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Okay, we all loved Dartmouth. But Jane Williams Vale and Anthony Vale have named their first child Hanover. (Flash to our 20th Reunion: Jane: "Come on, kids Hanover, Norwich, Lyme, and Thetford um, Anthony, honeywhere is little West Leb?"). Bema, Green, Hop, and Eleazar will follow as grandchildren. No joke. Hanover (Hana) Madison Vale was born in Albany in July. Jane Varner writes that she and Amit Malhotra visited the WilliamsVale family the day after Hana was born and proclaims, "If that girl isn't a Dartmouth '19, I don't know who is!" Tor Blaisdell and his wife, Gayla, were blessed with a beautiful baby boy on July fourth, Tristan Bauer Blaisdell. Parenthood apparently impacts the communication facilities, for Tor could only write, "He's awesome—a really incredible thing."

"How does one summarize what has been happening in one's life in a format condensed in the Alumni Magazine?' asks Wendy Cue. Here are the Cue Cliffs Notes: Wendy left her job in March 1996 and bought a round-the-world ticket to travel for eight months. Her travel partner, Geoff Peterson (a Harvard man,"but he's got Dartmouth blood in his veins"), proposed to her in Yemen, and their wedding took place in the Hanover area this past September. Prior to her marriage, Wendy was back in Haiti with the U.N. Organization of American States humanrights mission (working primarily on police and judicial reform), and afterward she planned to join Geoff in Rwanda, where he is working as human rights officer for the United Nations. Her address: Wendy Cue, UNHRFOR c/o UNDP, Boite Posta'le 445, Kigali, Rwanda.

From the grad school front: KariBoeskov graduated in the spring with an M.F.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Kudos, Kari! JohnWilliamson has returned to Hanover as a Tuck '99, and invites old (and new) friends to stop by for B&B at his place on Lyme Road. E-mail him at , or call (603) 643-3165 to find out what else is going on in his life. (Thank you, John! We'll all crash on your floor at Homecoming. By the way, do you ever wonder if you now look to the undergrads the way the Tuckies looked to us back then?).

On to the excelling writers in our class. Eve Kushner's new book Experienci?igAbortion: A Weaving of Women's Words, published by The Haworth Press Inc., relates firsthand, personal experiences of women who have come to terms with emotions triggered by their own abortions. The book is designed to help women who have had an abortion understand that it is a complex emotional and physical experience from which it takes time to recover and is recommended to professionals, therapists, families, friends, and the women themselves who are dealing with abortion.

Mike Lowenthal edited Gay Men at theMillennium: Sex, Spirit, Community, a compilation of writings by preeminent gay authors on the issues, decisions, and transitions facing the gay community at the turn of the century. Mike's work on this book, which is due out this month, is by no means his first published achievement. He is the editor of a number of other books, including Friends and Lovers and the Flesh and theWord series, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The BostonGlobe, The Boston Phoenix, and in most of the leading gay newspapers and magazines, as well as in the anthologies Best American GayFiction 1996, and Men on Men 5. Mike's first novel is due out next year.

Finally, many classmates have asked that I mention the '9O class Web site and e-mail directory—a terrific resource! Check it out: .

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