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Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts scored points with environmentalists recently when he appointed Bill Eichbaum as undersecretary of environmental affairs, the number two state environmental post. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bill has run environmental programs for Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Interior Department. "The governor needs somebody who will go up to him and take him by the collar and say 'this issue is an important environmental issue' and not get railroaded by economic, real estate, and affordable-housing issues," Priscilla Chapman, director of the New England chapter of the Sierra Club, told the Associated Press. For five years, environmentalists have said Dukakis has not acted fast enough to clean up Boston Harbor and has not set strict envirnomental standards for the Fan Pier development on the Boston waterfront. As assistant secretary of environmental programs in Maryland, Bill helped infuse $160 million into the cleanup and increased anti-pollution measures for Chesapeake Bay.

Rick Hashagen of Brattleboro, Vt., has been named president of Vermont National Bank, and Daryl Erickson has joined the Matthew Thornton Clinic in Nashua, N.H., as a general surgeon. Daryl spent seven of the last ten years with a medical clinic in the United Arab Emirates. Dick Heimovic, professor and director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Public Affairs at University of Missouri-Kansas City, has been elected president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

Bob Greenwood and his Canadian SunErgos Theatre Company stayed on the road last fall with a tour of Great Britain in October and November and plan to be in India in the spring. Bob also found time to organize the arts community in Calgary to deal with major provincial government budget cuts. As spokesman for the some 400 arts and culture organizations there, Bob helped draft a statement for the premier and other political officials and planned to meet with leaders, foundations, and the media to stave off the cuts. Elsewhere in the arts, Michael Moriarty's thriller The Stuff showed on Home Box Office TV in September. Chris Miller is writing magazine stories and screenplays for movies and TV, including Club Paradise which ran about a year ago, and Steve Yafa recently collaborated with Dana Atchley to produce video tapes for Banana Republic.

Kirk Vernon and Paul Kraus are among the many planning to make the 25th Reunion June 16-19. Kirk spent last summer at the Harvard Business School for an executive session, and Paul, an avid mountain climber and horseman, has been busy with his urological practice in Waterbury, Conn. Paul's daughter Kara, 24, is a nurse in New York, Melanie is a senior at UVM, and wife, Janice, is in real estate. Also looking forward to the reunion is Jim Clouser, executive vice president with Merrill Lynch Huntoon Paige in New York. Jim, recently remarried, lives with his wife, Heidi, in Westfield, N.J. Mike Rie, who works in intensive care medicine at Massachusetts General, will also be there. Hope to see you, too.

In the meantime, Bruce Baggaley, between assignments in a busy managementconsulting practice for Coopers & Lybrand, in New York, is heading the nominating committee for a new slate of class officers. If you're interested in serving as our president, treasurer, Alumni Council representative, secretary, or newsletter editor, please contact Bruce at 12 Salt Box Lane, Darien, CT 06820; or telephone him at 203/655-0079.