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"I trace my 32-year career as a software entrepreneur to [Professor] Kemeny," John Rollins recalls. So John had good reason to return to Hanover on November 3 for the dedication of Kemeny Hall, the beautiful new home of the mathematics department on North Main Street opposite Tuck Drive that reunites the department that was spread among three buildings for 25 years. Class of '66ers Gary Broughton, Noel Fidel and class president Chuck Sherman also attended.

The building honors the late John G. Kemeny, a former mathematics professor and president of the College from 1970 to 1981. John Rollins worked with Professors Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, helping to debug their pioneering software BASIC and they "convinced me to switch my major to math," John recalls.

Good move. John went on to start AZTECH Software, the first specialized provider of IT service to membership organizations, and served as its president and chairman from 1970 until the sale of the company in 2000. He conceptualized and designed AZTECH*Ware, the company's software product, that grew to more than 50 integrated modules that are licensed by associations as needed to meet their business needs.

John currently serves as adjunct professor for entrepreneurship at the George Washington University School of Business and is on the boards of Georgetown University Hospital, the National Park Trust, Hyde Leadership Public Charter School and George Washington University's School of Business. He recently completed 10 years of service as a director of the Information Technology Association of America.

Anne and John's daughter, Katie, is completing her master's in child development and public policy at Tufts and their son, Tom, recently earned his chartered financial analyst certificate while working for Thomson Financial.

Dave Potthoff joined classmates Steve Zegel and Bill Hobson at a Dartmouth holiday luncheon in St. Louis, Missouri, Dave's home since graduation. Dave married Dolores a couple of years before he started his 30-year career with insurance leader Marsh & McLennan. Health issues have slowed Dave a bit, but he did attend the class 40th reunion and a number of Tabard mini-reunion events. "It's terrific to have reconnected with so many great guys (and wives)," he reports.

William Scott Wilson has emerged as one of the leading American translators of classic Japanese literature, with two new books published in the past year: The Flowering Spirit, a new translation of Fushikaden, the 15th-centuty classic text by Zeami, founder of the No theater; and The Demon'sSermon on the Martial Arts, an 18th-century Taoist/Buddhist/Confucian study on martial arts and the way of living in the world. Bill's original work, The Lone Samurai, a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker and author, is in its sixth printing.

Bill became interested in Japanese culture during a three-month kayak trip along the Japanese coast in his senior year. He went on to earn a bachelors and a masters in Japanese language and literature from the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and the University of Washington. In 2005 he was awarded a Foreign Minister of Japans Commendation.

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