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summer. The class executive committee will be in Hanover the weekend of September 15 for Class Officers Weekend. Any and all classmates are welcome to join us...not sure exactly when and where our meeting will be, but contact any of the officers if you'd like to join us. The news cupboard has been bare lately, so I hit the phone to a couple of nearby classmates to get some news to share.

Austin DeBesche in Arlington, Massachusetts, continues his career as a freelance motion picture producter, director and cameraman (and sometimes all at the same time). While there has been much variety, his bread and butter has been commercials for cable TV channels, such as Discover and History Channel. One favorite recent project, still in editing, is a PBS documentary on a Czech Holocaust survivor who re-walked, with his wife and daughters, a route across Austria he took as a teenager. After Dartmouth Austin was in the Air Force as a cameraman, and through the fates spent two years in San Bernadino, California. He came to Boston in the early '7os, taught at a film school in Cambridge for awhile and has been doing his camera and more recently production work over the past 2 o years. Wife Sarah, whom he married in 1969, has served as his associate producer from time to time, and is a potter and teaching assistant in a ceramic program at Harvard. They are thoroughly enjoying being first-time grandparents. They have two sons, Johan (executive producer of their grandson!) and Christopher, who works as a grip in film work. (I've often wondered what a grip does. Maybe he can help me with my golf game.) They've also enjoyed travel, to South Africa to visit relatives and to the Fiji Islands and New Zealand in the recent past. They stay in touch with Bill Joslin, who served as their best man. Bill and Robin are winemakers out in Livermore, California. Their son James is an entering freshman at Dartmouth. Jim Cruikshank shared news from Needham, Massachusetts. After a couple years in the Navy, starting with OCS at Newport, he's been in banking and insurance ever since. He is now a vice president for New England Financial Services, focusing on retirement services. He and Patricia, who dated in high school, married in 1973. They have three children: Jennie just graduated from Bucknell, lan is a freshman at Providence, after a post-graduate year at Holderness and Steven is a senior at Needham High School. Jim noted that Dick Stowell had given lan a lot of advice about Holderness. Sports had filled Jim and Patricia's free time: years of Little League and soccer coaching. Most recently, she's served as JV coach of softball at Needham High School. Jim hears from time to time from Greg Olchowski, a lawyer in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Aspecial part of their life is their cottage, bought in 1979, on Grand Manan Island, between the coast of Maine and New Brunswick. One of the Fundy Islands, with Campobello and Deer Islands, it was part of boundry-treaty negotiation led by Daniel Webster. It must have been foggy the day Daniel visited or he never would have given it away. It is stunningly beautiful, Jim reports. Visitors welcome! And so is news. Fill up the cupboard! Keep in touch.

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