1968

News has arrived by multiple media. From e-mail, we've heard: From Bill Beers in Japan: "I am the manager of a group of language instructors and cross-cultural trainers at Kobe Steel Ltd., an international manufacturer of various kinds of metals and machinery. Recently we have been doing a business management-cycle simulation both here in Japan and in Southeast Asia. For me, living In Japan contines to be an adventure, even after 20 years. The friendliness of the people, the depth of the culture, and the intricacies of the Japanese language are aspects of life in Japan which I will always enjoy and be fascinated with."

From Garret Bayrd: "My Kappa Sig roommate, Joe Colgan married my sister, Debbie Bayrd two months after I married my wife, Polly Johnson, and three years after we all met at a Wellesley mixer in September 1967. We all four celebrated our 28th wedding anniversaries this summer. Joe and I continue to be good friends and hunting buddies. Our feelings for Dartmouth cooled when his son, Joe Jr., who just graduated summa cum laude from Carleton College, wasn't accepted into the Dartmouth class of 1998."

• From Parker Beverage (a past class secretary): "I didn't want to let the opportunity pass to tell you how bad you're making me and all your other predecessors look, what with your sophisticated hi-tech means of collecting Class Notes. Heck, I had to do it the old fashioned way, i.e., sit and wait for the news to arrive...and it seldom did. It's been a while since I've heard from him, but I'm pretty sure Bill Vail has obtained his license and is now a stockbroker in San Francisco, having moved south from Chico"

From a recent phone call: Past president Mark Waterhouse is wearing a new hat, leading the super long-range planning for a potential substantial gift from the class for our 50th Reunion. He called it "planning to make plans"...Some early ideas have come from Line Eldredge and Gerry Bell, But contact Mark if you have thoughts or suggestions In his day job he is a founding partner in Garnet Consulting, doing development work around the country, with specific current assignments in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Texas. On the personal side, his oldest daughter was recently married, and his youngest daughter just graduated from the College of St. Rose. Mark and longtime companion Leslie cosgrove spend free time on Martha's Vinyard at the Mayhew House (1657), a family from whom Leslie is descended.

Heard or read lately in the media: Sculptor Roger Arvid Anderson's Guardian series was recendy on display in Palm Beach, Fla. The anthropomorphic bronzes are drawn from Scandanavian, Greek and Roman, Japanese, and other armored forms. Roger lives in San Francisco. Larry Glatz, a computer specialist in Maine, recently lectured at the Bethel (Maine) Historical Society about C.A. Stephens, a late nineteenth-century writer for The Youth'sCompanion. Hank Paulson has recently been named co-CEO at Goldman Sachs. He had served as COO since 1994 and has been with the company nearly 25 years. Hank chairs the Board of the Peregrine Fund, a conservation group, and also chairs the Asia/Pacific Council of the Nature Conservancy. Wife Wendy is vice chairman of the national board of the Nature Conservancy.

J. Marshall Wolff has been president since 1987 of Kessler Wolff, and Miller, an insurance, consumer loan, and securities firm in Easton Pa. He joined the firm in 1972. He was recently elected to the Vista (Bank) board of directors. Michael Chu was recently featured in Boston Magazine. "A financial wizard with a social conscience," he is president and CEO of Accion International a non-profit bank for the poor. The bank is a microfinance organization, offering loans from as little as $75 to as much as $25,000; repayment rates of 98 percent are common.

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Financial wizardwith a social conscienceMichael Chu's bankoffers th e poor loansranging from $75 to$25,000.DAVID PECK '68