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"'73 Coming Together in 1998"—the event: 25th Reunion. The place: Hanover. The dates: June 18-22, 1998. Plan to go. Bring the family. If the family can't make it, come by yourself. You won't be the only "solo" there. If you haven't read the latest issue of our class newsletter, read through to the back where my memo asks for your input to our Reunion yearbook. Thanks to those who have already mailed, faxed, or emailed me their Reunion book biographical data and essays.

Class agent Steve Kessner puts the "fun" in "fund-raising." Steve, Bob Smith, and I spent an evening in September at the Williams Club in NYC calling classmates for pledges for the Reunion giving campaign. Got to talk to some of you and take your pledges. Thanks for taking time to talk and for your generosity.

John Roberts, senior vice president of marketing at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, has been given the additional responsibilities of overseeing the exchange's public relations and international marketing departments. John, a Tuck alumnus, currently manages the exchange's retail and institutional marketing and investor services activities. Joostvan Nispen, our Hollander in Barcelona, Spain, e-mailed that he had spent four fascinating weeks vacationing in southern India.

Prior to departing for an August vacation with wife Kathleen and sons Travis and Nathaniel, Jon Low wrote that since departing the Clinton Administration he's begun his second year with Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in West Palm Beach, Fla. Business travel made it possible last summer for Jon to have lunch with consultant Allen Kraus in NYC. Chris Ley and spouse Janette of Rumford, R.I., spent a July weekend in Maine, where they saw the Lows. Jon reports that Gerry Johnson's sabbatical from his law firm enabled him to go to Florence, Italy, for a two-week cooking class. Gerry's wife, Linda Larsen, and son Peter joined him in Europe later.

Jim Ryan e-mailed from Howard Beach, N.Y. ("a small fishing village on an island in the North Atlantic"), where he is a selfemployed computer consultant and a Pratt Institute School of Art teacher in the department of interior design. Jim's family includes wife Geri, daughters Kathleen (5), Irene (7), and Jolene (22), and granddaughter Jocelyn (1). Jim confesses that long ago at Dartmouth when he made a fantasy wish "to be surrounded by naked babes," he forgot to specify that they should be considerably older and out of diapers.

Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina, just outside of Boone, N.C., where Steve Herzfeld since 1982 has been a member of the Purusha Group, a longterm, advanced residential program under the supervision of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Purusha program employs the transcendental meditation technique and various other yoga practices for unfolding human potential.

Dale Hartkemeyer is finishing up his Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He keeps in electronic touch with Greg Hanson, who teaches agricultural economics at Penn State, and with Debbie Groisser Greenberger, who works at the New Jersey law firm of McCarter & English.

Send me your submissions for our Reunion yearbook. If you need classmates' postal or e-mail addresses, contact me.

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