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"Coming Together in 1998" Only about two months to go before our 18-25 June 25th Reunion weekend begins in Hanover. Firm up your plans to go.

Send in the registration forms. Pay off your Alumni Fund pledge (you have until June 30th). Better yet, increase it if you can (some of you said you would). Thanks for your participation in the reunion yearbook, the class fandraising, and the Reunion itself.

John Lambrukos an orthopaedist, practices and lives in Concord, N.H., with wife Karen '79 and daughter Mariel who attends elementary school. John got his M.D. at Dartmouth and enjoys piano, calligraphy, woodcarving, and boating in his spare time.

The Town Crier of Brattleboro, Vt., reported that saxophonist Fred Haas was a featured soloist with a jazz group performing last January at the Shield Inn. Fred lives in Woodstock, Vt., and teaches music privately and at Dartmouth.

Howard Bad Hand is conducting workshops around the country on I Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Change," a philosophical guide to life that is more than 3,000 years old. Howard, a Lakota Sioux originally from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, is a spiritual leader or song keeper in his Lakota culture. He has studied I Ching for 28 years and combines it with his knowledge of Taoism and the Lakota culture in his presentations.

Moving from the tao to the Dow, BusinessWire reports that Leon Black has been elected to the board of NYC-based Sequa Corp., a diversified manufacturing and technology company with principal interests in the fields of aerospace, machinery and metal coatings, specialty chemicals, and automotive products. Leon's corporate directorships include Samsonite Corp., Culligan Water Technologies, and the Telemundo Group.

Jon Cooper e-mails from Italy, where he has been a computer consultant for most of the past 18 years. Jon recounted the dramatic events that have occurred in Italian society (near martial law during the Red Brigade era; the government's war against organized crime) during that period. Jon lives in Rome with partner Giuliano Brenna, a chef, and hopes to make it to the Reunion.

Chris Barlow is president of SunOpTech, a computer software firm in Sarasota, Fla., where he puts his Harvard M.B.A. to work to support wife Marianne (Boston College alumna) and to pay off college tuitions for Jim (27, Florida State grad), Joe (25, Boston College grad), Katey (22, Edison College), Jessie (20, University of South Florida), and Rosemary (18, Boston College). Fred Skillern's AOL e-mail address includes the name "Diving Fred," a reminder to those of us who remember his competitive skill on the diving team. Fred got a J.D. at the University of Colorado and is a director and shareholder in the Denver law firm of Isaacson Rosenbaum Woods & Levy, where he specializes in real-estate litigation. Spouse Diane is a licensed professional counselor, which comes in handy while taking care of Fred, Carissa 13, and Nikki 9. Bill Graham and wife Marcia Kelly Graham are physicians who are beginning work in June as medical missionaries for the The General Council of the Assemblies of God. Prior to getting his M.D. at UConn, Bill received an M.T.S. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston and was ordained. Bill met Marcia while they were interns. They married and fulfilled their scholarship service obligations in the Public Health Service and in the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Bill and Marcia have three children, Maureen 7, Kathleen 5, and Shannon 3. Gary Levine is an audio-visual production specialist in the congressional research service at the Library of Congress. Gary has a M.A. in film from Columbia and does independent film projects in his free time. You can hear Gary in his weekend broadcast persona of "Gary Mitchell" on WYRE, 810 AM in Annapolis, Md.

Think Reunion.

Bob Conway, 27 Manor Drive, Glenmont, NY 12077-3326;

Reunion June 18-21, 1998