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Trying to get news by phoning all of you out there is certainly not the easiest way. First of all. despite the fact that you all claim that you are not doing anything interesting, none of you ever seems to be home. Even getting your phone numbers can be quite a problem. Some of you have unlisted numbers and others have never been heard of by the phone company. Sometimes even possession of a correct name and address fails to ensure that the operator will come up with the right listing. For example, tried reaching Bob Bull in Montreal. There are only four Bob Bull's in town but with an address and a middle initial I didn't expect to have any problems. After a three minute conversation, the Bob Bull I was talking to asked me once again who I was and then announced he wasn't the right Bob Bull. The second time around the operator disavowed knowledge of any Robert H. Bull at the address I had supplied. Help!
I had better luck trying to reach the vice president of the Dartmouth Club serving 30 towns in the Boston area, Steve Leary. The club is a pretty active one, providing information about Dartmouth to local high school students and helping to conduct the alumni interviews which Steve has found to be rather interesting. When not working for Dartmouth, Steve is on the road as an electrical manufacturer's representative, selling electrical products - wire, switches, fittings, etc. to wholesale distributors in central and western Mass. It's a competitive field and it's something of a challenge to convince the prospective buyer that you have the best product at the best price. The rest of Steve's time is spent with his two sons Andrew (now 4½ years old) and Peter (2), and wife Murnie. And, oh yes, there are those lacrosse games a couple of nights a week in the spring with the Commonwealth Lacrosse Team which plays local freshman and j.v. teams in the Boston Area. Lax fans should give Steve a ring for further info.
Dr. Bob Moss and wife Reena are living in Tarrytown, N.Y. After graduating from Tufts Med., Bob began his internship at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and then stayed on for his year as a resident. This year Bob has been serving as a hematology fellow and will be doing research in hematological diseases next year. Reena continues her career as a physical therapist on a part-time basis. Belated congratulations are due to Bob and Reena, who have a 14-month-old daughter, liana.
Jack Rice and wife Deborah, who were married in October, have moved to New Haven, Conn., where Jack has a two-year appointment as a Gibbs Instructor at Yale. The instructorship is designed to give Ph.D.s in the sciences a chance to do further research in their field as well as some teaching experience. Jack, who received his doctorate in geology at school in Seattle, will be doing continued work on the phase equilibria of crystalline rocks while at Yale. He and Deborah will be back out west this summer for fieldwork in the Northern Cascades.
Paul and Nancy LeMarbre will also be heading west this summer. Paul will be finishing his first year residency at Mary Hitchcock where he did his internship and will be off to the University of Minnesota for a second year as a resident in internal medicine. Nancy has also been spending much of her time at Mary Hitchcock working as a nurse in the intensive care unit. Paul reports that son Matthew, 1½ years old, has been "enrolled" at Dartmouth. According to Paul if one lets the powers that be in Hanover know that one has a recently arrived offspring who might someday wish to go to Dartmouth, the child will have some sort of room preference if indeed he or she does get accepted.
Gene and Sandy Nelson are also enjoying the pleasures of being around Dartmouth and the medical complex. Gene is at the Med School in the department of community medicine and Sandy is teaching in the Lebanon school system. Gene has completed his masters in medical care planning and administration and has now begun work on a doctorate in the field at the Harvard School of Public Health. A summer job at the Med School turned into the very active full time position he now occupies in Hanover, teaching and evaluating the delivering of community medical care in the Hanover area. With the changeover of the Med School to a four-year program and the addition of clinical programs, courses have been added to the curriculum to acquaint future doctors with programs for community-based medical care and develop commitments to general medicine rather than specialization. The program also represents a cooperative venture between the Med School and surrounding communities helping to provide them with better medical care.
Finally, Ernie and Sally Babcock are to be congratulated on the birth of a son, Samuel Sims, on March 4. Notwithstanding the latest addition to the family, Ernie has been busy with the Alumni Fund drive and reminds all that your contributions are still obviously welcome.
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