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Fall is here and with it a new class of Dartmouth 'shmen, sporting "class of 2009" T-shirts. I hope that these new students enjoy Dartmouth as much as I did. I had a chance to reminisce about Dartmouth during a small reunion in Boston with some friends, Carla Small, Tisa Hughes, Heather Keare, Debbie Stark Olsen, Julie Levenson, Kathy Marshall Diekroeger and Kim Ogden Huntowski. We had a lot of fun talking, eating, talking, drinking, talking. As Carla's kids said, "Dad, mom's lady friends sure know how to talk."

Jim Clemens has been appointed vice president of sales at Frictionless Commerce, a leading supplier relationship management (SRM) software provider. In this new role Jim is responsible for overseeing the company's global sales operations. Prior to joining Frictionless Jim was responsible for direct sales at Macromedia.

Daniel Becker is publishing a book titled ThisMean Disease. It is about his experience growing up with a mother who suffered from anorexia nervosa. The book includes a section about Dartmouth. The book release date is August 15.

The U.S. Army recently promoted classmate Ted Cooperstein to the rank of lieutenant colonel. (Ted, you've come a long way from our freshman trip.) Ted has spent his military career in intelligence support to special operations, from the 82nd Airborne to the 11th Special Forces Group, including a year on Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002-03 covering Qatar, Oman, Jordan and Kuwait. He also has a civilian career as a lawyer, presently counsel to the deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice. In 2004 Ted traveled twice to Baghdad to help set up the U.S. Regime Crimes Liaison Office assisting the Iraq Special Tribunal to investigate and try Baathists and Saddam for crimes against humanity. In attendance at the ceremony, where Ted was presented with the silver oak leaves denoting his new rank, were classmates Al Chaker and Jim Schaefer. Al is active duty Navy as a medical doctor at Bethesda Naval Hospital (he began his career straight out of Dartmouth as a bombardier/navigatoron an A6 and then shifted to medical school when they discontinued the aircraft). Jim is an Air Force reserve officer. He recently returned from a stint in Baghdad this past fall. In civilian life Jim serves as the public affairs spokesman for the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

CIO Magazine and the CIO executive council have named Max Rayner, VP for systems architecture at Salesforce.com, as a recipient of its One to Watch Award. This award is given to rising stars in the information technology industry who have the potential and demonstrated record of leading the IT industry as CIOs, visionaries and thought-leaders.

Prior to joining Salesforce.com Rayner was director for worldwide data centers and infrastructure at Sun Microsystems. He also served as director of development for Suns decision support systems.

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