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With my younger daughter facing the daunting college application process, there are times when I envy friends like Gar Waterman, a self-described "latecomer to the field of parenting." Gar recently wrote: "I am surviving, so far at least, although the idea of having a 20-year-old child when I am 70 is a little disconcerting. Geffen will be 2 in November and has proved to have considerable entertainment value. Otherwise, the sculpture world treats me well, things are good and other than being somewhat concerned about the imminent collapse of society as we know it due to vanishing fresh water, dependence on petroleum-based resources and the global warming that is the result, we are doing okay."

While I was a member of the sailing team our freshman year, I know I could never accomplish what Dan Galyon and his crew on American Girl just did: competing in the 100 th annual 635-mile New port-to-Bermuda race, the "holy grail of ocean racing." A four-year process began with the purchase of the 37-foot fiberglass x-yacht, which has nine sails in addition to its main one and is equally suitable for world-class racing or a weekend cruise with the family. Galyon purchased the boat in January 2005, but the nzme American Girl was conceived by him well before that. "In some respects that's a 9/11 name," he said. "And I have a family. And I have (two) girls. And I thought it was a nice way of combining sort of a feeling of patriotism and then paying homage to the fact that my life is dominated by girls."

Down in the Lone Star state Miles LeBlanc, general counsel of the Houston Community College System, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Prior to assuming his current position he served as associate general counsel at the University of Hous- ton office of general counsel, as assistant attorney general for the Texas attorney general in Austin and as a federal judicial law clerk for the Hon. U.S. District Court Judge Jorge A. Solis, northern district of Texas, Dallas division. He also worked as an assistant district attorney in Taylor County, Texas, for more than six years. Miles serves on the board of directors of the Texas Association of Community College Attorneys and is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of College andUniversity Law. He was president of the Texas Association of State University Attorneys from 1999-2000.

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