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Just back from the executive committee meeting planning final details for the 40th reunion, which will have just wrapped up by the time you read these notes. Of the reunion itself, watch for future recaps in the newsletter and elsewhere. We also looked beyond the reunion, so come join classmates if you can! New class executive committee may well be meeting in Hanover during the summer, for some class business and some class golf. Watch the Web site or contact a class officer. Weekend of September 27-28 Jack Noon is planning on leading a weekend of camping and hiking in the College Grant. Fall mini-reunion will be Columbus Day weekend, for the Yale game and dinner, we hope at Quechee as we did last year. Early planning in place for the 2009 ski trip February 28 through March 7 in Steamboat Springs.

After the April executive committee meeting I had lunch with Greg Marshall, who is again organizing the reunion memorial service. Interesting life journey, like so many of our classmates. He was premed and to his surprise went 0 for 6 in med school acceptances. This led to an initial career in education. He went to Stanford, where he shared a room with Noel Augustyn, Who was in the same program. After two years of teaching in Chicago he felt a calling to the ministry and went to the Andover Newton Seminary. He served in churches in Bangor, Maine, and Meriden, New Hampshire, and left the ministry for a while to do work in the computer field. He returned to church service and chaplaincy and now serves as pastor in South Newbury, New Hampshire. But a real love is writing, directing and producing a play about Samantha Smith called Samantha's Stars (samanthasstars.com). The play will be given in Plainfield, New Hampshire, October 23 through 26. Daughter Jill lives in Washington, D.C., assisting Native Americans in developing fundraising programs, and son Kevin is entering a landscape architecture program at the University of Massachusetts. When Greg visits D.C. he occasionally touches base with John Pfeiffer. And Greg's playwriting enthusiasm included mention of Steve Calvert, who is now into a second career of writing: novels, novellas, screen and playwriting. After 30 years plus in alumni affairs at various colleges and universities Steve retired in 2006. He balances his writing with music; he is part of four separate groups in the Rhode Island area, in assorted roles including guitarist, keyboard artist, choir member. Wife Patti still commutes to a full-time hospital nursing administration job and envies Steve his busy life in retirement. Daughter Tiffany is an artist and teacher living in Brooklyn and Elizabeth recently married and is in Juneau, Alaska, pursuing marine biology and serving as a founder of a local figure skating club. Have a good summer, all, and keep the news coming.

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