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In the spring issue of the Dartmouth Med School News, Bob Rainie reported that Elmo Crehan out in California was one year after cardiac surgery. Elmo is still working to get his strength back and we all wish him well in that regard. Similarly, Don Stillman, our class president emeritus, is in need of support as he works on rehabilitating the heart that required a quintuple by-pass operation on June 3. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Pat Stillman, Mary Crehan and all those classmates and their families who are struggling with medical problems. Included in that group are Dick and Polly Hill. While driving in the newly completed tunnels in downtown Boston on May 15, Polly had a terrible headache. Dick quickly arranged for a police escort to Mass General Hospital, where Polly required immediate surgery to relieve aneurisms in her head. Miraculously she had no serious aftereffects and after three weeks of rehab work in the hospital, Polly was able to go home on June 12. Dick and the children are counting their blessings and assisting in Pollys great recovery. On a happier note, Jack Larigan reported via e-mail that he and Jean spend six months in Vero Beach, Florida, and six months in Leland, Michigan. After WWII service as a Navy officer Jack climbed the corporate ladder within St. Regis Paper Co., serving as a sales executive from 1946 to his retirement in 1983. He recently had a luncheon get-together (after 20 years) with Stu and Jojo Hicks, who live in Palm Beach and spend summers in Lake Toxaway, North Carolina. Stu and Jack went together to grade school, high school and were roommates at Dartmouth.

Josiah Fuller as a former thoracic surgeon in Duluth Clinic, Minnesota, sympathizes with all the 1941 families who are facing medical problems. Fortunately he is enjoying good health in the retirement community in Lady Lake, Florida. His only complaint is his golf score. Bob Leske had a similar complaint, in fact he had to turn in his golf clubs because of arthritis. Otherwise the old (aren't we all?) Barbary Coast musician is doing well with the aid of a pacemaker. However, after 35 years on Nantucket Island he's had enough of the wintry winds Down East.

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