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Any time you hit the fives or the zeros you start to realize that you're getting older. Thank Andrew Shue for the reminder that most of us have turned 35 by now. According to People, the former MelrosePlace star was "feeling reflective" as he approached his 35 th birthday. Andy is married with two young sons and "on a typical day, he commutes by train from his Westchester home to his office in Manhattan, where he works on Club Mom, an organization he founded two years ago with his lifelong friend Michael Sanchez." Club Mom hooks up mothers with participating companies, such as JC Penney and KB Toys and helps them get savings and rebates on their purchases. Many of you will remember that almost 10 years ago Andy founded Do Something, a nonprofit enterprise which helps fund youth groups that work to improve their communities. He's been involved in community service ever since he developed a program in high school called Students Helping Seniors.

He keeps up his Hollywood ties, despite moving back to the East Coast in 1998. According to the magazine, he's co-producing an IMAX movie about soccer and is writing a feature-length screenplay which is influenced by the death of his older brother, William, in a 1988 swimming accident. 'After going through the loss of my brother, I struggled a lot with the question of what do we do all this for? If we could just die in a bizarre accident, what's the purpose in all of the effort, the toiling, the striving, the trying to make the world a better place, when it can be immediately snuffed out? That question has always resonated with me.' "

Sad news to pass on now. Hal Sandstedt died suddenly on July i of complications from Marfan Syndrome, a congenital disease that affects the cardiovascular system. It feels like just the other day that I was writing about Hal's 1999 Hawaii wedding in a beau- tiful chapel on Maui. And it feels like not so long ago that I would get a friendly hello from Hal in the offices of WDCR/FRD, which was one of the places where he spent his time on campus. Hal was also a member of the Glee Club, the Handel Society and Campus Crusade for Christ. He enjoyed skiing, fencing, racquetball and kayaking. He got his M.B.A. in marketing from Vanderbilt in 1996 and in recent years worked for the Micrion Corp. in Tokyo and Unisys in the United States and Japan. Hal leaves his wife, Hatsuyo, and his daughter, Amy, who is not yet 2 years old. Our hearts go out to them and to his mother and sisters.

Finally, a reminder my friends, that although you get to hear from me every other month, I rarely hear from any of you. Take a moment to e-mail your class secretary with your latest news. Memories of Hal Sandstedt would also be most welcome and I will pass them on to our classmates and to his family

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