1941

Sometime ago a thoughtful Class Secretary from California forwarded to me a picture of Doctors Bill and Pat Clark attending a movie premiere in San Francisco. At the time I did not realize that this dedicated couple was so prominent in California medical circles. But I was not kept in ignorance very long, being recently enlightened about their accomplishments, which they both share as the result of a unique combination of both the husband and wife being renowned physicians in Northern California. Dr. Bill is a specialist in orthopedics, - a good field these days, particularly with all those superhighways in California. Bill and Pat joined forces in May, 1944, as students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Following graduation they went to San Francisco to begin their internships. While Bill served two years in Iceland in the Army Medical Corps, Pat went into practice in one of the busiest offices in San Francisco, specializing in pediatrics, another very fertile field. In connection with her work on the staff of the contagion unit of the Children's Hospital in San Francisco Pat contributed much to the cure of "little ones" affected with polio.

After Bill finished his military service in 1947, he began his residency training program, after which they both decided to travel while still unburdened by family responsibilities. Their travels took them to Germany where they worked in hospitals for two years, and where they began to raise a family by adopting a three-months-old girl. As good things seem to come in "bunches," John was born just three weeks later. They returned to California in 1952, where Bill went into orthopedic practice in San Rafael and where they built a home in Mill Valley. Dr. Pat now felt that it was about time to go into "retirement" as a housewife, so she curtailed her practice to consultation work one day a week in the Allergy Clinic of Children's Hospital. But that did not last for long, as in 1958 she was lured back into part-time practice as a pediatric allergist, which she expects to expand when all three of their children become of school age. During the past summer Pat found time, believe it or not, to take and pass the examinations required to become a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics. What a woman!

I now have been converted to a firm belief in the veracity of the proverb that "women are the saviours of mankind." Without Pat Clark, this column would have been as barren as the Baker Library reading room on Carnival weekend. It required a lot of scrounging to come up with some bits of chit chat on the male members of the '41 family.

Steve Winship is now in business for himself in his home town of Concord, N.H., as owner and general manager of Stephen W. Winship and Company. Jack Bowe is also currently self-employed, as President of the John D. Bowe Construction Company of Bernardsville, N.J. Rudy Majoros is a New York sales representative for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Concord, N.H., has been a beehive of activity of late. Steve Winship, the "Lord Mayor of Concord," showed the "old pros" how to do it by being elected vice-president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Merrimack County by popular acclaim. In order to be assured of success, Steve innovated a new campaign technique. He prevailed upon "roomie," Bob Rainie, to put the membership in a proper frame of mind by prefacing the balloting with a trombone rendition of "Dartmouth's In Town Again."

Elsewhere in the alumni circuit the usual large number of '41 crs have been active participants in recent functions. Lew Johnstone, Grant Hesser and Sandy Courter talked over old times at the recently inaugurated monthly luncheons of the Dartmouth Club of Cincinnati. Roger and Dodo Haley ate Chinese cooking served by the Tokyo Club. Judge Gus Broberg and Stu Hicks were on hand to hear Orton Hicks, Vice-President of the College, address the membership of the Palm Beach Club. At the annual dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida, Malcolm Scott was elevated from the office of Secretary-Treasurer to the office of Vice-President, with Mrs. Scott being on hand; to see that there were no shenanigans.

The Class of 1941 is greatly indebted to another Scott - Pete Scott, who has agreed to take over as Head Class Agent. The least the rest of us can do by showing our deep appreciation to Pete for voluntarily assuming this monumental task is to give him our wholehearted support as class agents and as prompt and generous donors when the i960 Alumni Fund Campaign opens on April 1.

The deep sympathy of every member of the Class is extended to the wife and daughter of our classmate, Arthur Phillips, who died suddenly on February 1.

Producer Bob Lawrence '41 (center) looks on as the grand prize for the best commercial of 1959, won in world-wide competition, is presented to the director of his company, Robert Lawrence Productions, of New York, by the noted French cinema actress, Lilo.

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