1951

Now comes a newsy e-mail from Ottawa. Wes Blake reports that he's been retired for some four years now, after 33 years as a geologist with Geological Survey of Canada. "My main interest remains the glacial history of the Arctic. I retain an office, as an emeritus research scientist, and am busy writing all those reports I should have done years ago instead of spending so much time in the High Arctic. But I still head north if someone is willing to pay the shot, so I got back to Ellesmere Island in 1998, courtesy of former colleagues I had taken north as my assistants more than a decade ago. Now they are professors in their own right. In 1990 and 1995 I was back in Svelbard, the island group north of Norway. Ingrid and I are well, and we travel a bit, managed to get a very nice cruise along the coast of Yugoslavia in 1998, went to the Yukon and to Brazil in 1994 for the separate weddings of our two sons, have also been to Scandinavia, the UK (Lake District), Czech Republic, Ireland and Portugal (we recommend the pousadas)."

A stalwart Nordic competitor on the Green ski team, winning the cross-country at Winter Carnival five decades ago, Wes is still at it. "I do as much cross-country skiing as I can, mainly in the Gatineau Hills just north of Ottawa. I even get in a 25k race every winter!"

Merrilyn and Howie Bissell decided that they simply were not seeing enough of their two sons and four grandsons, so they've made big rearrangements. They still love living in Bellingham, Wash., but have sold their lakeside triplex and moved into a smaller condominium, while also buying a condo in Lafayette, Calif., to be near the sons and grandsons in the Bay area. "We were just missing too many ball games, school events and other things in the boys' lives," says Howie. "We'll still be in Bellingham seven months of the year, but we'll see a lot more of our folks in California."

Jim Rogers, retired after 32 years as a general jurisdiction trial judge in Minneapolis, says he's continuing to do a lot of volunteer with local and national bar associations. "I recently completed coordinating the 55th annual ABA National Traffic Court Seminar at Tulane in New Orleans, with 100 judges in attendance." His note also mentioned attending an "excellent" lecture, "A Lawyer's View of the Smithsonian," given by Mike Heyman at the University of Minnesota Law School last fall. After heading the Smithsonian in Washington for five years, Mike now has returned to California,, where he'll go back to teaching in his old haunt, Boalt Hall, the law school at Berkeley.

Fifty Years Ago: In hockey, BU, top team in the East, is upset 6-4 by a surging Dartmouth team; Alike Choukas and Cliff Harrison score goals. The DCAC announces the"D" awarded athletes will be the same size (6 inches high) for all sports, cutting an inch off the letters previously given to football players.

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