1952

In College Don Gann was a quiet philosophy major, an outdoorsman, and member of the ski patrol. There has been a change according to the Baltimore Sun. He is now an activist with an impact. Don is a Quaker and a volunteer in the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international organization devoted to promoting world peace—quite a contrast, Quakerism being dedicated to passive contemplation. Don is a trauma surgeon in Baltimore with a load of academic appointments and scholarly writings to his credit. He is professor of physiology at University of Maryland and vice chairman of the U.M. Hospital department of surgery. In spite of a tremendous professional pace, Don has made time to go to Berlin in January with AFSC, to Cambodia and Vietnam in March, and to work on a United Nations proposal to limit arms sales in regions of instability and countries with poor human rights records. On the home front, Dr. Gann continues a campaign against gun violence, which in Maryland persists as a major social issue in spite of gun prohibitions which are among the toughest in the country. As a physician, Don has seen the gruesome consequences of gunshot injuries, and he is preparing a pamphlet with other trauma surgeons for use in classrooms to explain the consequence of gun violence. "Guns do kill people," he states. They also severely injure for life, which the statistics don't reveal. Clearly this is a classmate who enjoys causes.

Don Myers wrote from St. Thomas before Reunion that he could not make it. He is up to his molars in chairing the Dental Board of Registration and the Hospital Insurance Committee. HMOs, he says, are "not permitted in the territory...Hanover should be so lucky." He sends regards.

A squib from the Falmouth Enterprise reports that Herb Katz was named Lumber Dealer of the Year by the Massachusetts Real Lumber Association. At Reunion Herb modestly acknowledged the kudo, but was much more interested in his son joining the family firm founded by Herb's father in 1936. This took some doing because Rick '79 was hell-bent on. an international investment banking career as a partner with Lehman in New York City.. Rick has taken over, but Herb does some business on the phone at home. Herb and his wife, Laraine, lived in Norwood, Mass., but recently moved to Falmouth. They have four sons and six grandchildren, all at home. If you call Herb, General Builders Supply produces a pleasant receptionist who will tell you that "Mr. Katz has no fixed schedule"—the good life of tennis on Cape Cod, skiing at Loon.

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Herb Katz is Lumber Dealer of the Year. HENRY WILLIAMS JR. '52