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                                                            UNITED STATES                                   --------------------------
                                                 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION                                OMB APPROVAL
                                                       Washington, D.C. 20549                               --------------------------
                                                                                                            OMB Number: 3235-0101
                                                               FORM 144                                     Expires: May 31, 2000
                                                                                                            Estimated average burden
                                                NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES                       hours per response ...2.0
                                         PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933              --------------------------
                                                                                                                   SEC USE ONLY
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                                                                                                              DOCUMENT SEQUENCE NO.
  
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                                                                                                              CUSIP NUMBER
  ATTENTION:    Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a
                broker to execute sale or executing a sale directly with a market marker.
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  1 (a) NAME OF ISSUER (Please type or print)                        (b) IRS IDENT. NO.    (c) SEC FILE NO.    WORK LOCATION
  
        DIANON Systems, Inc.                                             06-1128081            000-19392
  
  
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  1 (d) ADDRESS OF ISSUER          STREET                 CITY              STATE           ZIP CODE         (e) TELEPHONE NO.
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                                   200 Watson Boulevard   Stratford         Connecticut     06497           AREA       NUMBER
                                                                                                            CODE
                                                                                                            (203)      381-4000
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  2 (a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT       (b) IRS IDENT. NO.     (c) RELATIONSHIP     (d) ADDRESS STREET   CITY   STATE    ZIP
        THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD                                     TO ISSUER                                             CODE
  
        G.S. Beckwith Gilbert                                             Director             47 Arch Street, Greenwich, CT    06830
  
  
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             INSTRUCTION The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number
                                                       and the S.E.C. File Number.
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  <S>           <C>                         <C>                <C>             <C>          <C>            <C>             <C>
  
  3 (a)         (b)                          SEC USE ONLY      (c)             (d)          (e)             (f)             (g)
                                            --------------     NUMBER OF       AGGREGATE     NUMBER OF      APPROXIMATE       NAME OF
   TITLE OF                                                    SHARES OR        MARKET       SHARES OR        DATE OF           EACH
      THE       NAME AND ADDRESS OF EACH     BROKER-DEALER      OTHER           VALUE         OTHER           SALE          SECURITIES
   CLASS OF     BROKER THROUGH WHOM THE      FILE NUMBER       UNITS TO                        UNITS                          EXCHANGE
  SECURITIES      SECURITIES ARE TO BE                          BE SOLD                      OUTSTANDING
  TO BE SOLD    OFFERED OR EACH MARKET
                MAKER WHO IS ACQUIRING
                    THE SECURITIES                              (See Inst.      (See Inst.    (See Inst.     (MO. DAY YR.)  (See Inst.
                                                                 3(c))          3(d))         3(e))                          3(g))
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  Common        Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.                        300,000          $19,257,000   12,049,942     5/9/02          NASDAQ
  Stock         383 Madison Avenue
                New York, NY  10179
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  INSTRUCTIONS:
  
  1. (a)  Name of Issuer                                      3. (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
  
     (b)  Issuer's IRS Identification Number                     (b) Name and address of each broker through whom the
                                                                     securities are intended to be sold
  
     (c)  Issuer's SEC file number, if any                       (c) Number of shares or other  units to be sold (if debt
                                                                     securities, give the aggregate face amount)
  
     (d)  Issuer's address, including zip code                   (d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold
                                                                     as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the
                                                                     filing of this notice
  
     (e)  Issuer's telephone number, including area code         (e) Number of shares or other units of the class
                                                                     outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount
                                                                     thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent
                                                                     report or statement published by the issuer
  
  2. (a)  Name of person for whose account the securities        (f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be
          are to be sold                                             sold
  
     (b)  Such person's IRS identification number, if such       (g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which
          person is an entity                                        the securities are intended to be sold
  
     (c)  Such person's relationship to the issuer (e.g.,
          officer, director, 10% stockholder, or member of
          immediate family of any of the foregoing)
  
