1972

Greetings noble '72s far and wide! With winter loosening its icy grip on the Hanover Plain, the days lengthening and the sun producing a modicum of something beyond light, your humble scribe sends best wishes to all!

This month I am delighted to have a variety of news to share. Greg Yadley, senior partner in the Tampa office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, recently served as co-chair of the 22nd Annual Federal Securities Institute in Miami on February 11-12. The institute attracted 150 lawyers, primarily from the eastern United States, for briefings and discussions with representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nasdaq and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, as well as the chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court, and prominent attorneys, accountants and investment bankers from around the country. Yads is chairman of the American Bar Association Small Business Securities Subcommittee and a member of the executive council of the Florida Bar Business Law Section. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Tampa Bay Business Committee for the Arts and the Convention & Visitors Bureau.

John Sharer checks in from Virginia as managing counsel, electric delivery, in the law department of Dominion Resources Inc., one of the country's largest producers of electricity and natural gas. He provides legal advice to Virginia Electric and Power Cos. He's also a member of the faculty of the Virginia state bar's mandatory course on professionalism for new Virginia lawyers, and acts as a grader for the Virginia bar exam. He and his wife, Kathy (Colorado State '72), have been married 23 years. Their daughter, Stephanie, is a senior at UVA and will be applying to law school (really?).

On December 16, 2003, Bill Roberts cele- brated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the Episcopal priesthood—an event John Shar- er attended in December of 1978 in Davenport, lowa. For the past 15 years Bill has been the rec- tor of St. Gregorys Episcopal Church in Deer- field, Illinois. The bishop of the Diocese of Chicago recently appointed Bill as dean of the Waukegan Deanery, encompassing 14 parishes and missions. The dean assists the bishop in providing pastoral care and oversight while serving on the diocesan council. Bill and his wife, Ingrid, will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary on March 30, just before this column reaches you. Ingrid teaches at Wilmot Elementary, assisting first- and second-graders with learning disabilities.Their daughter, Karen (Hollins University grad), works for Allstate in Chicago; their son James, is in his first year at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Also in church news, the Rev. Robert Landback recently joined the staff of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, Connecticut. After leaving Hanover Robert spent some time designing automated accounting systems for banks before attending the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1993. From there he served congregations in Texas and California before coming to Groton. He is married and has four children, two in high school and two in college.

And I'm out of space! Peace, good health and best wishes to all.

P.O. Box 580, Hanover,NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu