1973

1973

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Mike Magill reported, “I retired from the University of Utah School of Medicine after 26 years on the faculty, 21 as chairman of the department of family and preventive medicine. I served as executive medical director of our multispecialty community practice group and founded and directed the Utah Area Health Education Centers Program. After completing medical school, residency, and ateaching fellowship at Duke, I had the privilege of leading education programs in family medicine at the University of Arizona and directing a community hospital-based family medicine residency in Tallahassee, Florida, before Utah. I also had the chance to visit DMS and DHMC several times as a visiting professor and a senior fellow. I’ll stay active in health services research as an emeritus professor and contribute to the growth of my specialty as chairman ofthe American Board of Family Medicine. None ofthis would have been possible without the transformative experience that was Dartmouth for this kid from the ’burbs in the San Francisco Bay Area!”

In March Kelvin Chin published a new book for which Tom Helfrich wrote a review. “Justwantedto share this Amazon review of Kel’s new book published earlier this month. We’d been corresponding since fall 2020, just catching up with how we’ve fielded what life has thrown our ways. He offered me the opportunity to reviewthe book pre-publication, which I accepted enthusiastically.” Review excerpt: “With the publication ofthis collection ofthoughtful, succinct essays—Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations on Living Life—Kelvin Chin once again provides an invaluable contribution to the ‘ars vitae’ literature. Chin encourages readers to trust their own life choices when informed by both rational, well-informed decision-makingprocesses and regular, effortless meditative sessions.”

Proud dad Doug Jaeger’s note: “Whenthe alumni magazine arrives I always go quickly to the class notes to see what other ’73 s are up to. I typically don’t have much to share about myself but today is a minor exception. As summer weather is finally arriving in Minnesota, there may be an interest in my 13-year-old daughter’s first music video titled Summei'time. Go to her website and view www. montanamonet.com.”

Howard Reiss reports: “I have just published my ninth novel —The ’60sDiary. At nine, I think I am one ofthe most prolific unknown writers around. This one is about Rose, born at the stroke of midnight on January 1,1950. On her 10th birthday her mother gave her a diary that she used to chronicle those pivotal years as she aged from 10 to 20. She finds the diary 50 years later while cleaning out her mother’s attic. In reading it for the first time since 1969, Rose gets the rare opportunity to journey through time with her younger self from her first love to Woodstock, from self-discovery and happiness to tragedy and rebirth.”

Zydeco accordionist, cichlid devotee, biology professor extraordinaire Wayne Leibel died of a heart attack in May. An obituary can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Val Armento