1970

We will be holding our annual class mini-reunion in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend, before and after the Harvard game on November 1. We'll have our tent on Heorot's front lawn. For those closer to N.Y.C., visit our class tailgate party at the Columbia game on November 8.

It's going to be another great football season, guys! This column is heavy on news briefs because of a backlog of items and limited space. Gail Anderson was appointed medical director of Grady Memorial Hospital, where his specialty is trauma care and disaster management. He served as Grady's spokesperson during the Olympic bombing incident.

The Long Island Business magazine featured a story about Tom Ostermueller as a "biopharmaceutical pioneer" for his work with Melville Biologies, now a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the New York Blood Center Inc. The company develops technologies that kill viruses potentially transmitted during blood transfusions.

On the legal front, Timothy Russell has joined a new law firm (Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen, and Young) in Philadelphia as counsel. Tim lives in Villanova, Penn. And Paul Francis has been named coordinator of the litigation group in the Houston offices of the national law firm, Baker & Hostetler. The firm's chair was quoted as saying that Paul "has a successful history as a trial lawyer in complex litigation matters." Paul's former Bones Gate roommate (and my old Butter field dorm roommate) Scott Perry visited Massachusetts in June for a large family gathering. Scott and wife Christine came into Boston to reminisce over dinner. Scott's work is taking him around the world, where he's involved in a number of interesting business ventures including the new disco Decades in N.Y.C. "for the over-30 crowd," a bank in the Bahamas, and a cable television network in Argentina. And since he had just returned from Vietnam, we had a lot to talk about.

Demie Duckworth writes that he and Meg have been back to Hanover "many times since our 25th to see our two daughters, Heather '98 and Gret '00. We've met many of their friends and can report that Dartmouth still attracts the best." They went to the Temptations concert last spring and Demie added, "Hard to believe that we listened to the Motown sound and that it is still going strong."

Gene Nelson lives in Norwich and works in senior management at Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Center, where his wife, Sandy, also works as a lawyer in the risk management office. Rod Thomas lias been the head of the trust department at Ledyard National Bank in Hanover for the past two years (commuting each day from Brattleboro) and has recently moved to Norwich. For the second year in a row, Lou Young's lacrosse team from Woodstock High School won the state championship in Vermont. Lou's team competes with the Lebanon high school team coached by Star Johnson.

In the prestigious journal Science last March, a study of isotopic analyses of a meteorite by John Valley has provided hints of past life on Mars. John, currently a University of Wisconsin-Madison geochemist, said, "Everything we see is consistent with biological activity."

In the complaint department, three concerns: 1) I apologize for spelling SkipSturman's name incorrectly (let's blame automatic spell-check); 2) I promise to never, ever again mention the hair loss of classmates; 3) and the wife of a classmate questioned why my column in the special women's issue failed to carry any news about the females of '70. Is there some? A special "athletes" edition is coming up, so send in any news about our classmates' sports moments.

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