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Bert Englert was the object of well-deserved plaudits at the dedication of the Herbert C. Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The laboratory, located in the Borwell Research Building on the DHMC campus, contains equipment for high-resolution fluorescence and electron-microscopic-image analysis of cells, techniques that are now essential to cell biologists in biomedical research. The newly equipped laboratory will be linked electronically to other laboratories, including the Fannie E. Rippel Electron Microscope Laboratory. Bert served for many years with the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation (a philanthropy funding research in heart disease, cancer, and other areas), and most effectively as its president and CEO before he retired in 1989.

Speaking of electronic linkages, I should say I'm indebted to Dick Baldwin in New Jersey for the above information, which may indicate that mere proximity to Hanover doesn't necessarily mean one is plugged into that "information highway" of the future. (In fact, I'm embarrassed to say, I am modemless!) As I write this, Dick and I share a common disgust at the lingering piles of dirtysnow on our respective landscapes. Fortunately, he and Dot are off next week for some basking on St. Thomas—"sort of a post retirement celebration."

To return, for a moment, to the medical mode, I'm delighted to report that DaveSmith has been honored by his Department of Pediatrics at the Temple University School of Medicine. In celebration of Dave's 50-year career in pediatrics and his contribution to Temple and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Temple has established the David S. Smith Visiting Professorship, an annual event that features lectures by leading physicians with a variety of pediatric interests.

For classmates who write to me when they have some news, my respect and affection are boundless. Like Merrill McLane, for example. Mac has a book coming out this month: The Adventure of Blueberrying On Cape Ann,Massachusetts. Cape Ann has Gloucester and Rockport, the latter described by Mac as "my home town." The book is illustrated with Mac's photographs and maps, and the cover illustration (in color) is a detail of an 1873 Winslow Homer painting showing blueberry-pickers. Mac has also completed another project entitled Guadalcanal To Japan, consisting of letters he wrote to his parents when he was a marine lieutenant in the Pacific Theater in World War 11. These represent an addition to a McLane family history for which he has already written segments on his Rockport boyhood and Dartmouth years.

Mac notes that quite a few members of our class served in the marines, including three he met in the Pacific: Charles Camp, HughCorrigan, and Cappy Rix. He wishes someone "would write a few paragraphs on each of our marines . . . for class and College records. I just can't do it; I have two more books on Spain I'm working on." So I have written to Cappy about Mac's suggestion, and if you were a marine you may be hearing from him.

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