I had a nice note from Dave Hope, who says that he sees few classmates apart from Len Green, who was his roommate at Harvard Law School and is what New Hampshire calls a "marital master" (a "family court judge" in most other states), and Ron Benz, who is a physician in pediatrics at Mass General in Boston. Dave's two children are about to finish their respective educations: Henry is graduating from Vassar College with a degree in botany. He is a certified EMT and is currently team chief of Vassar's EMS squad. He's a member of Vassar's men' s rugby club and has been on the varsity cross-country team. Yvette is graduating from Friends Central School in Philadelphia, where she is co-captain of the cross-country team (are we seeing a recurrent theme here?). She's a talented photographer and will be touring Scotland this summer with a drama team and wants to work in the entertainment industry. Dave practiced law for a number of years as a partner in a couple large firms, but is now vice president, CFO and general counsel of a company that makes high-tech cranes, particularly for the nuclear industry. "After years of wondering whether I would ever find an application for my Dartmouth international relations degree beyond reading The New York Times, I am now involved on a daily basis in international transactions and travel regularly back and forth to Europe and Scandinavia." Frank Loveland reports that he has retired after 25 years of teaching undergraduate anthropology at Gettysburg College. He now has time to pursue his hobbies of "antiques, particularly toys, collecting and writing about them, and seeing films." He had a full hip replacement in April, which I guess will allow those early morning yard sale jaunts that appeal to serious collectors.

A third classmate teaches at the University of Michigan: Daniel Levine. Dan is a professor in political science and chair of his department. After graduation he went to London School of Economics on a Reynolds Fellowship and then to Yale, where he got his Ph.D. in 1970. His work here at Michigan began in 1969 and he's moved up the ranks in the subsequent 30 years. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in his senior year, died at the end of 1997 of an aggressive brain tumor. Their daughter is a medical assistant nearby, one son is an attorney in Miami and another works for a firm doing international political/economic consulting in Washington. Dan has spent considerable time in South America since his graduate school days, especially in Venezuela, but also Colombia, Guatemala and Peru (he was in the latter country during the Shining Light insurgency, which he describes as "exciting").