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Today is St. Patrick's Day and the birthday of my grandfather Patsy Donovan, who was born in County Cork, Ireland. A center fielder, he played professional baseball with Louisville and Washington and starred with the Pittsburgh Pirates for eight seasons, notching six consecutive .300 seasons. In 1900 he led the National League in 45 swipes, and he stole 518 bases during his career. One morning early in my career when a disgruntled federal magistrate was admonishing my course and my street-wise client and accusing me of having "too much of an Ivy-League education,' he blurted out, "What is your background, anyway?"

"Base stealing," I answered, and not a bad background to have."

Ellis Rowe has moved to Lancaster, Penn., close to M&M/Mars Inc. His address is 295 Brown Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17002.

Congratulations to Ronald B. Latham, previously the director of the town library in Milford, Mass., since 1989 and now the director of the Berkshire Athenaeum.

David S. vonLoesecke has been appointed president and general manager of Foxboro Canada Inc. and will be responsible for all Foxboro operations in Canada. David joined the corporation in 1989 as vice president of engineering. Prior to that he held various management positions in engineering and service operations at Foxboro in the United States for approximately 12 years. After Dartmouth, David combined master's degrees in both engineering and business from Tuck and Thayer. Congrats, David.

Thanks to Charles Carner, who sent me a copy of the Dartmouth "Mentors" video he helped to produce as well as his new book, Venice Walks. "Mentoring" is a popular word in education and administration, and we promote mentors at Mercer Law School.

Paul E. Strohl has joined the Houston firm of Baker & Hostetler as counsel. Paul has a background in representation of companies that find, produce, sell, transport, and consume energy and also represents insurance companies and commercial land investment banks who extend credit to or invest in energy companies. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; vice chairman of the Natural Gas Marketing and Transportation Committee of the American Bar Association's section on Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment; and a fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel. Paul earned his J.D. from Harvard. Baker & Hostetler Counselors at Law is the 16th largest law firm in the nation with approximately 500 lawyers.

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