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First of all, thanks so much to you guys and dolls for your lovely Christmas cards and your letters and get-well cards to Nina after she had her stroke in late July. She has been improving, even though slowly, and as this is being written in mid-February, she is on a walker. Her aim right now is to be able to attend her granddaughters wedding in June, her grandsons wedding in July and our 70th reunion in October.

"If cancer is an iceberg, a detectable tumor is just the tip," so says Michael Sporn, a cancer researcher, at Dartmouth Medical School and a protogé of our classmate Oscar Cohn. So read the opening sentence of a feature in U.S.News EWorldReport on a field called chemo-prevention, a term that Dr. Sporn coined.

It is with sadness that we report the death of our classmate Harry Giimore, who passed away on or around February 7 after spending one week in the hospital. He roomed with me in our junior year. I received a letter from him just a week before he went into the hospital. He will long be remembered as a stalwart of our class. To his wife, Pru, our deepest sympathy.

Also our condolences to the families of Ed Marshal, who passed away on July 8,2003, and Charles Kehoe on November 29,2003.

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