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The countdown is starting; the 35 th Reunion will be October 17-20. Bruce Pacht is the reunion chairman. Make your reservations to join us.

Williams College has awarded a fellowship for study at the Francis Christopher Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences to Robert Bell (the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English). Bob's project is titled "James Joyces Ulysses in Hypermedia." After completing his doctorate at Harvard, Bob joined the Williams English department in 1972. A full professor since 1983, he was awarded the national Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers in 1998. His fields of expertise are 18th-century British literature and James Joyce.

In 1988 Ralph Alan Cohen and colleagues started a professional touring company called the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. The touring company has expanded considerably, opening an indoor Elizabethan theater, the Blackfriars Playhouse, in Staunton, Virginia (see more on him on page 53). The playhouse is home to the Shenandoah Shakespeare Education Center. Ralph is professor of English at James Madison University and executive director of Shenandoah Shakespeare. He was one of the first recipients of Virginias Outstanding Faculty Award. In 1998 Georgetown University conferred on him an honorary degree for doctor of humane letters for his work.

Bill Bogardus passed on some news. In August the class of 1967 had three classmates who played with their sons in the National Father Son Tennis Doubles Championship (Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts). They were Charlie and Justin Hoeveler (Charlie and his oldest son Charles Jr. were national champions three times), Bill and lan White and Curt and Charles Anderson. Bill's daughter Rachel Bogardus '98 was married in September to Jon Drew '98, stepson of George Berry '66. Rachel and Jon met on their freshman trip in September 1994.

Have not heard of the loss of any classmates from the September 11 tragedy. With much regret, do have deaths to report: Malcolm Vernon Beard Jr. of Auburndale, Massachusetts, died in July, and John Eugene Kirklin of Cortlandt Manner, New York, died in April 2000. See full obituaries in that section of this issue. Sincerest sympathies to the families at their losses.

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