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Many of us seem to be at transition points in our careers. The mail seems to bring regular news of major changes, and this month was no exception with four such announcements.

Gerry Petitt has been named president and CEO of Quality International. Quality currently franchises more than 1,300 hotels in 19 countries and includes Clarion Hotels and Resorts, Quality Inns and Hotels, and Comfort Inns. Gerry's preparation included work at Tuck and Thayer after graduation. Wally Bowman has been appointed principal of St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Ill. The head of the search committee said, "Walter Bowman is the best among the many qualified candidates from around the country involved in the search." Wally moves from the principalship of a high school in Evansville, Ind.

Since graduation Wally has completed graduate degrees at Cornell and Notre Dame and spent 23 years in education, ineluding two as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Kenya.

Fred Schauer, whose name in print always seems to be followed by the phrase "distinguished Constitutional lawyer," has been appointed the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Stanton chair is named after former CBS president Frank Stanton, a staunch defender of First Amendment rights. Fred moves to Cambridge from Ann Arbor where he has been a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Dave Houston has been elected a director of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks. Dave is the president of the David T. Houston Company, a major real estate operation in the Garden State, where he has been involved in many professional activities including Governor Kean's Port Authority Development Advisory Committee.

One career that seems better described in terms of crescendos rather than transitions is that of Jerry Zaks, who recently resigned as director-in-residence at Lincoln Center to take on the challenge of developing plays and musicals for Juiamcvn's five Broadway houses.

After Tony awards for The House of Blue Leaves, followed by Anything Goes and other successes, it is no surprise that Jerry's latest direction of John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is one of the hottest tickets in New York. Theater Week began a recent interview with Jerry saying, "There are very few directors in this country whose name on a project, alone, can raise a theatergoer's expectations. Jerry Zaks is one of them." The reviews of this one indicate the expectations are more than met, for Jerry has received raves.

For those of you with long-range planning calendars that cover 1992, go immediately to them and save June 18-21, 1992. We will all gather in Hanover to figure out where 25 years went. Rob Kugler and Paul Killebrew already have their team hard at work planning a wonderful reunion for everyone, so plan now to be there.

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