When we graduated in June 1959 about 10 percent of our classmates not only received bachelor’s degrees together with the rest of us, but also were enrolled in one of the 3/2 programs that were then offered by the three professional schools. Twenty-three of those classmates had just completed their first year of Dartmouth Medical School, then a two-year school and many years away from bearing the name Geisel. Even though the medical school students of that day had to go on to another school to complete their four years of training and receive an M.D., the years of premed and medical training together in Hanover and the shared lifetime calling to medicine created strong bonds among them. Haig Kazazian, one of our DMS’60s, became a renowned geneticist and has received many honors for his contributions to the field, including election to the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In early November, after these notes are written but before they will appear in the alumni magazine, Haig will travel to Hanover from his home in Baltimore to receive an Alumni Award for Career Achievement from the Geisel School of Medicine. His fellow ’59 and DMS’60, Stu Hanson, nominated Haig for the award and plans to be in Hanover to make the presentation.

A recent issue of the alumni magazine, under the heading of Pursuits, described the off-the-beaten-path careers of several alumni, including Gar DeMarco. Shortly after Gar graduated from Yale Law School, his father suddenly died and Gar began managing his family’s New Jersey cranberry-growing business. During the course of 40 years or so, he greatly expanded the business and became one of the leading cranberry farmers in the country. Gar attended our 50th reunion with his then-partner, Bill Wilson, and they were married last summer. Of the hundreds of marriages of ’59s that have taken place, beginning prior to our graduation, Gar and Bill’s will certainly be chronologically among the last. More significantly it is, so far as generally known, the first same-sex marriage of a classmate.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com