1973
Rise and shine! It’s 2009!
Tom Wolfson made a career with the State Department in the foreign service. Although
now in Washington, D.C., he spent several years in the Caribbean, especially Barbados, as well
as Romania and Germany.
After graduation, Walt Sustek attended dental school and then joined the Air Force. Since
1978 he has practiced dentistry in South Carolina, where he can spend his recreation time
enjoying deep lake cold water fishing.
Dame School in Concord, New Hampshire, is fortunate to have Ed Barnwell as its principal.
Ed made it possible for the Concord School District to be awarded a 21 st Century Community
Learning Center grant for $65,625 for the six month period January through June 2008 and
$131,250 annually for the four fiscal years thereafter. Dame, with 350 students, covers grades
pre-K through second and has a unique hall greeter program that involves adults welcoming
the students each morning and easing the transition from playground to classroom.
The other end of the education spectrum finds James Mazur as a psychology professor at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. Jim’s research interests include animal
learning and behavior, classical and operant conditioning, choice learning and decision-making
and self-control and impulsiveness.
Recently voted the most influential person in Spanish direct and interactive marketing is
none other than Joost Van Nispen. Joost is the founder and president of The Institute of
Direct and Interactive Marketing headquartered in Barcelona. He has resided in Spain for the
last eighteen years and considers Spain his adopted home. His institute is the only training
institute in the Spanish-speaking world that specializes in the disciplines of integrated
marketing communications, direct, database and relationship marketing, e-commerce and ebusiness. Joost loves to teach and hopes to make a small contribution toward creating a more
entrepreneurial culture in Europe. His ability to speak five languages is clearly an asset.
Greg Hahn is a certified professional geologist and a geological engineer with more than
twenty-five years experience in exploration mine development and operation, and with
particular expertise in base and precious metals, ore reserve calculations, slope stability, open
pit mine operations, project evaluations and investment analysis. From 1995 to 2007 he was
president, CEO and director of Constellation Copper Co., where he was instrumental in
bringing the Lisbon Valley copper mine, southeast of Moab, Utah, into production. Greg is now
a principal of Greg Hahn Consulting, a mining and geological consulting firm. He is on the
board of directors for Marathon PGM Corporation and Metalline Mining Company.
For those who have been depressed by financial news over the past several months, recall
for perspective that the first time the market hit 1,000 was in December 1973. It then dropped
to 550 in 1974 and did not reach 1,000 again until 1982.
Lastly, Forbes Traveler recently queried five travel writers about the prettiest towns in the
United States. Three of the five cited two Granite State communities – Portsmouth and
Hanover; of course we all can confirm the choice of the latter.
Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403
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