1970

By the time you read this (in mid-June) our 35th reunion will probably be an event of the past; hope you were there renewing old friendships and forging new ones. Perhaps you volunteered to be class secretary!

Mike Hughes sends news that he has retired as a captain after 2 6 years with the Navy and Naval Reserve, where he served as a deep-sea diving officer and participated as an athlete and head coach of the U.S. military pentathlon team. (Golf is his competitive oudet these days; Mike still walks and carries his own clubs!) He is in Pensacola, Florida (where he was visited by Hurricane Ivan), working as a financial advisor with American Express. His wife is a flight attendant for Song Airlines. They return to Hanover periodically, staying in a cabin that he and his brother built nearby in the early 19705. Although "Dartmouth ties are loosening," Mike has managed to stay in touch with Erie Austin and Sam Pooley.

Concord, New Hampshire, financial investment executive David Ruedig was chosen by new Gov. John Lynch to be the chairman of the state board of education, of which he had been a member since 1999. He brings experience as former president of the Concord school board to the post.

In addition to his duties as general manager of Papee Materials Handlings Fresno and Bakersfield stores, Denny Brown has been named manager of the Salinas, California, store. He plans to expand the industrial side of the business while continuing to capitalize on current agribusiness success.

Kesang Tahsi was profiled in a Valley News article to which I cannot begin to do justice in a brief paragraph. To fulfill his goal of developing "a sustainable commercial enterprise in Tibet that would provide tangible benefits to Tibetans," he restored the craft of producing hand-woven, highquality rugs to Tibet, building a factory and a boutique hotel and becoming involved with conservation of an area four times the size of Yellowstone National Park along the way. Having recently moved to Hanover, he hopes to get Dartmouth students involved with Tibet and the conservation project.

Finally, Peter Logan sends word that he's getting remarried in May; he hopes that Bruce Blumberg and Dwight Macomber (both of whom served at his first wedding in 1986) will be in attendance. He still plays drums in a couple of part-time bands.

And Scott Holland has once again survived BOS/ORD/NRT/BKK and return in economy class.

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