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Connecticut resident Jim Godsman retired from his post as president of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), a non-profit association representing the North American cruise industry. Jim earned an M.B.A. from Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, worked for a variety of corporations in sales and marketing and then joined CLIA. Jim explained to a reporter: "I have decided to enjoy our family, our home and our boat a lot more than we've been able to since I took over as president in 1985."

Dave LaPonsee retired after 35 years of teaching history and psychology at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut. Dave grew up in rural New Hampshire, was a distance runner at Dartmouth and trained for the Olympic trials until an injury put him on the sidelines. The Westport Minuteman lauded Daves work as he prepared to return to New Hampshire: "His past and present students believe that he is definitely a teacher who deserves endless recognition and appreciation."

Mike Slive became the commissioner of college football's famed Southeastern Conference in July. Mike takes the helm of a "financial and competitive juggernaut that is the envy of college athletics," reported the AtlantaJournal and Constitution. However, the article continues, Mike faces "major challenges (that) involve off the field problems, including nine major NCAA violations and charges of academic improprieties at two schools." Mike's background and experience should help. Mike earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1965; was assistant athletics director at Dartmouth, 1979-1981; assistant executive director of the PAC-10, 1981-1983; District Court Judge in Hanover, 1983-1986; partner with Mike Coffield at Coffield, Ungraretti & Harris, 1986-1991; and athletics director at Cornell, 1991-1995. From 1995 to this year Mike has been commissioner of Conference USA.

Bill Carpenter kindly sent us a copy of his new novel The Wooden Nickel. Bill is a teacher, sailor, poet and novelist. After studying English at Dartmouth, Bill earned a doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 1967. He taught at the University of Chicago for awhile but then, whimsically and poetically, moved to Maine to head up the humanities division of a new alternative school—College of the Atlantic. Bill taught, wrote poetry and in 1985 won the Morse Poetry Prize for his collection of poetry Rain. In 1994 he published his first novel, Keeper of the Sheep. I join with critics with more impressive credentials than I: "Pick up and read a copy of The Wooden Nickel."

There still is time to join interesting class-mates at our mini-reunion on Friday, November 1, through Sunday, November3, in Hanover and the Shaker Inn, Enfield, New Hampshire. Tom Komarek (tckomarek@aol.com), with a major assist from Gene Gasbarro, runs this mini-reunion and welcomes last-minute entries. We again thank Gordy and Pat McKean who served so well and so tirelessly these past five years, and welcome Woody Chittick, who learns the ropes. You can mingle with poets, judges, athletic directors, cruise directors, teachers and, of course, lovely wives and significant others. Y'all come.

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