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Once again Jack Pansegrau and his crew of agents have set records of all sorts in running our class Alumni Fund effort. They've won all kinds of awards, not to mention our respect and gratitude. Jack should be reporting to each of you directly in the near future with the dazzling statistics. Suffice it to say that our class continues proving ourselves to be true Sons of Dartmouth. Thanks to all who contributed. And to those whose giving has been temporarily deferred, never fear. Rest assured that an even bigger and better campaign will be available no sooner than your financial for tunes have taken a turn for the better.

In case you will have a bit of fun money left after making your Alumni Fund donation, Jack Rasor thinks you should spend it in Phoenix this winter. He'll even provide diggings at his spacious home and help you get onto the better golf courses. He haunts the fairways quite a bit himself of late as all good real estate types properly should. Jack admits to being on the downside of his athletic career, but now that he's finished coaching the kids, he's back to coaching himself and satisfied with something of a turnaround. Jack's secretary/adminitrative assistant will screen your calls at 602/ 953-6270, but be sure to point out that you're only mooching. Otherwise she'll have sold you a country club homesite 20 years before you ever expected to become a snowbird.

Jim Nachtwey's commitment to the power of the photographic essay continues to receive the highest recognition from his professional peers. He was recently named 1989 Magazine Photographer of the Year at the prestigious 46th Pictures of the Year competition. Jim previously earned the award in 1984. A colleague accepting the award in Jim's behalf acknowledged the role of luck in successful photography by quipping, "Have you ever noticed how luck happens to the same photographers over and over again?" Jim is currently a member of Magnum and his work for them in 1988 included coverage of riots in Korea, religion in Guatemala, prayers in Jerusalem, famine in the Sudan, demonstrations on the West Bank, army life in Russia, and Kurdish refugees from Iraq in Turkey. As the world grows smaller we should become increasingly indebted to those who take risks so that we can all come to know one another better.

No column would be complete without a note from megaloconglomerate corporate America. Hence we're proud to announce that John Kirkland has recently left his position as vice president for international acquisitions at Pillsbury to join North Star Universal, Inc. in Minneapolis. North Star is another one of those holding companies, so they had to give John titles as senior vice president for planning... and for mergers ... and for acquisitions, all in the hopes that one of these will prove the avenue to figuring out what these holding companies are really supposed to be doing anyway. We imagine John is totally preoccupied in this endeavor, as no further clues were proffered in our communication indicating anything else of significance about his life.

Finally if you miss New England, how about a subscription to New England Living, which is Dennis Jolicoeur's latest effort to reach fruition. The magazine is now up and running with six issues per year, slated to become a monthly in the near future.

Venture-capital funding was closed with a subsidiary connected somehow with those crimson folks down in Cambridge, but Dennis assures us that the magazine will shout "Dartmouth Undying" if you play it backwards in your compact disc player. Those of you who can get past the moral dilemma of accepting Harvard money for any purposes can arrange subscriptions or advertising at 603/668-7330.

The best of everything to each of you in the year ahead as we reach 20 years out.

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