1961

Doug Zipes is one of four physicians to win the Scientific Council's Distinguished Service Award from the American Heart Association this year. According to the AHA, the award is presented to "Scientific Council members who have made significant contributions to current or past scientific knowledge in cardiovascular medicine and to the affairs of the Council and the American Heart Association." The AHA said that Doug's nomination was enthusiastically endorsed by his colleagues on the Council on Clinical Cardiology, and was presented to him in New Orleans in November. Doug is a professor in the Krannert Institute of Cardiology of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Reunion next month —NEXT MONTH—will feature yet another innovation: exploration of the decade ahead by a panel of experts chosen from among the reunion classes of 1959, '60, and '61 and chaired by Morton Kondracke '60 —the magazine editor who also has garnered considerable attention on television.

According to reunion co-chair Ron Wybranowski, the discussions will try to foresee changes in technology, in social and economic conditions, ana in such personal areas as family and religion.

Ron notes that there are so many possibilities just ahead, and we started talking about computer revolution after computer revolution —everything from studying surgery a frame at a time on computer to the ability, just around the corner, to generate a newspaper at the drop of a PageMaker. It may be the day of Paine is back, and monopoly journalism will soon be over. Ron of course is way ahead of me in things computer, and you'll recall his reliance on them to do a large share of the work in past reunions. At any rate, it was an hour before we could stop popping new ideas —and there were just two of us. Imagine, with 100 or more awakening minds.

The free-flowing discussion will be held at least once, and may resume again if the demand is there. (You'll recall that at our recent reunions, once has turned out to be insufficient time to chew over a topic, and we have gotten together a second time.)

The reunion-giving campaign was doing reasonably well as of mid-March, before most class agents had started writing or calling classmates. Art Kelton reported that $200,000 had been raised with 39 percent participation. We're shooting for 69 percent participation, and he would like to go far higher—stressing participation as we did in the 25th Reunion campaign.

Art reports a steady stream of classmates through his home town of Vail, Colo., mostly out there for ski vacations. Among those he mentioned were Larry Holden,Cartter Frierson, and Roger McArt. Some, like Larry Holden, have actually purchased homes in Vail, and come out there in the "off' season as well.

Art also reported attending a small dinner with President Freedman and a group of Dartmouth officialdom at Denver's Museum of Natural History. Under the label of "Strengthening Dartmouth for a New Century," the College officials were seeking feedback from alumni on a whole spectrum of issues.

Anyway, the next time you pick up this magazine, it will be on the other side of our reunion. I hope that what we read then will be a shared experience of many of us. If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Come.

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Class of 1961 30th Reunion • June 11-14,1990 Joint Reunion with the Classes of 1959 and 1960