1933

After three and a half years in the army, Dave Warden, M.D., devoted his professional career to caring for mothers and delivering babies in Syosset, L.I., and environs. Then, he told us recently, when the premium for professional liability insurance rose to $100,000, he decided to call it a day. Since his retirement in 1987, his stance has been "100-percent loafing." He finds conditions in Hanover very different from 1933 and is disturbed by some of the changes, but two years ago he nevertheless donated a copy of Andrew Lang's biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Dartmouth College Library for its collection of rare books.

Bob Swinehart had just returned from voting when we talked with him in November, but was close-mouthed about how he had cast his ballot. A practicing orthodontist for 50 years, he retired in 1987 and is now living in a retirement community in Baltimore County, Md., just inside the Beltway. He had major surgery in 1993 and lived for six months in a Meridian Hospital recovery facility, which he touted to the skies as an organization well fitted to encourage recovery in cases such as his. He is now feeling fine and doesn't miss the length of extracted colon. He has been active recently as a member of the admissions committee for the University of Maryland Dental School.

The news from Rochester is that Rollie Stevens plays tennis three times a week with the verdict from his opponents that he still is a "tough competitor." Rollie has a long career as a surgeon, but had to retire from that practice when he reached 70. At that time, the dean of the Medical School at the University of Rochester invited him to establish an occupational medicine unit at the school. He and an associate started in with two secretaries and have now developed a full department which numbers 26 people. They work on the analysis of work-related physical injuries with the objective of establishing formulae for preventing their recurrence. Rollie regrets that arthritis prevents him from playing the violin, but he finds solace with Lois in regular skiing, travel, and watching his grandchildren graduate from most of the major educational institutions on the East Coast.

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