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Only weeks (or days, depending on when this hits your mailbox) until our 35th. It should be a great few days together.. .even if you are undecided now, come at the last minute. And whether you come or not, do consider an appropriate reunion year donation to the Alumni Fund: We are hoping to set a new standard for the 35 years out.

Miscellaneous news this edition: "A second chance at first love" is how Tony Dambrava described a growing romance with "Sam" Miller, a Smithie he dated as an undergraduate. She's out in Seattle, so he'll head that way sometime soon from Maryland, either via transfer or retirement from government service. Tony has been with the U.S. Marshal's Service for 13 years, and prior to that 11 years with Veterans Appeals. He got his J.D. from Franklin Pierce College in 1977.

Ken Dardick was profiled in the Chronicle of Willimantic, Connecticut, as he was recently named chief of staff at Windham Community Memorial Hospital. In this role, his responsibility is to serve as liaison between practicing physicians and hospital administration. After Dartmouth Ken attended Harvard Medical School, doing his residency in family practice, a rare specialization at that time at Harvard. He has been in private practice in family medicine in Mansfield, Connecticut, for more than 27 years, but during that time squeezed in a 1983 National Award for Excellence in Patient Education, and a 1988-89 traveling scholarship from the American College of Physicians, during which time he received a diploma from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He created a database program called Immunization Alert, providing a digital catalogue of diseases in countries around the world, and the shots and medications a traveler to those countries might need. Upcoming challenge for him is raising money for an ER expansion at his hospital. Save a little for Dartmouth, Ken.

Harry Bryden, a professor of oceanography at the University of Southampton in the UK, recently won the 2003 Stommel Award from the American Meteorological Society for his "fundamental and elegant" observations on oceanic general circulation. After a Ph.D. from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Harry worked in oceanographic research for 25 years, and became a teacher at Southampton in 2000.

I recently got an e-mail from Gene Mackles with a colorful invitation to an exhibition of recent paintings, displayed at the Newton Free Library in April.

And on a sad note, I heard that George Cooley had passed away in February, after a long battle with cancer. For more details, see his obituary in this magazine.

Reunion news in next column,but,of course, other news always welcome.

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