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KEVIN G. CONWAY, a member of the Connecticut Valley Chapter, has been named Senior Vice President, Tax, for The Seagram Company Ltd. Mr. Conway will assume responsibility for the company's global tax strategy and compliance activities. Mr. Conway joins The Seagram Company Ltd. from United Technologies Corporation (UTC), where he served as Vice President, Taxes and Chief Tax Officer since October 1995. Prior to joining UTC in 1989, Mr. Conway held senior executive level tax, legal, and management positions in the pharmaceutical industry with Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., Squibb Corporation, and Zenith Laboratories, Inc. He began his professional career as a trial lawyer. Mr. Conway is a magna cum laude graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. He earned a J.D. degree from Rutgers University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He also earned a LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University School of Law. Mr. Conway was recently elected to the Board of Directors of The Tax Council.

DOUGLAS A. EYRE, a member of the Salt Lake City Chapter, has been appointed Director of Tax Compliance and Tax Accounting for Cordant Technologies Inc., where he will be responsible for all compliance activities at Cordant, including all Thiokol, Huck, and Howmet legal entities in the United States. Prior to joining Cordant, Mr. Eyre was with Coopers & Lybrand. He received his B.A. degree and master's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and is a certified public accountant. Mr. Eyre joined TEI in 1990 as a charter member of the Salt Lake City Chapter, and is currently vice president of the chapter.

STUART D. GOLDSTEIN, a member of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter and TEI's Vice President-Region VII, has been appointed Vice President of Taxes for Lockheed Martin Corporation. He served as Director of Tax Planning since 1986, and has been with the company since 1972. Previously, he held tax positions with Allied Signal and Melville Shoe Company. Mr. Goldstein earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the City College of New York and a Master's degree in taxation from Southeastern University. He is chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association Tax Committee and is a member of the MAPI Tax Council II. Mr. Goldstein succeeds ARNOLD CHIET, Vice President and General Tax Counsel, who retired after a career spanning almost 35 years at Lockheed Martin. Mr. Chiet is a former president of the chapter and also served as an Institute regional vice president.

DANIEL L. KUIPERS, a member of the Chicago Chapter, has been promoted to Senior Manager of Taxes at AMSTED Industries. In his new position, Mr. Kuipers will be responsible for supervising state and federal tax compliance and audits. Mr. Kuipers earned a B.S. degree in accounting from Purdue University-Calumet, and M.S.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Indiana University--Northwest. He has been with AMSTED since 1980, and joined the Institute in 1996.

LORI A. SIEPELMEYER, current president of the Portland Chapter, has accepted a position as Corporate Tax Analyst with The Regence Group in Portland, Oregon. The Regence Group, parent of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon and related companies, is the largest regional provider of medical insurance in the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Siepelmeyer has an undergraduate degree from Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, and holds a master's of taxation degree from Portland State University. She was previously employed by PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest; Tektronix, Inc.; and Evans Products Company.