1950

Judge Lee Sarokin has garnered yet another high honor: appointment by President Clinton to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. The 14-member 3rd Circuit Court has jurisdiction over appeals from New Jersey, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.

A Putnam, Conn., newspaper clipping reports that Per-Jan Ranhoff received a Distinguished Service Award from the Pomfret School in a ceremony at the Harvard Club in New York City. Per-Jan has retired after 37 years at Pomfret School, where he had been a math teacher, acting headmaster, assistant headmaster, and a coach of soccer, hockey, and track. He and Anne, having raised seven children, apparently still live on a farm in Pomfret Center and travel often to his native Norway.

Another clipping comes from the Kent County (Md.) News and tells us that Jim Bristoll was elected to the city council. Brooks Boyce passed along another newsclipping which was a profile of Jim Laing. Retired two years ago as an English teacher at the University School of Milwaukee, Jim continues as its tennis coach. No wonder, since both his boys' and girls' teams have each won ten state championships. He and Pat have raised a family of tennis players (two of their kids are also coaches). Jim also runs a tennis program and summer tennis camps.

A belated report on a nice note received from Bob Thomson is that he and Majorie have successfully launched a new career in the software field of industrial maintenance.

Parenthetically, if you happen to travel to Australia, better leave your Dartmouth 1950 hat, jacket, sweater, etc. at home. Jim McCrum has been telling his tennis-playing buddies that the "'5O" on his hat stands for 50 visits. It seems that our motto, "A Touch of Class," is also the name of a brothel in Sydney.

An article in a Florida business journal tells of the doings of Jim Stehlin. He, his wife, Harriette, and their three sons run a successful Jacksonville-based shipping and stevedore company which they started about ten years ago.

Another recently received news clipping describes Cul Modisette's retirement and honorary-membership recognition from the Simsbury (Conn.) Farmington River Watershed Association. Cul is active in commercial real estate following a career in advertising and a sporting-goods business.

Ed Zebrowski , M.D., has retired from family medicine and devotes his time to writing, something he says Robert Frost advised him to do 50 years ago. His first book, MyBrother, Hail and Farewell!, was published in April and deals with his exploits with General Patton in WW 11. Another book, PatientBeware: The Doctor is Coming, is due this fall.

That's it for now. Enjoy the fall, and take a minute to send me some news for future columns.

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Itseems that ourclass motto, "ATouch of Class,"is also the nameof a brothel inSydney.JACK KENT '50