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Unlike most M.D.s, Mike Kistler got his M.S. degree in engineering and business administration in Dartmouth's Tuck-Thayer program and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy before attending medical school. Mike's letterhead indicated that he and another physician are the principals in Desert CT & MRI in Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage. He recalled his having enjoyed five years of hunting while at Dartmouth and wondered aloud whether one could "show up now [as he did then] for an 8 a.m. English class, and place a shotgun in the back corner of the room with a jacket loaded with two to three grouse." Mike says he saw his old buddy, Jim Wooster about a year ago.

Fellow Californian Harry Jeffrey once worked in the Nixon White House and is currently writing a biography of the former President. Harry, a professor of American History at California State University in Fullerton, says that he and his wife attended a meeting in New Orleans last fall. While there, they were escorted by Dick Knutson, M.D., to a couple of restaurants and for a walk through a swamp, which included a visit with a good-sized, nasty crocodile, and a visit to Bourbon Street. Harry did not specify whether these latter two visits were related. Dick's business address is the Delta Orthopedic Clinic in Greeneville, Miss.

Congratulations to Rick Kugelman, who has been promoted to executive vice president of the U.S. Divisions of Goebel of North America, LL.C., of Pennington, N.J., a top player in the collectibles industry. In his new position Rick will play an expanded role in strategic planning and corporate development, while continuing to serve as chief financial officer and to oversee the company's operations and customer service departments. Before joining Goebel Rick was executive director of Planned Parenthood of New York City Inc. Prior to that, he had held various positions at The Singer Cos., CBS, and Chase Manhattan Bank. He earned his M.B.A. degree from Northwestern.

Back in October, the University of Wisconsin Press published Jack Zipes's new book, Fairy Tales and Fables fromWeimar Days. According to the distillation of an article in Icon Thoughtstyle Magazine (Marion, Ohio), provided to us by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine staff, on "cleaning up children's literature": "The best-known authors of children's literature may be responsible for encouraging their readers to be violent, sexist, or racist; or maybe the Brothers Grimm just told stories with an outdated sense of realism and justice. Jack Zipes, a professor of German and folklore at the University of Minnesota, considers the controversy over Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's fairy tales in light of today's sensibilities. Dr. Zipes says that the scenes of graphic cruelty in the tales helped them to impress a code of ethics on their readers. In the past 50 years, however, the tales have been sanitized to make them more palatable to Americans who consider the eye-for-an-eye punishments inappropriate for children. Another casualty of that cleansing process is the stereotyping of gender roles. So today, children might read that the wolf in 'Little Red Riding Hood' has a penchant for vegetables instead of grandmothers or that Cinderella has assertively refused the hand of the Prince."

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