1971

Among this month's news is word that Johnand Robin Smith are the proud parents of a daughter, Rebecca Karen, born June 21, 1978. Robin (Smith '71) has completed law school at Emory University in Atlanta and is with a local law firm there. John is continuing with an engineering consulting firm.

Ivan Suzman wed Katharine Lee Hoover in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thanksgiving Day. Kathy, a 1975 graduate of Brown University, is a commercial artist with a Johannesburg advertising agency. The couple will return to the United States when Ivan completes re- quirements for his doctoral degree.

Urban specialist and former Cambridge city councilor David Clem has left his own firm, Cambridge Rehab, to become Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Tom O'Neill's chief secretary.

Bill Holm has been named loan officer, commercial banking, at the First National Bank of Boston. After receiving his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, Bill joined the bank as a management trainee in 1977. His home is Hingham, Mass.

John Worcester has been named investment officer at Worcester County National Bank in Worcester, Mass. John, who was formerly the assistant treasurer of Bay Bank Norfolk County Trust Co. in Dedham, lives in Duxbury, Mass.

Bob Higginson was appointed controller of the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass. He was transferred from Mexico City where he served for two years as controller of Marriott's In-Flight Services in Mexico. Prior to that he worked for In-Flight in Washington and with Marriott corporate headquarters. Following his graduation from the Tuck School in 1974, he also served as a financial analyst with Arvida Corporation, a residential developer and resort management firm in Boca Raton, Fla. Bob and wife Mardi have a four-year-old daughter, Alicia, and reside in Wayland, Mass.

Dana Tower has been promoted to an account supervisor at Cunningham and Walsh Inc., an advertising agency in New York City. Dana joined the firm in 1973 as an assistant media planner and became an account executive in 1975.

Lyndon Waugh has been appointed as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. He was among 14 physicians appointed to the school's clinical faculty last year. Clinical faculty members work at Emory on a part-time, volunteer basis while holding full-time positions elsewhere.

Ed Ranson is less than three months away from his Ph.D. at Berkeley. He reports that he is finally getting his data on the computer and is well along in writing his thesis.

Scott Yeager has completed his master's degree requirements in biomedical engineering at the Thayer School and is presently a resident at the University of Vermont Medical Center. He plans to specialize either in neonatology (newborn intensive care) or pediatric cardiology. Scott had previously received a medical degree from the University of Virginia Medical School. His article entitled "Engineering in Medicine: A Fluids Study of Cancer Chemotherapy" which describes the application of engineering principles to solve the problem of maldistribution of anticancer drugs used in clinical situations was published last October in the Thayer School of Engineering magazine.

And finally, Pilobolus dance troupe members Jonathan Wolken, Moses Pendelton, Alison Chase and Robby Barnett '72 were featured in words and pictures in a two-page article which appeared in the November 20, 1978 issue of Time.

That's all for now. See you next month

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