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The Middletown, Ohio, Habitat for Humanity selected the Rev. John Keeny and spouse Susan Keeny to co-chair its ninth annual fundraising banquet, which makes sense since its being held at the Christ United Methodist Church in Middletown where John is the senior pastor. John attended Yale Divinity School after Dartmouth and served in churches in Dayton, Columbus, and Camden. He's worked on Habitat projects in New York City and in Middletown. John's also participated in mission trips to Central America, Jamaica, and West Virginia. In addition to her church activities, Susan, a Cornell alumna, is a self-employed, Yale-trained architect active in the Wilson Parents-Teacher Organization and in the Friends of the Dayton Ballet.

The Wall Street Journal reports MitchKurz was elected a director of Equity Marketing Inc., joining five other members on the board. Equity Marketing provides custom promotion programs and develops consumer products that complement its promotions business. Mitch retired last December as chairman of client services with Young & Rubicam Inc. and now is chairman and founder of Kurz & Friends, a consulting company to the global-advertising and marketing-services business. Mitch and spouse Sandy live in Westport, Conn.

Last December our class newsletter editor Bob Barr lost his father, George F. Barr '45, whose obituary appeared in this magazine last spring. Our condolences go out to Bob and his family.

A belated but happy report from San Francisco that Saul Levy and spouse Sue had their first child, Jacob Jonathan Levy, on July 31, 1998. Always the competitor, Saul thought that Jacob might be the youngest '73 child but he conceded that Brooklyn residents Allan Kraus and wife Lynn were expecting twins. I offered to Saul the consolation that he and Sue currently held the record in the "western division."

Jonathan Wiesner made his first trip to West Africa as a board member of the International Rescue Committee, a Manhattan group working for refugee relief and rehabilitation in some 20 countries. He's made previous trips as an IRC board member to Cambodia and to Bosnia. The IRC annually supports tens of thousands of students in refugee camp schools worldwide with an operating budget in the millions. Jonathan is the principal owner of Midwest Apparel Group Inc. of Kansas City. He, spouse Mary Ann Petrilena, and family reside in Armonk, N.Y.

Fred Frawley has joined the law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, and Pachos in Portland and Augusta, Maine, as a full member. He has over 20 years of experience in complex business litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, trade regulation, and employment law. Fred received his J.D. at the University of Maine School of Law and a master's of law in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in North Yarmouth, Maine, with wife Polly and sons Alfred and Timothy. Fred coaches youth hockey and is the founder and a board member of the Foundation for Faces of Children, which supports research and education at Children's Hospital in Boston.

George Ritcheske is the managing partner of HR Partners, a management development and leadership consulting group in Dallas. George's spouse, Bobbi Marchello Ritscheske, a Wellesley alumna who was an exchange student at Dartmouth, works at Texas Women's University (TMU) in the Office of Institutional Advancement's corporate and foundation relations section. TMU is the largest public university primarily for women in the country. George and Bobbi live in Coppell, Texas. Their daughter Katie is an 'O2 at Dartmouth and son John attends Barry University in Florida.

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Jonathan Wiesnermade his first trip toWest Africaas a member of theInternational RescueCommittee. Bob Conway '73