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Marty Aronson has expanded his skills beyond the practice of lawyering to develop expertise and a fine reputation in a related area that promises some help in reducing me burgeoning dockets of many of our country's courts. Marty's forte is negotiating, and the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recently ran a headline piece on the wisdom he has brought to the process, aptly titled, "The Art of Negotiating." And so that others may share and spread this wisdom, Marty has for the last ten years enhanced his parallel 20-year teaching career at Boston College Law School with a course on dispute negotiations.

And reaching for the new, and also renewing the old, is Dave Oberlander. With a fax message, Obie informs me that he is now wired to the Internet, and for those of you who want to test your e-mail skills, his electronic address is . (With this reminder I have now added my e-mail address to the address block below!) As for renewing the old, among Obie's major activities is a book chronicling the exploits of another Oberlander of yore, the legendary "Swede."

Kudos Extended: (1) To Dick Hogarty, director of the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, for his award by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Department of Mental Health commemorating his "outstanding service, advocacy, and dedication to the delivery of highquality mental health care," and for his report, "Turnabout Time," on the need for UMASS to shift its priority from research to teaching, a report which was very highly praised by lan Menzies, columnist for the Patriot Ledger. (2) to Raymond Lenhard of Baltimore, Md., elected president of the American Cancer Society at the recent annual meeting of the society's board of directors. Raymond, a professor of oncology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has had a long and distinguished career of service to his profession, his university, and the society, which in 1991 awarded him its National Division Award.

On a sadder note, I regret to inform you of the passing of Morris William Howard of New Lebanon, N.Y. An obituary will appear in a future issue of the magazine.

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