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Acouple of good and one sad piece of mail arrived over the past weeks. First, the sad news: David Sigelman died of respiratory distress brought on by high altitude while on a voluntary service mission in Peru. Watch for the obituary in this magazine. But plenty of good news: Barry Abelson recently was awarded the 2004 Judge Learned Hand Award from the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Barry is chairman of the executive committee of the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP; where he also leads their corporate and securities practice group. After Dartmouth he went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and hasn't left Philly since. He is on the boards of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, the Children's Crisis Treatment Center and Operation Warm, which distributed 50,000 coats to needy children in the Philadelphia area. He and Robin live in Bryn Mawr. Bob Reich changed coasts for at least a semester—he has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley in the university's Goldman School of Public Policy. He has a new book out: Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battlefor America. Watch out, conservatives. Also on the left coast, but more permanently, Larry Steinman won the John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research. Larry is at Stanford, a professor in their department of neurology and neurological sciences, pediatrics and genetics, and chair of the their program in immunology. The John Dystel Prize is given by the National MS Society and the American Academy of Neurology. The press release mentioned 325 papers or book chapters authored by Larry—almost 10 a year since we graduated. He went to Harvard Medical School after Dartmouth, with residency at Stanford, followed by permanent residency in California(!). Flipping back to the East Coast, Bill Rich, Ed Heald, John Engelman and David Peck (your always newshungry secretary) were among hundreds of guests at the fifth Wearing of the Green celebrated in May in Boston. I noticed the program included past winners Wick Walker (Olympian in kayak), Gene Ryzewicz (baseball All America, three-time All Ivy), Rob McCormick (lacrosse), Brad Lindblad (swimming), Gordie Rule (member professional team, Green Bay Packers) and John Blair (handball hall of fame). And from New Mexico, Greg Marshall recently e-mailed a few of us with words on, and from, William Sloane Coffin, our 35th reunion guest. In addition to including a transcription of a recent interview of the Rev. Coffin with Bill Moyers, Greg noted that he had first met Bill Coffin in 1982, when he addressed representatives of a Soviet Peace Committee. He closed his remarks with a quote from Pushkin, delivered in Russian: "I love you with the love of a brother, and, if possible, even more tenderly." Does that sometimes describe our class? I believe so. If you'd like to see the transcript, contact Greg. Write often, brothers (and sisters, spouses and friends).

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