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Rick Shambroom was named, in December 1987, general manager of Promotion Dynamics Worldwide, a marketing communications company spun off from BBDO. Prior to joining BBDO in 1983, he headed Rick Shambroom Associates for ten years after promotion/marketing experience with Doyle Dane Bernbach, Young & Rubicam, and Redbook magazine. With a two-sport, dean's list daughter at Connecticut College (ski captain), and 11- and 12-year-old sons at home, Rick and Betty continue heavy involvement in school, art, recreation, and political activities.

Mai Johnson describes a marvelous business/vacation trip in June 1986 to the Yugoslavian Adriatic. After a week in Venice and Trieste, he joined a group of European and Chinese publishers for a week's cruise ship sailing through the northern Adriatic islands with their Yugoslavian publishing hosts. Following visits to several medieval seaports, swimming off shipside, and reaching co-publishing international rights agreements, the cruise ended in Venice. Mai then proceeded to the lovely seaport of Porec for a week of recuperation with British friends.

Received a nice letter from Phil Struhsacker from Albuquerque, N.M., where he and Marge have been spending the last two winters. Phil took early retirement from the Littleton, N.H., banking business and the Struhsackers have their permanent address in Sugar Hill, N.H. Phil intends to continue part-time banking work with Hanover's Dartmouth Savings. Son Eric is an exploration geologist for Chevron in Reno, Nev., and son Mark works for radio station WDEV-AM in Morrisville, Vt., as a salesman and sometime announcer. Thanks to Mark and his wife, Phil and Marge are now first-time grandparents.

Ed and Pat Simon still enjoy that warm winter weather in Montgomery, Ala., after leaving White Plains, N.Y., some ten years ago. Ed reports 80 degrees on Christmas day, but somehow fails to mention those hot humid days and nights from June through September! The Simons are planning a trip through New York State with Joe Verdi and his Pat when they venture north this spring.

The 1987 graduation exercises were especially meaningful for Joe Dressel, as his son Mark received his M.D. from the Dartmouth Medical School.

Lou Van Orden is now a retiree, having left a long association with the abrasives industry. Now a widower for the second time, Lou lives in a 150-year-old farm house he remodeled in Little Compton, R.I. Last fall he spent six weeks in Europe, was in Florida for two winter months, and hopes to get back to Hanover this fall.

Once again word has been received of the death of a classmate. Gerard Van Halsema passed away on September 27, 1987, after a short bout with cancer. Our sincerest condolences go to his wife, Frances, and to the other surviving members of his family.