1969

So much for the introduction, let's get to the news.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has announced that John Ruder is among 169 physicians receiving post-graduate training at that institution. John not only picked up his A.B. from Dartmouth but was a 1977 graduate of the Dartmouth Medical School as well. Should President Kemeny ever require the services of a personal physician, John's blood ought to be Green enough by now to eminently qualify him for that position.

At the other extreme, Allan Petersen of Guilford, Conn., is now catering to Yalies. He has signed a five-year lease with the university to rent the below-street-level restaurant at the Paul Mellon Art Center complex, which houses the Yale Center for British Art as well as several ground-level commercial outlets. According to Petersen, the restaurant, named "West of Eleven," will feature American cuisine and will have a dining capacity of about 80. Plans also call for a bar area with a capacity of about 40 persons to provide what Petersen hopes will be a 50-50 split between food and liquor business. However, Al may be in for a bit of a rude awakening. A recent survey showed that the per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages by Yalies is extremely low. The pencil-thin neck peculiar to Boola boys severely restricts their ability to imbibe more than half a beer at one sitting.

Also from Connecticut comes word that Robert Dickgiesser was recently elected president of the Housatonic Council of Boy Scouts at its annual meeting. He is the vice president of C. J. Dickgiesser and Company Inc. of Derby, Conn. Bob has been involved in scouting all his life and, in addition to his new duties, is a merit badge counselor and chairs Explorer Post 13. A star scout himself, Bob was stymied in his quest to attain even loftier rank when it was ultimately deemed that his reputation as a brownie connoisseur did not qualify him de facto for the cooking merit badge.

Albert Moncure thoughtfully forwarded a note together with a photograph (unfortunately not reproducible herein) of himself and former roommate Ed Weber posing in front of King Ludwig's storybook castle, Neuschwanstein. Al took time out from his corporate law practice in New York City to visit Ed, his German wife, and their two daughters in the picturesque Bavarian village of Hohenschwangau. By day, Ed teaches at the local high school; he received high marks from his visitor, who had the opportunity to sit in on one of his 12th grade English classes. By night, Ed earns a few more marks by rattling chains over at Ludwig's place, only a spear's throw from his front door.

On a theatrical note, we find that Eric Forsythe and Rick Jones '75 spent the summer with the Mount Washington Valley Theater Company as artistic director and business manager respectively. Eric has appeared in over 100 plays in repertory, stock, and university theater and has directed over 50 plays, including the world premiere of Israel Horovitz's The First,the Last, and the Middle in New York. As business manager, Rick tried to act as though the gate receipts were incidental to the artistic integrity of the performances.

Mark Bankoff, residing in Maiden, Mass., has been appointed an assistant in radiology on the staff of the New England Medical Center Hospital's (NEMCH) department of radiology in Boston. A Tufts University Medical School graduate, he previously served at NEMCH as an internal medicine intern, a junior resident in internal medicine, a clinical fellow in infectious diseases, a radiology resident, and a fellow in nuclear medicine and ultrasound. For those of you unfamiliar with medical semantics, this means that nine times out of ten, Mark can successfully extricate a Band-Aid from its wrapper.

Squeal on a few of your friends — drop me a card and let me know what they're up to. Maybe they'll return the favor.

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