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In addition to President Bush the year 2006 has not been kind to our Peter Bogardus. After semi-retiring and looking forward to even more traveling he has instead become a oneman team attempting to keep the medical profession afloat. A heart attack, successful surgery for cancer and a stroke have cut back on the usual "Bogie" exuberance. Instead of recreation in the gym it's serious rehab. At home Nurse Shirley has imposed a new diet on him to which he is re sponding well. At last report he goes to the office on Tuesday and Thursday and the other days he's in the gym.Your scribe attended two funerals over a seven-day period in November-December.The older we get the more often this happens. In an Oakland, California, cemetery church building a small group of family and friends said goodbye to Merrilyn, or Marno, the wife of Howard Bissell. Her attributes and talents were warmly remembered by many of us before continuing the celebration of her life by going to Fentons, a nearby ice cream shop. What a great idea. The following weekend Iwas in Westchester County, New York, with my three sons to honor the memory of my sister Mary Ellen McKee Singsen, who had died a few weeks before, just shy of her 89th birthday. The burial was in a Quaker cemetery in Purchase, New York. The two funerals followed different formats but emotionally were similar as families say good-bye to loved ones.

Go online to our class Web site for a more lengthy obituary of Dave White, www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/51.

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