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Hard to believe it is midwinter already. News keeps coming, by electrons and snails. Cliff Groen is principal counsel at International Finance Corp., which is part of the World Bank Group. Based in Washington, D.C., he has been in Korea and Indonesia over die past year helping address the financial crisis. Earlier he worked for five years on projects in China. He and Martha, also a lawyer, worked for five years in Korea in the early eighties; they recently bought a year-round vacation home in Queechee, Vt., and love their crosscountry skiing and snowshoeing. He enjoyed the 30th Reunion, particularly catching up with Joe Grasso, Peter Temple, RogerWhitten, John Engelman. and DaveWalden. In Washington he and Martha see Cindy and Howard Anderson from time to time. Howard owns his own very busy law firm. Rusty Martin recently moved into a new home just outside Part City, Utah. He is part of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, helping to direct hotel accommodations for the 2002 Winter Games.

Gary Hobin is working as a "security management professional" in Saudi Arabia. "Where most corporate security talks of losses as pilferage, here the threat is both pilferage and physical attack (bombs!). Far cry from the relative quiet of Hanover! Dear old Dartmouth! Can I come home yet?"

Bob Dupuy has been named chief legal officer and executive vice president of administration for Major League Baseball. As a partner for Foley and Lardner law firm, he has worked closely with baseball for the past eight years. Everyone cheered the appointment, including the associate general counsel for the players' union: "Bob is a very bright guy. It's "about time they got somebody who reads Dante. He's learned. He's literate. He'll be a worthy adversary. And he's honest." (Secretary's note: All of us would like that said about us, regardless of our trade!) Bob has also taught legal ethics at Northwestern, Marquette, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The new job will mean a move from Milwaukee to New York City.

John Stephens was recently featured in Photo Electronic Imaging magazine. From his Thetford, Vt., home, he works as a commercial artist for advertising and publishing companies and has exhibited his personal work at Dartmouth, University of Vermont, Pratt, the Delaware Art Museum, and in Hawaii. He particularly enjoys "digital painting," where he manipulates photographs on the computer into extraordinary objects of shimmer and luminosity. After Dartmouth he taught high school for seven years before becoming a full-time painter and photographer. He loves the British Isles and has been influenced in his own work by the Book of Kells and Jan van Eyck, founder of the Flemish school. A favorite quote of his, from Marcel Proust: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

May you all have new eyes. And send me some news!!

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