Medical School

We want to take this opportunity to thank the many alumni who made our holiday season brighter by their greetings. Since it is impossible to write you all personally, we will tell you this way that all of us at the School are deeply appreciative.

The first term finished with the annual Christmas Egg Nog Party before the students left. Now they are putting in extra hours so they can take time off on January 16 to participate in the big Student vs. Faculty Ski Weekend.

Incidental Intelligence - Jack Smith M' 27, Chief of the EENT Service at the Naval Academy, now holds the honor of being the senior active duty captain in the Naval Medical Corps. . . . My old associate, BernieCunningham M'34, still contacts us from the California sunshine around Del Mar instead of coming East to enjoy the snow. . . . Bill Clough M'35 chairs the N. H. State Trauma Committee and probably finds plenty of opportunity to practice that specialty among the Colby Junior ski misses at New London at this time of year.

Ted Bartelmez M'42 directs the medical education program at Children's Hospital in San Francisco. . . . Hope to run into Mel Johnson M'45 this next week in Louisiana where he functions as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Post Graduate Division of L.S.U. . . . Jerry Block M'52, Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at N.Y.U., who claims the honor of last-man-in-my-class to be married, finally sur- rendered to the charms of Tazuko Nagasue. . . . Tom Huffman M'52 can be found at the Heart Station at Ohio State where he functions as an Instructor in Medicine and PostDoctoral Fellow in Cardiology. . . . DickSchneider M'52 spends half his time teaching Orthopedics at the University of California in San Francisco. . . . Peter BonderoS'54M does his pediatrics in the Centerville Clinic at Fredericktown, Pa. . . . Among the pseudo-Californians who miss New England snow are the Chuck Tanenbaums M'55. . . . Another M'55 family, the Bruce Pattees, are safely located in practice in Colorado Springs.

Bill DeCesare M'56 expects to take time off from his duties as Instructor in Hematology at Georgetown to return for his re- union in June. . . . Ziggy Suritis M"57, now in plastic surgery at Syracuse, will utilize those plastic talents in the Air Force come next July. . . . Bob Freeh M'58 still spends his time before the X-ray view boxes at the Boston Children's Hospital. . . . Jim Tankersley M'58 plans to complete his chief pediatric residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, in June and move to the San Francisco area. He tells us that EricJensen M'58 keeps him supplied with moose meat and venison. . . . After another year in ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Tom Aabergs M'59 will leave for two years in the USPHS.

The Bob Kellers M'61 seem to be happy in New London but "miss the Hanover plain." .. . Dave Heisterkamp M'62, who soon leaves Minneapolis for three years in anesthesiology at Pennsylvania, reports that: Len Skerker M'62 is planning to stay in Chicago in radiology; that Al Larimer M'62 hopes for a flight surgeon's billet in the Navy; and that the Jim Hughes M'63 have a new son. . . . Speaking of new sons, the Pat Dowlings M'63 announce the arrival of John MacBride Dowling. . . . George Olsen M'64 visited and brought with him a nice-looking girl, Debby Morgan, who he alleges has agreed to put up with him matrimonially!