1963

At our '63 mini-reunion in Hanover last fall, Jane and Mike Emerson suggested I give a call to John Patterson, who also lives in Seattle. John is a long-term cancer survivor and a pioneer in receiving one's own bone marrow as opposed to receiving someone else's marrow. Nevertheless John suffered some physical disabilities that, while not affecting his everyday living activities, have prevented him from doing some of the athletic activities he enjoyed in the past. Aretired attorney and Stanford graduate, John's great passion is foreign travel, which he does at least once a year either with the Stanford or Dartmouth tours. He's just returned from a Seine cruise from Normandy to Paris that focused on Monet and other French Impressionists. He's been to Switzerland and Panama on these tours. Next year he may go to Romania. In Switzerland he had the opportunity of visiting the falls where Sherlock Holmes and Moriarity (not Michael) had their famous death-to-the-end fight, which Holmes somehow survived for another 40 novels. John, who promises to tell us about his next trips, is in touch with BobDavis, an attorney who lives on Mercer Island off Seattle.

At the same mini-reunion I ran into Pam and Dick Booma, formerly of Acton, Mass., and now proud owners of a North American Van Line agency in Lebanon, N.H. They have six trucks that also are available for ploughing when snow piles high in winter. Also at the party were Gayle and GeorgeRichardson of Lynnfield, Mass., whose daughter Christina is our class scholar, and Monica and Frank DeSerio of Luray, Va. Dick Heimovics, Shawnee Mission, Kans., reported at the mini-

reunion that he's still the crusty old professor of organization behavior at Missouri. Carl Crosley, Syracuse, discussed his specialty, pediatric neurology, with John Kubacki's wife, Tatiana, a physician in New York.

At the class executive committee meeting, Dick Berkowitz, our past president, was presented a china limited replica of Eleazor Wheelock from current president Bob Bysshe, in recognition of past service. Our; Alumni Fund goal for the year 2000 is to raise $310,000 with the help of 120 leadership donors (those who give at least $1,000) and 60-percent class participation. Besides Hanover, mini-reunion chair Marty Bowne scheduled class gatherings at Harvard, Princeton and Shenandoah, Va. Also in the works are a regional reunion in Atlanta and a 60th (shudder) birthday party.

Some classmates, including DaveSchaefer and son Andrew, braved the rain and watched Dartmouth beat Cornell. Others shopped. Yours truly did that and also bonded with my son Robert over ping pong at Collis Center. Phyllis and BruceCoggeshall, Rich Dickinson and Rosemary and John Whitmer held a Sig Ep reunion at Bill Breetz's summer place on Lake Morey in Vermont and followed with dinner at Cafe Buon Gustaio in Hanover. The official class dinners were Friday night at Jesse's, Saturday night at Bob Barnum's in Lyme, N.H., and Sunday brunch at Simon Pearce in Woodstock, Vt.

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Don Sherwood '63 of Dartmouth's CapitolHill gang, p. 26

John Pattersonis a cancer pioneer,having received his owntone marrow through atransplant. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63