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Hard on the heels of DaveSmith's Pediatrician of the Year award comes news of a Laureate award for BillWinternitz from the Alabama chapter of the American College of Physicians. For most of the past two decades at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Bill has been in the business of educating med students and residents in the hope of making them "more apt to enter primary care—especially in the more rural or under-served areas." One tangible result: about 200 of his school's graduates are now practicing family medicine (Hillary Clinton and C. Everett Koop, please note). Nice to see that in the awards department the Winternitzes are an equal-opportunity family; Madeleine Winternitz was recently elected Woman of Distinction by the Soroptimist Club of Tuscaloosa.

Joe McCormick, who worked for the Uniroyal Chemical Company for 38 years, was honored last July with a life membership in the Institute of Industrial Engineers, an international organization. Joe, a charter member of the Danville (Illinois) Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), is also starting his tenth year as a volunteer tutor in his community's Adult Literacy Program. As one who began that activity early this year, I appreciate both the time and effort involved, as well as the satisfaction Joe has experienced from seeing his students develop a truly liberating skill.

Just when we thought we had brought you up to date on Joe Wilder's activities in the Summer DAM, a late bulletin arrives from Herb Marx '43 with a New York Times clipping describingjoe's latest trauma. Our class- mate, returning home to Riverdale from Manhattan and carrying one of his favorite and most valued paintings, stopped to rest on a park bench near a bus stop at 81st Street. When the bus arrived, he jumped aboard with his renowned athleticism, but . . . minus the prized painting, a fact that didn't come to him until 45 minutes later. (Hey, it could happen to any of us!) He called the New York Police Department with very little hope. Three hours later he was thrilled to learn that the 20th precinct police had indeed recovered the painting and would he please come and pick it up. And so explodes another myth of the cruel city!

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