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David Robinson reports that after 25 years in Boston, he and wife Carol made the move west, first to San Francisco and then about a year ago to Mill Valley, where they gave up their neighborhood and easy walk to Copley Square for a view of Mount Tamalpais. He understates the case when he says he has been traveling, doing photography, and more and more has been supplementing the photography with writing. Before moving west, the Robinsons spent two years in Paris, from which base Dave plied his photography skills while visiting many European cemeteries. His work resulted in the publication of two books on European cemetery art. The first, Saving Graces (Norton), is a collection of more than 100 of Dave's black-and-white photographs of statues of maidens in marble, stone, and bronze made in the midto-late nineteenth century. Dave characterizes them as surrogate mourners which embody the romantic notion of die link between love and death. The New York Times Book Review of February 25, 1996, reports that the photographs are beautiful, and beautifully reproduced. The second publication, Beautiful Death:The Arts of the Cemetery (Penguin Studio) is broader in scope. The PR literature on this one describes Dave, while based in Paris, as having roamed the burial grounds of Europeacross Italy, France, and Spain, Prague's Jewish cemetery, England's village churchyards, and most notably, the great Parisian cemeteries—Pere Lachais, Montparnasse, Montmartre, and others—and as having been deeply affected by the strange beauty of the tombs and the poignant signs of loss, mourning, and separation, which he recorded in the stunning photographs in Beautiful Death.

From Tarzana, Calif., HerbSchoenberg writes that while vacationing in Coronado over Labor Day, he and wife Anne had dinner with Bob and MarilynFilderman and Joe and Jean Mandel (many will recall that Joe was a '60). Herb and Anne also see Larry and PaulaFriedricks for tennis and dinner every few months. Herb also mentions having renewed old times at lunch with RudyLaRusso. Speaking of Rudy, we learned from a third party that he was honored among several others at the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame awards dinner on September 30 at the Time Life Building in midtown Manhattan. Rudy, who had several successful seasons as a starting forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, played his high school ball at James Madison in Brooklyn. Among the others honored were "Doctor J" ('76ers), Donny Foreman and Jerry Fleishman (both N.Y.U. stars), Vinnie ("Microwave") Johnson (Pistons), Howard Cann (who coached some of the NYU's finest teams), and sportscaster Marv Albert.

Harvey Galper works for an economic consulting firm, KPMG Peat Marwick, in Washington, D.C. Harvey taught at Dartmouth from 1963-66 in the economics department while doing the dissertation for his Ph.D. in economics from Yale. Son David, who attends the graduate business school at UVA, was married in October, with several Dartmouth alumni in attendance. Son Dan is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at Virginia Tech. Dartmouth alumni(ae) do in fact roam the girdled earth; Harvey, whose work often relates to the U.S. Agency on International Development and to the World Bank, says he saw Karl Holtzchue at three in the morning in a train station in Kazakhstan.

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