1979

You all have been so incommunicative that I decided to devote this column to a feature story about the 180 pound ovarian cyst removed from a West Virginia woman by doctors at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to cutting-edge technology and the ingenious use of a power winch, the procedure was a success, and the patient is down from 700 pounds to a svelte 400. Beside Saddam's secret nuclear plants and the depletion of the ozone layer, this medical miracle has been in the forefront of the news in the mid-Atlantic region for the past month. Live TV coverage included a telephoto view of the operation.

Fortunately, as I was cropping operation pictures for inclusion in this issue, a few glowing reports of career achievements trickled into my mailbox. Libby Roberts has been named director of major gifts and director of campaign planning at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Libby previously served as the director of the Harvard Law School Fund.

Tom Sullebarger has been elected to a Fellowship in the American College of Cardiology, an 18,000-member non-profit professional medical society and teaching institution which is dedicated to fostering optimal cardiovascular care and disease prevention. Tom is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and currently is assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at the University of Rochester.

Nicholas Theodorou has left the office of the United States Attorney to join the law firm of Foley, Hoag and Eliot in Boston.

On May 17 Robert and Pat Worley became the proud parents of Samantha Blair, a 12-pound bundle who is already looking forward to her first party at The Lodge. And on June 10, Patrick McGee O'Neil arrived in Baltimore. During his first week he slept a total of three nocturnal hours. It has been frighteningly similar to rooming with CarlYerkovich.

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