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A couple of news items from California are worth note. Phil Drescher recently joined Ventura County's largest law firm, Nordman, Cormany, Hair and Compton. Phil will continue to focus on estate planning, business, water and local government law. Before joining the firm, he was a founding partner of Drescher, McConica, Schuck and Young. Among many boards and positions in the bar association, Phil is a member of the national advisory board of the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. For a native Californian who has spent all his life there, except for Hanover and the Navy, that is quite plum. And The Los Angeles Times carried a piece on the former Ventura County prosecutor Fred Kosmo regarding his 340-acre farm, where he and Pat grow apples, along with peaches, cherries and walnuts. The fruits are grown organically and marketed directly. Farming in the Cuyama Valley is not easy and many neighbors have had to bulldoze their trees. When asked what keeps him going, Fred replied, "Insanity...I'm doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result." It's quite a change for a Brooklyn-bom kid who came to Hanover from Keene, New Hampshire.

Leon Goodrich, a partner at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly in Minneapolis, has authored an interactive antitrust law primer course which can be accessed directly at no cost on the company's Web site, www.oppenheimer.com. In addition to the course, the primer offers an interactive 15-minute quiz that provides immediate feedback.

Otto Wagenbach sent his new e-mail address along with the following: "I continue to work as a financial consultant with Salomon Smith Barney in Dallas [where he and Sally moved in 1985] and plan to do so indefinitely so long as my health is okay and I have fun. Sally and I have been especially blessed by having each other for more than 50 years (married for almost 44), three great kids and nine grandchildren and a busy, foil life." While they see a lot of their daughter's family in Dallas, they also make several trips a year east to a home in the Catskills and to visit two sons in New Jersey.

Joe Jacquet has instructed us all to mark our calendars for mini-reunion weekend on October 18-20

Sally and I visited Thailand and stopped for a few days in Hong Kong, where we had dinner with Bill Hartley and his girlfriend, Heather. Bill is now a freelance journalist whose work often takes him over the border from Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region into the rest of China. After years of wanderlust Bill has decided to make Asia his home and doubts he will get back to the States often—other than to our 45 th and 50 th. It was a great visit with lots of reminiscences of classes, faculty and classmates. It also was a reminder of how quickly memory fades as we struggled to recall names and events.

Finally, another sad note. Dave Morgan lost a yearlong struggle with lymphoma and passed away on January 20. The class extends its deepest condolences to Jean and the children.

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