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Much news on the professional front this month. Gretchen Teichgraeber joined' The New York Times Co. earlier this year as director of corporate planning. Initially, she will focus on magazine development opportunities and other corporate-wide strategic initiatives. Previously Gretchen was general manager of Sports Illustrated For Kids, a magazine she helped to create and launch in 1989.

Bill Mead was elected a director and principal at the Boston architectural firm of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott earlier this year. He has been with the firm since 1979. Bill has a wide range of experience with recent focus in the health-care field. One of his many projects was an Ambulatory Health Campus for the Lahey Hitchcock Clinic in New Hampshire. His design of the Bison Student Center at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania received a Gold Citation from American School and University magazine. Bill earned a master's in architecture from Yale in 1978.

CliffEnnico recently joined the corporate practice group of Pepe & Hazard, a businesslaw firm in Connecticut. He will concentrate his practice on representing small to midsized partnerships, corporations, and limitedliability companies. Previously, he was with Kleban & Samor, P.C. Cliff is chairman of the Commercial Business Law Committee of the Corporate Bar Association of Westchester and Fairfield counties. He is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and business law. Cliff has authored several leading books and articles on business law and practice, including The Business Lawyer's Handbook, The Handbook of Corporate Practice, Basic Legal Transactions, and Financing the Start Up and Growing Business in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He received his law degree from Vanderbilt.

Michael Boulanger shares an internalmedicine practice with two other doctors in Lewiston, Maine, called St. Mary's Associates. The practice recently moved into the new medical office building adjacent to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. Michael has been a member of the medical staff at St. Mary's for 12 years after starting out as a solo practitioner. He is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics. Michael earned his medical degree from Tufts in 1979. He lives in Lewiston with his wife and their two children.

has coached the forensics team for the past four years. Under his leadership the team has gained a reputation as consistent achievers who enjoy themselves. Bill's relaxed and humorous approach to advising the team resulted in a state championship in his rookie year. Since then, the team has enjoyed continued success, including a repeat of the state championship in 1994. Bill lives in St. Johnsbury with his wife, Cherry, and sons Alex, Blair, and Tyler.

Chris McConnell founded CFM Technologies Corp. ten years ago. The company designs, builds, installs, and services milliondollar precision wet-processing systems used in the production of semiconductors. CFM's system cleans and removes particles from silicon surfaces, and it is used by IBM, Xerox, and Motorola, among others. The company began in a basement under a garage and has since grown and moved three times. CFM now has 95 employees, annual sales of $20 million, and is being courted by several investmentbanking firms hoping to take the company public. Chris says that in the future, the company will explore opportunities in flat-panel displays used for computer screens and televisions. Chris majored in chemical engineering at Dartmouth and earned master's degrees from Purdue and Harvard.

Bravo for all of the above!

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