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Greetings! News continues to come in at a record pace. The first item is an announcement that Richard Horan has returned home to New England and will be the executive director of the Slater Center for Biomedical Technology in Rhode Island. The Slater Center is a not-for-profit technology-commercialization center established in 1997 as the Rhode Island Center for Cellular Medicine, which now has a portfolio of 23 firms. One of the blurbs outlining Rich's resume listed his Tuck degree as well as the many venture management and advisory businesses he has been involved with. The same article also mentioned his "first job after Dartmouth" as being with the Capital Markets Group at BOA in San Francisco. How could they have overlooked Rich's stint at Henry Africa's in San Francisco, with the crew that included Dick Carroll, Vicki Bohn Felis, Gordie Nye and the late John McCollow. Somehow that seems like a lifetime ago.

Delhaize America, the fifth-largest supermarket retailer in the United States recently named Paul Fritzson executive vice president of strategy and finance. Delhaize is the parent company of Hannaford Bros. Co. and Food Lion. Paul will continue to work out of the Hannaford corporate headquarters in Scarborough, Maine. Paul joined Hannaford Bros, in 1978 in the days of Cottle's, Martin's and Shop & Save. Since then he has held positions in finance, merchandising, operations, marketing and distribution before being promoted to executive vice president and CFO in June 1999. Could that all have been put in place simply by being the roommate of Larry "Pud" Nichols? Connecticut State Senator George Jepsen is now a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in his home state. He started in politics as a campaign scheduler for U.S. Rep. William Ratchford in 1974 and continued as a campaign manager for Ratchford four years later. Two years after that, while pursuing graduate degrees in law and public policy, he worked on U.S. Senator Chris Dodd's first Senate campaign. Since then he has spent 16 years in the Connecticut legislature in both the Senate and the House. Good luck in your current campaign, George.

From the Star-Tribune Newspaper of the Twin Cities comes news that Carol Vaughan Bemis is on the board of the Walker Art Center. She also is honorary co-chair of the Weisman Art Museums (at the University of Minnesota) capital campaign. The Burlington, Colorado, Record reported that Boulder resident Betsy Tobin, founder of the Now or Never Theatre, took her talents in mask and puppet theater on the road to Idalia School from February 4 to 14. Those of you at reunion last year will remember Betsys presentations. Betsy apprenticed at the Seattle Puppetory Theatre and from 1981 to 1992 she lived in France, where she toured in original productions with mixed acting, puppetry, shadows and mask theater. Also in Colorado, the Colorado School of Mines has named Dr. Murray W. Hitzman the Charles Franklin Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology. Murray has been at the School of Mines since 1996. In addition to his M.S. in geology from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in geology from Stanford, Murray has held positions with Anaconda, Bear Creek Mining Co. and Chevron Minerals. He has also held positions on Sen. Joseph Lieberman's staff, as well as working in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Finally, Jim Beattie, who resigned last October as the GM of the Montreal Expos to spend more time with his wife, Martha Johnson Beattie, and family in Hanover, has been hired as a special assistant to the Expos new GM. When asked about pursuing opportunities in broadcasting, Jim said "Clearly, my bubbly personality wasn't suited to radio or TV." Those of you who saw Jim and Tom Parnon decked out in their hairpieces at reunions may beg to differ. That's all for now. Keep the info coming.

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