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That liberal arts education keeps cropping up all over. Phil Mossman, normally a medical doctor in rehabilitation medicine in Hampden, Maine, has written one medical book and is in the process of revising his book Money of the American Coloniesand Confederation. Phil enjoys coin collecting, which with his curiosity led him into this new area of interest, and not finding much, determined to develop and publish his own findings. It was also with family history and genealogy that he traced his family back through Canada and into Switzerland of the early 1600s. This all follows Harvard Medical School and two years with a fellowship at the University of Minnesota, along with service in the U.S. Navy on aircraft carriers out of Norfolk, Va. Phil and Mary have a son who married this summer, and two girls, all of which makes for the great life "as long as Maine does not become too popular. It's nice just the way it is."

Down the coast is Al Schwartz, who majored in philosophy at Dartmouth, went on to get his medical degree at Tufts, and practices in Beverly, Mass. He notes: "I sculpt with great seriousness and dabble at neurology with considerable less seriousness." In addition, A1 has written a book Travel atits Best. He and his wife, Jan, (who is also writing a book to be published in December on M.S.) have a son Larry who is a lawyer, another son David who's a lawyer for the government,' and a daughter Susan who will attend Northwestern this fall.

Dave Miller, also with three children, two boys and a girl, is now, as he suggests, "euphemistically in the consulting racket." A CPA with Price Waterhouse in a variety of positions, he became chief financial officer for the Formica Corporation. Dave likes being on his own, living 25 miles from New York City on a 143-acre lake where he can catch 5-pound bass without leaving his property (most of us have trouble catching a 1-pound fish off of our property). Following a stint as a supply officer in the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan and Okinawa, Dave married Betsey in the Aquinas House in Hanover in 1962. His advice to us all in looking at a financial report is, "Read the notes first. The numbers don't really tell it."

Jerry O'Sullivan not only has read the notes, but writes the notes. He is running the family business, Engineered Sales Company, a distributor of industrial abrasives and tools, where he has been for 30 years. With his son Jeff also working in the business, they now have three generations of success. Jerry and Sue (a Green Mountain girl) have figured out the answers by playing as much golf as they can "including with customers but it's okay, I always try to knock their socks off!" There's no more grass cutting, what with a condo in Bedminster, N.J., and another in Naples, Fla., that hotbed of Dartmouth '55ers. As Jerry says, "With our own business, it's all the entrepreneurship that anyone could want. It's a great challenge."

Al VanHuyck has much the same approach, for after 22 years he sold his consulting firm Padco and is enjoying some R & R, following which he looks forward to playing a new role in International Development Assistance "without the hassles of management responsibility involved in running a business." (We can always recommend Naples, Fla.)

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