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Sam Katz advises: "Cathy and I after our earlier years with Nobel laureate virologist John Ender at Harvard have both been faculty pediatricians at Duke for the past 43 years and are now emerita/us. She distinguished herself as scientific director of the Elizabeth Pediatric AIDS Foundation, establishing multiple projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa to interrupt transmission of HIV from millions of infected mothers to their newborns. My work has been principally with vaccines, most recently focused on extending their availability and use for infants and children in resource-poor countries." Congratulations to you both. Cathy, I don't know howyou managed it with nine children—a real tour de force. Sam adds that they would be happy to welcome any classmates who find their way to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Don Gilmore advises that he came to Dartmouth in the spring of 1944, joined the Navy (not in V-12) in 1945, returned after discharge and graduated in 1948. He worked for the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston and then for the Committee for Economic Development in New York City. After some 30 years he made a lifestyle decision and moved to the small town of Erwin, Tennessee, which is located in the southeast corner of the state, contiguous to North Carolina and the Appalachian Mountains. He worked there as a representative for a stock-and-bond brokerage until he retired at 62 in 1989. For the next 15 years or so he spent four or five months every year traveling the world, occasionally accompanied by his wife, Rita, who passed away in 2004. He traveled much of Russia and found that while in Moscow the people were not so friendly, the retired apparatchiks in the resort area on the south side of Lake Baikal, just north of central Mongolia, were very approachable and helpful. At 5,387 feet elevation, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, with a 395-mile-long crescent, surface area of 12,248 square miles. Don is no longer able ro drive, bur is hopeful of joining us at our 65th reunion September 27 through 29.

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