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Just back from Ecuador again, and sneaking this column in under the wire. The first item actually has me thinking about my next trip to Ecuador. Tom Glanzmann is currently the president of Baxter Bioscience, a manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and biosurgical products. He joined Baxter in 1988 as an assistant general manager in Switzerland, and he is currently in Thousand Oaks, California, where the company has been headquartered for the past two years. Tom also serves as the president of Baxters charitable association, as well as a board member of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association and the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he received his M.B.A. Baxter supplies the medical world with intravenous fluids, a valuable commodity on our surgical trips to South America! Maybe next year we won't have to barter with the locals in Quito to get the fluids we need!
The next bit of news comes from our annu- al mini-reunion at Julie Koenigers (a.k.a. her hol- iday party), where I ran into Lon Povich.Lon lives in Wellesley with his wife, Ilissa, and two kids, Emily (3) and Steven (10). He continues as gen- eral counsel for the Boston Consulting Group, where he attempts "to give appropriate legal ad- vice to BCG staff in 35 counties without being disbarred." This past summer Lon's son joined Rich Pages and Tim Phillips' sons on a Wellesley summer league baseball team. I think that may also qualify as a mini-reunion.
Emily Niesloss Roissman reports on life in northern Virginia, where she is in her 10th year as in-house counsel at Feld Entertainment Inc., the producer of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, as well as Disney on Ice and Disney Live. She is busy with her kids, Allie (15) and Tori (12), and husband Peter, who is heading off to Santi- ago, Chile, to compete in the Pan-American Maccabia Games on the U.S. golf team. She and the kids get to go along. Allie and close friend Amanda Johnson (daughter of Shaun Smith 'BO and Daitmouth/Tuck alum Sam johnson) have their sights set on Dartmouth, in spite of Allies dad encouraging her to consider another "college on the hill" in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily reassures us that Allie has been politely ignoring her father. Tori will be attending her fourth summer at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Sounds like a busy family!
Elsewhere in the entertainment world comes news from Mark Hansson, who received three nominations from the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) as an assistant director for three 2003 episodes of Six Feet Under, in the category of Best Drama-Television Episodic. One nom- ination is good, three make for a great year, ac- cording to Mark, who has been a member of the DGA since 1987. The event itself took place on February 7, and West Wing ended up winning, but Mark said it was a fun evening—limos, tuxes and that sort of stuff. He will add the plaques for these nominations to the Moonman that he won at the MTV Awards last year for Good Charlottes Lifestyles ofthe Rich and Famous;which won the Au- dience Award, thanks to "all the 12-year-old girls who voted for the band." He just finished a film on an aircraft carrier about 9/11 for the Disney Channel, followed by a music video for a new band called Frickin' A, and next he's off to do a film for USA Networks called GTO, about guys racing cars. This summer will mark his 20th anniversary in film and television production, and from the sounds of it, its been an interesting 20 years!
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