1965

Mike Gonnerman has completely revised the class Web site. Please look at it at www.dartmouth.org/classes/65/ and provide your comments, corrections and suggestions. Some pages of interest include an upcoming events calendar, up-to-the minute news about the 40th reunion, a class memoriam, back issues of the class newsletter and lots of class and Dartmouth photos. There are also links to Dartmouth (and other) Web sites.

Jim Ramsay writes from Tennessee that he is still D.A. in Oak Ridge (Anderson County), and still married to his original campaign manager, Kathy. Their son, Chris '91, is a practicing urologist in nearby Farragut, Tennessee, and Chris and wife Julie have provided two grandchildren, Kaitlin and Megan, soon to be ages 4 and 1. Kaitlin is exceptional (Jim objectively confided that she is the most precocious grandchild ever born); Megan is a Downs syndrome child, which fact has brought them into touch with another alum, John Budai '76, the physicist at Oak Ridge National Lab, who also has a Down's syndrome child, aged 9. Jim says that even with his successful career, teaching is what he always wanted to do, and to some extent he envies Frank Bellizia, who got it right the first time in pursuing a teaching career from the git-go.

Doug Richman writes that he is still married to wife Eva, as he has been since our graduation year—and admits happily that it was the best decision he ever made. Their children, Sara and Matt, and son-in law Adam have all moved back to the local San Diego area, where Doug and Eva have lived for the past 27 years. Doug is professor of medicine and pathology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The second edition of Doug's textbook, Clinical Virology, was just published. Doug has devoted the past 20 years to HIV research and patient care and is the director of the UCSD Center for AIDS Research. Like most of our classmates of whom I ask about retirement plans, Doug still enjoys what he is doing too much to think that far out ahead. Good to hear from you after all this time, Doug. Now how about the rest of you letting us know what you are up to?

Getting "up" for this winter's Out of Hanover mini, Steve Waterhouse sent around a recent article from The New York Times about the discovery of Vail back in 1957. Dick Durrance picked up the notice and remarked he actually was in the flight in which his father surveyed the terrain that eventually became the mighty Vail, mecca of all U.S. ski areas. More on how that OOH mini-weekend went in the next edition.

As is happening too frequently on my "watch" there is some sad news to report: Al Hotchkin reportedly died recently in New York. I have not yet received the particulars so the obituary will appear in a future issue. Anyone with knowledge or memories of Al please let me know. Many thanks, classmates.

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