1952

Every once in awhile, it is a good idea to thumb through Who's Who in America because it is a great soporific and you may run into a friend and classmate like Jules Baum on page 257. The book accurately describes the lustrous career of this world-class ophthalmologist, but it doesn't tell much about Jules' exploits at Dartmouth. Perhaps a letter should be dashed off to the editors that Jules majored in chemistry and zoology, that he wrote for the Quarterly and worked on the airwaves of WDBS. They would also like to know that he took a fantasy week in Vero Beach playing ball with the Dodgers and batted .300 at the age of 64. Jules believes in preventive living. He has been careful to fend off illness by diet and exercise: jogging every other day and tennis once a week. He is a Conferie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. After he received his M.D. from Tufts, he was "snatched" into the army and stationed in Bordeaux where he developed a passion for wine. Jules has devoted his professional career to the human eye: seeing patients, teaching principally at Tufts, and doing research. He has written extensively and served on the boards of several ophthalmological publications. His work resulted in the Alcon Research Institute Award in 1991 and, recently, the Castro Viejo Ophthalmological Society Medal for lifetime achievement. He served as president of the Ocular Microbiology immunology Group. His name appears in Best Doctors in America. He lives in Wellesley Mass., with Laura, whom he married in 1990. She is a middle-school teacher of special-needs kids. He has two children and two stepchildren. Jules has a "very good life" and a very full one.

During homecoming weekend, JohnNorth presided at his first class meeting as president. Churchill, Breed, Mandel Ev Parker, Grosshans, Noling, Liz Russell,Frank Logan, and Montgomery were present. Some highlights: we earned nearly $7,000 from reunion activities for good works. Currently, these are in part, a David's House project and a leased car for the Tucker Foundation that will phase out next year. Parker reported a $350,000 goal for the class of '52 for the Alumni Fund out of a total of $17.5 million, which it is Steve Mandel's responsibility to raise. A Simon Pierce bowl was purchased and presented to Dick McDonough at the Princeton game in recognition of his services as class president. The class dinner at the Hanover Inn turned out 45 and was a happy affair.

The millennium is two years away. More and more attention will be given to retrospection: the man/woman of the millennium; the critical event; the most important invention; the best piece of music, and so forth. Even though Dartmouth wasn't around 1,000 years ago, except as a green valley and granite mountains populated by Native Americans in a piece of geography that had yet to be called New Hampshire, can we relate the millennial events to the founding and development of the College? British imperialism? Christian zeal? And how did the College develop its unique character? Food for thought and...this column.

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