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Nick Scheu has returned from across the great pond: "After an exciting and immensely sat is fying year in England, where I studied and worked in my new profession, garden design, my family and I have landed in Delaware. This is quite a change from our previous 'permanent' home in Hanover. Nonetheless, a great job for my wife brought us here, and a great potential client base and plant palette for me will keep us here a bit, I expect. And while year-round soccer potential now exists for our two boys, gone is out-the-back-door skiing, which we had come to treasure. Change is healthy."

I confess it took me a minute to realize the skiing was in Hanover, as I didn't think there was any in England. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, Tom Fox wrote to announce the birth of his son, Taun, which loosely translates as "always fortunate." Taun's birth coincided with some good fortune for his father, who is now Bangkok bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswire.

Lauren Tanny is the new vice president of marketing for Broderbund Software. She had been vice president of sales and product development for Krames Communications, a subsidiary of Times Mirror. Jeff Immeult was profiled in the Milwaukee Business Journal. The article focused on Jeff's role as president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, which involves implementing a diversification strategy to stay in tune with the changing health care industry. Jeff has worked at GE in various roles since graduating from Harvard Business School in 1982.

Annie McLane Kuster heads the New Hampshire Bar Association's Gender Equality Committee. The March 1998 issue of the New Hampshire Bar Journal was devoted to "Women in the Profession," and was based on Annie's detailed follow-up to a survey conducted ten years ago on the status of women lawyers.

Bill Devine is the author of Women,Men & Money: The Four Keys for UsingMoney to Nourish Your Relationship,Bankbook, and Soul." The press release describes Bill as offering "practical, inspiring advice on how readers can earn, spend, invest, negotiate, and communicate about money in a way that supports healthy lives together and supplies them with plenty of cash." In addition to his writing and counseling activities, Bill is an attorney and president of the California Real Estate Clinic. He lives in Menlo Park with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter Amanda.

Alan Wohlstetter is chair of the public finance group at the law firm of Cozen and O'Connor. In addition, he is co-president of Operation Understanding (an organization established in 1985 to promote community understanding and tolerance of difference and diversity). Operation Understanding was recently awarded a grant by the Righteous Persons Foundation, created by Steven Spielberg with funding from the proceeds of Schindler's List. The grant will help Operation Understanding continue to promote their mission of interracial harmony among youth who are potential future leaders of the African-American and Jewish communities.

I caught up with Barbara Dau Hoffman at Denver International Airport just before she moved to Concord, Mass., where she is enjoying a respite from her career as a financial analyst. Still enjoying my work at Jefferies, I just returned from my third trip to New York in the past month, during which time I also made two trips to Orcas Island, where my daughters were in summer camp. I love those frequent flyer miles, but I'm not sure achieving IK status on United is a worthy goal! Please keep in touch.

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