“Alumni Books” is a must read in most issues of DAM, so I thought it might be fun to build an exclusively 1957 bookshelf. I contacted the College for our authors and books from previous years. Turns out the DAM alumni bookshelf only began in 2009, so my bookshelf investigation begins very late, 52 years after graduation! I’m sure we published before that date, but it’s a start. Let’s see what we have and count on readers to identify the books missed from those important early years. No need for Dewey and decimals, let’s start alphabetically with our 11 classmates and their 18 books.

First shelf: Bob Creasy is first with his classic Maternal-Fetal Medicine, in its ninth edition! Next up, Bill Davidow with two: The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines and his Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet. Ellen and Bill Fiero come next with Halcyon Days: Cruising America, then John Hobbie with United States in Land of Extremes: A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska. Michael Lasser follows with three, America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley; America’s Songs II: From the 1890s to the Post-War Years; and City Songs and American Life 1900-1950.

Next shelf: Monte Pascoe’s wife, Pat, with A Dream of Justice, The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools, then Larry Selig with two: 5 Prayers God Loves to Answer: The Amazing Promise Jesus Makes and Discovering Your Spiritual DNA. Next, Bruce Sloane with two: Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow and Octogenarian’s Cochlear Implant Journey. Chic Shaver next with Basic Bible Stories, and his Living in the Blessing: A 365-Day Devotional. Then, Jerry Weiss with Breaking Through Chronic Pain: A Holistic Approach for Relief.

Our final shelf with our last two books, but leaving room for more from you: Chris Wren’s Walking to Vermont and Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution.

It’s a fun start. Great and diverse books from a great and diverse class!

—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnw cusick@aol.com