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Josephina Bosch, currently living in Cambridge, is scheduled to play Mr. Toad in the February 1992 Wheelock Family Theater Production of "Toad of Toad Hall." She also reports that Mark Weltner and Sam Bozeman are successfully running Notable Productions, a sound production company which composes music for various enterprises ranging from computer companies to dance performances.

This past summer, Mark Tomalonis witnessed and photographed the total solar eclipse from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Mark describes the experience as "the most awesome natural phenomenon" he ever observed. Next stop: Europe for the August 11, 1999 eclipse. Mark frequently hikes with Adam Samuels in the Palo Alto foothills.

Megan Thomas Olson has traded in her litigator spurs for quill and parchment paper: she now specializes in estate planning and administration in the Princeton, N.J., area. (Megan, here's a business development lead: Puddie Hauge Sword lives in your town.) Megan, her husband, Bob, and their three kids have been escaping to the Hanover Plain on a fairly regular basis.

Ed Kania is working for Morgan Holland Ventures in Boston. He and his wife, Ann, recently returned from Kenya and Tanzania, where they went on safari and climbed Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet).

Madeleine Estabrook has become counsel to the Boston law firm Lane & Altman. Previously affiliated with Widett, Slater & Goldman, P.C., Madeleine advises institutional and individual healthcare providers on a host of regulatory and clinical management issues. Prior to graduating cum laude from Boston College Law School, she served as a healteducator. She also has written and spoken extensively on such cutting-edge issues as AIDS, reproductive health care, and the right to die.

If you need a large quantity of ice or a megaloan, call Greg Engles. hi 1988 he and a group of Dallas investors acquired Reddy Ice and Sparkle Ice, both of which are Dallas-based leaders in the mtdti-million dollar business of ice-making and distributing. Greg is now chairman of the two companies; with IS plants, they are expected to post combined sales exceeding $50 million this year. Greg and other investors also own Jiminez Quality Foods of Fort Worth and Milnot Cos., a St. Louis food processor. Greg, you must need lawyers in a serious way. T. Weymouth, Hank Young, and I are offering special rates to all clients who execute retainer agreements before December 31.

Dean Esserman has been appointed Chief of Police for the City of New Haven. He is the youngest person in the country to hold that position in a major city.

Finally, Kim Perry has expressed ennui with the content of our column and class newsletter. Rather than hearing about careers, families, and cellulite deposits, Kim wants to reflect upon the inner growth, or stagnation, experienced by each of you since June 1979.1 stand ready to expound on such weighty matters; I lack only tie material.

Happy New Year.

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