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More details on mini-reunion weekend October 30-November I—from1—from mini-reunion chairman Dave Prewitt: We'll be staying at the Sunset, which many of you know is on the river about two miles south of Hanover. Dave says he's reserved a block of 15 rooms, but I hope we have many more than that.

"I am currently working on a location for a class banquet on the night of October 31," said Dave when he wrote in late March. The weekend includes Dartmouth Night—both a parade and a bonfire—and the Yale game. Our 1961 Fellows Chair Bob Vincent reports Sam Bell and Ross Sandler will be this year's 1961 Fellows. Sam is a key member of the Florida House of Representatives, while Ross has got the world's biggest headache as New York City Transportation Commissioner.

And, in an innovation, Bob is using the summer term. What a nice idea have our folks visit when the College has a more relaxed approach to life, and might have more time to use them well.

Kudos to: Marshall Ledger, recipient, on April 1, of the Certificate of Recognition for Media Presentation of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, for "Anesthesiology: A Quiet Drama in a Small Arena" in the February 1985 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette. Marshall is the magazine's associate editor. He's also just completed an article for CASE Currents, magazine of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, on the need for alumni magazines to have editorial independence if they are to gain credibility and trust from their readers. Hear! Hear! He says Denny Dinan, past editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, was "a valuable source."

W. Scott Piper III, was named the Miami Herald 1987 Boater of the Year, at least in part for his two-year chairmanship of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC), a six-race annual series off Florida and the Bahamas. "I'm very dedicated to the winning attitude," Scott told the paper. "I don't think you can have as much fun if you don't go to the starting line believing you're going to be successful."

He's such a passionate racer that after sitting on the sidelines as SORC chairman during 1986, he almost resigned the job to race in 1987 until other committee members convinced him he could do both. He's finished as high as 11th overall in the SORC.

Scott has been an orthopedic surgeon in Miami since 1972, where he went after five years as an Army surgeon. The announcement was accompanied by an enormous article in the Herald, which I am sending to Bert Rowley for possible use in an upcoming class newsletter.

Promotion: Richard Noel is executive vice president of the First Vermont Bank and Trust Cos., in Brattleboro. He'll be responsible for the bank's commercial and consumer loans. The promotion is his third at the bank, which he joined in 1972.

Appointed: Harris McKee is now vice president, engineering, of Cherry-Burrell Corporation of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company involved in the design, manufacture and sale of processing and packaging machinery for food and pharmaceutical industries. Harris had been director of engineering services with Frito-Lay Corporation in Dallas, Tex. Cherry-Burrell President Frank Torrens said Harris had a "wealth of knowledge and experience which will further enhance our engineering and development capabilities."

Found: Stu Kauffman, listed as among the missing in our March column. Marshall Ledger writes that he's professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. "I last encountered him on a Softball field, where we played on opposing sides with an aggressiveness appropriate to our ages and abilities."

Marshall ran into—literally Dave Blake in the aisle of a British Airways 747, where Dave was en route to London for a vacation and Marshall and his wife, Martha, were headed for a safari in Kenya.

And Marshall sent along a clip on Paul Shaman, who with wife Susan is one of 25 pairs of faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul is a statistics professor, and Susan is director of Institutional Planning and Research. "You can understand the problems, relate to common individuals, and share the successes," said Susan, in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian.