1956

I believe there is nowhere in the world where one is more conscious of the value of each day than in New England. A few weeks ago the sap buckets were on the maples. I left the office for a couple of hours one afternoon to join a '64 for a run on cross-country skis across a ridge of Norwich hills and through a maple grove past a busy sugar house. We later spent a day gathering firewood, then buckets overflowing with sap, pouring them into a vat on a sled drawn by horse along a wooded hillside down to the sugar house. Now the snow has gone, the buckets have disappeared, the Harvard-Dartmouth slalom (Tony Carleton skied well for Dartmouth and '56) has passed, and the spring term in Hanover looks to me like one long Green Key Weekend. Even Brew Blackall decided to call it a season and put up the skis. I passed him on the road heading south from Stowe on the rainy afternoon of April 29.

While social life runs at a record pace and the campus is lively with girls from near and far, I occasionally tell an undergraduate of what spring was like back in our day! This means recalling two amusing Green Key fishing expeditions to the upper Mascoma River and Cummings Pond. I remember particularly Bill Balliette's new yellow convertible stuck in deep mud, then Bill swatting bugs while Dusty Johnstone and Bob Rosebaum landed some of New Hampshire's not-so-huge trout.

Dusty was home in Grafton, Mass., for a few days last month with Signy and their two children before they headed for San Diego for his final months of service in the Navy. I sat next to Johnny Allen's father at an alumni meeting in Hanover the other evening and picked up an enthusiastic report on John and Judy. John has an interesting position with the Navy's nuclear research laboratory in Windsor Locks, Conn.

Phil James, who is with the New England Telephone Company in New Haven, has found a University of Connecticut secretary to be his bride this spring. Cynthia Gedney is from Danielson, Conn. Tom Gidley and Margaret Devoe were married in Providence, R. I., on March 17. Margie graduated from Pembroke, received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, and is a music teacher at Westover School. Tom completed Yale Law School and is an attorney for a Providence law firm. BobKrissel was one of the ushers in Tom's wedding. Jack Nicolette has his master's degree in physiology from the University of Illinois and is currently working on his Ph.D. Meanwhile he has met a bright and attractive girl from Binghamton, N. Y., who graduated from Cortland College of Education, has been teaching at the University of Illinois while completing study for her master's degree in dance. Jack and Geraldine Lewis plan to be married in August. Even before and after the toughest ball games, I can't remember seeing Jack without a smile. I'd like to see him now! George Grant is engaged. His fiancee is Rosalie Carey Owings of Riderwood, Md., a graduate of Sweet Briar College and a graduate student at the University of Maryland. I understand George Yeager has made the big step, and I expect to have more to say about that next issue. The recent arrival of Albert I. Dickerson III brought joy and pride to parents Skip and Mary Jane Dickerson in Chapel Hill, N. C., and to Dean and Mrs. Dickerson here in Norwich.

Tony Coates is living in Sherman, Conn. Mark Mitchell is with an architectural firm in Honolulu. Mark is married and has a son. Dick Scobie is with United Community Services in Boston. Ted Bremble, whose service to Dartmouth I described two months ago, moved from Hanover to Wilmington on May 9 to assume an exciting position there with the DuPont Company. The town will miss Ted and Nancy, who have been very much a part of Hanover and the college for four years. Hanover picked up a '56 (technically Dick is now a '59), DickSanders, who has assumed a position as research assistant in the medical school. Dick and Barbara and their two children came here from Bedford, Mass., where Dick was with Mitre Corporation.

67 '56s AT THE OPERATING TABLE,HOSPITAL, OFFICE, AND BEDSIDE

In the next few months I shall try to say something about many of the doctors, dentists, and psychiatrists in our class. I have started with the best information I have on some not recently mentioned in this column. Stu Warren is a resident in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. JohnnyYassin married a University of Miami girl from Bedford, Mass., in 1960 and completed his internship at the Jersey City Medical Center. He is now an Air Force doctor at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Paul Keith is a Captain in the Army Medical Corps. Paul and Anna were in Columbus, Ohio, where Paul was a resident at Riverside Methodist Hospital before he started his military training at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston. Paul has completed this training and is probably at his new station by now. Stan Weglarz has just completed a tour with the Army Medical Corps and is a resident at the Memorial Medical Center in New York. Bob and Joyce Emde are in Denver, where Bob is a resident at the University Hospital and Joyce is expecting a little Emde. Joe Dunston is a resident at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D. C., and lives on Lincoln Road, N.E. EricJensen is a Navy flight surgeon at the Navy Air Station in Seattle on a three-year tour and looking forward to the World's Fair. He and Roberta are proud parents of four little ones. Bob and Tama and LisaTaub have moved from Los Angeles to Kansas as Bob switched from the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles to the Army Medical Corps at Fort Riley.

Back in the summer of 1959, I stopped in Shelby, Mont., and paid a visit to WaltWilcox, who was then helping out at the Shelby medical center. Walt has now completed his internship at Salt Lake City and taken a position in Saratoga, Calif. MarshallZucker is a doctor and I believe is living with his family in Passaic, N. J. While the med. students had no time for skiing during their many years of schooling, many find their way back to the slopes later. FenRiley used to be a frequent visitor to the mountains his last year at Harvard. I expect marriage to a very fine skier and the move to the University of Oregon hospital in Portland has encouraged Fen to take Anne to the Oregon mountains this past winter. Kev Ryan made the trip from Boston to Hanover at least once this winter. He and Sue have a one-year-old son. Kev is in radiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.

After leaving a Dartmouth gathering in Garden City, N. Y., which included JimFlynn and Red Fitzsimmons, one night recently I boarded the late night bus for White River Junction and found Al Evarts among the few passengers aboard. Al finished Dartmouth in '58 and taught at the Craftsbury School with Bob Browne. He is currently doing graduate work in history at Columbia during the week and has long weekends at home in New Haven with his wife and children.

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