Continuing our theme of “giving back,” Bob Liberman made three visits to Japan after the March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown to consult on ways to resurrect the public health and mental health systems that were so devastated. He also gave lectures in Sapporo, Fukushima and Tokyo on recovery from schizophrenia. His latest book, Recovery from Disability, was translated into Japanese this year and he spent hours signing hundreds of copies.


Don Gilden stepped down from the chairmanship of the department of neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to assume an endowed chair and continue his longstanding search for a neuroviris cause of multiple sclerosis. Audrey, his wife of 45 years, and Don built a chalet at Vail, Colorado, where he continues to ski avidly.


A flurry of give-back activity keeps Pete Scott busy, and includes sponsorship of refugees who fled Burma and work with the Masons, Habitat for Humanity and church outreach ministries. He leaves time to play golf and walk two miles a day. He also is active on a board of a manufacturing company in south central Pennsylvania.


Frank Mooney III ’57 sent a press clipping on the naming of a street in Providence, Rhode Island, to honor Dave Gavitt. The full article is posted on our class website. Thanks, Frank.


Also on our class website is detail on Jim Giddens being named the American trustee for recovery of assets from the bankruptcy of MF Global, the brokerage firm once run by Jon Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor. Jim will be looking for about a billion dollars in lost customer money. That will be a big give-back to investors.


Kudos to Jerry Scott and his partner, who finished second among 5,700 competitors in a duplicate bridge tournament. Again, see the class website for details.


Dick Press recently spoke to Yale’s American studies class, “Yale in America.” The talk was a “personal memoir and vintage history about the heyday of the Ivy style.” The J. Press clothing firm was founded in New Haven, Connecticut. The talk was followed by a seminar that included Dick’s wife, Vida, commenting on female variations of the Ivy look during her days at Smith.


Stu Summers reports that within five miles of his Oro Valley, Arizona, home live Margaret and C.P. Montgomery and Alice and Ted Izzard. C.P. and Margaret hosted everyone when Joan and Doug Wise visited. Bee and Stu celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last August with a family event in Virginia. Before getting there they lunched with Judy and Vince Sawyer at a nearby winery. Vince had ushered at their wedding. Stu adds that he achieved a golf milestone by shooting his age four times last summer. 


Christine and Chuck Lamb celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Hawaii, where they met when Chuck was doing active naval duty on a ship based in Pearl Harbor. When they returned home there was a congratulatory note from the White House, signed by the Obamas.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net