1958

Unfortunately I cannot report to you this month about our first annual '57, '58, '59 Ski Weekend. A monsoon followed by a quick freeze forced postponement at the last minute. We are hoping to run it the first weekend in March. Response to our mailing was fair considering the late arrival of the mailing. Next year we plan on getting our information out earlier.

New England hospitals are receiving the services of two '58 doctors, Bryant Barnard and Peter Upton. Dr. Bryant Barnard was appointed in July to the staff of the Beverly, Mass., Hospital. Bryant received his medical education at Cornell. His surgical training was at New York Hospital and at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, specializing in urology. His appointment at Beverly is as an attending physician on the Urology, Adult and Pediatric Surgical Services. Living in Beverly with wife, Doris and two children ages 3 and 1, he also manages to keep up an active interest in hunting, fishing, and ornithology.

Dr. Peter Upton has joined the staff of the Rutland, Vt., Hospital. Pete, whose specialty is neurosurgery, is the third generation in his family to practice medicine in Vermont. He graduated from the University of Vermont Medical School, completing a four year residency in neurosurgery after spending one year in Denver as an intern.

A father-son medical team has been formed in Ossining, N. Y.; by Dr. Ken Kapian. Ken and his father are specialists in internal medicine and cardiology. Ken did his medical training at NYU School of Medicine. He was a resident and intern at NYU Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital. He was a fellow in cardiology at NYU's New York City Medical Center. His wife Naomi is also a doctor, the two having met while both were students at medical school. Naomi was assistant professor of pathology at the University of West Virginia School of Medicine and in addition to raising their four children, ranging in age from 6 to less than a year, she is also associate pathologist at the Community Hospital in Peeks-kill, N. Y.

Banker Don McCree, a vice president in the national division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, has been named to head the bank's western region. He will administer the corporate and correspondent bank business in the states west of the Rockies including Alaska and Hawaii. Joining the bank in 1960, he became a vice president in 1967. A suburban commuter, he and Patsy raise their three children at 57 Overlook Drive, chappaqua, N. Y.

The Board of Directors of the Northern rust Company in Chicago has announced we promotion of John Blunt to the position of vice president in the Family Business Interests Division of the Trust Department. John has been with the bank since 1960 before which he was associated with the Continental Can Company in Chicago. He and his wife, Susan have four children.

January 10 marked the end of bachelorhood of John Edwards. John was married on that date to the former Lotte Rex Witmer of Newport, R. I. John is associate producer of the C.B.S. television series, "Search for Tomorrow." Lotte served until last summer as director of the Creative Dance Center in New London, Conn., where she was a choreographer and teacher of modern dance.

A November release from the College Office of Information Services is worth quoting here: "A black Dartmouth College alumnus and a product of Washington, D. C., Robert G. McGuire III, has returned to the campus here as coordinator of the college's first interdepartmental Black Studies Program to help make the curriculum meet relevant social and individual needs in this new field of scholarship.

"The program, which involves core courses, seminars and field trips in a wide range of subjects relating to the life and history of blacks in the United States, was introduced this fall and is open to all Dartmouth upperclassmen, black and white.

"A teacher by commitment, Mr. McGuire accepted appointment as administrator of the Black Studies Program at Dartmouth because he felt it was important that colleges like Dartmouth commit themselves to black studies."

It is obvious that much thought has gone into the preparation of the program at Dartmouth as opposed to those at other schools which have been severely questioned and criticized. Five new courses are being introduced: "The Black Experience in Theater and Film," "Urban Economics," a course probing the problems and challenges of the core city; two history courses, "Black America and The South in American History." Mickey is also giving a sociology seminar "exploring racism and the implications that such problems have for the structure and development of society." The courses will be supplemented with visits from leaders in various black communities, work experiences in ghettoes, and the possibility of sending 10 students to study at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leona, West Africa for a term.

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