Mid-winter greetings!


From the depths of Minnesota comes word from Dave Knopman:“I run into a variety of Dartmouth folks now and again, but the only two from our class that I have been in contact with recently are Scott Emery and Will Chamberlin. Scott is a neurologist in Portland, Oregon. We have gotten together periodically at our annual neurology meetings and hope will do so in 2013. Will is a gastroenterologist in Billings, Montana (or is it Bozeman, dang I can’t remember). One of my regular cross-country skiing buddies is John Floberg ’73. Last year he ran in the Birkebeiner (Cable, Wisconsin) and I did the shorter version, the Korteloppet. We were also joined last year by another ’73, a friend from Ripley Hall, John Hedberg. It so happens that the president of the American Academy of Neurology, Bruce Sigsbee, is a Dartmouth ’69, DMS’75, and recently gave a presentation here at Mayo on the future of neurological practice in the new healthcare era. I was recently at a conference at the National Institutes of Health on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and one of the key speakers was a Dartmouth Medical School (now Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) psychiatry professor named Tom McAllister ’75, DMS’78. I am a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic and my specialty area is Alzheimer’s disease. We have made great progress in understanding the disease but we still don’t have an effective treatment. My wife, Deb, and I have two grown daughters, one of whom, Anne Knopman, is a Dartmouth 2002.” Best alumni report in a long time—thanks!


And from fellow “Baltimoron” Peter Johnson, as we head into another spring training season: “Hope you still root for the Baltimore sports teams and haven’t been seduced elsewhere. It hasn’t been easy being an Orioles fan, in particular, all these years—until last summer, anyway. But I figure somebody’s gotta do it.” Truth be told, I’ve gotten back into the Baltimore Ravens but the O’s, sadly, lost me a while back. The Seattle Mariners continue to disappoint, and with Ichiro now with the Yankees, I can’t even follow him (sorry to all the New York fans out there!). 


Globetrotting…from Greg Yadley from late last fall: “I’m teaching at the University of Warsaw Law School and addressed the Warsaw Bar Association last Wednesday evening—around 125 lawyers! We also went to Krakow for the weekend—gorgeous city—and from there a day visit to Birkenau and Auschwitz—very sobering.”


Continuing the series “What’s the latest on?” our classmates, anyone in contact with (and might have news about) Steven N. Arseneault, Christopher R. Ashley or Robert W. Averill, M.D.? 


Please continue to send your updates and news to me.


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue, WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com