     (d)  Such person's address, including zip code
  
  
  
  
                      Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form
                      are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB control number.       SEC 1147 (7-97)
  
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                                              TABLE I -- SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
  
               Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of the securities to be sold
         and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:
  <S>           <C>            <C>                        <C>                                   <C>            <C>        <C>
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                   Date                                   Name of Person from Whom Acquired     Amount of
   Title of        you          Nature of Acquisition           (If gift, also give date        Securities     Date of       Nature
   the Class     Acquired           Transaction                      donor acquired)             Acquired      Payment     of Payment
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  Common         10/12/95     Seller acquired 756,098                    Issuer                   756,098      10/12/95       Cash
                              shares in exchange for a                                                                    (See Note 1)
                              purchase price of
                              $4,612,000. (See Note 1)
  
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  Common         10/29/96     Seller acquired 800,000                    Issuer                   800,000      10/29/96       Cash
                              shares in exchange for a
                              purchase price of
                              $4,000,000 pursuant to a
                              warrant.
  
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  1. The purchase price for the shares consisted of $4,316,000 in cash and
  $296,000 in the form of a note. The note was established as consideration for
  the second year of a warrant to purchase additional shares. The note was
  extinguished when the warrant was exercised in the first year.
  
  
  INSTRUCTIONS:    1. If the  securities  were  purchased  and  full     2. If within two years  after the  acquisition
                      payment  therefor  was not made in cash at the        of the  securities  the  person  for  whose
                      time of  purchase,  explain in the table or in        account  they are to be sold had any  short
                      a   note    thereto    the   nature   of   the        positions,  put or other  option to dispose
                      consideration   given.  If  the  consideration        of  securities  referred  to  in  paragraph
                      consisted of any note or other obligation,  or        (d)(3)   of   Rule   144,    furnish   full
                      if payment was made in  installments  describe        information with respect thereto.
                      the  arrangement  and  state  when the note or
                      other  obligation  was  discharged  in full or
                      the last installment paid.
  
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                                     TABLE II -- SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS
  
          Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for
                                              whose account the securities are to be sold:
  <S>        <C>                                   <C>                         <C>               <C>                <C>
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                                                                                                   Amount of
             Name and Address of Seller             Title of Securities Sold    Date of Sale     Securities Sold    Gross Proceeds
  
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/25/02              4,000           $265,580
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/26/02             42,400         $2,663,776
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/27/02            150,000         $9,333,405
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/28/02            120,000         $7,457,676
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/4/02              47,700         $2,964,598
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/5/02              10,600          $657,500
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/7/02              12,700          $787,400
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/8/02               1,500           $93,000
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/11/02             30,000         $1,864,224
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/18/02             30,000         $1,833,249
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/19/02             40,000         $2,399,668
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/24/02              2,100           $139,965
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/25/02             19,000         $1,246,677
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/26/02             52,300         $3,359,051
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  5/2/02              37,700         $2,519,996
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  REMARKS:
  
  
  
  
  INSTRUCTIONS:                                                     ATTENTION:
  
  See the definition of "person" in paragraph (a) of Rule           The person for whose account the securities to which this
  144. Information is to be given not only as to the person         notice relates are to be sold hereby represents by signing
  for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as       this notice that he does not know any material adverse
  to all other persons included in that definition. In              information in regard to the current and prospective
  addition, information shall be given as to sales by all           operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which
  persons whose sales are required by paragraph (c) of Rule         has not been publicly disclosed.
  144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the
  person filing this notice.
  
  
                             5/9/02                                             /s/ G.S. Beckwith Gilbert
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                         DATE OF NOTICE                                                 (SIGNATURE)
  
           The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold. At least one copy of the
                                                    notice shall be manually signed.
  
                            Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.
  
