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Merry X-mas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year. We have learned that Whitney Evans has been appointed executive director and a member of the board of directors of the National Barrier Awareness Foundation based in Sonoma, Calif, (tough location?). Before this he held senior positions with the YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula and Palo Alto and with the VMC Foundation of San Jose. He has been a principal with the Harmony Group, consultants to non-profits, since 1978. Whitney also serves on the board of a very successful company, Invacare, the world’s largest man- ufacturer of home medical equipment. The Barrier Foundation mission is to enhance the lives of the 43 million Americans with dis- abilities. They promote awareness through National Earner Awareness days. These events pair a person with a disability with an able- bodied community leader. They share their experiences, thus creating understand) ng and acceptance. Great endeavor, Whitney.

John Ferries advised us that “while attend- ing Parents’ Weekend at my daughter’s col- lege (Gettysburg), I met Dix Davis. Dix has a son, Bill, who is a senior at Gettysburg, and he had come down from his home in Prince- ton, Mass., with wife Sarah for the occasion. They also have a son, Tom, who graduated from Dartmouth in ’92 and is now working at Morgan Stanley, and a daughter in high school. Dix currently serves as an officer of the Dartmouth Club of Central Massachu- setts and has had a successful 33-year career in the insurance business.”

We find through an article in tire Dart- mouth that our classmate Michael Stem continues in his lackluster ways! Michael went on to Tuck and followed this with law school at NYU. He ran the family fragrance busi- ness for a number of years, finally selling it in 1989. “For Michael, what had begun as an on-the-side charity giving has become a full- time job.” He has contributed to organiza- tions that offer financial and academic sup- port to New York City public school children. He now contributes through his own orga- nization. According to Michael, “Public edu- cation in N.Y.C. is awful—a travesty. You have to start to help some of the youngsters—the need is great.” Has organization, the Gradu- ate Achievement Program, has stepped in to fill the voids created by cuts in the public school budget by offering tutoring, mentoring, and extracurricular programs beginning in the ninth grade. Since its beginning, the program has helped approximately 250 children at two schools which are attended entirely by black and Hispanic children because of “de facto seg- regation,” according to Michael. He has added many other innovations, including summer tutoring, summer jobs, and cultural experi- ences. Michael feels this is not just a local prob- lem, and he hopes to follow the lead of the Princeton Project 5 5 in a similar program with our class. President John has the subject on our mini-reunion agenda in October. By the way, Michael just bought the Gucci fragrance distribution business for the U.S.

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