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Hart Perry, chairman of the board of management of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing, once again ably presided at the Friends' annual meeting and dinner February 20 in New York. Oarsman, then coach of Dartmouth's lightweight crew, and long-time coach of rowing at Kent School, Hart's years of dedicated, spirited service to Dartmouth's crews and to rowing in general have made him a legend in the sport and brought him a host of admirers and awards wherever crews gather to row. After dinner he reported that he had retired from coaching at Kent and moved from the sylvan northwest corner of Connecticut to its equally beautiful seaboard southeast corner, in Stonington, and that there recently he and his wife hosted a joyful mini-reunion for fellow New Englanders Don "Charbon" Charbonnier and Swift Lawrence and their wives.

In this political season, word has come that one of our own has decided to throw in his hat. The Needham (Mass.) Times reports that Jack Cogswell has officially announced his intention to run for a recently vacated selectman seat in his hometown of Needham. Retired from New England Telephone and a long distinguished career in telecommunications in 1990, Jack hopes to bring to the board of selectmen a sense of fiscal responsibility and—aptly—improved communications. If it is experience and dedication the voters of Needham want, then Jack is surely their man. We wish him well!

Bill Hartley, ex-board member of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and former business anchor of CNN, has moved on to Hong Kong, where he is bureau chief of C-NBC. He anchors a full three hours a day, is learning Cantonese to add to his Japanese and Mandarin, and—like everyone there and elsewhere—looks forward with interest, and perhaps a tinge of apprehension, to the "day of transition, July 1, 1997. (Since my travels take me there frequently, I will try to look him up on my next trip for a fuller report.)

Finally, via Dr. John Porvaznik, comes a moving story from the Navajo-Hopi Observer about his daughter, Mary, also a doctor. It was at the Indian Health Service (IHS) in Tuba City, Ariz., that John began his 30-year career working with the American Indians; and now, three decades later, it is his daughter—raised there through the fifth grade—who has returned to the IHS to practice herself. And not only is she paying back for those special early years, but the rich heritage of her past has uniquely qualified her. "I know I need to stand back (and let the patient communicate his or her malady), she relates, adding, "I know how to approach the Navajo person...l understand and am not bothered, even if they want to see a medicine man before they take my treatment."

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