1958

The Tusitala, the Nashua (N.H.) High School yearbook, labeled him as one of the all-time greats in basketball..indispensable at tournaments. He played varsity basketball in the point guard positions for two seasons, serving as co-cap-tain his senior year, and he played two seasons of varsity football, excelling in the quarterback position. The class ballot listed him as the most versatile boy and the most athletic.

He is Ronald K. Mellon, a 1954 NHS graduate, who was an outstanding student athlete, finishing in the upper quarter of his class academically.

"After graduating from Nashua High, Mellon enrolled at Dartmouth College where he earned his B.A. degree as an economics major and English minor. He limited his sports activities to intrafraternity football and basketball, graduating in 1958."

Where is Ron now? He has since 1981 been chief of administration service at the VA Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio. Ron and his wife, Martha Ann, make their home in Dayton.

The article went on to say that they have four children plus 12 grandchildren. Any of you '58s have more than 12 grandchildren? I have been sitting on seven for the past four years but hope for a few more following the marriage of our youngest son, Preston '90, last fall.

Continuing his career in radiology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Peter Spiegel recently wrote an article for the American Journal of Roetgenology commemorating the centennial of the discovery of the clinical utility of x-rays at Dartmouth in 1896. Peter also showed an artistic side by designing a poster for the occasion.

If you are a C-Span devotee, you may have seen our own Dodd Wilson, dean of the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, testifying for the NIH before the House Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee on behalf of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Council of Deans.

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