1954

April 1955: Still serving: JohnPope on the USS Sperry, Bob(Dean back from a Mediterranean tour, Dick Kolbe off of the USS Plymouth Rock, BillWhite with the Army in Germany, BobOsmond and Joel Poorman aboard the USSPreston in the Pacific, in Far Eastern waters in the "Alligator Fleet" were Ev Rattray,Luke Case, Doug Dodge and Dick Davidoff, Bob Buchanan in the Canal Zone, AceTaylor at Lowry AFB and Jim Grady at Fort Sam, Houston. Doing other things: JackReed engaged to Nancy Campbell. Marriages: Richard Rubin to Ellen Rosen, DaveDyche to Mary Moorman, Dick Leary to Muriel Lindgren and Hugh Nolin to Deborah Graves.

Current News: Received an e-mail from George Haskins, who retired from Eastman Savings and Loan in 1991 and was running his own residential real-estate business "more or less part time," but is now retiring again to pay attention to more important things—his golf and tennis. He and Irene winter in Seabrook Island, S.C. With their spare time, they have traveled extensively to Baja, Sea of Cortez, Alaska, Belize, Guatemala, the Galapagos Islands, Ireland, Greece and Turkey. Sounds much better than banking.

Dana Low reported on the First Annual '54 Northeast Ski Outing at Haystack and Mount Snow in southern Vermont in January. Attending were Dick and Ellen Gorsey, Dana and Anne Low, Jay Davis,Stearns and Pat Martin and Tony Kane. Everyone came back in one piece except Ellen Gorsey, who slipped on ice while walking, not skiing, and cracked her kneecap. She did, however, get the Good Sport Award.

As this is being written,, less hardy classmates, including your secretary, are headed to The Plantation Inn in Crystal River, Fla., for the First Annual '54 Winter Golf Outing. A fall report in next month's column, with pictures on the class Web site.

The following thanks to John Moran and the DMS Alumni Notes: ChuckTannenbaum has retired from his ophthalmology practice in Pasadena and moved to a 40-acre hay operation on the Mackenzie River in Springfield, Ore. Springfield is a short distance from Eugene, Ore., and the University of Oregon. Ben Gilson has also retired from a variety of orthopedic positions following his 24-year Navy career. He is active in church and civil choral groups. Ben will sing (as will Luke Case) the Brahmns' "Requiem" with the Dartmouth Glee Club at NYC's Carnegie Hall in April to commemorate the 120 th anniversary of the "Requiem." Ed Horton stepped down from the position of medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston in 1997 but stayed on as vice president and director of clinical research. He was quoted last September in an article in the Boston Globe about obesity, metabolism and diabetes.

I sadly report the passing of Dave Reed, who died on January 28, 2000, in Canandaigua, N.Y.

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Ben Gilson and Luke Case will join the Glee Club in Carnegie Hall to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Brahms' "Requiem. DON BERLIN '54