1974

Alumni Magazine deadlines being what they are, by the time this version of the '74 news is in your hands, our tenth reunion will already be finished. Watch for the special reunion column in the September edition of this fine publication!

The mailbox finally came back to life this month could it be that the fresh coat of paint I gave it soothed some disgruntled minor deity? In any case, it is quite a relief to have enough news in hand for a change and not have to scramble to dig up extra items.

Marriage-of-the-month club: A clipping from the April 1 New York Times announces the marriage of Alice Henry and Dr. WayneWhitmore at the Tillman Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations in the Big Apple. Alice is a vice president and senior advertising copywriter at Ogilvy and Mather, and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Wayne, who graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, is an ophthalmologist on the staffs of the New York Hospital and the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. He also manages to find time for a private practice. I'm sure I speak for the entire class as I extend best wishes to the newlyweds!

Craig Foltz writes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is an assistant professor of astronomy. As part of a team which also included Dr. Frederic Chaffee '63, he has been involved in a study of "diffuse galaxy-sized clouds seen at cosmological distances" at the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory at Mt. Hopkins, near Tucson, Ariz. A thorough explanation of this impressive project is outlined in 1963's class notes polumn in this issue. A big '74 ROAR to Craig for his outstanding work!

Londonderry, N.R.. is home to Pete Lankenner, who writes with news of what he's been up to since graduation. I'll take the liberty of putting the big news first Pete was awarded first prize in the annual Harvard Medical Alumni Essay Contest for his paper on the treatment of arthritis with radiation. He was the first orthopedic surgeon ever to win that prize; he is now the first orthopedic surgeon to gain the coveted '74 ROAR (two in one month again; either I'm getting easy or you guys are pretty fantastic). Pete was graduated from Dartmouth Medical which he followed by two years of general surgery at the Tufts-New England Medical Center and then an orthopedic surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Children's Hospital in Boston, during which he served as the orthopedic surgeon at the finish line of the 1983 Boston Marathon, and also helped take care of the injuries of the Boston Ballet Company. Since June 1983, he has had his own private practice as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Director of Sports Medicine at the new Parkland Medical Center in Derry, N.H. Congratulations, Pete, and best of luck in the new position!

That's all for now. At reunion, the class will be electing new officers to serve for the next five years, and I will be stepping down as class secretary. I do plan to write the special reunion column for the September issue, so till then . . .

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