1959

Relatively speaking, I have an embarrassment of riches this month, for the fates have been kind and have provided quite a wealth of news, and for the first time in quite a while, I had trouble getting this column started because I didn't know where to begin.

Our reunion questionnaire indicated thirteen percent of our class are primarily involved in medicine. It appears that all those years of med school, military service and the trauma of setting up practice are finally over, for many of you medicine men have apparently been able to find the time to drop a line and bring us up-to-date. Dr.Don Abel practices general vascular and thoracic surgery in Northampton. Mass. After med school and residency at Cornell, he served in the Navy in South Vietnam and at the San Diego Naval Hospital, sharpening his skills in heart and kidney transplant techniques. Don, a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, lives in Northampton with his wife Harriet and three sons.

Dr. Tom Magill has a practice in general and vascular surgery in Springfield, Mass., and, like Don, served in the Navy-thirteen months on the "U.S.S. Saratoga" and one year at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. Tom, however, earned his M. D. from Dartmouth and Harvard medical schools, and just to keep within the league, did his further training at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Dermatology is Dr. Bill Gentry's bag, and he was assistant director of medicine and head of the division of dermatology at Denver General Hospital, with additional duties as associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. He and Judy and their three boys moved from Auroro, Colo., to Bloomington, Minn., early this year, however, but my grapevine didn't indicate what prompted the move—maybe a job with the Twins. In any case, Bill has finally "become an 'R. D.' (real doctor)."

Dr. Walt Taylor enjoys the mountains and relaxed outdoor living in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he has set up a general family practice. The U. S. Public Health Service has claimed Bob Bartholomew's talents for the past eight years as an advisor to its communicable disease program in the Pacific Northwest. Bob says that he recently acquired an old wood lathe and finds that "making round things and shavings a most therapeutic activity after days spent writing reports, shuffling paper, and coping with local state and federal bureaucracy." Sounds like a good idea, Bob, if you don't mind cleaning up the shavings. He also adds that he is in favor of minis.

Bob Carter is manager of community and public relations with Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc. and has many related civic responsibilities. He was appointed director of a Chicago Task Force on Youth Motivation, a program involving business and industry with the inner-city schools, and also trains disadvantaged workers for better jobs. Bob and Tessa live in Park Forest, Ill., with their two children, Robert and Jacqueline.

Ford Motor Co. has appointed Al Hurlbut financial analysis manager of the company's overseas tractor operations, which division serves tractor and equipment markets in the Far East, Latin America, and South Africa. Since 1954, held financial analysis positions in Copenhagen and most recently was supervisor of the marketing financial analysis section of Ford's industrial equipment operations. Al lives in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Howie Geiger is a security analyst for Dean Witter & Co., N. Y., busily furnishing hot tips in the data processing industry. moved across the street from Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. last April where he spent three years after obtaining his master's at Columbia Business School Howie and his wife and three other couples are running Lake George Camp for Girls, an eight-week summer camp which he says is an interesting sideline (How old are the girls, Howie?) One of his major management contributions is washing dishes on weekends.

This year's Alumni Fund Drive has now reached the halfway mark. Dartmouth, while not experiencing the same degree of financial pains as many of its sister colleges, nevertheless is faced with rising costs and has set the 1971 goal at two and a half million dollars, a twenty-five percent increase. Please give this year's fund drive careful consideration and give as generously as you can.

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