1963

Ed Smith just checked in for the first time in 13 years. In that time he has managed somehow to keep his hair and his sanity, he says, while adding to his environment a wife (described as a "retired do-gooder social worker") and a sevenyear-old daughter.

All's well with Ed, yet... "There is in reality a dearth of patients presently darkening my consulting room threshold (in Santa Maria, Calif.) So I have at last achieved the dubious honor of being an underemployed West Coast neurosurgeon who has more books on his shelf than patients in his ledger. But being in solo practice for 10 these two months (13 years out of the Big D and only now earning my own way), things aren't too bad. With the enviable tenacity of one of my pet turtles, forever marching into a blind corner, I shall continue in Santa Maria, knowing that soon God will love me just as He loves drunks and little kids."

Ed postscripts that the Alumni Fund will have to depend this year on Medi-Cal increasing its rate.

Ed also promises to write again in 13 years.

Pete Slavin, still free-lancing from Arlington, Va., and Washington, is a somewhat more fre- quent correspondent. He passes along the following about Denny Emerson:

"We used to kid Denny for seeming to prefer horses to women. Well, Denny has had the last laugh: He may be riding in the Olympics this summer.

"In 1974, Denny was part of a four-man U. S. equestrian team which went to England and defeated representatives from nine countries to capture the world championship for the first time. The world competition is second only to the Olympics in importance to equestrians. Riding his 10-year-old thoroughbred against 54 of the world's top riders - in the first international competition for both - Denny finished 14th in the individual rankings.

"Denny reportedly got some royal attention during the championships. A friend asked Britain's Princess Anne who the fellow was on the thoroughbred. 'Oh, he's the attractive American from the Blue Hills of Vermont,' she replied, 'married to a girl with black hair.'

"When not selling real estate or teaching riding at his farm in Strafford, in Vermont's 'Blue Hills,' Denny is training his veteran thoroughbred and a younger horse, in hope of winning one of the four places on the .U. S. Olympic team astride them. He's had a big indoor riding arena put up on his farm in order to teach year round.

"To make the Olympic team, he will have to survive screening trials this spring and than a month's training and trials in South Hamilton, Mass.

"Oh, yes, about that last laugh. If you've met May, the 'girl with the black hair,' you know Denny got quite a woman, too."

Bill Subin has entered private law practice for himself in Linwood, N. J., following several years as an assistant U. S. attorney in Washington, and police advisor and assistant county prosecutor in New Jersey.

Geoff Murphy of Charlotte, N.C., represented the College as an academic delegate at the inauguration of the president of Barber-Scotia College in Concord, N.C.

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