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Los Angeles in '93. OscarArslanian reports, "The Southern California contingent is in reunion mode. My thought is an initial facilitated seminar that would serve to put everybody in 'touch' and open an inner line of communication for the three days something along the lines of the 'Passages' seminar at our 20th. From there, the possibilities are limitless: private back-lot tour of Paramount Pictures, dinner at (Bill) Horton's beach club in Malibu, Beverly Hills sight-seeing. Mostly, we want to spend quality time with each other."

Oscar's committee includes, at the moment, Fats Miller, Fritz Kern, Phil Oehler, JohnHadley, Bill Horton, Duane Cox, SteveElson. Others are welcome.

Dick Beattie was feted by New York's Bank Street College of Education in January for his contributions to public education. He was awarded an honorary degree and The President's Medal at a dinner in which more than 620 people jammed the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria to honor Dick and at die same time raise a half million dollars for Bank Street College. The gala dinner was cochaired by Henry R. Kravis, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and Reuben Mark, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Dick, who is chairman of the executive committee of his law firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, was honored for a long list of significant contributions to education: general counsel to the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter administration; director of the transition and counsel to the secretary in charge of organizing the then-new U.S. Department of Education; twice chair of the New York Mayoral Commission on Special Education; member of the Board of Education of the City of New York during the Koch administration; and, currently, chairman of the Fund for New York City Public Education. The whole thing sounds like a signal and well-deserved honor.

Did you see David Blake on the "CBS Evening News" on Monday, April 6? He was interviewed in connection with the networks obituary on Sam Walton.

Got a nice note from Tim Lawson, who is currently living in Seaside, Ore. He didn't say what he was doing except that he's "not hooked on anybody's sales pitch." Many of us last saw Tim when he made our 20th Reunion.

I told you in my last column about JackBabson's five-and-a-half-month hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. I've sent a lengthy story from the Old Colony Memorial on for publication in our class newsletter, but I can't pass up three quotes: "Probably the most memorable experience was finishing it. Climbing up to the top of Mt. Katahdin, tears almost come to your eyes. It gets to you. You get very emotional...." On the trail, "The time factor was opened up. It really allowed me to think of all kinds of things, to complete my thoughts," Jack said; "When you have time to consider one thing, it unlocks another thought, and a whole bunch of memories."

"The toughest part of die trail is the part you haven't done yet, and the easiest is the part you have just finished."

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