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Some of our luckiest classmates live in attractive places while pursuing professions that could double as cherished hobbies. Gerry Huttrer, a geologist in business 25 years as a geothermal consultant, lives in the heart of the Rockies m Frisco, Colo., near the resort at Vail, where he teaches skiing in his private time. Gerry travels all over the world following active volcanoes. Although his wife of 28 years, Janney, died in 1988, all three children and two grandchildren live in Colorado, none more than 100 miles away. And he frequently sees classmate Mike Wood, a fellow geologist living nearby in Dillon.

Gus Leach warned me, "Don't dress it up or anything," but he and his wife, Gail, manage to spend lots of time outside their home of Winnipeg in a summer cottage near Lake of the Woods. The lake in the summer keeps me in Winnipeg in the winter," he remarked, but not all the time, because he also owns a chalet in Whistler, 8.C., a premier ski resort. Gus puts together venture capital-type financing. "I marry the money up with the deal...mostly in Winnipeg," he explained. "There's not a huge amount of business, but it's out there if you scratch around and find it.

Another classmate living in Canada, David Bond of Vancouver, says, "There are only two other places in North America I would consider living, Portland, Ore., or Burlington, Vt." His bride of last May, Diane, has a mail-order business m Canadian crafts, and he is chief economist with the Hong Kong Bank of Canada. David also teaches finance at the University of British Columbia and serves on the board of Simon Fraser University.

Elliott Carr, president of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, lives in the Cape village of Brewster, and we hear that he completed in October a 230-mile walk around Cape Cod. He was accompanied on 15 of 30 segments by his wife, Sue. "If you'd asked me, I'd have probably said I knew the Cape, but I didn't know the slightest thing about (it)," Elliott observes.

Others are moving. Tony and LoisRoisman, formerly of Washington, D.C., now live 10 miles from Hanover. He continues a legal practice, specializing in nuclear radiation hazards. Dudley Smith, considering retiring from the Chubb insurance company in New Jersey, is thinking of moving with his wife, Julie, to New Hampshire. I notice by the way that a survey by Southern Illinois University has found that Bob Hager of NBC, entertaining speaker at our Reunion dinner last June, had the third greatest number of onair appearances on 1994 network news shows of any correspondent, a total of 159. Only two White House correspondents, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, with 184, and CBS's Rita Braver, with 178, had more. It is all the more impressive in that Bob has no such automatically news-producing beat as the White House.

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