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My apologies to Les Davis for this tardy write-up of our conversation in November. Les was visiting john and Margie Kelley here in Sarasota on his way to Orlando, where Linda was attending a committee meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Board. The Davis cattle and horse ranch in Cimarron, N.M., is now in the capable hands of their four boys and two girls. Les said that he occasionally sees Dick Paul in Albuquerque and ditto Bill Cashel's daughter, who teaches at Oklahoma State. While in the East, Les and Linda visited Don andPat Stillman at their new digs in Longwood Fla., and planned to catch Don and JaneHanks in their Fort Myers winter hideaway. Hopefully, Don will pass out all the latest dope on our 55th reunion June 10-12, 1996.

Dr. Rowland French, pinch-hitting for Dr. Tim Takaro in the Fall issue of Dartmouth Medicine, has permitted me to excerpt his interesting account of a career in medicine. After Dartmouth Med School Rowland went to Harvard with Bob Ferguson and Bill Dignam and roomed with Joe Fuller. Called up by the marines, he landed with the third assault wave at Iwo Jima in 1945. He was wounded by artillery fire and was evacuated to Guam and Honolulu with a hole in his thigh. The man next to him was killed by the same shell. His unit later sailed for Japan and DickSpillane was one of the navy doctors on their ship. Rollo worked in Nagasaki and Kyushu for a year (visiting Dr. Bill Jamison in Kagoshima) before returning to the States for discharge. His career in surgery at various hospitals was shortened when he developed bilateral cataracts around 1968. By that time he was living in Eastport Maine, and he remained there in general practice for many more years. Rollo's health is OK after recent quadruple bypass surgery, but unfortunately his wife, Winnie, is in a weakened condition from intestinal cancer.

Another guest writer for Tim's column was Dr. Bill Wilson. He recounts that he and Ed Tabor finished their last two years of med school at McGill University. Being a Canadian, Bill was immediately inducted as an army private, but his government cheque helped pay his way through school. Discharged after the war as a captain, he started a general practice in the small town of Brighton, Ontario, and later joined with another physician in setting up a clinic there, an innovation in those days. After ten years Bill returned to Hanover and Mary Hitchcock for training in anesthesiology. Subsequently he joined the staff of a new hospital near Toron to and in 1962 began 15 years as chief of their anesthesia service. Now in retirement, Bill and Dot, his wife of 50 years, have more time to improve their already commendable golf handicaps. They also have more freedom to visit their three daughters and one son, another nice pastime.

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