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A few Christmas letters and newspaper articles will allow me to keep the stocking full (although by the time you read this spring will be in the air). John Melski shared assorted news appropriate to our age cohort: accomplishment such as John being one of two docs in Wisconsin to diagnose monkeypox in humans, spread by prairie dogs (!); that he and Linda have a first granddaughter, Audrey, born to son Eric and wife Tanya; that Johns mother has moved into a retirement community nearby. And that John had had two stents (and, we hope, no more).

The newsletter from class president Clark Wadlow and wife Vicki was its usual news-dense epistle: son Ray moving into fellowship in hematology/ oncology and in January, with wife Jess, providing grandchild No. l; son Jeff editing his feature film Living the Lie (watch for it); Tom and wife Miha moved next door, picking the worse snowstorm in memory for moving day; Anne getting her master sin classics at Virginia. Whew! Mean- while, Vicki took a short break from pottery after ulnar nerve surgery, and Clark is fully recovered from both carpal tunnel and prostate surgery. He is back to "practicing law and spreading manure." (Secretary comment: aren't these the same thing?)

Trustee Mike Chu made The Boston Globe. After seven years serving as president of Accion, a nonprofit lending group providing small loans to poor entrepreneurs, in 2000 he became the managing partner for Pegasus Venture Capital, which is focusing on Latin America, in particular Argentina. He's slowed down a tad recently after breaking his clavicle and several ribs while riding his Shadow American Classic motorcycle.

Tom Couser received enthusiastic reviews for his new book Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing. The book addresses the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects "who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship." Tom is professor of English at Hofstra University, and the author of several books on autobiography and life writing.

Chuck Cramb, chief financial officer of Gillette, was recently elected to the board of directors of Idenix, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on viral and other infectious diseases. After Dartmouth Chuck received his M..B.A from the University of Chicago, and joined Gillette in 1970. For five years, starting in 1976, he worked in the European offices of Gillette, returning in 1981. He was appointed senior vice president and CFO in 1997.

It took nearly three years to get to me, but I recently read a wonderful article by Jon Agronsky, in the Washington, D.C., City Paper, about a young jogger who collapsed on the streets of D.C. and what happened next when bystanders called 911. Very good writing, which more of you should do! Write soon. I'd love to have more news.

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