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Batch has reported at length in his newsletter on the events and participants of the winter mini-reunion. As usual, it was a great way to dissipate the February blahs. Again, we had one of the biggest turnouts of any class there—indeed, the 15 at our class executive committee meeting alone exceeded the attendance of many entire classes.

Howie Allen (Brookline, Mass.) was a new face at that weekend. He tells us that, after 18 years in the shoe industry during which he witnessed it move overseas, he and his wife, Jeannette (Nat), have turned that liability into an asset. For in creating the Allen Trading Company, they specialize in the import-export end of the shoe-making industry. Now they spend a good part of their time in places like Italy and Portugal. We love to hear success stories like this, and we hope to have more of them from you. So if you, or someone of us you know about, have managed to create a new career or a new life for yourself, please send a brief letter with a few of the details.

Of course, there's nothing new about Mike Choukas's continuing to play hockey into his sixth decade, but he was reminiscing recently on the days when he was on the teams which used to play old-timers from the classes of the '30s and '40s in those varsity-alumni games—guys like Eddie Jeremiah and Paul Guibord, who then had been out of college for most of Mike's 20 years of age. Now Mike, 37 years out of college, is wondering what today's students think of him. Incidentally, Paul Guibord '36 still plays in the alumni games!

Andy Jones, the Dallas dynamo, green- cards the following: "An update on per- sonal calisthenics—Dallas-White Rock marathon in December, placed 1,750 th of 2,920. Dallas Cross-Country Club, March 5, a 15K circuit, 3rd place trophy. February Cowtown marathon, finished among 74 percent finishers. Regional tournament for U.S. Olympic team Tae Kwon Do welterweight fights, 3rd place medallion." Andy, just hearing about your activities makes me feel sluggish.

John Berggren has retired after a busy overseas career with Kodak. Speaking French, Swedish, and Spanish, as well as knowing photography from his army intelligence training, John worked assignments in Northern Europe, the Far East, apd Central and South America (about which Batch has reported). Now that he has settled down in Pittsford, N.Y., John is not simply waiting to see what develops after 33 years in the imaging business but has plunged into community work: the town planning, library, and Boy Scouts boards, and the local Republican committee and American Legion post. John believes that "concepts in private enterprise are directly applicable to local government." He sees Pittsford "as a microcosm of suburbs all across America. We have the pressures of development and the issues of maintaining the character and ecology of the community."

Another concerned citizen is Pete Bogardus, who, for his exemplary contributions to the College for many years, was honored With an Alumni Award presented in January at the San Francisco dinner for President Freedman. In attendance on that occasion were Pete's wife, Shirley, and their children Betsy, Andrew, and Skip '87, as well as Herm and Isobel Christensen, and their daughter Maren '83, Jim Balderston,Peirce and Rosina McKee, John Bransten,Jim and Kathy Danaher, Mike Heyman,Blaine and Nancy Boyden, George Goldthorpe, and Dick Schneider.

Mike Choukas also reports having seen other classmates in his travels with the College president: in Denver, Bob Hackstaff; in Los Angeles, Wes Nutten and John Sargent.

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