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A 20th Reunion note: Anyone interested in performing or participating in a cabaret on Saturday night of the Reunion should call Daryl Bornstein (212-222 - 5133) or Todd Anders (617-749-9759).

Brian Litscher might consider offering a coaching clinic for soccer dads at our Reunion in June. Now in his ninth year in private solo law practice, Brian is also the boys varsity head soccer coach at Pittsfield (Mass.) High. His wife, Marie, is director of admitting at Hillcrest Hospital, and son Kyle 5 is in kindergarten. "What little spare time we have is spent going to various sporting events (soccer, wrestling, lacrosse) in which my two stepsons, Sean 17 and Eric 16, participate."

David Taylor would certainly enjoy a coaching clinic: "I've become a 'Soccer Dad' for my 9-year-old son and I love it," writes David from Pittsford, N.Y. "I need to brainwash my 6-year-old to football, though!" Professionally, David is consumed with his new, 24-hour physician anesthesiology group.

Jane Lowenstein Mairs is another potential soccer parent: "Life is easy now that Sally 6 and Russell 9 are in school all day. I'm still editing books at Cambridge U. Press three days a week and living in a wonderful house (in Larchmont) about a mile from where I grew up."

Post-clinic refreshments could be provided by Mike "Keady" Whitcomb, who is now West Coast director for Gatorade. After four years in Australia, Mike and his family returned to the U.S. in December. They now live in Orange County, Calif.

Soccer parenting is ways off for ChrisVasiliu. Married just a couple of years ago, Chris reports that his son, John Christopher, was born on October 20, 1996, weighing 8 lb. 5 oz. Chris is still with Smith Barney in New York, as managing director in debt origination area. Likewise, the Binghamton, N.Y., two-surgeon family of Dan Galyon and Janet Muhich happily welcomed the addition of Abigail Marie Galyon last fall. So far, Dan still owns his Porsche 911.

John Harvey has started a new gig with Market Vision, a New-York company that develops and markets websites, custom CDs, and other multi-media applications. John is director of sales and marketing.

After IS years working in the Hudson Valley as a land-use and environmental planner, Holly Thomas moved to Seattle to write and re-group. "This city feels so much like home that I'm likely to stay," says Holly. "I'd like to hear from any longlost classmates. Jane, Denise, Diane, Martha, Martha, Steve & Janet—this means you." (Her number is 206-217-9221.) Jeff Miller and his wife, CarolMacKinnon, recently relocated to the Hanover area, after Jeff was named president of Spectra Inc., a Markem subsidiary.

Bill Petit was named Teacher of the Year in Community Hospitals for the University of Connecticut's Health Center & Medical School. Says Bill: "My wife, Jennifer, and daughters Hayley 7 and Michaela 1 are still trying to de-program my AXA influences 18 years later." (Why would anyone want to?)

Russ Petter reports that in the past year he got a divorce, his former employer (Sandoz) merged, he changed jobs (to Biogen), moved to Massachusetts, got married (to Cathy Geiger, Duke '81) and took a vacation in France and Italy. "We now live on six acres with six dogs in beautiful Stow, Mass.," says Russ. "We hope this next year will be as exciting, but perhaps less eventful."

Ty Hilkert brings inner peace to consulting for Texas Instruments in San Francisco, now that he is a Tibetan Buddhist. "I spend a lot of time at the Vajrayana Foundation in the Santa Cruz Mountains," says Ty. "We have four lamas from Tibet, a retreat center, and a newly started traditional college called a 'Shedra.' I felt at home right away in the Buddhist rites," says Ty, who sang in the Washington National Cathedral choir as a lad. "The practice has even more incense, bells, rosaries, and statues than Ascension and St. Agnes. I still get to chant, though I've had to learn to sing in Tibetan instead of Latin. It has a strong psychological basis and isn't dogmatic at all. It's quite wonderful."

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