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"They were on the last boat from Shanghai harbor in the late 1940s and were fired upon by the communists as they left." So says Fred Chuang about his parents, Chinese immigrants, both physicians.

Fred is a window designer for Tiffany & Cos. at South Coast Plaza, Calif. He has been with Tiffany for ten years. He thinks of his windows as theater and himself as the set designer. Fred has a graduate degree in theater design and graphic design from Carnegie-Mellon. He does both window and interior displays for Tiffany. He also does special events work such as fund-raisers, for which he designs ballrooms, centerpieces, invitations, table settings, and full rooms. His life is his work, he says, and the visual arts are constantly filling his head. Fred lives in Silver Lake with a partner and two great dogs.

At the Harvard game last fall I ran into Sherman Caldwell. Sherman's big news is his first marriage in May of '97. His wife, Linda, works at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the video production area. Sherman and Linda live in Enfield, N.H., with Sherman's stepson Wentworth 11 and stepdaughter Summerlin 9. (Sherman assures us the January ice storm was kind to Hanover.)

He is currently in credit collections in a managerial role with the Granite State Electric Co. but contemplating returning to teaching French some day. He is taking a refresher French course through Dartmouth at the moment. Sherman is also thinking about getting involved with the ABC program ("A Better Chance") out of Boston. This program provides financial and educational assistance to bright students from poor areas, enabling them to attend colleges like Dartmouth. Sherman was in the ABC program in Mississippi. He also plays tennis occasionally. Sherman invites classmates to get in touch via e-mail at .

In the fall of '97 Rick Waddell was named an executive vice president at The Northern Trust Cos., Chicago. Rick has management responsibility for Northern's wealth management group in the personal financial services business unit. The group provides banking, investment, and trust services to high-net-worth families in the United States and abroad. Rick and Cate are living in Wilmette with their two children.

Don Wreden writes, "My life is fall and rich and sometimes feels far too hectic." Don is an internal medicine physician with the Sutter Medical Group. His main interest is primary care. He was recently named to the board of directors of Sutter Health, one of the nation's leading non-profit health-care systems serving more than 3 million people throughout Northern California. Don says this will give him the opportunity to bring the perspective of patient care into corporate boardrooms, and impact health-care system decisionmaking. Don and his wife, Maxine, also a physician, live in Carmichael. They have three children, David 9, Doug 6, and Julia 4. When he can find the time, Don does Whitewater kayaking. Mark Ditmar, chief of general pediatrics at Norwalk Hospital, recently returned from the Philippines, where he presented a pediatric postgraduate course for physicians in Manila. He addressed numerous topics including pediatric infections, cholesterol screening in children, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in children.

Mikael Salovaara has been elected to the board of trustees of Home Sharing Program of Somerset County. He has been a partner with Greycliff Partners since 1991. He still lives with his wife, four sons, and a daughter in Bernardsville, N.J.

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