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After 25 years at Columbia University's business school, John Farley moved to Penn's Wharton School, where he has just become director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies. The chairman of their marketing department characterized John as "one of the world's most renowned scholars in the field of international marketing. To have one of the most published and cited individuals in marketing literature will be a real plus for Wharton." John continues his viola playing in chamber music groups and frequendy visits Hanover, where he has an apartment.

Chris Wren wrote to say he recently started his "third year in South Africa as Johannesburg bureau chief for the New York Times, where I feel privileged to watch apartheid collapse and die just as Marxism has." He was briefly back in the U.S. to promote his latest book, The End of the Line, The Failureof Communism in the Soviet Union and China, published by Simon & Schuster. Daniel Schorr, reviewing the book for The Times, said "you cannot read this rich account of life in these countries without concluding that their Communist regimes have long been running out of steam, losing touch with their increasingly embittered people, and are headed for a crisis. Mr. Wren has some great adventures of his own to retell, but always to make a larger point. In the end, Mr. Wren seems doubtful that the Communist systems in the Soviet Union and China can save themselves." Chris says the book went into its second printing before formal publication, which is good because the advance was promptly spent on college tuitions at Harvard and Pomona.

After seeing the recent note on JanWlodarkiewicz, Gren Bunker called for the phone number of his old Wheeler Hall roommate. Gren mentioned that, after leaving Dartmouth, he spent a few years with Singer and then about 30 years at J.C. Penney. Most of the time was in marketing, with responsibility for new products and buying and importing small electronics, electro-mechanical, and internal combustion systems. When Penney was about to move from Manhattan to Piano, Texas, "they sent me down to look around. I stood on the top of the car and said, my gosh, I can see for miles . . . and elected not to go." Gren then bought, operated, and sold a gourmet food business. He is now semiretired, enjoying life, and looking for the next challenge. Two of the Bunker kids, Mark and Bill, are Dartmouth graduates, classes of '87 and '88.

Howie Keller's wife, Wendie, wrote to say how much fun they had during the Homecoming weekend in Hanover. "I think it's a great idea to try to reach the guys through their wives, by making the reunion times/activities/locales a bit more varied, since it is true that for many families it's the wife that ends up making a lot of decisions about who goes where when." They suggest the class should find "a couple to be reunion co-chairs, and pitch to the extended Dartmouth family as well as the prodigal sons." Keep in touch.

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