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If you are still on the fence about coming to the reunion, there is still time. We accept walk-ons. That being said, let us move on to the news.

Alan Feiner was selected as one of the top docs in hematology and oncology in a survey published by Denver's 3280 magazine. He has been in private practice in Denver doing hematology and medical oncology for almost 26 years. Alan reports that Denver is wonderful, and he still very much enjoys his work.

The concept of communities developing their own broadband service is relatively unknown. That unknown concept has quickly become a nationwide trend. At the center of the debate has been attorney Jim Bailer, who has represented a large number of communities and power utilities, defending their right to deliver broadband. Jim is recognized as being the nations foremost expert in the field and is no friend of the large cable companies or the Baby Bells that dominate local telecommunications markets around the country. As a principal attorney for the Bailer Herbst Law Group, he has fought these interests on behalf of local governments and utilities for the right to build and operate new telecommunication networks. Bailer's clients include the American Public Power Association, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, and individual local governments and public power utilities in more than 35 states. Over the last decade he has been involved in many of the leading community broadband projects in the United States and in most of the legislative and court battles over state barriers to municipal entry. In particular he was lead counsel in cases that struck down barriers to entry in Missouri and Virginia. Bailer was also counsel of record when the case in Missouri went before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael Groden is a world-renowned Joycean scholar and critic. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton, and is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Michael is general editor of the 63-volume James Joyce Archive and is at present working on an annotated hypertext edition of Ulysses. He is co-editor of The Johns HopkinsGuide to Literary Theory and Criticism and author of Ulysses in Progress (1977). Michael will receive an honoraiy doctorate (D.Lit.) from the National University of Ireland on June 16, also known as Bloomsday, which is the 100th anniversary of the day on which Ulysses takes place.

Sadly, I must report the death of Tom Maddron.

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