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Frank Ricciardone has been named by President Bush as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines. Frank is a career Foreign Service officer who has served on assignments of increasing responsibility in the State Department since 1978. Following graduation from the College he was a Fulbright scholar in Italy and taught in Iran from 1976 until 1978. His considerable expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic affairs will serve him well in the Philippines, where there has been a longstanding Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. Franks wife, Dr. Marie Dunn Ricciardone, is a molecular biologist in the State Department's environmental office. They have two daughters, Francesca 21 and Chiara 18.

Jim Sullivan has been elected to the board of directors of SS & C Technologies Inc. of Windsor, Connecticut. Jim has 20 years of investment banking and technology expertise, most recently as managing director of Morgan Stanleys technology group. SS&C is a leading provider of financial software solutions, services and expertise to asset managers worldwide. Jim has a M.B.A. from Stanford and lives with wife Mary Ellen in Riverside, Connecticut.

Vita Gen Inc. of La Jolla, California, has appointed Mark D'Andrea vice president of manufacturing. Vita Gen is a privately held biomedical technology company. Mark, who has a M.S. in biochemistry from Rutgers, is an expert in product development of biologies and medical devices and specializes in gene therapy products. He and wife Claire reside in Carlsbad, California.

Class vice president Mark Harty is a candidate for alumni trustee of the College. Mark is managing partner of the Boston law firm of Morrison, Mahoney & Miller. He and wife Sally, who does admissions work at Harvard, live in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.

Recently saw actor Jim Metzler in Megiddo:The Omega Code 2, an Armageddon genre movie produced in 2001 by Michael York. Jim has appeared in nearly 70 motion pictures and television productions since 1980. A Web search revealed that during any 30-day period, a half a dozen or more of Jim's films run on network or cable television channels.

Charles Kaufmann died on January 10 in Englewood, Colorado. His obituary appears in this issue of the Alumni Magazine. Our condolences go to his family.

For those of you who read only the Class Notes in each issue, go back to the Newsmakers" section of the March/April 2002 Alumni Magazine to learn more about Matt Montagne's efforts to raise funds to replace the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Matt has been director for 23 years at the famous 151 acre summer youth camp that due to the pressure of pending inheritance taxes on the owners has been put up for sale with the asking price of $50 million. Matt's Ready to Ride Campaign is seeking $13 million from camp alumni and friends to buy a new site and relocate the camp.

My own "Ready to Write" campaign has begun to seek a successor as Class Notes writer and class secretary following our 30th reunion in June 2003. After nine years it will be time to let someone else's muse inspire (and perspire) the creation of the (now only) six (down from nine) annual columns. There's plenty of time to think over how little spare time you may have for this labor of love but I commend it to those looking for a way to serve the class and the College. Please contact me for details if you (or a team of two or three to divide the labor) are interested or have a classmate to nominate.

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