1970

Many thanks to all those who have written with news since my last copy deadline - '70s, wives, and parents. Your letters are the backbone of this column. Please keep the mail coming.

I received a rather special journal of accounts from Lenny and Jan Banos, informing me that a new asset had been entered on the books on February 2, 1977 at 1:00 p.m. The new asset, by way of a hint, weighed 4 lbs 11 oz and was initially 18.5 inches long. For those who haven't guessed, the asset received the lovely name of Jessica Lea and has made Lenny and Jan the proudest of parents. Congratulations.

Equally pleased are Dr. and Mrs. WoodhullKeifaber whose first child, Eli Warner (named in part after Warner H. Keifaber Jr. '39), was born on August 26. Wood and Leslie have marked it down as a beautiful experience in their book of records. They are currently in the Portland, Maine, area where Wood is completing his last year of residency at the Maine Medical Center in internal medicine. Beginning July 1, Wood will be with the Public Health Service Corps. As Leslie notes, they will be located in Gorham, N.H., and are looking forward to returning to the White Mountains. Thereafter the family (including two English springer spaniels) plans to stay in New England when Wood begins private practice in 1979.

Larry and Ginny Gotlieb are hoping that not all '7os are so fond of New England winters and that some would prefer mid-70's temperatures during January. Ginny is recruiting doctors to settle in "lovely" Pomona, Calif, (outside Los Angeles). So, Larry wrote that anyone finishing medical school or a residency who would rather be sailing should let Ginny Gotlieb, Administration, Pomona Valley Community Hospital, Pomona, Calif. 91767, know about it. In the way of other news, Larry reports that he is working as a legislative aide to the chairman of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in addition to practicing law, teaching anti-trust at a law school, and serving as a member of the governing board of California Common Cause. Larry, there's just one thing that I don't understand. When do you get time for sun and surf with a schedule like that?

Last October 30 was Dartmouth Day in Los Altos Hills, Calif. The occasion was the marriage of our classmate Kenneth M. Jones Jr. and Miss Eileen Ann Gaspich. Dartmouth grads in attendance included members of the Jones family, Ken Sr. '42, Richard '68 (completing a master's in music), and Tom '72 (working for the Committee for Auto Safety in Washington, D.C.) as well as the best man A. Joel Feldman. Ken and Eileen have settled in Santa Monica where Eileen is working in the intensive care unit of St. Johns Hospital, having graduated from Stanford's School of Nursing. Ken received his M.B.A. from Stanford in 1972 and is now a supervisor for the national accounting firm of Ernst and Ernst, specializing in healthcare consulting in the Los Angeles area. Our classmate Joel Feldman is in his second year of surgical residence at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

I have news from one other '7O in California - Don MacMannis who is now living in San Diego. Don was kind enough to send along a copy of a letter he had gotten off to some of his friends letting them know where he is and what he is doing these days. Don, it seems, is now a full-time student in a doctoral program in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. During his last term he was immersed in such topics as Freud's original writings, community psychology, transpersonal psychology, and altered states of consciousness. The school emphasizes field work and Don has been working with parents, teachers and kids in an outreach program and has also been serving as a diagnostician screening kids with learning problems. Don notes that a central part of his life continues to be his search for personal and spiritual growth and that he has found his quiet, old house and gardens in a canyon area to be just the place for such growth.

Hope to hear from more of you soon, now that the weather is improving and you can sit outside in the sun and put together a quick letter as to what has been happening in your life.

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