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Rick Braddock and IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner finally got together professionally after long parallel careers that began after college at Harvard Business School. As a director and consultant for the Lotus Development Corp., Rick was at the side of Lotus Chairman Jim Manzi for much of the negotiations which resulted in IBM acquiring Lotus, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rick was already involved in an assignment to supervise the cutting of costs at Lotus, a skill he honed during his last years as president of Citicorp. Rick is also employed by the leverage-buyout firm, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. At Lotus, Rick "is helping the company in this period of restructuring to try to make this transition work," a board member said.

Three class mini-reunions are planned this fall in Hanover, Cambridge, and New York. In Hanover, Homecoming Weekend, October 20-22, features the parade Friday night, post-game (Colgate) cocktails at the home of Dean and Barbara Edson near the stadium, and a class dinner (site to be announced). In case you can't make it to Hanover, try Tailgating with Dave Schaefer before and after the Harvard game, October 28, in the parking lot of the Harvard Business School, or join classmates at Wein Stadium on November 4 in New York for a tailgate party hosted by Class President Dick Berkowitz at the Columbia game. For farther information contact Mini-Reunion Chairman Bob Bysshe (212) 454-3727.

Speaking of Dave Schaefer, our indefatigable class organizer and newsletter editor has taken on expanded roles at the College. He has been elected VP of the Newsletter Editors Association and, as our representative to the Alumni Council, he is chairman of the class organization committee of that esteemed body.

On a "cool, clear, memorable evening last winter," Fred Chaffee, director of the Whipple Multiple Mirror Telescope, and Deputy Director Craig Foltz '74 hosted I. Michael Heyman '51, then newly installed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Whipple is a far-flung Smithsonian outpost atop an isolated mountain in southern Arizona. The Whipple MMT is the fourth largest telescope in the world.

Bruce Berman professor of political studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and co-author John Lonsdale of Cambridge University have won a prize for their book Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenyaand Africa. The T revor Reese Memorial Prize in Imperial and Commonwealth History is awarded by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London.

Barry Sharpless professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute, received the King Faisal International Prize for Science, a major international award that includes the presenting of a gold medal and $2 00,000 from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in ceremonies in Riyadh. The King Faisal Foundation described Barry as "one of the most creative and intuitive organic chemists of his generation."

I regret to report the death of TimothyAllen Brandt at his home in Acton, Mass. Details will appear in the obituary section of the magazine.

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