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Tales from the Crypt, Volume XII, Chapter 7. Men and Women of Dartmouth, give a rouse . . . for Barry Krumm, who recently received a citation from his employer, IBM. Barry was recognized for "Outstanding technical achievement in appreciation for Enterprise Systems/9000 BCE Design." This is quite an accomplishment because IBM doesn't exactly hand these awards out like leaflets at a political rally. It's more along the lines of longtime Chicago Bears owner George Halas, whose tight-fisted ways were legendary. One former player once said ofHalas, "He throws nickels around like manhole covers."

On a more sobering tack, Barry also writes, "I married Susan Jann, from Clark, N.J., in March 1987. We met on a ski weekend. She is a CPA. I continue to work on mainframe computer design for IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Our son Ryan was born in March of 1989, and died three weeks later of a then-undiagnosed illness. Our daughter Katherine was born in October 1990. She got a fever that Christmas. Fortunately, she was transferred to Yale, where she (and finally Ryan) were diagnosed as having the genetic form of a rare disease called histiocytosis. Katherine is lucky that her doctor is an expert in this disease; the disease is often not diagnosed until autopsy, if at all. This form of the disease is fatal within a few years, unless the child can get a bone marrow transplant. In the meantime, Katherine gets chemotherapy, which works so well that you wouldn't know she's sick. Fortunately, Katherine has a lot of potential donors in England. But we know of many children who wait for matching donors, hoping and praying that time doesn't turn out.

"If you're 18-55 years old and would like to look in to registering as a bone marrow donor, call the two U.S. registries: The National Marrow Donor Program at 800/654-1247, and The American Bone Marrow Donor Registry at 800/736-6283. For information on histiocytosis, contact the Histiocytosis Association of America at 800/548-2758. For information on other rare diseases, contact The National Organization for Rare Disorders at 203/746-6518."

Make Way for Ducklings, Part II: Carrie Van Leeuwen is a thrill seeker and has been since birth. Carrie was born November 24 at home, just 26 minutes after her mother, SallyNutt Van Leeuwen, went into labor. Fortunately, the Greenwich, Conn., police and EMS are prepared to transform the comforts of home into an impromptu maternity ward. In an episode the likes of which should have made Gage, DeSoto, and the rest of the gang back at Squad 51 proud, Greenwich paramedics answered the call and went right to work, according to one officer at the scene, "It happened so fast we didn't have a chance to be nervous." Within minutes, Carrie was "Allstate" (in good hands), and the rest is history.

For longer than I care to remember, the loyal do-bees on Wall Street have been under fire. Thanks largely to the misdeeds of Boesky, Levine, Milken, et al, a few bad apples did their evil best to spoil things for everyone else. Fortunately there are a few of our classmates out there who are putting the "do" back into "do-bee." Mike McClintock recently joined Oppenheimer & Cos. as a vice president in the corporate finance department. Oppenheimer is a full-service investment bank that concentrates on meeting the needs of dynamic, growing companies. It offers financing, advisory, and merger and acquisition services to its clients. Then it charges them an arm and a leg.

Congratulations also to Chris Sawch, who was recently promoted to senior vice president at Kidder Peabody. Chris is also an investment banker who specializes in covering French-speaking clients. Chris attributes his language facility to all those early morning Rassias-style drills so many years ago. "I'll tell you one thing," he says, misty-eyed, "llest huitheures, le train commence a fouler ..." High finance however, is not for everybody. One time Yogi Berra received a check made out to "Bearer." He looked at it quizzically and asked, "How could you spell my name like that?"

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