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In the September 10, 1999, issue of the Lake Placid News we read in big headlines "Olympic Hometown Hero Jack Shea turned 89 this week." The article read: "A belated happy birthday to Lake Placid's Jack Shea, who celebrated his 89th birthday Monday, September 7. It's quite possible that Jack is the oldest living American who has won an Olympic gold medal (actually two gold medals) in a winter Olympics." In the same newspaper, dated October 8-14,1999, was a color photograph of Jack showing President Clinton the two gold medals he won for speed skating in the 1932 Olympic winter games in Lake Placid. Also pictured were his son, Jim, who was an Olympic competitor in the Nordic

combined event, and his grandson, Jimmy, the 1999 world skeleton champion who will get his shot at winning a medal in the 2002 Olympic games in Park City, Utah.

Dartmouth Medical School professor Dr. Michael Sporn, the Oscar M. Cohn '34 Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, received a $50,000 award from BristolMyers for his pioneering work to develop drugs to arrest cancer in pre-malignant stages. The field is known as chemoprevention—a term coined by Dr. Sporn.

As I write this in November, a rather dismal football season is coming to a close this Saturday when we play Princeton, a team that lost to Yale by two points while we lost to Yale by 41. We didn't see any '34s at the seven games we attended except at our minireunion Colgate game. Maybe some were in the East stands.

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Jack Sheamay be the oldestliving American to havewon a gold medal(actually, two)in a winter Olympics. GENE ORSENIGO '34