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The home stretch! Only a few weeks away now to reunion. Watch your mailbox for continuing updates on classmates attending and planned events. It will be fun. Classmate news remains light.. .maybe everyone is saving up for reunion. After a national search, Jim Tonkovich was recently named executive director of the Upper Valley United Way, which supports programs of 29 human service agencies serving35 communities in the Upper Valley. After playing that long trumpet in the Marching Band Jim worked in the alumni office at Dartmouth, in many roles, and later as director of alumni relations at Colby- Sawyer before joining the United Way as a staff member in 1998. He and Wendy live in Wilder, Vermont. Dennis Drapkin was recently honored by being listed in 2003-2004 edition of The BestLawyers in America. Dennis is a member of Jones Day, a Dallas, Texas, law firm, where he serves in the tax practice and helps direct their firm-wide executive compensation practice. After Dartmouth he attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1972, and then was a Fullbright Scholar at the London School of Economics. He has been with Jones Day for almost 20 years. Bob Butts got some notice in a Register Herald (White Plains, New York) article, although more for his should-have- been-more-famous great-uncle Alfred Butts, the inventor of Scrabble. Originally called Lexico (from the Greek lexikos—"of words"), and later Criss-Cross Words, it was copyrighted in 1948 as Scrabble.There are 400 million sets in circulation world-wide. Bob lives in great-uncle Alfreds house and practices law in Poughkeepsie, New York. Pete Hofman, among others, has been lobbying the alumni office for the (re)establishment of affinity groups, such as fraternity, sports teams, music, etc, as a critical element in alumni sense of continuing connectedness to the College. There is a sense that some of this has been lost over the past few years with increasing Alumni Fund focus on large donors. We need to get back to our family roots. On March 1 some of the executive committee planned to meet with our classmate trustees, Jon Newcomb, Mike Chu and Pete Fahey, to discuss ideas for the long-range class gift to the College. More on this at the reunion (be there!). And on a personal note, your humble secretary recently joined a crowd of notables including Senator John Kerry, Jim Calhoun (basketball coach at UConn) and Pat Robertson in prompt followup for high PSAs. So, my public service announcement is get your annual physicals, guys, and take care of business when something needs tending. See you in June.

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REUNIONJune 9-122003