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In this month's mailbag is news that Jon Osgood, an analyst at Alex, Brown & Son, was selected by Institutional Investor magazine as a member of its All-America Research Team.

Gary Partenheimer was named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers, a reference book of outstanding teachers compiled from nominations by their former students. Gary has taught religious studies at Northfield Mount Hermon School since 1977. He helped to found the freshman-year humanities program there and serves as a dormitory faculty member. He has coached girls' junior-varsity soccer for ten years and is assistant coach of the girls' ice hockey team, which he helped to establish in 1978.

Dave Reingold received tenure this year and full professorship in the chemistry department at Juniata College in Huntington, Pa. To add icing to the cake, he also won the Lindback Foundation Award for teaching. Dave writes: "That qualifies me to give the convocation address next year, which I will end by quoting the immortal words of John Sloan Dickey: 'Your business here is learning.'"

We received this note from Dick Wenzel: "Ruth gave birth to Shelley Marie on May 28, 1992. Drew, who is six years old, is a second grader thriving on gymnastics and 'homework' (of all things). Ruth still enjoys nursing for out-patient surgery at the Kaiser clinic. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) goes well for me as our extensions enter construction. It's a great challenge and lots of action."

Ken Davidson, a senior vice president of John & Higgins, was named as the manager of its Baltimore office. He joined the company in 1984 and was elected a senior vice president in 1990. The firm is the largest privately held insurance broker in the world, with 70 offices in the United States and Canada. Before joining the company, Ken played professional hockey for five years in the Boston Bruins organization, and later worked for a major insurance company and a multinational pharmaceutical firm.

Wayne Hobin sold his dental practices in Willimantic and Marlborough, Conn., and now lives in Cave Creek, Ariz. Wayne writes: "The town is as western as it sounds, with chaps, horses, western hats, and an occasional pistol on the hip. Our sister town, Carefree, just two miles up the road, is just the opposite, with pink pants, golf carts, and Cadillacs and Mercedes the rule. Amazingly, in this desert environment, I am still able to row at one of the nearby reservoirs three or four times a week.

"My wife, Kiki, is working in Phoenix with Andersen Consulting as a data-management consultant, and I'm doing real estate in the greater Cave Creek/Carefree-North Scottsdale area to wile away the time. We have found the joy of building our own house, and after falling five months behind schedule and $15,000 over budget, we've finally moved in!"

Jazz pianist Mark Markaverich was featured at the University of New Hampshire Traditional Jazz Series in Durham last year. His home is in Sarasota, Fla. Scott Berry, having chosen the quiet and solitude of the West, is living in the Colorado wilderness where, at last writing, he was associated with Freedom Works, a mail-order catalog mailed to more than two million homes. The catalog focuses on healthy lifestyles, with organic, low-fat, heart-healthy foods, active sportswear, selfimprovement programs, and travel.

This is my last column—at least for now. During the past 17 years as class scribe, I have written more than 150 class columns for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and for the first five years before becoming class secretary I produced more dian a dozen newsletters. Hearing from so many of you over the years was truly a special experience—one that I will never forget. I hope that many of you will continue to keep in touch.

Since I've written so much about so many of you and your families, some of you have asked about me and my family. My wife, Bea, is a preschool teacher in Riverdale, spending her days with a gaggle of three- and four-year- olds. Our daughter Sarah has turned 14 and is a gymnast and soccer player. Our son Alan is 12 and plays baseball, football, and basketball, not to mention computer and video games. Both are excellent students. As for me, I am a litigation partner in the law firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon in New York City, spend a few nights a month chairing two village boards, and I treasure the time I have with my family.

So for now, I turn the reins over. I hope that writing these columns each month is as special for my successors as it has been for me for all of these years.

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