1946

From Rochester, New York, comes a delightful note from Dr. Joe Kepes, Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. While making his normal rounds one fine day, Joe discovered himself in the midst of an all-Dartmouth group, whistled for the cameraman, and thoughtfully sent along the photo which appears in this issue.

Bill Hagelin has become Eastern Area Director, Business Development, for Marshall & Stevens, Inc., the international appraisal firm. His latest report from Open Gate Lane, Southport, Conn., mentions that his son John was talking to Dartmouth from a body cast at the Taft School infirmary. It appears that John said "Dad, okay if I use the motorcycle today?" and ... well, you can guess. Sorry about that fellows; hope you're fully recovered before this publication arrives, John.

We were delighted—but not surprised—to receive the report that Dr. BillSchillhammer has been elected chairman of the Insurance Medical Group of New England. Bill is vice president and medical director of National Life Insurance Company of Vermont; he was previously a staff member at Mary Hitchcock Hospital and taught at Dartmouth Medical School. Bill is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Surgeons, and a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Life Insurance Medicine.

We watched with amazement the results of the winter sports teams. The basketball bunch finished with a fine 8-6 record in the Ivy League, but lost to Columbia before beating the same Lions by 30 points in the finale. The hockey team lost to some of the rinkey-dinks, then beat Cornell in. one of the great games of Hanover history. A little help from all of us. as high school scouts and enrollment workers, and we may get the depth to put it all together more often.

Paul Malinosky has been appointed regional reinsurance director in the reinsurance department at Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He began his career with Connecticut General in 1954 as estate planning specialist in Hartford and joined his present department a year later. A member of Phi Delta Theta, Paul and wife Carol a live with their four children at 51 Fox Chase Lane, West Hartford, right in the heart of insurance country.

Mike Ward reports from Hoopeston, Ill. that after 17 years with FMC he has become one of the three owners of Badger Food Machinery Corp., of Beaver Dam, Wis., a manufacturers' rep. organization with specialized engineering capability serving the food processing industry.

How the years zip by! An item from the New York Times reports that William W. Graulty, Jr., son of our Bill, will be married in June to Miss Mary LeVaun Bell, of Wallingford, Pa. Young Bill is a student at Dartmouth, and a Loomis grad; Pop (need we mention) retired from the position of class secretary for the simpler role of executive v.p. of Connecticut Bank & Trust Company in Hartford.

Bob Beetham has been appointed economist of College Retirement Equities Fund, a non-profit service organization providing retirement and insurance plans for some 300,000 staff members of 2,300 colleges, universities, schools, and related scientific and educational institutions. After graduation from Dartmouth, Bob received his M.A. at Columbia; he joined Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association as a research economist in 1961, and moved to the affiliated CREF as an associate economist in 1967.

Keep those cards 'n' letters rollin' in.

Mary Gene Schoonmaker, wife of Robert'43, had the best of care at a recent sojourn at Rochester General Hospital. HerDartmouth doctors, from left, were medical students John Keppel '69 and PeterElias '69; Joseph Kepes '46 of the medicalschool faculty; and Douglas Bell '63, aresident in surgery.

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