1961

This will be a short column because y'all haven't been writing, much. I need to have facts, figures, details, on as many of you as possible. My goal is to get every member in the Class in a column at least once this year.

Congratulations: Bert Rowley's class newsletter, which came in the other day, is a marvel. I bet you other classes can't match eight pages for a class newsletter. That's the number of legal-sized pages in Wide WideWorld. Impressive performance, Bert. Send contributions to the next class newsletter to Bob Anderson at Anderson and Michael, 601 California St., San Francisco, Calif.

Mailbag: Via Dan Reith, got a brief note from Tony Horan, M.D., who says he's in the private practice of urology on 51st Street in Manhattan. Last October, he says, he showed a movie at the American College of Surgeons meeting in Dallas on "surgery for aplasia of the vas deferens," which, by my translation, means he's fixing the duct that is supposed to carry sperm from the testis to the penis. For some reason, the duct was either defective or missing.

Working the phones: One more Carolina classmate to update (unless I've missed someone) — Ed Holscher. Ed's also got M.D. after his name, and he's in the practice of child psychiatry here after four years in Washington, which he says he fled because of "too much dirty politics and too much dirty smog."

Since Dartmouth, Ed has been to med school, served in the Navy, done an adult psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, a child psychiatry residency at Boston Children's Hospital, and put in those four years in Washington before moving to Charlotte in June 1976.

After all those different homes, Ed's fondest memories are from Boston, where his wife Carolyn was director of students at Simmons College (while he was taking his residency). That meant for all practical purposes that the Holschers were house parents to the college. They lived on campus, worrying about such things as food service, campus police, intra-student disputes, even arranging concerts.

Ed and Carolyn have two children, Elisabeth, six, and Teddy, three.

The final word: Remember Ray Welch's rapier thrust at the Manchester Union Leader in the Jack-O-Lantern, and how he censored nursery rhymes to sum up his feelings? It's all in our '61 Aegis. But there's a moral: This column, without your help, is........ ........Oh, what a.......is.

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