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A trend is developing gradually. More and more of us are leaving the traditional workplace and moving on to new challenges and adventures. In February Phil Franklin announced his retirement from Littlefuse Inc., a Chicago-based multinational manufacturer of circuit protection products, electronic switches and automotive sensors. Phil transitioned his responsibilities as chief financial officer to his successor in March and assumed an advisory role through July. Phil, a Tuck graduate, held a series of executive financial positions during a 17-year career with Littlefuse. Phil will continue to serve as a director on the boards of TTM Technologies and Tribune Publishing. Phil and his wife, Melissa, recently bought a second home in Montecito, California, and look forward to spending more time there. They also plan to do more skiing and sailing in their free time. Phil and Melissa have two adult sons in their 20s, both of whom are working, one in San Francisco and one in Chicago.

Eric Van Leuven has also taken the first step toward retirement. On January 1 he retired as medical director of Northern Human Services, an organization that provides support and outpatient mental health and developmental disability services through centers in Littleton, Conway, Colebrook, Berlin and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Eric has been a community psychiatrist with Northern Human Services for 35 years, and he will continue to see patients two days a week there. His work will be split between his long-term patients with chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia as well as children with autistic spectrum disorders and patients with developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome. Eric graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and has served as an adjunct faculty member for psychiatry there. He will continue to mentor interested DMS students and psychiatry residents from time to time on an informal basis. Away from work, Eric has been a longtime collector of silent films. Two years ago he began presenting silent films as a lecturer and performer, always emphasizing that films in the 1920s were never really silent; they always had musical accompaniment from a piano, an organ, a trio or even an orchestra. An accomplished pianist and music major at Dartmouth, Eric has been showing Chaplin, Keaton and other films from his collection, giving a historical background about the stars and accompanying the movies on piano. He has lined up additional performances through the New Hampshire Humanities Council and plans to give more silent film presentations throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Eric has three adult children, two daughters and a son. Eric and his wife, Teri Bordenave, live in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Teri is a management consultant for nonprofits, specializing in strategic planning and restructuring, leadership development, team building and governance.

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