1950

I occasionally get newspaper articles forwarded from the College's clipping service. While they hardly substitute for first-hand news directly from you, they do provide a source of information about classmates we seldom hear from, and they often give us news about what these people have been doing since graduation.

The Johnsonburg (Pa.) Press reported on Bob Wilson, the Dr. Robert D.one. A radiologist, he recently joined the staff of the Kane Community Hospital. Bob got his M.D. from Boston University in 1954 and did his internship and residency at the Salem (Mass.) Hospital between 1954 and 1958. (Interestingly, the other Bob Wilson, Robert L., was working just down the street at Sylvania Electric at the same time.) Following residencies in several other Massachusetts hospitals, Dr. Bob went to the Bar Harbor, Maine, area, where he became chief radiologist at the Mt. Desert Island Hospital. Along the way he and his wife, Deirdre, had eight children. We wish Bob the very best in his new endeavor.

The second clipping is from the Chicago Tribune, with the headline "Chicago Roots: garlic lover sniffs out the real story." It seems that the Big Pavement Patch by the Lake was not named after a wild onion as is conventional wisdom, but after a garlic plant that the Illinois Indians called "chicagou." This worldshaking, shocking news is attributed to JohnSwenson. Retired, Swede is now a garlic expert and has grown about 500 species in his garden. He and Skidmore-grad wife Helen live in Glencoe, I11., and have three kids and three grandchildren. Swede gothisJ.D. from Northwestern, practiced law for a few years, and got into management consulting and executive recruiting with his own firm before retiring. In addition to his garlic cultivation and extensive research activities, according to the article, Swede taught himself to read 11 American Indian languages. He already read Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Norman French. Rather breathtaking, huh?

Still another clipping tells of Dr. GeorgeWoodwell, who received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Duke University. This was added to honorary degrees he has from Williams, Carleton, Muhlenberg, and Miami. George is the founder and president of the Woods Hole Research Center on Cape Cod. After graduation George earned advanced degrees in botany at Duke. Since then he helped found the Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Resources Institute, and the Environmental Defense Fund, and he is a former chairman of the board of the World Wildlife Fund.

Now back to a more mundane level. I am starting a research project of my own: finding '50 grandchildren who are going to Dartmouth. Yes, it's about that time. Please let me know, with particulars (and pictures), if one of yours is at the College or if you know of someone else's who is.

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