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Stephen Bates has been promoted to senior vice president of Connecticut National Bank. He is the regional manager for private banking in lower Fairfield County with responsibility for offices in Greenwich, New Canaan, and Stamford where he is located. Steve joined Connecticut National in 1986 and became regional manager in 1987.

Steve served as chairman of the 1989 Cystic Fibrosis Stamford Walk-A-Thon and was a member of the Stamford 1988 United Way cabinet. Steve and wife Susan live in Wilton.

Tower Snow, formerly a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, has joined the New York firm of Shearman and Sterling as a partner. He will work in their San Francisco office.

Giff Foley sent me an article from Life Magazine's Woodstock reunion issue which included a quote from Ross Vasta. "I had just graduated from Dartmouth and signed up to work the festival. I was handed a hunk of wood torn off a nearby tree and told to fend off would-be thieves. It quickly became obvious that the air was filled with joy and love, not desperadoes. So I apologetically resigned, took off my shirt and waded into the sea of bodies. It was a blend of joy, inner peace, and love. I tell my eight-year-old daughter that her generation may be the next Woodstock nation and she should never underestimate the power of love and music." Ross is a psychology professor at the State University of New York at Brock- port.

Giff has been one of the main contributors of information for this column and I wish to thank him for his efforts. Letters from him have the return address of Gifford T. Foley Associates in Danbury, Conn. I am curious as to who the associates are and what they all do.

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