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One direct result of the change in administration in Washington is that Stephen Hayes will have a new job. Steve has been office director for external affairs at the Agency tor International Development, but he expected to be moving on after January 20.

Barbara, however, is fully expected to continue designing women's clothes for the Carlisle Collection. And Emily 10 and Peter 7 plan to continue in elementary school.

Speaking of school, last September RogerPerry was named president of Champlain College, a 1,500-student institution in Vermont formerly known as Burlington Business College. Roger will apply his previous diverse experience as a Peace Corps teacher, college faculty member, and associate superintendent of the St. Louis public schools. Heather and children Schuyler and Adrienne will continue to lend support.

Professor Steven Givant has been teaching math and computer science to the undergraduate women at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., for 17 years. Steve recently started a summer math institute for women with grad-school potential. He enjoys river rafting, backpacking, and travel to "exotic" countries.

George Emlen is music director of the Putney School, in Putney, Vt., where Hannah 17 and Sasha 14 attend. Jan edits the Putney Post. George is also music director of the well known Christmas Revels in Cambridge, Mass., and conducts the Mount Desert Island (Maine) Summer Chorale. He also composes.

"I consider myself lucky," writes Ed Grew, assistant research professor at the University of Maine in Orono, "to have been able to pursue... basic scientific research and to contribute to international understanding at a personal level through scientific exchanges." Ed has pursued his mineralogy and petrology studies in remote areas of Russia, Tajikistan, India, and Antarctica.

Priscilla Grew is director of the Minnesota Geological Survey in St. Paul. The Grews dig each other at professional meetings and at as many exchange visits as possible.

Right now Josh Grindlay is on sabbatical with the whole family in Florence, Italy. Josh will return in the summer to his post as professor of astronomy at Harvard. Sandy will resume her duties as curator of the Harvard Portrait Collection, and Graham and Kate will enter 10th and 7th grades, respectively, in the Lincoln, Mass., public schools.

Bill Ferris of Western New England College has been elected president of the Eastern Academy of Management, a professional organization of college and university professors of management in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Joseph Gustaitis is a senior editor of Collier's Encyclopedia Year Book. He lives in Brooklyn with Catherine and 13- year-old Mary Elizabeth.

Middle East report: Robert Hill has been a senior energy economist for Saudi Aramco (The Saudi Arabian National Oil Co.) in Dhahran for six years. He helps interpret events and formulate policies for the oil minister. One of his passions is, not surprisingly, buying oriental carpets. Bob and Gerda, a Dutch citizen, have been married 23 years. Rob, a sophomore at Princeton, is a top varsity swimmer and water polo player. James, a senior at Loomis School, is also an aquatic ace.

Across the border in Kuwait, Carl Fike is a science teacher at the American International School of Kuwait, teaching Arab students physics and chemistry. Gail is a librarian at the same school. They arrived after Desert Storm and helped rebuild the 800-student school from rubble.

Back in our own oil patch, Robert Hawley is director of crude-oil marketing at Meridian Oil (trading as Burlington Resources on the NYSE). Bob is responsible for marketing the company's 40,000-barrel-per-day crude-oil production and managing the company's commodity hedge portfolio. Dawn is VP-budgets and planning at AIM Management Co., a money market firm. Together they're raising Lauren, almost four, and Paige, who is just about one.

Orthopedic surgeon John Erkkila has been operating his Corvalis, Ore., clinic for 13 years. Perhaps it's his love of skiing that has led him to focus on high-altitude physiology and cold injuries. Ellie is an active volunteer and primary caregiver for Kuri, a junior at Western Washington College, and high schoolers Kelsi 17 and Kyle 14.

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