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Nearly three decades ago Paul Binder returned from street juggling and circus performing in Europe to launch Big Apple Circus, a beloved institution whose name belies the artistic and cultural depth that has made it unique. In an interview with The Daily Dartmouth, Paul said Big Apples appeal results from the audiences contact with performers, something that does not happen with big three-ring circuses. Such intimacy attracts adults as well as children and provides "a theater of aspirations," a place where people can indulge in their primal desires. "The clowns represent every man who inevitably falls but stands up, brushes off his pants and moves on," he said. Paul's ties with Dartmouth are long and deep. He earned an honorary degree from the College and winds up his circus season annually in Hanover before nearly 20,000 fans. This year he is teaching a master class for Dartmouth's theater department.

Wally Chappell, executive director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, will be honored in December by The East-West Association at ceremonies in Hanoi. He will receive its distinguished alumni award and a $1,000 prize that recognizes career accomplishments and contributions toward promoting relations between the Asia Pacific and the United States. Based in Honolulu, the center was established by Congress as a hub for research, education and dialogue between the two regions.

Gerry Uram and Dick Berkowitz are included in the 2006 best New York lawyer rankings. Gerry, who is chair of real estate at Davis & Gilbert, was pictured and profiled in "New York Super Lawyers 2006," an insert in the Sunday New YorkTimes. Dick, founding partner of Berkowitz, Trager & Trager, Westport, Connecticut, is listed under real estate law in "The New York Area's Best Lawyers," published by New York Magazine.

Having wound up his Adantic City law practice, Bill Subin is of counsel to a local firm and teaching a college course. He and Petie were spotted recently at the Tony Award-winning The HistoryBoys on Broadway.

Long time urologist Andy Cole has started a medical consulting firm and serves as medical director of an insurance company in Texas and California, writes Richard Edelson in DartrnouthMedicalSchool News and Notes. Andy lives in Dallas. Dan Muchinsky, Plainfield, New Hampshire, will chair our class' 45 th reunion. Currendy in his busy season as national distributor for Gladys Boalt ornaments, Dan has also hosted our mini-reunion cocktails and dinner. Nick Carney, author of We'reMoving to Alaska, a childhood memoir, has written Henry's War, about a relatives combat experience including D-Day on Omaha Beach in Normandy and the liberation of a concentration camp near Prague. Both books are available at www.lulu.com.

Virginia Rosenbaum, wife of the late DaveRosenbaum, died June 22 of colon cancer in Washington, D.C. Dave, a New York Times reporter and editor, was robbed and fatally beaten last January on a street near his home. Two men were indicted. An official inquiry found multiple failures in the emergency response to the assault.

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