Barry Smith provides news from the medical school alumni news. Gail and Stu Hanson spentlast August on a train trip west. They stopped at Incline Village on Lake Tahoe, Nevada, to visit their son and grandson, continuing on to San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Glacier Park. Stu retired last summer, was called back to cover for a colleague and is now “working at retirement.” Stu is a medical advisor for a company in St. Paul, Minnesota, that is developing an oxygen concentrator weighing two pounds. He also is starting his eighth year on the medical school admissions committee at the University of Minnesota. Lilli and Haig Kazazian celebrated 50 years of marriage last October. They made a terrific trip to China and Japan last summer. Haig is teaching and doing medical research at the Institute of Genetic Medicine at John Hopkins. Tip Putnam retiredfor the fourth time in 2008 and moved permanently to Hilton Head, South Carolina, to avoid the long Buffalo, New York, winters. Prior to the move Tip was a “much loved pediatrician in Buffalo,” running his own practice for 23 years. He then went on to teach at Children’s Hospital near Buffalo for 17 years, during which time he ran four of the hospital’s divisions. Now we hear from Barry Smith directly as he and Ruth visited Jane Kirk and Jay Herpel at Jane’s home in Asheville, North Carolina, last September. They also had lunch with Libba and Jim Wall, who were in Asheville celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary, and Sally and Dave Foster, who live in Asheville in the winter. Stuart Mackler has been reappointed to the Virginia Board of Medicine and serves as vice president. He also heads a nonprofit group that provides prostheses to Haitians injured in the January 2010 earthquake. Richard Sanders has just written a self-help manual for individuals who wish to take control of their own eating habits titled Control Your Eating (available on Amazon and at Barnes &Nobles). Richard earned a Ph.D. in behavioral psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He ran the behavioral modification program at Southern Illinois University from 1966 to 1977. For four years he served as chair of the sports medicine committee for luge and later for all the sliding sports at the Olympic Training Center, Lake Placid, New York. He now runs a private practice and consulting business in New Hampshire. David Britton used his Dartmouth ski team experience to become an active senior skier. In 2010 he won the Sise Cup, signifying the championship for his age group in the New England Alpine Masters. To win he had to ski giant slalom, super G and slalom. What’s more, his wife, Birdie, won the cup in her age group, too. In the summer David goes to the Summer Fun Nationals at Mount Hood, Oregon, where he meets up with Fran Noel, who also races there. American Geosciences Institute just published George Seielstad’s book, Dawn of the Anthropocene Humanity’s Defining Moment (available electronically at Amazon.com).


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