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Fresh starts. Marty Budd has moved his law office, with the same firm, from Hartford to Stamford, Conn., so he can live with his new bride, Aviva, in New York. Attending the wedding were his two Dartmouth roommates, Richard Fishbein and Alan Zients. Aviva, like Marty, is a Harvard Law School graduate.

"Both of us have children, and fortunately all get along fine and all consult their stepparents," Marty said. Meanwhile, his daughter Robin has been working in Hollywood as an assistant to movie producer Ed Zwick. "Anybody's life at this stage in life is complicated and more than can be put in three sentences," Marty observes.

Also enjoying a new marriage is John Walker. He and Joy recently moved to Anaheim, Calif., close to John's continuing teaching and administrative career at Fullerton College. John has left his post as dean of instruction at the two-year school of 18,000 students, but is teaching European history and German, and remains in charge of the school's foreign programs, in Costa Rica, England, Scotland, Italy, France, and Austria. His duties require frequent travel to all these countries.

Another classmate who happily must travel abroad is Jack Herrick. He is in the real estate business in Cleveland, but in his role as board chairman of the Worldwide Squash Association, he attends board meetings every quarter, frequently in London, but also in the present two-year period in Karachi, Pakistan, and Nicosia, Cyprus. Jack's goal is making squash an Olympic sport. The only question, he told me, is when it happens.

Bob Kahn spent 30 years in Britain after winning a Reynolds fellowship for a year's study at the London School of Economics. He married there, raised five children, and worked for non-profit organizations. But Bob and his wife, Sylvia, are now in Kansas City, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in education at the University of Missouri. When he gets it, "I plan to teach English as a second language, probably abroad," he says. "It depends where I get a job."

John Omaha, who went under the name of John Millikan at Dartmouth but renamed himself for his hometown, is in Chico, Calif., where he has become a drug and alcohol counselor. A self-described recovering alcoholic and addict himself for the past seven years, he comments that "alcoholism was incipient at Dartmouth" and "from Dartmouth my problems just grew. I never actually realized I had a problem until 1989." John is also working with Native-American groups to preserve the towering Mt. Shasta volcano from development.

Another fresh-starter, professionally, is Bill Gundy, who has joined an executive outplacement firm, New Directions, as vice president, in Boston. Like many classmates, he is able to say, "I am shifting gears"

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