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In this month's mailbag is word that Gary Ransom was named president of Service Ist Corporation, an integrated company based in Waltham, Mass., which provides companies offering customer-information services with quality consulting and training, helping firms in a broad range of industries achieve customer focus and service excellence.

Mark Totman, who joined Data Acquisition Systems in Boston in 1986, is now heading up the firm's manufacturing and finance operations as vice president, operations. The company's factory automation products can be found in the manufacturing operations of Quaker Oats, Johnson Wax, 3M, and other major concerns.

Mark Nelson is director of legislative affairs for duPont in Washington, D.C., where wife Suzanne works for C&P Telephone. Their pride and joy is young David James, now four years old.

After 13 years with Simpson Timber Cos. of Seattle, Hank Ricklefs has changed employers. He is now director of national sales and distribution for Plum Creek Timber Cos., a subsidiary of Burlington Northern.

Kim Bradley moved north to start his own company, North Coast Sportsfishing Boats, Inc. in Hyannis, Mass., after eight years as vice president of Black Fin Yacht Corp. of Ft. Lauderdale. His new company produces a top-of-the-line sportsfishing boat with sizes ranging from 24 to 30 feet.

John Shapleigh was appointed associate administrator for the office of policy analysis and development in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Department of Commerce in Washington (in short, our nation's chief telecommunications policy advisor).

Bo Smith has been living in St. Paul with his wife, Barbara, and their two children, Buster, 7, and Pearl, 5. Bo works as a programmer of film, video, and performance for an arts organization.

Fred Young is a training and communications consultant and partner in the firm of Thorsteinson, Douglas & Young. His home is in Scarborough, Ontario.

Rick Paris is working as the employment and employee relations manager at New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc. in Boston. He and his wife, Ann, are the proud parents of Carter, who will celebrate his second birthday in August, and Abigail, 9.

Tony Owens finally left the duties of emergency medicine to devote his full energies to sports medicine. He is working as a non-surgical orthopedist in Portland, Maine, with six orthopedic surgeons. He has also started the Human Performance Center, doing exercise physiology, stress testing, and the like.

Tony is one of six classmates practicing medicine in the State of Maine, including Dave Clark, who practices surgery in Portland, Kevin Kane who practices internal medicine in Augusta, Tom Weigle who is an obstetrician and gynecologist in Farmington, and Cam Bopp and Doug Boyink, who are both emergency physicians in Farmington. Doug writes: "This must qualify for some kind of a record like the highest percentage of physicians from a single small college class practicing in a small, rural state —or something."

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

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