1979

As my cohort, Jeffrey Boylan, predicted in the last column, I've recovered from surgery to fix an arterial aneurysm in my head and am back to 100 percent (some of you who haven't seen me in a while might say more like 200 percent). The doctors say that my medical condition seems to have been caused by a repeated tipping back of the head 20 some odds years ago. Go figure. Thanks everyone for all the prayers and well wishes.

Mike "Belley" Kelley checked in via email from Taiwan where he's been living for the last 11 years (with 2 & 1/2 years in Hong Kong before that). Mike runs a very successful Softball team, sponsored by a local radio station, called the "Megahurts" (clever) that travels all over Asia. To keep his Softball team in sushi, Mike's paying job is running a headhunting practice which recruits local Chinese and an occasional foreigner to work for multinational firms with operations in Taiwan.

Stateside, Sue Astolfi Mack dropped us a line to say that she and her husband, Bruce Mack, are raising three children in Mountain Lakes, N.J. Sue works in Manhattan as the VP for claims and general counsel for St. Paul Re and Bruce is pursuing a career as a writer, currently working on two separate novels and soon to be made-for-TV movies.

I received a press release announcing that Allied Van Lines recently tapped Rueben Stokes director of diversity and strategic development. I guess Rueben hung up his track shoes for eighteenwheelers as he's been in the transportation and moving industry for the past 15 years. Rueben, his wife, and two children live in West, Fla.

Dave Lurie is stepping out on his own, forming a new law partnership named Lurie & Krupp, L.L.P., specializing in civil and criminal litigation and headquartered in Boston. Dave left one of the big firms in Boston where he practiced for 14 years representing clients on environmental land use and zoning issues and is teamed up with a guy who used to defend wire-fraud thieves and murderers. Dave found a real niche market for clients who need to rob a bank to pay for their new construction development. Dave lives in Newton with his wife, Susan, and their three children.

From the Columbus, Ohio, daily paper came the headline, "Big builder takes off in new directions," followed by an impressive article about one of our country's foremost real estate development firms, Galbreath Co. and its owner, operator, our own Lizanne Galbreath. In addition to raising four sons, Lizanne assumed responsibility in 1995 for the multimillion dollar family business, which currently manages some 95-million-square-feet of commercial space. "Snacking" on the likes of Donald Trump, Lizanne has been busy navigating the company through the risky waters of commercial real estate.

Out of cyberspace came a greeting from Maurice Simmons. Mo is hanging around in Philadelphia trying to unload thousands of Stanley Cup Champions T-shirts and

baseball caps. Actually, Mo has been there since going to Wharton in 1984 working on the marketing end of things in either the telecommunications or healthcare industries (not sure) and has added a wife and two sons in that time.

Lastly, our mini-reunionier, Phil Odence, reminds all to keep October 18th open for a low-key get-together in Hanover as part of the 25th anniversary of coeducation celebration. And come up to Hanover October 31st weekend for Homecoming, bonfire, and pre-game/halftime tailgate.

8 Griffin St., Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 651-0085 (h); (860) 982-6810 (w); (203) 949-5670 (fax); ;765 Teresita Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94127; (415) 337-7737;

Maurice Simmons is in Philadelphia trying to unload thousands of Stanley Cup Champions T-shirts.