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Phil Olson writes, "Just an update on my musical Don't Hug me. We are getting closer to New York. The company attempting New York will do a reading of the musical in April at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre. I'll actually perform in it.Don't Hug Me has been booked into 25 cities and is being published by Samuel French. I am working on the sequel, A Don't HugMe Christmas Carol, which will open this Christmas."

The Dartmouth ran a story that Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee was to be on campus as Montgomery Fellow in late April. Albee was to speak and work with undergraduates through the English and theater departments.

The trustees of the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, a museum and poetry education center based at Robert Frosts homestead, have announced that Jim Schley of South Strafford, Vermont, has been hired as executive director. Jim, with an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College, has extensive experience in publishing, education and theater. He has been co-editor of the New England Review. He has toured internationally with Bread & Puppet Theater (Glover, Vermont) and Les Montreurs d'lmages (Geneva, Switzerland). Jim's writings were published in Garrison Keillors Good Poems anthology. And Newsweek magazine ran one of Jim's essays about his experience of having two dozen part-time jobs in one year.

Douglas Furth, an attorney for Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in Manhattan, almost made it to our N.Y.C. mini-reunion. At the last minute he e-mailed from his office: "As I said, I haven't been much of a reunion person but was hoping to mend my ways. I am still at the office and likely to be here for a while. Someone ought to be advising students contemplating law school what this life is really like. You can quote me on it."

It is with deep sadness that I report Chris Daniels died in March. He collapsed while skiing with his children, later dying of heart failure. Acelebration of Chris' life was held April 1 at Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsm.MadisonMagazine had previously recognized Chris' work as an attorney by including him in its list of the area's "Best Lawyers." Harry Dent wrote, "Chris possessed a deep intellectual curiosity—Chris knew, it seemed, everything, but no one would ever describe him as a 'know-it-all' because he shared his knowledge always as a gift to others, not to impress. A wonderful father and husband. A constant, loyal and tremendous friend."

George Morris '80 writes, "From his home in Madison Chris remained close to the friends made in Hanover. One of his recent Dartmouth mini-reunions occurred in 2005, when Chris joined Tom French, Harry Dent, Rick Swanson, Mark Fischer 'BO and me for a skiing vacation at Vail. He bravely brought his son Owen to further his education in the old traditions." Tom writes, "As a friend, Chris had an eternal skepticism that always kept me honest. He had an uncanny ability to deflate my unearned arrogance while sticking with me through everything. As the years passed we did not get together as often as we should have: a 40th birthday here, a ski trip there. However, it never took long before we started correcting one another and picking fights just like in our prime. I was incredibly touched to hear that hours after losing his dad, Chris' son Owen said to his Mom, "You've got to call Dad's friends. I know they'd do anything for him.'"

We will miss Chris' thoughtful style, his wry sense of humor and his leadership.

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