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I hope this catches up with you after Dartmouth has presented its new football coach with a couple of wins.

Eric Waples has been selected as the new headmaster at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado. "Eric has been a history teacher at Fountain Valley School since 1972 and has held a variety of administrative positions. He was named Assistant Headmaster in 1983 and he served as Acting Head during the headmaster's sabbatical in 1985." Wife Carolyn and Megan, 12, and Jake, 13, will assist in this new venture. A Wah-Hoo-Wah, if we can still do that, for Eric.

Talked to Erv Burkholder recently. He is in MacLean, Va., and liking it. He's been there for about ten years, plans to stay. Wife Chris is a lawyer in a small firm and Erv joined Greg Eden a year ago in Edin Hannon & Company, an investment banking firm working with agricultural investments (did I get that right, Erv?) Erv has two daughters, Zoe, 12, and Tai, 10. "They are very athletic," says their coach, Erv. He coaches one in basketball and one in soccer. Football-be-damned, Erv's soccer team won the town and area championship the last two years. "The first year was a learning experience" says the coach, "for me and the girls. Since then, we've done pretty well." His older daughter is breaking every swim record in sight, so says the coach. The Burkholders are going to Europe this summer. It's not the low profile status of terrorism that draws them. It s the fact that Erv travels some and has two free Pan Am tickets, and wife Chris has another. "I hope Pan Am stays solvent long enough for me to use these things!" Bon Voyage.

Wally Bushman is an attorney in Maine. He lives near Augusta, works in Waterville. He worked for the state attorney general's office for several years, now in a small firm, more on his own. Still plays basketball a couple of lunches a week. The Buschmans live on a farm, but "it's listed as a tree farm. We gave up raising pigs a couple of years ago." Wife Cynthia taught kindergarten for years, gave it up to get the two young ones going, and now is going back his fall. " She is psyched," says Wally. She'll do pre-K. Wow. There's a bargain. The Buschmans will probably see the John Bristers and Randy Adamses on the Cape this summer. Wally says, "I'd have one to the 20th couple of years ago, but it was so expensive. I just went to my 25th prep school reunion, and it was free. We had a great time and half our class was there. I got together with a bunch of former rowers and we came in third out of four boats in a race! And none of us had been in a shell for 25 years!"

I'm going to go. Although we might think of getting a committee together to investigate a "free" reunion. Think of it as "venture capital," Dartmouth.

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