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		1970s Christopher S. Mosher, LA’70, of Newton, Massachusetts, scored his first hole-in-one while golfing at TPC Sawgrass with his Beanpot buddies, Paul Leahy, LA’69, Randy Sheahan, LA’69, and Jim Vrabel, LA’71. The ace occurred on the famed island green of the seventeenth hole. “It was a thing of beauty,” according to Sheahan, the poet laureate of the group, who was driving the beer cart because he doesn’t play golf. After turning forty, they all took up golf, except for Sheahan, who remains a wine and beer connoisseur. Mosher is the first in the group to score an ace. The foursome have been friends for more than three decades after meeting on co-op; all worked at either the NU Press Bureau Sports Information Office or the New England Press Association (which was housed in the Journalism department). Since then, they have made an annual pilgrimage to the men’s hockey Beanpot tournament on the first two Mondays in February. “We’ve given up on the men ever winning the Beanpot again,” Mosher declares. “Beginning next year, we’re going to watch the women play.” Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau, LA’71, of Boston, was the “event coordinator/instigator” of the twenty-fifth annual NU News reunion camp, which took place from August 1 through 4 at Cooperstown, New York. Tourangeau reports, “Among the thirty people appearing for (some or all of) the Glimmerglass Opera, golf, softball, great food, and cozy Shadowbrook Campfires were Scott Kaeser, LA’73; Karen Schindehette Kaeser, PAH’77 (garbage-can turkey chef supreme); John P. Mello, LA’73; Maine’s own Edward P. Rice, LA’71; Don Leamy, LA’73; Christy Bean Leamy, PAH’74; Jeannie Ryder, LA’74 (yes, the former NU president’s daughter); Margaret Rhodes, LA’71; and Marilyn Miller, MBA’82. The family of Rick Brown, LA’73, was there while Rick stayed home to recover from recent surgery. It rained for only one hour over four 90-degree days, allowing the tenters to stay warm and dry.” Eddie Shore, CJ’73, of Los Angeles, retired from the city’s police department in 1999, after twenty-five years on the force, the last nine in the narcotics division. He’s now a special agent for the California Department of Justice. He’d enjoy hearing from anyone in the class of 1973 at <runshore@aol.com>. Bryan Lampner, PAH’77, reports he and his wife, Judi—who will celebrate their twentieth anniversary this year—continue to live “the good life” in Orange, Connecticut, with their two children. “We like to go to New York City and Newport for fun, we vacation on the Cape every summer, and we enjoy hanging around our backyard,” he writes. “Next stop, college for the kids!” Lampner has been the director of pharmacy at Milford Hospital since 1982. E-mail him at <blampner@optonline.net>. Thomas J. MacElhaney, E’77, of Andover, Massachusetts, is president of National Concrete Tanks, of Concord. He was awarded the 2002 Fuller Award from the American Water Works Association for exceptional service to the water-supply field, superior engineering skills, and outstanding leadership. In 2001, he received the Kenneth O. Hodgson Award from the New England Water Works Association for exemplary service and dedication to the organization. MacElhaney is the past president of the New England Water Works Association, and a member of professional associations in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. He and his wife, Pat, have three children, Tommy, Kim, and Mickey. Randi S. Swartz, LA’78, of Acton, Massachusetts, has left Luxury Golf Homes and Resorts magazine to sell prepress and color separations for Digital Color Technologies, based in Florida. Swartz, who will continue to live in Acton, promises to give fellow NU alums a great deal. Contact her at <randi.swartz@verizon.net>. James Mack, P’79, of Madison, Mississippi, sends greetings to all his classmates: “Have been wondering what you have been doing all these years. Has there been a reunion and my invitation got lost in the mail?” He reports he talked with Fred Figa, P’79, a few months ago—“he’s doing great, practicing as an attorney in New Jersey.” Mack would love to hear from old friends at <james.mack@med.va.gov>. In July, Bernie O’Donnell, LA’79, became the metro editor at the Macon (Georgia) Telegraph. Most recently, O’Donnell had served for three years as the south edition editor at the 80,000-circulation Patriot Ledger, in Quincy, Massachusetts, supervising ten reporters who covered seventeen towns. He has also worked at the Gloucester Daily Times as fishing-industry reporter and city editor, and spent thirteen years at the Cape Cod Times, where he was an assigning editor, managing reporters in four bureaus covering twelve towns. A Boston native, O’Donnell majored in journalism at Northeastern. He and his wife, Cindy, a former reporter, have four children. Peter Skapriwsky, MS’79, of Walworth, New York, reports he, his wife, Shirley, and their three children have been living happily in the Rochester area since 1979. He is the director for biotechnology marketing at Micropump, Inc., a unit of IDEX Corporation based in Vancouver, Washington, which he joined in 2001. Previously, he worked for STS Biopolymers, Inc., and Nalge Nunc International. He’d like to hear from fellow 1979 master of science in health sciences grads at <sskapriw@rochester.rr.com>.