1955

A short note on the back of the class-dues bill reveals that Peter Robinson is still living in Paris, handling personnel work for Vick International. His job involves an "opportunity for travel" throughout Europe and Africa and the opportunity seems to be overwhelming him. Last fall he was able to observe the South African elections first hand, which was an experience, but he observes that after 12 years of hopping around, "either the travel rate is picking up or I am slowing down."

Pete has a wonderful French wife, Katia, and four- and two-year-old daughters who live with them in Paris. He also has a seventeen-year-old who lives in this country and she has applied to Dartmouth, "without any pushing from the old man."

A news release from the Dartmouth Medical School brought the news that Bernie Carpenter, "a physician-scientist noted for his work on the transplantation of body tissues and organs," has been appointed the Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professor at Dartmouth Medical School.

In that capacity he was in residence in Hanover from January 30 through February 3 and he took part in many of the school's regular teaching exercises, especially those concerned with diseases of the kidney.

He delivered a public lecture on "Histocompatibility Antigens, Imune Responses, and Disease" and also took part in Dartmouth's seminar series on medical ethics, discussing "Withdrawal of Life Support from the Dying Patient."

Bernie graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1956 and received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1958. Since 1962, he has been associated with Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is now associate professor of medicine.

His research on the immune mechanisms by which the body rejects tissues and organs donated by other individuals is widely regarded as fundamental to present and future progress in transplantation surgery, and has been reported in more than 125 scientific papers.

Its becoming a rare month when Ron Campion's name doesn't appear in this column, not to mention his constant presence on the back cover of the Magazine where he sells the wares of the classiest boutique in Hanover. We are now informed that Ron has been named a director of the Dartmouth National Bank. (He is probably their largest account, too.)

This honor, along with his positions as trustee of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, moderator of the Hanover School District, chairman of the D.C.A.C., and director of the Hanover Hockey Association, should keep him out of trouble for the next few years.

The mail was very thin before this issue. I'm about to resort to publishing a novel in serial form if you guys don't start communicating.

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