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When I started grilling JohnGoellner about Laci Peterson and other sensational murder trials, he pointed out he is a surgical pathologist, not forensic, and that he also specializes in laboratory medicine. John has spent his entire professional life, including residency, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Now he's semi-retired, but still working at this internationally famous hospital, which is a magnet for doctors as well as patients. John and Ann have three grandchildren, and homes in Naples, Florida, and Colorado, where they ski and hike.

John graduated from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, lowa, with the Bell twins, John and James. John Bell manages large group medical practices which have had to deal with the intricacies of Medicare regulations and privacy rights. John Bell lives in Marlton in south Jersey near Philadelphia. He and Carol have been married 39 years and have three grandchildren. James J. Bell, John's brother, lives near Binghamton, New York, and is a management consultant.

John Goellner was also good friends with Bill Grielsheimer, a commercial and trusts and estates lawyer in Manhattan. Bill's son, Jeffrey '94, studied at Fordham Law and is now at Hughes, Hubbard, a large Manhattan law firm. Jeffrey is about to make Bill and Carol grandparents. Daughter Deborah is at Yale Law School, Bill's alma mater. Bill stays in shape jogging in Central Park near his home.

Larry Stifler, a Boston University trained psychologist, heads Healthcare Management Resources in Boston. HMR sets up and monitors outpatient programs in high-risk obesity for diabetes patients and adolescents for hundreds of hospitals around the country. They also sell their own proprietary nutritional products to hospitals and recently launched an advertising and direct marketing campaign to make their HMR products available to diet-conscious consumers. Studies have shown the average weight loss among high-risk patients in HMR plans to be almost 60 pounds. Larry's wife, Mary, is an award-winning volunteer conservation worker. She and Larry have set up the Stifler Family Foundation, which helps preserve natural land at risk of development. They recently helped save 12,000 acres of cranberry bogs in Massachusetts.The couple lives in Brookline with three children ages 12 to 20.

If Larry Stifler is conserving land, Jim McKeon of Fairfield, Connecticut, is helping businesses reduce pollution. He represents a Taiwanese company that makes industrial tape for a variety of U.S. manufacturing applications from automobiles to wire hangers. "People don't realize it but much of our daily and household equipment is held together by very strong polyethylene industrial tape," Jim says. "That includes all leather work and dashboard equipment that we find in our cars." Many U.S. manufacturers make their own industrial tape, but Jim is convincing some of them to outsource to Taiwan where there is less pollution. A Cornell B-School grad, Jim used to represent outdoor magazines. Susan Jims wife of 38 years, builds high-end single family homes. Her last sale in Westport went for $5 million. The couple has twin sons in the computer industry.

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