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By the time you read this, the Alumni Fund drive will be in full swing. The' College and Dick Taylor appreciate your continued generosity.

Back to our doctors. David Hillman in Miami and Al Holzwarth in Bangor, Maine, both practice medicine. Herb Kleber is a psychiatrist and professor at the Yale Medical School. His wife Joan is a nurse. Since receiving a grant in 1968, Herb has been director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit in New Haven. Perhaps a depressing field for some, but not for Herb. "I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate to have a career that remains constantly challenging, ever changing in its dayto-day activities, very self-satisfying, and yet also one where I am able to render help and service to so many people in need who can be in some ways fun to work with."

In Billings, Mont., David Klein is a surgeon. His wife Marilyn is an R.N. Jack Kustrup is a physician in Titusville, N.J.; his brother, Bill Kustrup, is an ophthalmologist in Trenton. Out in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Myron Luria also practices medicine.

In Canada, Richard Margolese is a surgeon and professor at McGill University. His particular field of specialty is cancer research. Dick McClintock, in addition to being a professor at Stanford University, is a dermatologist in Ukiah, Calif. David Mills is a pediatrician practicing in Pacific Grove, Calif. Tom Porter is a doctor in Anchorage, Alaska (presumably specializing in the uncommon cold). Jim Quan is a dentist in New York City.

Back on the West Coast, in Aberdeen. Wash., Les Reid and his wife Estelle are both physicians, specializing in cardiology and otolaryngology respectively. Les entered the medical field via Tuck-Thayer and an earlier career with I.B.M. Lee Richardson is an internist and endocrinologist in Green Bay, Wise. His wife Barbara is a nurse. (Your secretary notes with some pride the extraordinary number of Alpha Thets who practice medicine.)

Another ophthalmologist is Fenwick Riley, who practices in Healdsburg, Calif. Dutch Rosenberger is a psychiatrist in New York City. David Rubin is a pathologist at Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass. Richard Ruel practices medicine in Livonia, Mich.

Mentioned in an earlier column were Kevin Ryan, who has a practice in radiology and nuclear medicine in Woodland, Calif., and Noel Sankey, who is a urologist in Englewood, Calif. John Seymour is an instructor at the University of Minnesota and practices neurological surgery in Minneapolis. Johns attitude towards an event all of us are facing is reassuring: "I suspect I'll handle being 50 years old reasonably well after all, the alternative doesn't look so hot."

David Shaffer is not only a pharmacist in Toledo, Ohio, but is also president of his own pharmaceutical' company. In Pottstown, Pa-Don Sokol looks into ears, noses, and throats. He is also a philosopher, commenting on the realities of modern living and the middle experience. I still believe in God, the importance of the family, friendship, and the communicative honesty of children.' Simple, straightforward, but food for thought nonetheless.

Zig Suritis and his wife Vija live in Syracuse, he a plastic surgeon, she a nurse. He, too, is a philosopher and presumably worries for many doctors. "We are communicating more . . . but not as one human to another . . . Do we care? . . . We should care."

Moving west again, we find Robert Taub in Los Angeles and Richard Thorp in Fresno, the latter practicing neurosurgery. In Atlanta, Ga., Ken Thomas is a cardiac and thoracic surgeon. His wife Sara is an R.N.

The associate director for clinical pathology at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City is David Tiersten. John Wanamaker in Athens, Pa., Stuart Warren in Dillsburg, Pa., and Stanley Weglarz in Bridgeport, Conn., are all physicians. Walter Wilcox practices psychiatry in Mont, Calif. His wife Martha Lou is a nurse. Yet another ophthalmologist is John Yassin of Falls Church, Va. Down in Miami, Marshall Zucker practices medicine.

It's an impressive list of dedicated classmates in the field of medicine, and an equally impressive number of wives share that professional commitment.

For your secretary, no list of doctors in the class would be complete without mention of Howard Wisotzkey, whose death in 1975 grieved us all. Those of us who had the privilege and the fun of playing lacrosse with Howie also came to know Carol, later his wife. She, like so many of the other wives of classmate doctors, is a nurse. I salute Carol and remember Howie with great affection.

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