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As promised, this month's column begins with revelations about the exploits of former Middle Mass residents W. Scott McDougal (Manchester, Mass.), Sandy McGinnes (Wellesley, Mass.), and U.S. Ambassador Alan McKee (Mbabane, Swaziland). That's right, former SAE brothers, Alan is now the ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland. Alan, who has two master's degrees in international diplomacy from Tufts, first visited Africa as a Dartmouth student in 1962, served in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star, and has been in the foreign service ever since. Any classmates who are wandering around in Southern Africa should be sure to look him up. However, you have only to travel to Greater Boston to find Scott or Sandy. I haven't heard from Scott, but his daughter, Molly '95, sent me a nice note confirming that her father is still a professor of urology at Harvard Medical School and chair of the department of urology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the author of a book, Prostate Disease, published by Times Books-Random House (if any of you "males, over 50" are interested). Sandy, when he is not raising money for the College, is president of Micro Media, a document management services company which converts documents to microfilm and CD-ROM.

Elsewhere in the country, TomMaddox (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) continues to teach history at California State University at Northridge, and FrederickMeils (New Canaan, Conn.) is senior vice president and chief financial officer at Quality Food Centers, a supermarket holding company. Floyd Moore (Wexford, Pa.) is the owner of a specialty garden shop featuring a large variety of ornamental plantings and more than 70 varieties of rhododendrons. Alan Nadel (Memphis, Tenn.) reports by e-mail that the third best thing that ever happened to him (behind marrying his wife, Zoe, and getting accepted to Dartmouth) was his 1994 decision to leave his group practice in neurology to become a solo practitioner. "My practice grows, I work less, play golf more, and enjoy each day more than ever!" Sounds like a great recipe for the twenty-first century, Al. Now, go out and find us another high-scoring forward for the basketball team. (Editor's Note: Al is a great supporter of Dartmouth basketball and was instrumental in recruiting Dartmouth's all-time leading scorer, Jim Barton '89.)

Also active in College affairs is BillNeukom (Seattle, Wash.), who, in addition to being a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, is senior vice president for law and corporate affairs at Microsoft. His work focuses primarily on licensing and intellectual property rights, as well as government relations. Donna and I met Bill and his new wife, Sally, for dinner when we were in Seattle recently, and had a great time reminiscing about his year as the president of Chi Phi. That experience should serve him well as the class's third sitting Trustee (Stan Roman and DavidShipler are also members of the current board).

I guess that's all until after the holidays. Have a happy and healthy holiday season and watch for next year's first column featuring Tom Phillips, Ken Sack, and others.

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j/NkJan McKee is now the U.S. ambassador to Swaziland. TOM PARKINSON '6A