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Summer will be winding down as you read this. Be sure to check out the reports and pictures of the June reunions—in a few short months, they'll be taking our pictures. Be there!

On to the news clips: Dr. Scott Wadler was recently appointed the first Richard Silver Distinguished Professorship of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. After Dartmouth he received his medical degree at NewYork University, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. His training continued, with further stops at Bellevue Hospital, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and NYU. In 1985 Scott joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology and served as an attending at other New York hospitals. Michel Zaleski was recently featured in The New York Times as an example of new trends in philanthropy. In 1997 Michel left the investment partnership he had helped found, and put some of the profits into a family foundation. He and wife Caroline Rob Zaleski, an architectural historian, direct the foundations assets, which stand at around $5 million. Grants have gone to Dartmouth (great idea! We should all do likewise!), the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Monuments Fund, the Trinity School in Manhattan and to help start a foundation in the Dominican Republic. "People are making money in large, lumpy amounts and early in their lives. It's more tax efficient to deal with those sudden increases in wealth by giving it away, although that's not the only reason people give."

One needs a file drawer for the clippings on Bob Reich, who is one of five Democratic candidates for governor in Massachusetts; the primary is coming soon in September. Wish him luck! On a much smaller electoral scale, I did make it to the Plymouth school committee, although in an indirect way. I finished behind incumbents in the election, but got appointed to fill an illnessrelated vacancy. I recently read a short passage on the value of time: "To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just avoided an accident. To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who won a silver medal at the Olympics. Treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one." To this I could add: To realize the value of five years, ask the Dartmouth alum who missed a reunion. Be there! And write me, guys.

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