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Most of us may be pushing 60, from the wrong side, but it doesn't mean we don't have our finger on the pulse of the latest technologies. At least George "Skip" Battle does.

Skip went directly to Stanford Business School from Hanover and on to a 27-year career at Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Along the way he served as worldwide managing partner of market development, as managing partner of U.S. operations and as a member of the executive committee. After he retired from Andersen Skip soon emerged as CEO of Ask Jeeves from 2001 to 2003, and he's currently executive chairman of the board. Skip was recently appointed to the board of directors of Netflix, the worlds largest online movie rental service. He continues as chairman of the board of Fair Isaac Corp., the preeminent provider of creative analytics for mission critical decision-making.

In April Mark Budnitz testified before a subcommittee of Congress on the confusion engendered by a new law Congress passed last year called the Check 21 Act. Mark, a specialist in electronic payment systems and professor at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, urged the lawmakers to consider enacting a new law that would establish uniform rights and obligations for consumers, regardless of the payment device—checks, credit and debit cards, etc.—they use.

Prior to teaching at Georgia State Mark served as the executive director of the National Consumer Law Center and headed the bankruptcy reorganization branch of the Securities and Exchange Commissions southeastern regional office. Mark has published more than 20 articles and has books on credit reporting and bankruptcy. It runs in the family. His daughter, Judy, recently published her third book, Nice BigAmerican Family.

Retirement is certainly in the air. Jack Bennett reports that Chris Meyer "is retired and doing well" in Nahant, Massachusetts, tending his lobster traps. And according to Jack, class Webmaster and tireless Dartmouth advocate Chuck Sherman is retiring from the National Institute of Health and moving from D.C. to, where else, the Hanover area. To be closer to the Moose, no doubt.

And, surprisingly, some of us are still getting hired. Your correspondent has moved from one nonprofit, the American Management Association, to another, the American Red Cross in Greater New York, to work on marketing, communications and public affairs for the organization dedicated to helping people prepare and respond to emergencies of any kind.

Pass along your news, big and small. And watch forword of our 40th (no misprint) reunion in June 2006.

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