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The builders of the Starship Biosphere are a motley crew, writes the Arizona Republic in a fall issue. One of the crew members is our very own Mark Nelson, who was a philosophy major and graduated summa cum laude. He has researched desert orchards, helped develop improved pasture grasses in Australia, and been a partner in a landscaping company in New Mexico. Mark is now chairman of the Institute of Icotechnics, the research arm of the Biosphere group.

Also from Arizona comes the news that Howie Soren's book about ancient Carthage is being published by Touchstone and translated into French by Albin Michel in Paris. Additionally, the new archaeological museum which Howie constructed in Lugano on the Tiber, Italy, has recently opened to the public.

Ken Warner writes from Ann Arbor, Mich., that Christopher Wall, a Dartmouth senior and son of Allan Wall Jr., was in the running for a Rhodes Scholarship this winter. Many of you will recall with sadness how we lost Allan to leukemia not long after graduation. His widow, Hannah, and children Chirstopher and Kim live in New Haven, Conn., and the Dartmouth tradition obviously continues to flourish in the Wall household. Well done, Christopher.

Well done, too, Paul Fitzgerald. Paul wrote over the holidays to catch me up on his activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Still practicing medicine/endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, he is busy editing his second textbook, Handbook of Clinical Endocrinology, and teaching up a storm. In fact, a UCSF Med Center newsletter announcing Paul's receipt, last year, of the UCSF Clinical Faculty Award described him as "the ultimate teacher"

and "truly a Renaissance man." Paul lives in Mill Valley with his wife, Kathryn, and children Brent and Erin, and he hopes that any old friends will get in touch when in the neighborhood.

Also in Mill Valley, and belonging to die same swim and tennis club, are Mark Batten and his wife, Suji, and children Frances and Alec. Paul and Mark do battle on the tennis court from time to time; and once in a while Paul will nearly drown in Mark's wake in the swimming pool. Evidently, Mark hasn't lost much of his stuff.

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