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Take out your 1992 calendars and red indelible markers: our "15th"/16th Reunion is on June 19—21 and it is clearly going to be the best one ever to hit the Upper Valley! Steve Feld and the planning committee have already done some fabulous work, including making it possible for everyone to afford to come and to bring their entire brood. You should have received the registration forms by now, and you should definitely note that our class is offering "scholarships" for partial or full costs of attending this grand affair. Come to see old friends and foes; come to make up your own minds about the real state of the College; come to satisfy your curiosity about former sweethearts; or just come to breathe fresh air... but come.

Here are a few tidbits from the reunion planning committee, just to whet your appetite: on Friday night, Spaulding Auditorium will host a sampling of lie very talented performing artists from the three classes. Then, after the Storrs Pond picnic on Saturday, Tom Ruegger will present a Tiny Toons Festival at the Hop. This event promises to enchant the smaller attendants as well as their parents. Saturday night will be the usual banquet, but with some unusual entertainment, yet to be announced. Other fabulous plans are in the works, so tune in next month for more details! For now, just keep the weekend free.

I'm delighted to report on two of our "no-news" classmates! Lynne Brooks reluctantly admitted that my "pressure tactics worked." She is living in Darien Conn., and reports, "I am a happily unemployed suburbanite residing with my 11-pound attack dachshund Zelda, and my (I'm not telling)-pound waggish husband Quentin. "She reports giving up a "promising ten-year career in advertising and marketing to pursue book groups, ladies lunches, watercotor classes, and cultural forays into New York." On the serious side, she is on the board of directors of the Darien Environmental Group, which educates residents about ways to be more "environmentally friendly." Quentin is in his 11th year with HBO as vice president of media relations. Lynne was wondering which HBO show Paul Lazarus directed. A thousand thanks for reporting in, Lynne!

And news of another "no-news" victim. Word on the street has it that Carol Vaughn Bemis was recently seen in the Boston area accompanied by her husband, Kim, and her new baby, Mary (born in May). Carol married fellow Minnesotan Kim in the summer of 1989, and classmates in attendance included Martha and Jim Beattie, Sara Hunter, and Hope and King Poor. I've heard that the Twin Cities are still reeling from Hope's 20-minute "Wizard of Oz" monologue describing Carol's years at die College. Carol founded and is running an art gallery in Minneapolis

published next year. Keep us posted!

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