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Get out the pom poms, dust off the Big D baseball hats, work up your appetites! Homecoming, October 19-21, is just around the corner and the mini-reunion committee is outdoing itself to make this one spectacular. The mini will be a non-stop gastronomical delight, featuring a new Saturday night venue, the Alden Tavern, previously known as the Lyme Inn, a three-story early-New England building with a big porch and a new chef whose repertoire ranges from such hearty dishes as cranberry pot roast to the most delicious vegetarian fare. Alden Tavern faces the green in Lyme, a short walk from the home of Jeanne and Mike Prince, who will host our post-Columbia game cocktail party featuring entertainment by Dartmouth singing groups and a convivial atmosphere. Sally and Bob Bamum, who live down the road and have hosted the Saturday night party for many years, are holding a wedding for their son this year. The weekend will get underway Friday night with dinner at Jesses in Lebanon and the traditional parade and Dartmouth night festivities in Hanover. Saturday morning is the class executive committee meeting, to which all, including spouses and children, are invited. Sunday is get-away day with brunch and last minute shopping at Simon Pearce in Quechee. For accommodations the class has reserved rooms at the Days Inn, formerly the Holiday Inn Express, on Route 120 outside of Hanover toward Lebanon. The number is (603) 448-5070. You'll be hearing more in the mail, oryou can call minireunion chair Marty Bowne at (210 448 -5499

The Dartmouth Alummi Magazine will try to recapture your college memories with a January February 2002 issue focusing on Dartmouths special places. What was your farvorite place? The Connecticut River? Fraternity Row? The Midget Diner? We want to know. Please call or write me as soon as possible.

Class of 635, of course, are going through stages appropriate to our generation. There is the growing list of retirees, including Launny Steffens, who joined Merrill Lynch right after graduating from Dartmouth, and for the past 15 years has been vice president and head of Merrills privateclient business. Launny will actually continue working as head of his own investment company catering to wealthy investors. Marty Bowne, partner at Ernst & Young, has called it quits after 35 years to travel with Lenore and work at a clinic in the Guatemalan countryside. Dave Boldt, award-winning editor and columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, retired to go to Bolivia with daughter Julia and wife Kelly, who will become the principal financial officer for a small Baha'i university.

And many of us continue to go off to work. Barry Linsky was elected an executive vice president at The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc., an international conglomerate of ad agencies and marketing service companies such as McCann-Erickson, The Lowe Group and DraftWordwide. Rick Braddock was re-named chief executive of Priceline.com Inc. following the departure of Daniel H. Schulman. Rick had been chief executive from July 1998 to May 2000 prior to being made chairman of the company.

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