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If Strategic Assessment in War and Managing 'Command and Control'in the Persian GulfWar sound like titles read by todays military strategists, you are right. They are two of some 36 books that comprise the impressive William R. Adelaar Endowed Book Fund for Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. George W. Baer, chair of strategy and policy at the War College and former Dartmouth history professor, says the books are "at the center" of the U.S. Naval War Colleges most recent acquisitions. "Each is a classic already and will be widely used," said Baer. Besides U.S. military history and strategy, there are books on post Civil War guerrilla violence in East Tennessee, the Vietnam War and even the Russian Revolution.

Tim Kraft, who once helped build schools and local sanitation systems in Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer, has become a sought-after political campaign consultant in Latin America. He helped the Colombian defense ministry explain its 38-year-old drug war and managed Rodrigo Borja's successful 1988 presidential campaign in Ecuador. Tim once moved his entire family temporarily to Costa Rica for an extra-long election campaign. You may recall he was a manager in Jimmy Carters election, which led to Carter appointing him to the posts of appointments secretary and later assistant for personnel and political coordination. Tim still maintains a relationship with the Carter Center and has gone on two- to four-week assignments as an observer in foreign elections. Tim and Molly, a public affairs consultant, live in Corrales, New Mexico. Their son, Colt, attends Seattle University.

Jim Clouser learned home financing at HUD before becoming a multi-housing guru for 23 years at a lending institution called Huntoon Paige in New Jersey. When Prudential recently bought Huntoon Jim packed for a new company, Quaker Capital, in south Jersey, where he was named managing director of FHA lending operations. "Huntoon was like my baby," said Jim a bit wistfully, but then there are the free tickets to the Camden River Sharks, an Eastern League property of his new employer, and the ability to work part of the time at home in central Jersey. As for interest rates, they should stay attractively low in case you're thinking of building, buying or rehabbing a FHA-backed apartment house in the near future.

Alexander Horn '04, son of Andrew Horn, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been named our second class scholarship recipient. Retired IBM CEO Lou Gerstner succeeds former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci as chairman of the Carlyle Group, which oversees billions in investments for institutions and wealthy clients. Some see Lou's appointment as a needed infusion of business leadership and image at Carlyle, known for such political heavyweights as former President Bush, ex-Secretary of State James A. Baker and former British Prime Minister John Major.

I regret to report the deaths of John W.King, teacher and admissions officer at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and Roger B. Thomas, a Wilmington, Delaware, physician. More complete stories will follow in the magazines obituary section.

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