1961

Several '61s have been in the news lately. Peter Hanauer won a Luther L. Terry Award from the United States Public Health Service Professional Association "for a unique contribution toward a smoke-free society." Peter, one of 14 who won the award, was honored for his work in the nonsmokers' rights movement. He accepted his award from Dr. Terry's widow in Phoenix on May 23.

Peter also recently wrote a book on how to get nonsmokers' rights laws passed, called "Legislative Approaches to a Smoke Free Society." The two-volume set, which sells for $100, has a foreword by former U.S. Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld, and was introduced at a San Francisco news conference by the current surgeon general, Dr. C. Everett Koop '37. Hanauer writes, "It was reviewed quite favorably at the end of last year in the International Digest of Health Legislation, which is published by the World Health Organization ... It has been used by various public interest groups in numerous cities around the country."

Doug Zipes gave the opening plenary address at the 1988 national conference of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta on his specialty, heart rhythm disturbances and the electrophysiological problems that lead to them. He estimates that three-fourths of all heart attack deaths are caused by rhythm disturbances, according to a convention report.

Treatment today, he says, includes drug therapy, surgery to eliminate the electrical disturbance either at its origin or along its "wiring," and implantation of electrical devices to correct the specific problem for instance, to defibrillate if the problem is ventricular fibrillation, an ineffectual quivering of the heart muscle that is quickly fatal without treatment.

Doug is professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and senior research associate at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology. He has now written or coauthored 400 articles and edited three books devoted to electrophysiological issues with a fourth in preparation.

Ray Welch has left Welch, Currier, Curry and Anderson, the Boston advertising agency he founded in 1980 and where he served as chairman, to become creative director and senior vice president at Cipriani/Kremer Advertising, also in Boston, ending a year-long search by that agency for a major writer-creative director. Ray has been in advertising just about continuously since Dartmouth, having spent the ten years before forming Welch, Currier as a freelancer, and the eight years before that at Ingalls Associates, where he was co-creative director. He has won many advertising industry awards.

Steve Bosworth, now president of the United Foundation, and former ambassador to the Philippines, was on campus on May 10 for the fifth anniversary celebration of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding.

Reminders: Last call for a 1961 mini-reunion in Charlotte on September 30-October 1 during "Catch the Spirit of Dartmouth" weekend. Oak Winters and I are willing to arrange a special time for '61s to gather, but we need to hear from interested people.

Call or write Dave Prewitt if you're going to the "official" mini-reunion in Hanover October 14-16, Dartmouth Night weekend. Dave has planned a Saturday dinner at the DOC house on Occom Pond, and reserved a block of rooms at the Sunset Lodge.

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