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It rained on Class Officers Weekend, as you might expect in May in Hanover, but the Green also turned into Dartmouth Beach as hundreds of students crowded out for some rays.

Though the weekend focus was on new ideas for running classes—and a lot of classes are innovative—it also was an opportunity to see today's Dartmouth in action. The Collis Center, nee College Hall, is spectacular, with a three-story atrium running through the middle of the building, and lots of meeting and playing space on all three levels.

The new chemistry building and the computer-science facility, renovated from the old mental health center, are impressive, both in ways you might expect (hoods for each chemistry student) and ways you wouldn't (interior lights that sense the presence of people to turn on, and their absence to turn off).

The 22nd annual Native American powwow was at the Bema, with dances, crafts, food tents, etc. An interesting weekend.

Ken DeHaven is in line to become president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1996. He was elected second vice president at the academy's meeting in New Orleans last winter.

Ken is professor and associate chairman of orthopaedics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and also director of athletic medicine. He has twice served on the board of the 20,000-member academy and has been chairman of its Council of Musculoskeletal Specialty Societies. He's also served as the president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the International Society of the Knee.

Keith Ober was unanimously elected the new superintendent of schools in Union 90, a consolidated school district including the towns of Milton, Bradley, Greenbush, and Alton, Vt. He had previously been school superintendent in Milton and before that in Wells River and in Canaan, N.H. In Milton he identified more than 350 areas where the schools were not in compliance with state standards and brought them into compliance in all but a handful.

Watch for Dick Beattie to pop up in the headlines again, since he's one of the lawyers representing Roger Altman deputy treasury secretary, in the Whitewater affair.

Jud Goldsmith, a consultant to the troubled Media Vision Technology Inc., maker of computer sound cards, has been named interim chief financial officer. He will have the responsibility of trying to develop a plan to pay creditors.

Don't forget to mark our 1995 special reunion in New Orleans on your calendar: May 11-14, 1995. Ken Kolb and Jim "Roach" Roussel are cooking up a program including wonderful food, great music, and French Quarter tours. Also reserve October 14-16 for our fall mini-reunion on Dartmouth Night weekend. Details on both to come.

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