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In January, the Southern Vermont Art Center sponsored a six-part lecture series, "Seeing What the Masters Saw," conducted by classmate Dick Barr. After Dartmouth Dick did post-graduate study of art history at Harvard, and in recent years he has shared his considerable talents with students and community members of all ages, more or less as a second career. Dick uses his extensive collection of slides of the great masters in his lectures with a unique style that has been enthusiastically received by his students. Dick likes students "with a sense of wonder and an urge to put great art into historical context." I am sorry I wasn't in Vermont for the series.

Dick Targett reports that two sons graduated from college last spring. Christopher is a newly minted Dartmouth '91 and Robert completed his degree at Paul Smith's College in New York. According to Dick the score is now six out of college, two to go. He also reports that his son-in-law Ken Green is doing well on the PGA tour. Dick and Joanne see Jimand Maryellen Tremblay when possible.

In the February issue I reported on the generous endowment gift to the College by Gordie Russell to strengthen the Native American Program. Recendy Gordie was in the news again in his home town of Arlington, Mass., where he made a $500,000 donation to the town's library expansion and renovation project. He flew in from California to help break the frozen tundra and was described as "a distinguished-looking businessman by the local press, which seems accurate from the photograph which accompanied the article. He was, in his words, "paying a debt for having had the privilege of growing up in Arlington." Gordie lives in Portola Valley, Calif., and is a very active volunteer in community activities in addition to his position as a general partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto. He enjoys tennis, running, skiing, reading, and being close to his three sons and one granddaughter.

Norman Lavene recently sent me a copy of his letter to the editor of this magazine concerning an article in the October 1991 issue with which he had a significant and well-presented disagreement. Norman has lived in Israel since 1968 and has contributed an article on Dartmouth alumni living there. Hopefully we will have a chance to see his comments in the "Letters" column in the near future.

From Dave Oberlander in Texas comes word that he and Martha became grandparents last June when son Andy and his wife had a daughter. Then, in September, daughter Kate wedded Sam Maddox. Dave was planning to visit Eliot Smith in Indiana in October. He continues to enjoy his second career as a small business consultant (very small and very little business!) with banker's hours (10-4) and the occasional fishing trip.

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