1969

The class executive committee met in Reed Hall prior to the Cornell game. Bob Houser supplied the refreshments, Bill Donovan presided over the meeting, and Tupper Kinder poured a mean Bloody Mary. Bill brought his wife Mary; Tupper, his wife Elin. Tupper and Bill work in the same Manchester, N.H., law firm (Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green). Boband Nancy Sturges were there. Bob is with the Attorney General of New Jersey. Jeff Kelley attended. Of course, he did not have far to go. Jeff, as previously reported, is raising bucks for the Med School. Al Fraker, Larry Gillis, Nick Perencevich, and Mr. Alumni Fund, Tom Parks, also participated. Tom reported on our less than overwhelming generosity last year, then he outlined a plan to get us back on track. Part of the problem is that half of the Class has never given a cent to the Alumni Fund. How about a dollar or two this year, fellas? It shouldn't hurt even the most destitute among us.

Tony Donigan got an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford in '72. He is presently working in Palo Alto for Hydrocomp, an environmental engineering consulting firm. Tony married Nancy McCullough of Clawsori, Mich., in August of '74.

Finally, Jim Coplan (aka "Goatman") writes this newsworthy epistle:

"To briefly fill you in on what's been happening the past six years (Six years! Incredible.) Spent four of those six rooming and going to Med School with John Person, at N.Y. Medical College. Graduated 6/73 with my M.D., and spent the next two years in a pediatric residency program at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Then enlisted (yup, enlisted) in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service; am in a branch known as National Health Service Corps. Quite a mouthful, but basically a branch of PHS designed to send physicians into medically deficient civilian areas, keep them there on official duty for two years, with the hope that the assignees will ultimately elect to remain there as civilian physicians once their two-year tour of duty is over. Most sites are in economically depressed and/or geographically isolated locations: Appalachia, rural South, etc. It's a good program. Good for me, because it gives me a chance to practice medicine on a one-to-one community oriented level. Very different from working in the emergency room of a city hospital, where you see a particular patient once, and may never see him or her again. Good for the community because it gives them a doctor, at least for two years, and potentially for life. It's good for my head to see how much I can do on my own. At this moment (October 29, 1975), am about to leave for assignment to a community in upstate New York, in the general area of Rochester/Buffalo. Anyone interested in stopping by is welcome to do so; my final address there can be had by contacting my parents ... (at 47 Speen St., Natick, Mass.).

"Got married 2½ years ago, to a lovely girl, whose presence in my life has contributed to my happiness and inner sense of well-being. Her name is Judy. She was, of all things, a blind date. Sometimes you can never tell how things are going to work out, eh? She's a physical therapist, and formerly a resident of Manchester, N.H. We are blessed with the most beautiful daughter in the world (given the rating by unbiased judges. Honest!) Her name is Rebecca Joy, and she was born 2/14/75. Nothing in my pediatric training prepared me for the experience of having one of my own; its really a completely new world for me.

"Those are the big external milestones, in a few words. I've basically gotten my stuff together ... The Goatman is not dead, but the beard and horns (thank God) are gone."

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