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Heather Sawyer wins our Claim to Fame Award this month. Heather was highlighted in an important legal case last October, in which she defended a man denied consideration for employment with the Boy Scouts because he is openly gay. Heather offered her time pro bono, as a practicing attorney with Schiff, Hardin, and Waite, a law firm in Chicago. Dave Hess has also been in the news, showcasing his central staircase design created for The Visionary Museum in Baltimore. Dave's sculptures are generally in metal, particularly with found metal or junk. Since completing the staircase, Dave has been working on an 80-ton sculpture for the Museum of Industry in Washington, D.C. Dave is married and has two children. Also in the arts is our very own unplugged Sam Lardner, having garnered rave reviews for his second musical CD, Still Planet Earth.David Mott was promoted in November to president and chief operating officer for MedImmune Inc. in Gaithersburg, Wash. Married in New Orleans last October was KenKlemm, who allowed several Dartmouth friends to participate in his parade. Among them: Rob Brown,Tim Duax, Mike Rockefeller, AllisonLinneman Strawn, Tom Morrison,Stephanie Semprevivo Ferguson, JackFuchs, Rob Thomson, Tony Stearns, and Kevin Renckens. A pong table arrived at the party's French Quarter hotel about the same time as the Theta Delt crowd. Besides keeping in touch with so many class buddies, Ken also practices litigation law in Louisiana!

California State Senator Quentin Kopp '49 is the proud father of Shep Kopp and thus wrote to tell us that Shep graduated from Hastings Law School in 1993 and works as a deputy public defender for Los Angeles County. Mary Frances Spatola has written with news she has relocated from Alabama to Washington, D.C. She is an analyst at the Investor Research Responsibility Center, a non-profit think tank that does research on social and policy issues relating to corporations. Mary tells us Brian Moore is working for Dartmouth at the Hitchcock Medical Center and Ellen Glaser Rafshoon has a healthy baby boy. Ellen is getting a Ph.D. in history.

Scott Jaynes is working hard as well, as a senior chemist for Aspen Systems in Marlborough, Mass. He lives with his wife in Belmont. Ted Farell Eden ran the Columbus Marathon last November, finishing a respectable 55 out of 5,000! Ted teaches American literature at Hanover College in Hanover, Ind. DavidaSherman works as a business development consultant for Consultec in Boston. She was married last October and hopes to stay in the Boston area.

Now for some old news, but good news: Leslie Thompson and Suzanne King both finished well at the Nordic World Championships last March. HughO'Reilly was promoted to junior partner at McClennen and Fish, a Boston law firm, in 1995. Also in 1995, Laird Landmann was profiled in Global Finance magazine, described as an old-style bond analyst who manages an $80-million portfolio at Hotchkiss and Wiley in Los Angeles. "Landmann is a hands-on operator with a trading room background who works every angle of the market." Janie Gentry Bates joined an advertising and public relations agency in Memphis as an account manager back in March of 1995, and WalterMedline has moved to Michigan for a residency in general surgery by way of medical school in Seattle.

Our class e-mail directory is going strong with 125 names at last count. You can get a copy of the directory by e-mailing me your address and news about yourself to . Or check out the directory at our class Internet web site at . And don't forget to start making plans for our tenth Reunion, June 14-16, 1996.

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