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If you didn't catch "The Story of Buster Jig" on page 39 of the Winter 1988 issue of DAM, I recommend that you retrieve it and give it a read. It's about one of the last of the great cowboy poets, Gail Gardner '14, who was honored last fall at Hopkins Center with an evening of cowboy poetry and western songs. Gail Gardner was Jim Gardner's father, which is why I alluded to the article in the first place. Sadly Mr. Gardner passed away at 96 before the article was published. Jim gave me an update on himself -nothingtoo exotic by his account. Just a quick stab at early retirement from Valley National Bank of Arizona in 1985 (for about a month) and then joined two"other partners in forming Sun Ven Capital, a venture capital firm. They have put together two funds and stocked them with investments in medium-sized companies, some via the leveraged buyout route. You may recall a previous column featuring the Arabian horse in which Jim, John Yates, and Herb Roth share ownership. Jim said Vladin still finishes in the money in Arabian races.

Here's a lift about. Hal Morse from a couple of Bill Montgomery's newsletter many months apart which may interest members of surrounding classes who know Hal. He has long been active in the Newport Beach, Calif., community theater. A review of his role about two years ago in Nuts, a courtroom story which takes place in New York's Bellevue Hospital said "Hal Morse wades into the role of court-appointed psychiatrist with a vengeance, creating a well drawn characterization." Not long after that role Hal underwent radical prostectomy surgery. A more recent report from Newport Beach, where Hal is in the advertising business, has him playing a major general in Pirates of Penzance and "about 95 percent normal" after the surgery. Great recovery!

Talked to Howie Carter recently. After a career in the broadcasting industry for over 20 years in the Big Apple, Howie has made a big change to financial services with UIGNA and markets his service in his home state, New Jersey.

Seems like classmate and Trustee DickBressler is always in the news. This time Burlington Northern, which Dick serves as chairman and CEO, has established a grant of $1,500,000 in his honor to support the Asian Studies program at Dartmouth. The grant should provide a significant boost to the program which has been growing rapidly in the 1980s.

The news just arrived that Dr. Larry Go- wan passed away last May of a heart attack. Larry had practiced medicine for many years in the Wisconsin community where he and his wife, Mary Kay, resided.

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