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What lifestyle changes will you make when you retire? This topic might provoke a lively discussion at our June 12-15, 1989, 35th Reunion. At the moment, few have retired, many are thinking about it, and all of us have retirement to anticipate.

Those who have already retired seemed to have accomplished it in name only, for most of them are frenetically involved in other activities including new careers. One such classmate is Dave Siegal, M.D., from Brooklyn, N.Y. Dave attended Albany Medical School after Dartmouth, graduating in 1957. Following internship and residency, he was called to active army duty during the Vietnam war. Thus began a medical career in the military that involved over 20 moves, the Command and General Staff College, assignments in Vietnam and Germany, and an evolution from clinical medicine to health administration, where he earned a master's degree. His last career assignment was at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., an Army post in the shadow of the Verazzano Bridge. Taken by the cultural and other wealth of offerings in New York, Dave and spouse Bonnie elected to remain there when they retired in 1984. Dave quickly gained employment as associate director of adult emergency service at Kings County Hospital Center. He administers a facility that cares for 150,000 patients a year. As an avocation he holds a leadership position in the American Cancer Society in New York. No less challenged, Bonnie is a fall-time social worker who completed her bachelor's degree in 1979, earned a master's in 1981, and is now going for a doctorate. Their son graduated from Brown and daughter Laurie is at Sarah Lawrence. Oh yes, Dave is in charge of attendance at our 35th.

Dick Fleming, Brookline, Mass., is tent chairman at our upcoming reunion a position otherwise called "activities" chairman. In younger years this position meant having Tanzi's phone number committed to memory so that an uninterrupted supply of beer was provided. The position, however, is wider in scope and importance now, so we are fortunate to have Dick in this capacity. After Dartmouth he entered navy OCS and became a navigator, a skill he uses to this day. Returning to Dartmouth he graduated from Tuck School in 1958. Following a short stint with GE, he began a career which, while oriented to market research, has been largely geared to public service. He has been'research director and executive secretary of the Republican party in Massachusetts,' associate research director for the national Republican party, and executive director of the Republican Governors Association. A middle of the-road Republican, he changed jobs when conservative influences began to dominate that part of the party. He became director of staff services in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Later he changed positions to one that involved evaluation, determination, and approval of the need for hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics in the state. Leaving state employment in 1974, he became a consultant and now works with the same facilities to determine and justify major capital expenditures. His work involves demographic research, not unlike the research he conducted in politics. Dick has an equally interesting second career he heads an organization that obtains, tabulates, and reports election results in Massachusetts.

Dick Cahn has unquestionably assembled a strong team for our 35 th Reunion. Does the realization that attendance and activities are in the hands of health care professionals have any significance?

Thomas D. Bloomer, 15 Huckleberry Lane, Greenwich, CT 06830