1943

Warning! This column will not be dangerous to your health because it will be concerned exclusively with the physicians in the class. You will recall that Bud Clarke sent us a group of first-year medical school photos of classmates, taken and carefully preserved by Frank West. These appeared in the March issue. In response to our request for identifications, we had two responses from Charlie Does and BradCopeland. The doctors' diagnoses concurred in seven out of eight instances which doesn't speak too badly for Dartmouth Medical School training.

Counterclockwise from the upper left (only the math majors in the class are expected to follow such complex directions), the Hippocratic neophytes were identified as: BillWilson, the late Jerry von Wedel, Bill Hunt, BillHunt with Dave Hoffman, Chet Solez and BradCopeland, George Burke, and Bill Regan. The doctors disagreed as to the photo in the upper right corner, with Charlie electing for WarrenTaylor and Brad going for Charley Kane. We got several other opinions and the consensus goes to Kane. Any dissenting opinions?

All of which brought us to telephone the doctors and, while I anticipated no house-calls from places like Gardner, Mass.; Rochester, Minn.; and Erie, Pa., we did get some cheerful comments.

Bill Wilson, with wife Doreen, is well settled in Gardner where he is in general surgical practice. They get to Hanover frequently, since this includes visits with son John, a mortician, and daughter Toni, a nurse at Mary Hitchcock. As to the five other Wilson offspring, three daughters are in high school, son William works nearby, and Donna, an x-ray technician, is recently married to an attorney. Bill regularly joins Dr. Berger Carlson for the annual "ice out" fishing at Lake Winnipesaukee.

Dave Hoffman, in Rochester, keeps fit by playing hockey with the old-timers (and a few youngsters) in the winter, taking the family to their spread in the Adirondacks during the summer and when we talked had just returned from a skiing trip to Colorado. Wife Beverly is a painter and recently had a show of her works. As to the four Hoffman sons, Michael is a veterinarian in Rochester, Peter is about to graduate from veterinarian school, Mark is making films in New York City, and David Jr. runs a Truck Stops of America enterprise in the Adirondacks.

Chet Solez topped his career in Veterans Administration medicine as chief of medicine at the Erie Veterans Hospital. Although he retired last year from that post, he was quickly called back to a temporary assignment as chief of staff. After he completes this, Chet plans to start "something new." Son Kim, a physician, is assistant professor of pathology and medicine at Johns Hopkins. Daughter Wanda, an artist, lives in North Carolina with her husband, an artist whose glass-blowing creations have been exhibited in Corning, Europe, and elsewhere. Janet and Chet have four grandchildren and frequently visit Vermont, where Janet's mother lives. Incidentally, Janet and Chet met originally at the top of Mount Moosilauke. Chet recalls his achievement in introducing Brad Copeland, the "60-minute man" in soccer, to the joy of hiking, and they got together frequently during the recent period when Chet was in Providence and Brad in Boston.

As to our two photo identifiers, BradCopeland writes, "After two years in Cincinnati, I can report that it is a very attractive community. Two excellent art musuems, second-best zoo in the U.S., very good community spirit, symphony, opera, and the New York shows stop here on the way to or from Chicago. Population is 400,000, so a traffic jam rarely occurs." Charlie Does offered little news in his report, but the return address is Quechee and the postmark is from White River Junction, so we know he hasn't strayed far from the fold.

Now, do you feel better? If not, take two aspirin and call me any time.

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