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Now that we've broken the all-time yearly snowfall record for Chicago, it's time to start thinking about spring. By the time you read this, I hope you'll be enjoying April showers. I'll enjoy anything that's not snow.

A note from Dr. George Howard tells us that as of this coming June he will be associate professor of ophthalmology at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. It must be ten years ago I visited George with my son Chip as a patient, and George was connected with the University at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital then. So it's been a long and apparently happy association.

We have classmates on the other coast practicing medicine and teaching, too. Dr. Frederick Hecht is professor of pediatrics and perinatology at the crippled children's division of the University of Oregon Health Center, and adjunct professor of biology at Portland State University. And he has just been elected to the American Society of Human Genetics board of directors as well as being appointed to the editorial board of the American Journal ofHuman Genetics.

Dr. Hecht is also principal investigator for three different grants the Health Science Center has recently received for research: So it looks as though they are keeping him and his staff very busy out west there.

Do we have an uncommon number of classmates involved with higher education, or is it just that things have started happening for us these past few months? Dick Bressler has been elected to the board of trustees of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dick earns a living as president of ARCO Chemical, a division of Atlantic Richfield Company. He's also a senior vice president of the parent company. Dick had been with American Airlines and General Electric before joining Atlantic Richfield five years ago. He's also on the board of SoGen International Fund and Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. He and Carol live in Philadelphia.

A couple of columns back I mentioned TedFellows, and that mention got me a note — I always appreciate getting notes. Ted left us after freshman year and went off to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He's now a rear admiral and commander of Fighter Airborne, Early Warning Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed in San Diego. While he wasn't with us in Hanover all that long, he says he has pleasant memories and tries to keep up with classmates through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. His younger daughter was admitted to Dartmouth but opted against the North Country for sunny California and is currently attending the University of California in San Diego. After this winter, that choice would be hard for me, too.

From Herb Roth comes a very interesting and thorough note about our classmate Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer whom Herb visited recently in Argentina.

Marsh is rabbi of the Bet El Synagogue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the founder and head of the only rabbinical seminary in all of South America. He is Latin American director of the World Counsel of Synagogues and has edited more than 50 Spanish language religious volumes, including the first complete edition of Jewish liturgy since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. But more important than all these accomplishments is the way Marsh has spoken out for freedom of conscience and expression in the very repressive political atmosphere of Argentina. As Herb says, Marsh is a very courageous "voice crying in the wilderness." Herb thinks that the rabbi has been such a strong advocate of religious, indeed human, freedom that he should be awarded an honorary degree by his alma mater, and I agree. If you'd like to add your endorsement you should contact the trustees or President Kemeny.

Having started this column complaining about weather I'm happy to end on the previous uplifting note.

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