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As you all know by know, September 11 personally touched our class as well as so much more of our country. Jeff LeVeen was in the World Trade Center that morning. Pete Fahey and Mark Waterhouse were among 1,500 friends at Jeffs memorial service; for more, see the obituary section in this issue.

Our lives go on: much mail over the past few weeks. Ken Warners wife, Patricia, wrote a nice note, alerting us that Ken was recently named a distinguished university professor at the University of Michigan, one of only 22 such faculty members at that university, the first so named in more 30 years and the only one from the School of Public Health. Asignal honor!

Arnie Resnicoff wrote about his recent retirement from the Navy after 2 8 years of active duty. (Secretary's Note: There seem to be more and more retirements noted in this column. I detect a trend.) He now serves as national director of inter-religious relations with the American Jewish Committee, an organization founded in 1906 and one of the oldest American-Jewish organizations. (Secretary's Note: A second trend I note is that no one really retires. They move on to some new challenge.) Bart Palmer recently finished his term as chair of the English department at Clemson, but is not slowing down (that is an understatement). In addition to his ongoing teaching and research, he was recently named a founding director of the South Carolina Film Institute, which promotes state-of-the-art film education in the state. And if that was not enough, his is also a founding general editor of a new series of medieval texts for Routledge Publishing, which will publish dual- language editions of important medieval works from France, Germany and Italy. Bart's specialty is Chaucer's French contemporaries. And somehow he found time to write a film book on Joseph Mankiewicz. He and wife Carla are already planning to be part of our 35th reunion, and introduce son Camden (now 7) to Dartmouth. They recently moved back to Atlanta (a 90-minute commute from Clemson) and would love to welcome visiting classmates. Bart's travels took him to California for a visit to former roommate and fraternity brother Lee Friedman. Lee teaches political economy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC-Berkeley. Lee has been out there since the early '7os, after getting his Ph.D. from Yale, where Bart received his as well.

From recent press releases: In the Bradenton(Florida) Herald we learned David Bustard has been named a shareholder in the law firm of Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz and Getzen. Dave practices corporate and business law. He received his law degree from George Washington University in 1971. We also learned, sadly, that Bob Mogy passed away recently; watch for his obituary.

Keep the news coming, and I hope 2002 is opening in a promising way for all of you. Only a little more than a year till our 35th!

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