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As I write this in January, the report on the student life initiative has blanketed the Dartmouth media and mailboxes: a comprehensive, well-written and thought-provoking report, even if one disagrees with some of the recommendations. Plenty of time to comment.. .be sure to weigh in.

From a recent press release: Ken Warner was recently named to the board of the American Legacy Foundation, a national foundation recently created as part of the master settlement between 46 participating states and the tobacco industry. Its mission is aimed at tobacco control among youth. Ken is a professor of public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he has been since 1972. He also serves as the university's director of tobacco research. After Dartmouth he received his master's and Ph.D. at Yale. Author of more than ISO publications, his research is focused on the economic and policy aspects of smoking and health.

And the phones have been ringing. John Preotle after a 3-2 program at Tuck, has been in the real estate business, with an office in the New York City area and properties owned and managed elsewhere (Denver, Houston, Connecticut). And he lives in Boston! He and Jill, wife of 27 years, moved back to the Back Bay area of Boston two years ago, and John commutes a few days a week to New York. Daughter Jane is a Pre-med senior at Dartmouth, and twin sons Matt and Tim are juniors at Tufts. Jill has been doing some rewarding volunteer work, teaching reading to first-graders in Dorchester. They have a summer home in Chatham on the Cape. John reports JeffSpiegel is busy in the New Rochelle NY., area as a restaurant entrepreneur and Bill Stahl is working in start-up computer software endeavors. Kirby irby Nickels is in Wilder, Vt., where he works as a certified career counselor. He got his M.F.A. at Columbia in 1970, and has been back in Vermont since 1971. He took up golfing at age 36 and recently got his first hole in one (many of us are still waiting, and we started a lot earlier). Wife Kathy is in consulting, working in the Upper Valley. Their daughter is keenly interested in hockey; they took her to watch the Dartmouth women play the U.S. Olympic team (the Olympians won, but it was a respectable score).

Gordie Rule is in the Green Bay, Wis., area, where we all remember he played for the Packers for several years (1968-70). He met and married Sue in June 1969. He joined the Banta Printing Cos. in 1970, was in Boston for a few years and returned to Green Bay for keeps in 1975. Son Kevin is 29, went to Notre Dame, is a C.P.A. and father of Gordie and Sue's first grandchild, Brandon James Rule (class of 2021. EGAD! We'll all be 75 when he graduates from Dartmouth). Daughter Leslie, 26, went to William and Mary and is now at the Medical College of Virginia, en route to family practice. The entire family recently enjoyed a six-day float down the Colorado River.

Let's keep the news coming! Hey guys, try e-mail.

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