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William Blair & Cos., the Chicago-based investment banking firm, has promoted 30-year veteran DickKiphart to manager of the corporate finance department. Dick joined the company out of Harvard Business School. Except for a stint as junior naval officer in the South China Sea, he's been with Blair ever since. Dick is a board member of the McCormick Theological Seminary and Woodlands Academy and is president of New Trier Caucus. He and Susan live in nearby Winnetka and have three daughters. Ellen and Jill live in Evanston, where Jill attends Kendell College. Becky, the youngest, lives at home and is a student.

Also promoted: Bob Nassau, president of Allied Plywood, Charlestown, Mass., to senior vice president and general manager of the parent company, Ply Gem Industries Inc., headquartered in New York. In the newly created position Bob will continue to oversee Allied Plywood Corp. and, in addition, Goldenberg Group Inc., both subsidiaries of Ply Gem, which distributes specialty products for the home-improvement industry. Bob and AnnRae live in Concord. They have three children.

Tom Berger, internationally known Shakespearean scholar, has been chosen Piskor Professor of English at St. Lawrence University. Piskor professors, named for former St. Lawrence President Frank P. Piskor, must be excellent teachers, developing new learning experiences for students. They must show concern for intellectual activity and be productive, respected scholars. Tom lives in Canton, N.Y. Son Karl is with an educational organization in England; Jacob is an actor in the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, and daughter Ingrid studies at the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt.

In a moving piece published in the September issue of Esquire, Chuck Pfeifer wrote about his return to Vietnam after more than 25 years. Chuck left Dartmouth in his fresh-man year for, as he describes it, "taking an ax to my dorm room door." He went on to graduate from West Point and then commanded a battalion of Nungs, fierce southChinese hillmen, part of the Special Operations Group (SOG), which, among other things, writes Chuck, precipitated the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Chuck's article describes a meeting he had 25 years later with the Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap. In these more peaceful times, Chuck runs Creative Film Management, producing commercials and features, and an East Side Manhattan restaurant. He also appears in Oliver Stone movies.

Michael Moriarty says that Dick Wolf, executive producer of Law and Order, in effect forced him off the show, according to The New York Times. Mike was reported as asserting that NBC and Wolf were punishing him for openly criticizing Attorney General Reno's position against TV violence. Wolf and NBC denied this.

John McElwaine, who played left guard on Dartmouth's 1962 Ivy League champion football team, died on September 12 at home in Vienna, Va., after a two-year struggle with cancer. He was retired from Bell Atlantic. Our sympathies to Melissa and children John and Lynn.

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