1967

Even with that extra day in February, I've managed to miss another deadline. . .

Oh well, it was worth the wait. I got a good letter from John Manaras on March 5, reporting on the first annual Dartmouth '67 Invitational Midwinter Squash Tournament on January 14 in Boston. Pete Rosser was the winner in a very close final match with TomPyles. Besides John, Pete, and Tom, players included Bill Bogardus, Ron Koback, SteveCheheyl, Curt Anderson, Bill White, JuddOwens, John Kornet, Rick Shepherd, LarryLangford, and Beirne Lovely.

"The tourney grew out of conversations a few of us had at reunion in June," John writes, "and was organized by Bogardus, Cheheyl, Pyles, and myself. We are now 100 percent committed to making it an annual event, probably in January, and would like to establish a calling or mailing list of those who would like to receive notice well in advance so that they might plan a trip to Boston around the date. I spoke to A1 Chidester in Denver just after the tourney and he assured me he would show up next year if given adequate notice."

Interested players should write to John at 99 Colbourne Crescent, Brookline, MA 02146. Mailings will go out or phone contact will be made in October or November.

(John had also sent along a photograph of this year's participants, but it looks as though the photographer had played such a hard game of squash that his finger was shaky on the shutter release it was unfortunately too fuzzy to be reproducible here. Take a shot next year before the tourney, John.)

Dick Dennis reports he's recently been elected a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dick is an assistant professor of surgery and head of critical care at Boston University Medical Center Hospital and does blood research at the Naval Blood Research Lab in Boston. Dick and Eileen have three daughters Elissa, ten, Sara, seven, and Johanna, three.

Another of our Boston medics, Bob Thurer, also checked in with a short note in February. He continues to practice cardiac and thoracic surgery at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and reports he was recently elected secretary treasurer of the Dartmouth Medical School Alumni Association.

In an even shorter note, Richard Sidell reports that he's a practicing orthopedic surgeon in Chicago.

Ned Gillette is at it again. According to a January article in the Burlington, Vt., press, he's contemplating a row around Cape Horn in a 40-foot handcrafted boat a 1,200-mile spin through some of the wildest waters in the world, capped off with a side trip to the Falkland Islands. For those of you who missed the article, here's a "Gillettism" for your commonplace books: "I think people are adventurous in direct proportion to the shortness of their memory."

I received a fine letter a short while ago from Dave McMahill, who reports that he and his wife Jane are co-pastors of Northeast Community Church in Lincoln, Neb. Dave spent six weeks holding down the fort at home while Jane made a sabbatical tour of India "expanding her world view and giving me a taste of our sexist society which has a hard time knowing what to do with a professional male who doubles as the sole parent of three kids —even temporarily!"

Dave is also back in harness as a student, working toward a Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. "Although I'm not breaking any records," he continues, "I run with the Lincoln Track Club when health permits, which is a real on-again, off-again thing with me." Dave had a brief visit in January with Bill Calhoun, who happened to be passing through on a family trip. Bill is a Presbyterian minister in lowa.

Although an outrageous and thoroughly unseasonal March snowstorm is swirling its way through this part of Pennsylvania as I write this column, I maintain hopes of spring. All that ho a-song-by-the-fire stuff is fine in its season, but by St. Patrick's Day I've usually had enough. Must be creeping old age. Drop me a line and let me know your plans for the summer or something.

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