1962

Marshall Ledger '61 was kind enough to send word that Bob Goodman was recently framed by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After 14 years at Penn, Bob recently retired to enter private practice and was honored on January 30 with a portrait dedication ceremony by the school and the Penn Medical Center. After Dartmouth, Bob received his medical training at Columbia, interned at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and was on the faculty at Harvard. In 1977 he was appointed chief of radiation therapy at the Penn hospital and first chairman of the department of radiation oncology. In 1988 he was awarded the Henry K. Pancoast Professorship of Radiation Oncology. Bob also served as acting executive director of the hospital from 1985-1987.

The dedication program reads, "Nationally, he has made extensive administrative and intellectual contributions to the biomedical community. Among these were service on the Cancer Clinical Investigation Review Committee of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Goodman's major clinical interests have been in the management of lymphomas and breast cancer. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in the management of breast cancer, and the establishment of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as one of the major breast cancer study treatment and research centers." Bob and his wife, Paula, live in Gladwyne, Perm., while daughters Debra and Ellen are out in the wide, wide world.

Moving across the Delaware River, the New Jersey chapter of the American College of surgeons recently elected George Saj as president. George got his M.D. from Columbia (same year as Bob Goodman) and interned at Cornell-Bellevue Hospital. He is currently director of surgery at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J., and sits on the boards of the New Jersey Chamber Music Society and the Ukranian Museum in the Big Apple. George and Martha (Saj, not Washington) reside in Montclair and have four children: Christina, Maia, Justin, and Georgie.

Still medically speaking, but back in Pennsylvania, Stuart Heydt was named president and CEO of the Geisinger Foundation, a regional health-care system. Stu, a maxillofacial surgeon who trained at the University of Nebraska (not Columbia?), had been executive vice president of the Foundation and continues to be active on several boards and civic committees in the Wilkes-Barre community. Stu and Judie hang their shingle in Shavertown, Penn., and have three full-grown shavers: Geoffrey, Tracy, and David.

Well-covered on the medical front, we turn to an under-reported segment of our class: the rock climbers are a small cadre who are mostly retired from rope hanging but have plenty of rocky memories. George B. Billings (the class has two Georges and one Clark of the Billings persuasion) lives in Peterborough, N.H., where he combines his vocation and avocation in cameras and pho- tography. His wife, Rachel, teaches school while daughter Heather is in her freshman year at the Rhode Island School of Design and son Marty is in eighth grade. Although he no longer climbs, George remembers a number of climbing trips with David Laing and Will Bassett. Will and Pam Bassett and sons Gordon and Christopher currently live in Denver. In the past, Will has taught skiing and rock climbing in Jackson, Wyo., and also headed up the area's avalanche control program. After getting his law degree, Will started a general practice which evolved into water law for the State of Colorado. He is now into intellectual pursuits while Pam teaches first grade. Another climber, Rick Medwick, also hangs out in the Denver area.

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