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    ATTENTION: INTENTIONAL MISSTATEMENTS OR OMISSION OF FACTS CONSTITUTE FEDERAL CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS (SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001)
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                                                                                                                       SEC 1147 (7-97)
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text: UNITED STATES                                   --------------------------
                                                 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION                                OMB APPROVAL
                                                       Washington, D.C. 20549                               --------------------------
                                                                                                            OMB Number: 3235-0101
                                                               FORM 144                                     Expires: May 31, 2000
                                                                                                            Estimated average burden
                                                NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES                       hours per response ...2.0
                                         PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933              --------------------------
                                                                                                                   SEC USE ONLY
                                                                                                            --------------------------
                                                                                                              DOCUMENT SEQUENCE NO.
  
                                                                                                            --------------------------
                                                                                                              CUSIP NUMBER
  ATTENTION:    Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a
                broker to execute sale or executing a sale directly with a market marker.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  1 (a) NAME OF ISSUER (Please type or print)                        (b) IRS IDENT. NO.    (c) SEC FILE NO.    WORK LOCATION
  
        DIANON Systems, Inc.                                             06-1128081            000-19392
  
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  1 (d) ADDRESS OF ISSUER          STREET                 CITY              STATE           ZIP CODE         (e) TELEPHONE NO.
                                                                                                            --------------------------
                                   200 Watson Boulevard   Stratford         Connecticut     06497           AREA       NUMBER
                                                                                                            CODE
                                                                                                            (203)      381-4000
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  2 (a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT       (b) IRS IDENT. NO.     (c) RELATIONSHIP     (d) ADDRESS STREET   CITY   STATE    ZIP
        THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD                                     TO ISSUER                                             CODE
  
        G.S. Beckwith Gilbert                                             Director             47 Arch Street, Greenwich, CT    06830
  
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             INSTRUCTION The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number
                                                       and the S.E.C. File Number.
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  3 (a)         (b)                          SEC USE ONLY      (c)             (d)          (e)             (f)             (g)
                                            --------------     NUMBER OF       AGGREGATE     NUMBER OF      APPROXIMATE       NAME OF
   TITLE OF                                                    SHARES OR        MARKET       SHARES OR        DATE OF           EACH
      THE       NAME AND ADDRESS OF EACH     BROKER-DEALER      OTHER           VALUE         OTHER           SALE          SECURITIES
   CLASS OF     BROKER THROUGH WHOM THE      FILE NUMBER       UNITS TO                        UNITS                          EXCHANGE
  SECURITIES      SECURITIES ARE TO BE                          BE SOLD                      OUTSTANDING
  TO BE SOLD    OFFERED OR EACH MARKET
                MAKER WHO IS ACQUIRING
                    THE SECURITIES                              (See Inst.      (See Inst.    (See Inst.     (MO. DAY YR.)  (See Inst.
                                                                 3(c))          3(d))         3(e))                          3(g))
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  Common        Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.                        300,000          $19,257,000   12,049,942     5/9/02          NASDAQ
  Stock         383 Madison Avenue
                New York, NY  10179
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  INSTRUCTIONS:
  
  1. (a)  Name of Issuer                                      3. (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
  
     (b)  Issuer's IRS Identification Number                     (b) Name and address of each broker through whom the
                                                                     securities are intended to be sold
  
     (c)  Issuer's SEC file number, if any                       (c) Number of shares or other  units to be sold (if debt
                                                                     securities, give the aggregate face amount)
  
     (d)  Issuer's address, including zip code                   (d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold
                                                                     as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the
                                                                     filing of this notice
  
     (e)  Issuer's telephone number, including area code         (e) Number of shares or other units of the class
                                                                     outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount
                                                                     thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent
                                                                     report or statement published by the issuer
  
  2. (a)  Name of person for whose account the securities        (f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be
          are to be sold                                             sold
  
     (b)  Such person's IRS identification number, if such       (g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which
          person is an entity                                        the securities are intended to be sold
  
     (c)  Such person's relationship to the issuer (e.g.,
          officer, director, 10% stockholder, or member of
          immediate family of any of the foregoing)
  
