1953

I just attended a huge ceremony dedicating the new, truly magnificent Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical I Center. Bob Derzon, our DHMC trustee, and Ross McIntyre were on hand. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 gave a great speech. Don't go near Hanover without seeing the new DHMC, right off Rte. 120 in Lebanon—but go as visitor, not a patient!

Dennis Thron isn't moving to the new DHMC, but is staying at the Medical School pharmacology department, where he pursues research in medical mathematics. There are very few people in this field. In some of his work he projects the time required for a drug to take effect or a disease to identify itself. He also teaches a course or two in statistics and analysis. Dennis graduated from Harvard Medical School and has been here since 1969.

If you have not reached 60, your memory is failing or you are not being straight with us. Please send Norm Carpenter and me detail of these great events.

Bob Callender tells me of a new twist for Tim Thomas's 60th—a gathering at the Chesapeake and Ohio Terminal in Baltimore. Cobbs, Krahmers, and others were there.

Gus Allen reports that over 30 of us signed up for the great Harbour Ridge reunion January 17-19, but he and Bob Simpson want even more. Had a big Harbour Ridge packet the other day from Bob Malin stuffed with all the activities and places to visit around there if your classmates get boring. Make plans now!

Blake Hering is with Portland, Oregon's major commercial real-estate firm, North, Beggs & Simpson. Some of the deals are in other parts of the country, but business in the Northwest is better than in most places, with large Japanese interests and a lot of high tech. His wife, Linda, is teaching English (ESL) to Japanese and other arrivals.

Jim Porath was here recently for the new Ledyard Bank's advisory board meeting. He's very busy at Tonneson & Cos., CPA's in Boston, and had another good season of sailing in Marblehead . He has several clients around here. Also on the advisory board is Russ Cook, but you don't see much of Russ or his dogs during hunting season. He is an investment advisor to clients primarily in Vermont and New Hampshire. He and Margie are frequent European travelers.

I saw Bob Price outside the Hanover Inn recently. Bob calls on bottlers for Anchor Hocking, a former major glass company which now concentrates on caps and seals. He's based in Boston and covers New England. Bob's roommate, Byron Menides, was here two weeks earlier for the Tuck Annual Giving meeting. In addition to teaching at WPI, he's mediating property and other disputes outside the court system. We presume Dan Quayle put him up to this.

Jim Cartmell is putting his golf expertise to work—not on a senior tour as you might expect, but as designer and distributor of a remote-controlled golf cart for those who like to walk but not carry die clubs. Shipments begin shortly. Jim Cobb's cart manufacturer, Yamaha, probably has something similar so we can have a "cart off' competition at Harbour Ridge.

I myself am reducing my time at K-Ross and opening an office in Lebanon for Direct Media, Dave Florence's company based in Greenwich, Conn., a major mailing list broker and manager.

K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766