1955

Jim Morrissey, another one of our class doctors, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the board of Saint Joseph's Hospital. He is chief of orthopedic services at St. Joseph's, a 396-bed acute-care hospital in Yonkers. He is also an instructor in orthopedic surgery at the New York Medical College, where he earned his medical degree. Like most of the class who fulfilled their military reserve obligations early on, Jim served in the United States Army Medical Corp as a major and chief of orthopedic surgery of the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam in 1968-69. Jim and Barbara have three children and live in Hastings, N.Y.

In April Pat McCarthy was appointed president of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, the fully-accredited graduate school affiliated with Mass General. Pat came to the Institute after 11 years as a chancellor and CEO at the University of Maine and eight years as chancellor and deputy chancellor of Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. While chief United Nations advisor to the government of Ireland he directed the founding of a major research institute in Europe. He also served as a planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and as director of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. Most recently he was president of a consulting firm serving public and private sector clients in higher education. Pat holds a master's in city and regional planning from Harvard and also did his time in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Allen Root is also a doctor, in Tampa, Fla. His daughter Jennifer '85, Dartmouth Medical School '89, is now engaged to Peter Mayer, M.D., who graduated from the Dartmouth Med School, class of '87.

John Demas writes to welcome Harry andMarge Ambrose to Geneva while wishing Dave and Jane Conlan well as they return to Chicago thereby keeping the number of '55s residing in Geneva at four. John enjoys living in Europe, particularly visiting the grand opera houses of the major capitals, including the Bolshoi Theater on recent trip to Moscow. He says the USSR is exciting and interesting and believes that perestroika and Gorbachev are for real.

Sandy Phillips, after four years with Exxon in Guangzhou, Peoples Republic of China, was transferred to Houston for his first domestic assignment in ten years. The Phillipses are going through "reentry" culture shock.

As we read about current classmates, one can't help but remember those who have passed away but who remain as a wonderful memory to us all. Perhaps Glenn Wilson's wife, Adlyn, says it for us all in a note of appreciation expressing how much of a comfort the words about Glenn were to her and their children. She misses him and his marvelous sense of humor which was his legacy to her-appreciating and knowing the importance of having one. Adlyn appreciated the contribution of a book to Baker Library in Glenn's name (a practice of the class of '55 since we graduated), "for Glenn was fond of reading and next to golf, that was his other most favorite thing to do with his 'retirement life!"

A strength of Dartmouth, and indeed our class, has been the ability to gather together in joy and celebration, as well as in sadness and hurt.

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