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David Muchnick has been helping people for 20 years. Now he needs some help himself. In 1979 he founded Bronx 2000, an economic development group in that beleaguered New York City borough, and later started Big City Forest, which took discarded wooden pallets and skids and turned them into flooring, butcherblock tables, and office furniture. The factory was in the South Bronx. It provided training, jobs, and hope.

Big City Forest even won a White House Award in 1996 for promoting sustainable economic development. But its financial position was always precarious. Then last November David got sick. He had contracted disseminating intravascular coagulation, a rare and devastating blood disease. Doctors at Mt. Sinai Medical Center saved his life by amputating both legs above the knee. He spent four months in hospitals.

Without his day-to-day leadership, both Bronx 2000 and Big City Forest have dissolved to pay creditors. And there never was enough in the budget for disability insurance. David now needs some help himself. His friends have started "The David Muchnick Rehabilitation Fund," c/o Jonathan Davis, Robinson, Karp & Davis P.C., 65 Walnut St., Suite 590, Wellesley, MA 02181. Elsewhere Andy Seidman is now vice president and associate general counsel of Insignia/ESG, one of the largest commercial real-estate services providers in the United States. Andy had previously been counsel at Olympia & York.

Henry Art, professor of biology at Williams College, presented two Sigma XI lectures on forestry and the forest service. Henry has published articles in national publications and books on wildflower gardening.

Edward Dailey has become a partner in Bromberg & Sunstein, a Boston law firm, where he will continue his practice in health law. Ed had previously been general counsel at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

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