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Sign on for reunion! As of early January it looked as if as many as 225 people might show up for our 45 th reunion, June 10-13. Get on the bandwagon soon. Co-chairman Bob Marchants e-mail address is rtmarchant@ aol.com and his U.S.mail address is P.O. Box 514, Old Saybrook, CT 06475.

Bob Eigen left Westchester, New York, for a temporary visit to Florida 25 years ago. He and Joan are still there. He did his second year of Tuck after a year in the Army, finishing in 1959. Operating out of New York City, Bob built offices and apartments (and shopping centers) up and down the East Coast, but mostly in The City. Since the '7os there has been time for travel, including China, and some golf, but now he's back in business, part-time but big time. This time it's international finance, mostly bank-related, from an office in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Tom Macy's career was spent mostly in NYC with Price Waterhouse, specializing in banking from the side of the desk opposite Bob Eigen's. For his last three years, though, Tom took his expertise to Beijing, China, and only then "retired" to northern Virginia. Now, however, he travels back to Beijing as senior adviser to a banking entrepreneur who has survived every twist and turn of mainland politics since 1930. Tom has sons in Burlington, New Haven and Charlotte, and will soon greet his seventh grandchild.

Bill Gershell and Larry Lubow and Joel Mitchell joined column regulars Wren and Schwarz and almost-regulars Bernstein and Pell and Block (and all their perennially parenthetic wives) for Mike Lasser's talk " 'Sweet and Lowdown': The Gershwins's New York" at the South Street Seaport in New York.

Bill Gallaghers column in the newsletter of Dartmouth Medical School reports his intention to "practice until I drop." Bill's trans-dermatological specialty is the life and times and accomplishments of Ernest Hemingways friend Waldo Pierce, an impressionist painter who, as Bill does now, lived in Bangor, Maine. Bill is a member of both the Hemingway Society and the Hemingway Look-Alike Society, "a rather rowdy bunch." There's a Gallagher piece about Pierce in HarvardMagazine, and Bill will present a scholarly paper in Italy next summer. Bill also writes about Jim Tankersley, whose wife, Frances, sends news letters about their cruising around the Mediterranean and perfecting their Italian.

News of Bill Springer comes byway of '58 "Moose" Townsend's Medical School column. Bill is involved with Northwest Medical Teams International, an outfit that sends doctors to help out overseas. Bill has done a stint in Turkey, and may have gotten to Uzbekistan in spite of 9/11.

Paul Schmitt has started an Upper Valley venture capital firm. The Valley News reports that he'll consider investing in almost anything except a restaurant." 'Basically, I'm interested in anything that makes economic sense,' he said [slyly]." He's in East Corinth, Vermont, and is still looking after his other business in California.

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