1966

It's hard, for me to keep up with the exact times that these columns will be in your hands, but I hope that the snow is melting or has melted by now. I'm sitting here thinking that in a week and a half Tim Paige and I will be sitting on a beach in Antigua with our wives. I'm looking forward to writing a column from there. If your magazine smells like it had rum spilled on it, you'll know I've made it Paige spilled the rum!

Jim Maitol is a pediatrician in Roseville, Calif. He's been at Kaiser Hospital for 11 years. "My house is in a safe area," he says. "But right now in the Sacramento area there are highways closed, mudslides everywhere." Jim lives "right above a sleepy little stream that you could raft on right now!" He works for a great medical organization, Permanent Medical Group. "You don't have anything like this on the East Coast, but you will," says Jim. He'd like to hear from Dave Gordon, HankStreitfeld, and Allan Rottenberg.

Bruce Korernot is on a two-year assignment, with his wife, Dr. Wendy Gilchrist, at the Hillary Hospital in Kunde, Nepal. He thought he was seeing things last fall when classmate Dr. Jamie McGregor from Denver came trekking through Kunde at 12,400 feet. A quick "Don't I know you from someplace?" broke the ice. It seems anyone that goes near Nepal runs into Jamie McGregor!

Gene Nattie lives in Norwich, Vt., in a house that wife Candy built. I recall it from the 15th reunion. It's gorgeous, and prices in the Hanover being what they are, Gene and Candy must be sitting on a bundle! Gene is a full professor at Dartmouth Medical School in physiology. Just as important is the fact that he plays two nights a week in a non-checking hockey league. "North Stars" is on Gene's jersey. He plays forward. Those of us who played defense in front of Gene encouraged him, in 1963, to make the switch from goal. It's good to know Gene's independent nature finally allowed him to accept some good advice! When I talked to Gene, he was trying to eat his supper, and I had to speak much of the time with his two daughters, Kate, three, and Anna, one and a half.

Tom Lips has settled into middle age in South Glastonbury, Conn. He is "a retired lawyer." He works in investments -individual and profit sharing-in Hartford. He was in San Francisco after law school, then moved to Connecticut when he became assistant to the president and legal counsel for Trinity College. "An interim job," says Tom. Yet he has maintained his ties with Trinity and now cochairs their fund-raising for Friends of Trinity. Tom was at reunion. I almost caught up with him, wife Margaret, Emily, 11, and Evan, eight, as they pulled away in their Volvo wagon. My old Ford needed cables to get going, though, and they got away.

I've got to get me a pair of jams that will (a) fit and (b) not brand me a tourist in Antigua!

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