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Pete Buswell says he's got plenty of space to put up wandering classmates who happen to be around Palm Beach. He is brokering businesses and residential properties and says prices in Florida are now unusually buyer friendly. You can interrupt Pete by phoning his pager at 407/854-6300.

Speaking of technology, this column is the first to employ "Classmate Lotto," a computer program I wrote that uses a random number generator to select names from the class list. Mike Smith was the first winner. He has been with the Dartmouth Printing Company for almost 30 years and is now president and principal owner.

The Smiths are deeply involved in conservation and civic issues. Jean is town clerk in Lyme, where they have lived for all these years. Mike is currently chairman of the town budget committee, organizer of a local land trust, and chairman of the Montshire Museum of Science. That institution started out with overflow from the Dartmouth Museum in an old bowling alley on the Lyme Road. After a major fund raising, the museum now has a new $4.5-million building in Norwich. Their activities include working with local schools and serving as a catalyst for informed discussion of issues such as the proposed hydro- electric project in northern Quebec. Mike is also running and exercising more diligently than usual, getting in shape for a skiing trip to Switzerland in April.

Mike and Jean saw Wendell Smith recently at a meeting in Santa Barbara. Wendell jets all over as CEO of Baldwin Technology Corporation, which makes printing machinery and related equipment. He and Ginger spend their winters in Bermuda.

Bob Macdonald called while I was talking with Mike and passed on the following news. Connie Boden is "still toiling away at the Bank of Boston" as chief credit officer. BobGiordano has had great success with the Giordano Starlight Dinner Theater in Georgetown, Mass. He hopes to retire before reunion and spend more time on the 36-foot sloop he sails out of Georgetown, Maine. PeteDiemand is looking forward to returning for the 35th. Bob also reported further on the pummeling he absorbs as a compulsive ice hockey player, and said that he was the only '57 to play in the alumni hockey games several weeks ago in Hanover.

While at U. Va. law school, Wes Adams met a guy from Louisville, Ky., who said, "I need a hard-charging trial lawyer in my firm; we'll give you lots of responsibility; come on down and visit us." They seemed like Wes's kind of folks, and he's been in Louisville ever since. At the present time, he does trial work, primarily in arson and fraud insurance cases" cops and robbers sort of stuff." Wes told of some bad years and now does a lot of work with recovering alcoholics, as "sort of a payback" for help he received and reinforcement for staying off the sauce.

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