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Secretary of Labor Robert Reich '68 is the Class Notes secretary for the American Oxonian, the Rhodes Scholar alumni magazine. In a recent issue was this update: "Bill Clinton writes that Chelsea's ballet skills have reached a new level of perfection. . . . Bill notes that in early November he was elected President of the United States." We may not hold such famous offices, but we are certainly doing our jobs well. Read on.

Tom Wise was recently elected president of the American Psychosomatic Society. Tom graduated from Duke University Medical School in 1969 and is a professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is also the editor of the journal Psychosomatics, editor-in-chief of Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine, and president-elect of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Tom is close to the White House, so he can assist Bill Clinton and the Congress if they need help. Class President Allen Zern reports that all

class activities are running smoothly. More importantly, Allen and Judy learned that their daughter Carolyn will be a member of the class of '97, joining Peter '95 as an excuse to keep them returning to Hanover.

Jim Griffiths, your famous mini-reunion chairman, reminds you to make plans to be in Hanover October 29-31 to meet with your fellow classmates and to watch the Big Green drub the hapless Cantabs. Jim is busier than ever with his personal activities. During the winter he enjoyed the stress of fulltime tax preparation for a local accounting firm. His daughter Sally and her husband just bought Whaleback ski area in Lebanon. Jim made Whaleback a success, than sold it to a successor who was not a winner. Jim . expects drat his daughter will bring Whaleback back to the winner's circle once again. Jim is chagrined that we are all halfway to WiUard Scott's weather show.

Brian Walsh has turned his creative talents to painting. I hear that he recendy sold 11 New England landscape paintings.

Jim Markworth knows how much this column depends upon writers, and he sent two pages to us. I'll pass on some of the highlights. Jim is still busy with his "orthopaedics practice trying to ease the ravages of time on the population's backs." He regrets missing the 50th-Birthday bash in May, but he did manage to return to Hanover for his son's graduation. Jim was pleasantly surprised to see Clyde Dietz in May. Clyde was on his way to the D.C. bash but wanted to get in a little surfing. Jim reports that "it was good to see Clyde back on a board, but he has lost some of his flare. Whereas he used to 'hang ten,' he is now more apt to hang twenty on all fours." Look for more about Jim and his philosophy on aging in your class newsletter.

Someone pointed out that C.D. never showed up at the D.C. party. Here is the explanation. Just after he left Wilmington, N.C., and his surfing escape with Jim, Clyde was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting of utmost urgency. Read this column next month for updates

on Clyde, Brian Porzak, Peter Sapione,Hank Amon, Pete Frederick, and you—if you write, or call me at (617) 272-2017. In the meantime, take care of yourself, and do not try to act like the teenager you once were.

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