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Dr. Loring Wood and Dr. Bob Joy attended their 50th reunion at Dartmouth Medical School last year. Equal time, docs! You gotta come to your Dartmouth 55th.

Loring is leading an initiative called CHAP (for Club Health and Action Program) at his Venice (Fla.) Golf and Country Club. It aims to provide the thousand or so residents with a base of healthrelated information, to encourage and provide ways to accomplish their own health self-management (exercise, nutrition, periodic screening) and to offer them advisory services (health claims counseling, medical decision analysis). He uses volunteers where possible. The worthy goal is to help people participate in their own health care and become better consumers of professional services. Loring stays tuned to the leadership work at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in health care research and quality assurance.

Dr. Ted Safford, a former roommate of Loring's, visited Turkmenistan with a UConn colleague last fall. They led seminars and workshops for SO doctors (46 women) in that small central Asian nation, on how to train and establish physicians in family practice. For Ted it was a fascinating opportunity to experience a culture and enjoy a warm and friendly reception. It must have been satisfying too for Ted to deliver his career-accrued knowledge to advance medical practice in a developing country. Ted still teaches part time at the UConn Medical School.

Howard Germain offers reflective perspective on his recent trip to Germany. He found it awesome to drive through a city and realize that 55 years ago it was 60 to 80 percent rubble. "The time, effort and treasure that must have gone into reconstruction...are impossible to comprehend." But Howard recalled "with some pride, that the Marshall Plan and the Berlin airlift helped make it possible." A darker side emerged in Dresden, a city of little strategic value in a war practically over, which was fire bombed and reduced to ashes to avenge the earlier German attack on Coventry. "It is inherent in war that not only are the bad guys corrupted but inevitably the good guys are as well."

Frank Aldrich forwarded a note from Carol Newman: "How kind of you to think of me! I am touched by the thoughtfulness of Paul's old buddies. I'm doing quite well—celebrating Paul's life and feeling blessed that we had 20 joyous years together." Carol, we hope that you and many other surviving spouses will be with us at the 55th Reunion in June. Your husbands' old buddies do want to keep you all in the fold of'45.

Trudie Butler (603-679-8630) and Shirley Wason (603-679-8915) are eager to pave the way for you.

P.O. Box 1317, New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-6749 (h); (603) 526-4292 (fax); donald.m.sisson.45' @alum.dartmouth.org

'4555th June 12-14

Ted Safford taught doctors in Turkmenistan how to establish a family practice. DON SISSON '45