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It is a gigantic honor and privilege to start the second year of my secretarial stewardship with acknowledgements of two classmates whose accomplishments this year make them special alumni from any class and whom we proudly claim as our own. By now I hope you have all heard that Susan Dentzer has been elected as a Trustee of Dartmouth College. Susan becomes the first woman graduate and the youngest person to be elected to the Board. We look forward to following her efforts as she brings her unique perspective to the Board to help steer the College towards the 21st century.

The other equally exciting news is Jeffrey and Joyce Sudikoffs gift of three million dollars to the College to establish the Sudikoff Laboratory for computational sciences. The money will be used to transform an existing medical facility into a state-of-the-art lab and classroom space. As the battle for educational funding is waged, this magnificent contribution will go a long way to insure quality education for future Dartmouth classes.

I'm happy to report that the Rick Angulo Fund, which was introduced by Betsy Roberts Gile and Don Wiviott last year at Reunion, has grown to $20,000, thanks to your generosity and the matching gifts of Rick's family.

Dee Dee Granzow Simpson wrote from England that she and her husband had a son, James, last winter. While James keeps his sister Diana company, Dee Dee continues her other career as a consultant to the Pentagon. She is retired from the diplomatic corps where she was a nuclear arms negotiator. That reminds me of a bumper sticker: "You can't hug your kids with nuclear arms." Good advice, whatever your calling.

Briefest letter award goes to Kurt Reimann who reports that he and his wife, Gail, had a second child, Whitney Mather, last winter. Congrats.

Speaking of Whitneys, Pam Gruninger Perkins was recently named head of publications for the Whitney Museum. Last I remember, Pam was assisting the curator at a small Whitney branch in Stamford, Conn., which is home to a couple of Calder mobiles. Displaying my artistic ignorance, I said that I thought I remembered a Chagall mural. Pam pointed out that of course he wasn't American. Just testing, Pam.

Ever in the middle of a good controversy, John Bird has had a misunderstanding with the Alumni Magazine editor over some published comments by President Freedman regarding Thurgood Marshall's historical influence before his Supreme Court appointment. I diink the issue has been resolved, but not before I was impressed with John's knowledge of and passion for history.

I had a great conversation with long lost roommate Winston Richie. Winston, his wife, Charlotte, and two daughters, Lee and Cara, live in Dorchester, Mass. When Winston isn't building a new deck or finishing the bannister on his dream-house-in-the-remaking, he makes time for his hobby as an international product manager at John Hancock. After his great Peace Corps experience shortly after school, Winston still contemplates packing up the family and moving to some foreign land. Do it.

Finally, congratulations to me for finishing my first fall year of editorial alchemy. Nuclear fusion is nothing compared to creating news from the snippets I get in the mail. Thanks to all who send them, shame to all who don't. To again quote my man Scoop Nestor, "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."

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