     (d)  Such person's address, including zip code
  
                      Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form
                      are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB control number.       SEC 1147 (7-97)
  TABLE I -- SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
  
               Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of the securities to be sold
         and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:
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                   Date                                   Name of Person from Whom Acquired     Amount of
   Title of        you          Nature of Acquisition           (If gift, also give date        Securities     Date of       Nature
   the Class     Acquired           Transaction                      donor acquired)             Acquired      Payment     of Payment
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  Common         10/12/95     Seller acquired 756,098                    Issuer                   756,098      10/12/95       Cash
                              shares in exchange for a                                                                    (See Note 1)
                              purchase price of
                              $4,612,000. (See Note 1)
  
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  Common         10/29/96     Seller acquired 800,000                    Issuer                   800,000      10/29/96       Cash
                              shares in exchange for a
                              purchase price of
                              $4,000,000 pursuant to a
                              warrant.
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  1. The purchase price for the shares consisted of $4,316,000 in cash and
  $296,000 in the form of a note. The note was established as consideration for
  the second year of a warrant to purchase additional shares. The note was
  extinguished when the warrant was exercised in the first year.
  
  INSTRUCTIONS:    1. If the  securities  were  purchased  and  full     2. If within two years  after the  acquisition
                      payment  therefor  was not made in cash at the        of the  securities  the  person  for  whose
                      time of  purchase,  explain in the table or in        account  they are to be sold had any  short
                      a   note    thereto    the   nature   of   the        positions,  put or other  option to dispose
                      consideration   given.  If  the  consideration        of  securities  referred  to  in  paragraph
                      consisted of any note or other obligation,  or        (d)(3)   of   Rule   144,    furnish   full
                      if payment was made in  installments  describe        information with respect thereto.
                      the  arrangement  and  state  when the note or
                      other  obligation  was  discharged  in full or
                      the last installment paid.
  
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  TABLE II -- SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS
  
          Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for
                                              whose account the securities are to be sold:
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                                                                                                   Amount of
             Name and Address of Seller             Title of Securities Sold    Date of Sale     Securities Sold    Gross Proceeds
  
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/25/02              4,000           $265,580
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/26/02             42,400         $2,663,776
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/27/02            150,000         $9,333,405
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  2/28/02            120,000         $7,457,676
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/4/02              47,700         $2,964,598
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/5/02              10,600          $657,500
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/7/02              12,700          $787,400
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/8/02               1,500           $93,000
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/11/02             30,000         $1,864,224
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/18/02             30,000         $1,833,249
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  3/19/02             40,000         $2,399,668
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/24/02              2,100           $139,965
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/25/02             19,000         $1,246,677
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  4/26/02             52,300         $3,359,051
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  G.S. Beckwith  Gilbert,  47 Arch Street,         Common Stock                  5/2/02              37,700         $2,519,996
  Greenwich CT  06830
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  REMARKS:
  
  INSTRUCTIONS:                                                     ATTENTION:
  
  See the definition of "person" in paragraph (a) of Rule           The person for whose account the securities to which this
  144. Information is to be given not only as to the person         notice relates are to be sold hereby represents by signing
  for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as       this notice that he does not know any material adverse
  to all other persons included in that definition. In              information in regard to the current and prospective
  addition, information shall be given as to sales by all           operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which
  persons whose sales are required by paragraph (c) of Rule         has not been publicly disclosed.
  144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the
  person filing this notice.
  
                             5/9/02                                             /s/ G.S. Beckwith Gilbert
             --------------------------------------                ---------------------------------------------------------
                         DATE OF NOTICE                                                 (SIGNATURE)
  
           The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold. At least one copy of the
                                                    notice shall be manually signed.
  
                            Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ATTENTION: INTENTIONAL MISSTATEMENTS OR OMISSION OF FACTS CONSTITUTE FEDERAL CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS (SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001)
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                                                                                                                       SEC 1147 (7-97)