Medical School

This month we have lively correspondence from Jack Mantos M'68, now a resident in San Francisco, who with the aid of NIH funds plans to spend two years at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda. Here's his letter in part:

"The West is beautiful and enriching, but I miss the golden leaves and rustic flavor of the East. I'll return some day to New England to settle, if the deities permit.

"Ham Lokey M'68 just returned from a well-deserved honeymoon in Hawaii and is currently finishing up his second year of residency in Denver. The Army is his next hitch. He remains as enthusiastic and congenial as ever.

"Tim Dalton M'68 now lives in Beverley Hills and is doing a plastic surgery residency at UCLA. As far as I know, he's not yet made it to the altar. Pat DietzM'68 has, though. He lives with his wife here in San Francisco and is just about wrapping up his second year of surgical residency.

"Gretchen and Tom Clark M'68 have adopted a beautiful flaxen-haired baby and are, I believe, making their way back to Hanover. I must say I envy them for that.

"Rod Prior M'68 got hitched and has finished a medical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Next year he begins programming computers at NIH.

"Well, that's about all I know. Everybody's doing fine by me. I hope all goes well back there in the Granite of New Hampshire."

According to a recent issue of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,. David M. Levis M'59, a Beverley Hills pediatrician, has married the former Sheila Yaker, a USC graduate who teaches in Pacific Palisades.

Dean Chapman has received a letter from Bob Naylor M'69 and it follows in part:

"Greetings from southern California (possibly my last).

"After graduating from Harvard Medical School last June, I came out west to find the weather not as perfect as advertised but not quite as cold as Hanover winters. However, I've enjoyed my internship year as much as such an experience can be enjoyed.

"And now on to my other activities: The Air Force is claiming my services for the next three years, and I'm off to Texas again (San Antonio) for a three-month tour before going to my first permanent station: Thailand. This virtually guarantees that I will be able to go to Europe after my one year in Thailand.

"I hope that everything is going well at the Medical School. My fondest memories of my medical education will always be my years in Hanover., As you can tell from my comments above, California is not exactly my idea of Nirvana. I believe that New England will eventually be my residence. Admittedly, Thailand is not exactly on the way there!"

Eugene Collins M'70 has received his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine and is entering the practice of medicine as a rotating intern at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn.

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