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Anthony Sandberg is "still enjoying the sailing lifestyle. This is the 19th year of running Olympic Circle Sailing Club, which I started on San Francisco Bay. Much of my time is spent leading flotillas to Greece, Tahiti, Australia, etc. My major project at home is developing sailing opportunities for disadvantaged innercity youth through a nonprofit organization I started called Argonauts. I'm doing my part to encourage people to turn off the tube and get outdoors to enjoy a real life rather than just a virtual one."

Grossman's, a retailer of building supplies which is currently working through bankruptcy, announced that Dircklacobelli was appointed acting executive vice president and chief financial officer. Dirck (who holds an M.B.A. from Tuck) has been a financial consultant to troubled companies since 1986 and has on many occasions acted as chief financial officer (both formally and informally) in engagements where the companies were restructuring and, in many cases, disposing of assets.

From James Vreeland in Peru comes this: "E-mail is so easy that there's no excuse for us expatriates not to zap in from time to time with a note from off shore. Southern hemisphere inverted climates bring winter while Hanover is summering; thus our kids are in school in Peru during June, while summer vacation starts with Christmas. We have trouble explaining the sleds and snow of Santa Claus paraphernalia common in Peru in December when we all start to flock to the beach.

"I'm still up to my knees in organic cotton of natural colors for the Ecological textile market, the result of my Ph.D. research long ago at the University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies and the department of anthroplogy. If anyone out/up there is interested, visit our website: www.interplace.com.pe/pakucho.htm. (Note: our class website has a link too— Ed.) Those of us who came to Dartmouth without knowing anything about computers and were obliged to take a course in Basic will be pleased to know that a computer academy just opened in Lima, Peru, with the name John Kemeny. And here we are on the 'net. Any other Big Greeners living in Peru?"

An epistle from the "deserto" in Arizona, Wayne Hobin, read: "We had a normally cool and rainy winter as compared to the outrageously mild one last year (three inches of precip.—we even had snow at the house one morning: warmed up the snow shovel, but didn't need it). Kiki is very happy to be out of the Northeastern survivalist corporate mentality. She's a happy camper at PCS as a director of project management."

Pete Webster has "just decided to run this fall for a second term as first selectman (of Essex, Conn.) and as long as the fellow who bought my Midas shops keeps paying me every month, I can afford to stay on! Since the pay is so low (they don't call us public 'servants' for nothing!), one has to make the job as interesting and rewarding as possible: Last April, Stephen Spielberg came to town, shooting about two minutes of footage along the Valley Railroad tracks with an 1830 steam train shipped up from Baltimore. Kind of exciting."

And don't forget the class of '71 mini- reunion at the Yale game, October 18 in New Haven. We're planning to meet at the Dartmouth tent adjacent to Yale Bowl, outside of the gate. We also plan to reconvene after the game around the keg DickWooster is trying to procure. Pete Webster is also working on a special block of tickets. Look for details at or contact Dick (212-667-7363) or Pete (860- 746-4340). See you there!

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Nelson Armstrong '71makes Dartmouth Dartmouth, p. 32

Anthony Sandbergspends most of his timeleading flotillas toGreece. Tahiti, andAustralia. DON O'NEILL '71