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"Not to worry about which path as long as one gets to the end," mused Fred Fisher in his 25th Reunion essay. Fred's path has led him to the position of director of the department of revenue in the cabinet of Republican Governor-elect Bill Owens of Colorado. Fred had been assistant professor of business at Colorado Mountain College, executive director of the Colorado Sports Council, and vice president of Glacier Park Co., a real-estate management and development firm. He was also city council member and then mayor of Greenwood Village in the late seventies and early eighties. In his spare time Fred bow hunts, writes, and sings.

On his trip to the Mideast in December, President Clinton took two bird sculptures by Mendocino, Calif., artist WheatelyAllen. The bronze peace doves were given as gifts of state to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. Wheately, whose wife, Rosemary, is also an artist, credits his career as a kind of sculptor laureate to a 1980 story in the Sacramento Bee. It led to a commission from then-California Governor Ronald Reagan, who was followed by President Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Schultz, Caspar Weinberger, Emperor Hirohito, President Murabak, and King Hussein. Wheately began sculpting birds at age six and sold his first piece at age nine to "Trader" Vic Bergeron of San Francisco fame.

Portland, Ore., which has been riding the crest of its real-estate cycle for the last few years, may see its market soften in the near future, Clay Herring suggests in the Commercial Property News, a national realestate publication. "New construction is abundant, but job growth is decreasing and there is an overcapacity in the semiconductor business," said Clay, who is president of Norris, Begs & Simpson, a real-estate firm.

Tom McInerny has been named associate chair for clinical affairs in the department of pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center in upstate New York. He will oversee patient care at Children's Hospital at Strong. Tom has practiced pediatrics in the area almost 30 years and has chaired two national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He's done major studies of treatments of ear infections and the care of chronically ill children.

Greg Prince, a former associate dean at Dartmouth, is succeeding in reshaping the image of a central Massachusetts college where he has been president for a decade. The New York Times reports that Greg has championed a very successful five-year-old program to foster inventors at Hampshire College, "long saddled with the nickname Frisbee U. because of its eccentric study body and grade-free curriculum." The program, which so far has resulted in a new snowboard for the disabled, an ergonomic bass guitar, off-road in-line skates, and an inflatable playhouse, in varying stages of design, has given students a grounding in real-world economics, according to the article.

Rick Braddock resigned as nonexecutive chairman and member of the board of True North Communications, after taking the new position of chairman and chief executive at Priceline.com, the Internet retailer of discount airline tickets.

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