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At this writing, our classmate Rey Moulton is first in line in New England for a transplant of a "Type A" heart. He hopes to have the operation by the time this appears.

"To me, there's no choice," he told me. "Is there a chance I won't make it? Yes, there's a chance, but if I don't get one...I can't do much, because my heart's so damaged. So I want to go ahead."

Recently, Rey got a call from his physician asking him to come to the hospital as an alternate in case a man who was due to have a transplant that day turned out in tests not to be qualified.

"I was cool as a cucumber," Rey recalled. "It didn't bother me one bit. After an hour, was just told to go home."

Rey, who had a heart bypass in 1988 and did well with that until 1997, continues to work at the head office of his own firm, marketing and underwriting self-insured medical programs, in Marblehead, Mass.

I called a few classmates who haven't appeared in these notes for a while and had some nice conversations.

Clifton Elliott left Kansas City, where he practiced law for 28 years, seven years ago, and moved to Seattle, where he is in labor and employment law with the firm of Davis, Wright, Tremaine. "I absolutely love the Northwest," he remarks, "and I am delighted with my new firm," major plaintiffs counsel in the Exxon Valdez case.

Stanley Jones commutes to Washington once a week from Shepherdstown, town, W.V., to run a grant program looking at health insurance policy, capping a health career which saw him work for Senator Ted Kennedy and the National Institute of Sciences. For the past eight years, Stan has also been an Episcopal priest in Shepherdstown.

Feeling "kind of lost and looking for new directions" after the death a year ago of his wife, Constance, is Bob Rhines, living in Plymouth, N.H. Bob is retired and doing some traveling. He is looking forward to the birth of his second and third grandchildren.

John Youle and his wife, Ines, spend most of their time in Lima, Peru, where John followed up on a State Department post by opening his own public relations firm a decade ago. It represents 18 multinational companies doing business in Peru, and he is president of the American Chamber of Commerce there.

Robert Driscoll, a roommate of BobFarmer at Dartmouth, left before graduation to attend Stanford, and later followed a career culminating in becoming dean of the University of South Dakota Law School. Now retired, he lives in the colorful town of Lead in the Black Hills, has a place in the mountains, skis a lot, and is enjoying life.

He wanted us to remember his fellow South Dakotan, Monte Kasuske, "a genius in math" and a young man of promise when he became only the second member of our class to die, as a sophomore, in a 1958 auto crash.

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