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I've had the pleasure of hearing from many classmates recently, including Jordan Roderick, who is president of AT&T Wireless's international division, based in Seattle. While in Boston recently, he visited "some of my old WDCR pals. Mark Tomizawa, Linda Button '79 and Rick Beyer founded Smash Productions, a production company that is a direct descendant of the work we used to do making commercials for Lou's restaurant and the Music Shop. What a joy to see relationships, skills and talents that still work after more than 20 years! They are living proof of the value of our college experience."

As I've said before, e-mail is a class secretary's best friend. I received e-news from Gail Fondahl: "We're (husband, daughter and I) spending a sabbatical year in Cambridge, England, at Scott Polar Institute, writing and enjoying the gorgeous architecture, great libraries, fine music and friendly pubs (none of which is endemic to our hometown of Prince George, British Columbia). Ken computes' to work in Boston, as he does from home. Gwynne (10), who has spent more than half of her life in Canada, was thrilled to see the queen on (American) Thanksgiving—how anti-revolutionary, eh?—and vetoed all suggestions of even a turkey sandwich on the same day, as we forgot to celebrate the Canadian equivalent in October. We did all become Canadian citizens last spring—up north for the long haul."

Also heard from Nick Lowery, who is attending Harvard's Kennedy School of Government mid-career masters in public administration (M.P.A.) program: "Extremely exciting and stimulating with 70 different countries represented—and the recent prime minister of Finland, president of Ecuador and chairman of John McCains campaign among the fellows—good stuff! Also doing some broadcasting with ESPN here and there to keep my hand in it. My Native Vision Program, a partnership with Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (led by Allison Barlow '87), is now serving 25 tribes—in sports, lifeskills training, scholarships, marketable skills and Internet training. We are beginning two new initiatives—one a program to help address absentee fathers on the White Mountain Apache with Harvard's Project on American Indian Economic Development, and the other a partnership with Dartmouth's legendary professor John Rassias to help sustain indigenous languages. You can read more about Native Vision at www.nativevision.org. John is more than a pleasure to work with, he is a pure joy! Sat with him at the Dartmouth-Harvard game, where I heard other language (as yet unidentified but vaguely familiar) emerging from the crowd!"

That's all the news for this issue. Please keep in touch.

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