel has been named president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, an internationally-known treatment and research institution affiliated with the Harvard Medical School. Ken is a physician specializing in endocrinology, but for much of his career, he's been a medical administrator, including president and chief executive officer of the 600-bed Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania (1982-84), president of the 200-physician Ramsey Clinic in St. Paul, Minn., and chairman of the board of the St. Paul-Ramsey Foundation, the clinic's research and education arm.

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