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What an embarrassment of riches! More than a dozen classmates responded to Scott's and my plea for news, shamelessly sharing their successes and adventures with us. And the exploits of several others have not eluded the intrepid DAM staff and its clipping service minions, so let's get right to it.

First from the medical front...

Stock market making you ill? Consider moving to Maine, where Dr. John Vogt was recently named to manage the clinical staff and patient care process at four clinics run by Martins Point Health Care, the states largest primary care practice group.

Dr. Hoyt Allen joins several distinguished physicians on Consortium Service Management Groups international advisory council for medical device technology for bonding of live biological soft tissue. Most of us seem to have more soft tissue than we did 31 years ago, so Hoyt shouldn't have far to look for specimens.

Dr. John Chittick, executive director of TeenAIDS-PeerCorps Inc., came home to Boston in January after a two-year mission to 40 countries on six continents teaching teens, and teaching them to teach others, about HIV/AIDS prevention. Our collective pea green beanie is off to you, John.

And from the legal front...Wally Ford still labors as counsel at Kaye, Scholer in New York and recently became adjunct professor at Columbia's School for International and Public Affairs. He's also a contributing columnist to TurningPoint magazine and is working on a novel he hopes to have published by year's end. Whew! Small wonder Wally's "pleased to report being present for the new millennium."

Josh Fitzhugh spent last summer boating down the length of the Hudson River with son Nick, a junior at Brown, then sent his daughter off to Colorado College as a freshman. Josh also began a new job as vp/general counsel at Union Mutual Fire Insurance Cos. in Montpelier, Vermont.

Tom Peisch was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to a four-year term on the state's board of bar overseers, which investigates allegations of attorney misconduct. Say it ain't so, Tom.

And from the rest of the world...Bill "Willy" Wilson, prodigious field reporter and erstwhile reunion chair, reports seeing sophomore roommate David Rowe at the mini-reunion in Hanover last fall, and credits Star Johnson with his "usual superb job pulling together a gathering of '69 thru '72 on the Chi Phi/Heorot front lawn." Star reportedly had some help from Davids son Patrick, a senior and Chi Phi/Heorot stalwart. Bill also notes that professor Stephen Doig of ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism was in great demand by the media a few months back to opine on "the issue of'what might have been' had the good folks of Florida chosen to recount all ballots (pregnant or otherwise)." Finally, Bill, Wayne Osmond and Tom Peisch have committed to putting together a class dinner in Boston in the spring; you've probably seen the sordid details in headlines at your local supermarket checkout line by this time.

Lots more news in the summer issue. Until then, take care.

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