1939

Since our last we have lost four more classmates. KenWeidaw died qon February 14, Herb Furlow on March 4, Jack Graham on june 6, and Toby Wing on July 21. (Obituaries will appear in this or subsequent issues.)

Greenwood Press, a publishing house, calls David Long a respected writer of naval history Tory who is most qualified to write the justpublished biography of "Mad Jack," more properly known as Captain John Percival, USN (1779-1862). As you mighthave guessed, Dave, a retired professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, has written a number of other diplomatic and U.S. Naval works.

Stan Beskind, from whom we rarely hear, advises that after 40 years in Westport, Conn., he and Connie have moved to Weston a neighboring town. Retired for some years, they keep busy traveling and sailing when at home.

We note a changing of the guard for the class of'4o in the Dartmouth Medicine magazine, from Eddie Wells, the longtime scribe, to Ned Bayrd. Ned is obviously learning the frustrations of new'sless secretaries in a hurry. He wonders in print, for instance, about the condition of George Darr, whom he reports was once sued "way back when" for damaging a car when his head hit it. Or Al Ley whom Ned says he saw in Wisconsin a few years ago at a testimonial.

But Ned catches on fast. In a few succeeding columns he does a nice job writing up Morris Seligman's medical career, as well as a brief but illuminating bit on Dr. Charlie Neer, both of which might appear in "Thirty-Nine Out" if editor Cardozo so decrees. We have a bit to add—a quote from Charlie, who supposedly retired to tame wild horses at the family digs in Oklahoma: "I remain on permanent staff of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital as emeritus professor and special lecturer. I travel a lot. I also am chairman of the board of trustees of a new (international) surgical journal, so the horses do not get all my time."

A handsome magazine entitled Hamp- shire East featured an article entitled "The Most Brilliant Legal Minds in New Hampshire" in its July issue. Number-two on a list that was well larded with Dartmouth graduates was our own Bill Green, and number four was Stan Brown.

We have a note from Bob Fletcher in which he says he has just been told that he has beaten three types of cancer all at one time. "Nobody knows how it could happen!" In Sun Valley at the time of his note, he says that although he no longer skis, he couldn't feel better. (Boy do we love to get an "up" message such as Bob's.)

Cornie and Janet Miller stopped in for lunch with us in late July while returning from a family gathering in Craftsbury Common, Vt., to celebrate a milestone in mother Janet's life. They stopped in to say hello to Hank and Mary Merrill in nearby Greensboro, Vt.

Until November, keep well and busy!

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eorge Darr was once sued for damaging a car when his head hit it. -DICK JACKSON '39