1942

A nice letter from Audrey Keller brought us the sad news that she had lost her husband and our classmate in November. Bill Keller put in 39 years in Wall Street and then last summer retired to Dublin, Calif. A proper obituary will appear in a subsequent issue of this magazine. Meantime, the class extends its sympathy to Audrey and her family.

Bob Tyson became the 127 th president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society in October. Bob got his medical degree from the Univerisity of Pennsylvania, served the military aboard the U.S.S. Orgeon City in the Atlantic fleet, then returned to Philadelphia for additional training at Temple University Hospital. He continued at Temple as a surgical assistant, full-time faculty member, and chairman of the department of surgery. Retired from surgical practice in 1983, Bob has continued to be active in many professional organizations Amercian Board of Surgery, American College of Surgeons, American Federation for Clinical Research, and many others.

We ran across Roy and Susan Eldredge recently and asked Roy, Hingham's (Mass.) leading pediatrician, what his retirement plans were. "Never," said Susie, "for better or worse, but not for lunch." Roy did not disagree.

Merrill McLane just completed a 61page paper on sons of Rockport, Mass., who also became sons of Dartmouth College. As a son of both himself, Merrill decided to do some research and find out how many there were and what they did for both Rockport and the College. He found the research process interesting and instructive and suggests that some of the rest of us might find similar projects good fun. Copies of his paper may be obtained from Carderock Press, Box 56, Cabin John, MD 02818. This versatile classmate also has a book on the gypsies of Spain Proud Outcasts, The Gypsies ofSpain coming out this year.

Bob Blood wrote in to report trouble with prostate cancer, which knocked out one kidney last summer, but left him functioning well with the other. "I have now regained most of the weight I lost, and most of my strength and energy," he says.

He reported further that "we are gradually cutting back on our work," he and wife Margaret are social worker and marriage counselor repsectively "giving eight workshops instead of a dozen . . . and cutting back client hours. No folks before 10:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m.! In their spare time, the Bloods are "proud of the long-term terrace building program on our Missouri farm to control soil erosion."

Joe Wilder has been selected to join the U.S.A. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Joe's citation says in part "Dr. Wilder was an AllMaryland selection on three Balitmore City College secondary school championship teams in the late 19305. He went on to Dartmouth College where be became a first-team All-American and a two time North-South Collegiate All-Star Game participant. From 1940-1942 Wilder led Dartmouth to three straight New England titles. During this time he also led the league in scoring, averaging 6 points per game and was selected to the All-New England Team three straight years. In 1954 Wilder was the recipient of the prestigious Markel Award, based on potential as surgeon and teacher, one of the most coveted awards in Amercian medicine. Wilder played four years of club lacrosse while attending medical school. He has served as Chief of Surgery in the United States Air Force, and has been a Director of Surgery for twenty years, as well as a Full Professor of Surgery, and a rrtajor sports artist."

We received a nice Merry Christmas note from Howard Halfmann, current President of the Lakes Region Dartmouth Club, along with which he sent a copy of his report on last year's annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club Officers Assocation. This memo contained Howard's argument for the return of the Indian symbol to the Hanover plain. He also deplored the freshmen at the UNH-Dartmouth game who "swarmed all over the field as an unruly mob; the police had to protect the UNH cheerleaders, the female ones, as physical harm appeared imminent. The band was completely unable to perform much of anything like that which one sees weekly on television at larger universities, marching formations, etc." Howard is right on this one. Your secretary was there and can corroborate.

This class should be reassured (or panicked) that good old developer Ad Winship is well on his way to making 1942 famous for its generosity to the College. He's out after "head start" gifts to the 1988 Alumni Fund our 45th reunion year in addition to our regular ante to the current Fund drive. Obviously, one can only say "yes" to Ad.

The Alumni Office has lost the whereabouts of an even dozen 425. Your secretary, always in the need for news, will put two. names at the end of each column, hoping that they will respond, giving him something to write about and the Alumni Office an improved alumni record. Oh, Tom Danes and Doug Stowell, where are you?

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