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In this month's mailbag is word that PeterGraves has been named senior vice president of Nelson Entertainment Group Inc., a feature film production, home video, and international distribution company based in Los Angeles. His new responsibilities include corporate communications, investor relations, public relations, and corporate finance. He moved to Nelson from MGM/UA communications Cos., where he was vice president. Before joining MGM/UA, Peter was executive vice president of Armand Hammer Productions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum. He began his career as director of corporate communications for Warner Communications Inc.

Founded in 1985, Nelson's parent, Nelson Holdings International Ltd., acquired later the same year—from the Coca-Cola Company—Embassy Home Entertainment and renamed it Nelson Entertainment last summer. Today, Nelson is one of the world's ten largest home-video companies. Peter writes that he is still enjoying Los Angeles and growing progressively more fat and happy in the Southern climes.

Ralph Tennant has been named vice president, marketing, Light Commercial Group, of the Trane Company based in Clarksville, Tenn.

Glenn Britt, former treasurer of Time Inc., has been named vice president, finance, of Timenow becoming the company's top financial executive. Prior to becoming treasurer, he had been senior vice president and chief financial officer of Home Box Office and held various financial positions with Time and its subsidiaries, including vice-president-treasurer of Manhattan Cable TV, finance director for Time-Life Books, senior vice president of finance of Time's video group, and senior vice president, finance, of American Television and Communications Corporation. Glenn and his wife, Barbara, live in Westport, Conn.

Joe Cecere and his family were on the road again last year, leaving his oral surgery practice in Fort Worth behind to attend his dental school tenth reunion last May (staying in Fair Lawn, N.J., with classmate SteveGoldberg and wife Judy) and visit the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch in New Mexico last August (Philmont is the largest Boy Scout reservation in the United States). In September, Joe, Dottie and the kids (Carl, Margaret, and David) stopped in Anaheim, Calif., where Joe attended his annual oral surgery convention and he and the family visited Disneyland, then went on to Universal Studios in Hollywood where they saw King Kong, the set for "Miami Vice," and Wally and the Beaver's house.

That's all for now. We'll be back next month.

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