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David Fuller has "parallel careers" as an actor, director, producer, and teacher in New York. "I currently share producing artistic director responsibilities at NYC's longest continuously operating equity off-off-Broadway theater: The ater Ten Ten. (The company was born just a year after I was.)" The reviews of David's Hamlet are at David is one of several classmates to ask whether I've heard from Kat Klute. I haven't. If anyone is in contact with the uncharacteristically reclusive Ms. Klute, askher to send a note to me or to David at .

Roberto Ifill was appointed special assistant to the president for diversity and campus community at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Macalester is a private liberal arts college known for its "commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity, and service to society." After graduation Roberto earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale, taught economics at Williams, and served as associate dean at Connecticut College.

Jerry Daly is president of Brassie Golf Corp. of Tampa, Fla. Jerry has experience wielding the presidential title, having served with distinction as our class president before this appointment. Jerry earned an M.B.A. from Tuck, and has enjoyed a successful career in the golf industry since leaving Hanover. If memory serves me correctly, Jerry and Anne have five children. They relocated to Florida from Massachusetts, where Jerry worked with the Rockport Cos. for many years.

My old friend David Spaulding made a bundle in the investment industry and generously shared enough of it with the Alumni Fund to be named the first Daniel Webster Fellow of our class. David and three partners operate the Cypress Group, a New Yorkbased investment fund. According to a Louisville Courier article kindly forwarded by David's father, Lyle Spaulding '51, the Cypress Group has been successful in leveraged buy-outs "and selective big-money investments." After graduation David earned an M.B.A., joined Lehman Brothers, and eventually branched out on his own. Lyle reports that David has a house in Quechee and gets up to Hanover from time to time.

Michael Shnayerson's book on GM's electric car project was published to good reviews (The Car That Could: The Inside Storyof GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle, Random House). Michael remains an editor at Vanity Fair magazine. My wife travels on business and invariably buys VF for "plane reading." I poke through it when she arrives home, and thus had the pleasure of reading Michael's recent profile of the troubles of Robert Kennedy's children. The article was accompanied by a great photo of our classmate at the helm of a skiff, complete with sunglasses and baseball cap, looking very much like a younger and healthier Peter Matthiessen.

Our class had a great turnout at this year's Dartmouth Lawyers Association meeting in Sun Valley. We beat our previous attendance record and cleaned up at the NASFAR race. Mike Chiarella, Jim Draudt, and honorary '76er Rick White took home medals, and one of Jim's daughters won a 1997 Winter Carnival poster. Steve Feld and I did not win our races but had a great time anyway. The DLA winter meetings are traditionally held in Western ski resorts. Those classmates in the legal profession who have not attended should go. Gary Brooks '70 and Bill Kennedy '71 do a tremendous job organizing the program, picking a mountain, and making sure the bar never runs dry. Next year's program is set for Whisder, B.C. Families and other accompaniments are very welcome.

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