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For those who like to know what is going on, class mini-reunion chairman Doug Wise has released the reunion schedule for _ the rest of the century! June 1417,1999, it's the big 40th Reunion in Hanover. The fall '99 mini-reunion takes place on Homecoming weekend, October 22-23 (Cornell). And in the year 2000, there's a mini-reunion planned for Yale weekend in Hanover (October 6-7). Doug invites your suggestions for reunions and hints that those with access to the Dartmouth College website might make those suggestions through that medium by going to alumni classes and then to Club 59.

Doug also says that he and wife Joanne have enjoyed living in the Upper Valley for over four years now. Joanne has been involved for the past 20 years as founder of The Wise Collection, in which she represents contemporary artists who are from Japan or who practice the Japanese discipline and aesthetic. Under the auspices of the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth (ILEAD), she led a group on the subject of "Contemporary Art A Global Village," in which there was a discussion of both New England and Japanese artists and their techniques. For three years Joanne has been involved as executive director of North Country Studio Conference, which conducts frequent master-level craft workshops for relatively large groups of experienced crafts people. Karl Holtzschue's wife, Linda, led one of the classes last year. Doug's consultancy-The Wise Associates is in its fifth year and focuses primarily on business, marketing, and communications strategy, with emphasis on communications to all constituencies-consumers, customers, employees, government, and the media. Both Doug and Joanne are active in Dartmouth Partners in Community Service.

Congratulations to Seattle family physician Joe Scardapane, who was named by the board of directors of the Washington Academy of Family Physicians as WAFP Family Physician of the Year for 1998 and who was nominated by the same board as American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Family Physician of the Year for 1999. Joe has been program director of Seattle's Swedish Family Medicine Residency since its inception in 1980. In addition to directing the residency program, Joe continues to see his panel of regular patients in clinic. Those of us who knew Joe at Dartmouth will not be surprised to hear that he is viewed as having demonstrated a unique dedication to his patients, some of whom have been with him for more than 25 years, and who relate to him with deep warmth bred by years of close relationship with "their physician." Because of his profound concern for his patients as they have grown older, Joe has developed an interest in geriatrics and has special training, expertise, and certification in this field. He is presently starting a geriatrics fellowship program at the Swedish Family Medicine Residency to train family physicians to meet the future needs of their patients.

Congratulations to Rick Francis on being re-elected to the management committee of his Pittsburgh law firm, Meyer, Unkovic, and Scott. Rick will serve his seventh consecutive term on the committee and is chairman of the firm's business litigation group.

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