Class Note 1965
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May-June 2021
I’m continuing with my theme of featuring classmates I’ve met through our monthly breakfast programs. Today we had a virtual “Southwest Florida” breakfast with participants from six states, including Dave Bush, who described his path to becoming a doctor.
“Like many in our class I went to Dartmouth as a premed, a natural choice because my dad was a physician. I wasn’t as influenced by Dartmouth itself as I was by the Dartmouth legends. Some were members of our class, such as Kent Salisbury, DMS’66, and John Bullock, DMS’66, both entering medical school after three years. While I was taking speech and Asian studies they talked about the rigors of med school: I was appropriately scared to death. Some role models became orthopedic surgeons, as did I. Jim Parkes ’57, DMS’59, became team physician for the Mets and Ken DeHaven ’61, DMS’63, a Dartmouth linebacker, became a leader in sports medicine and arthroscopy. In my residency class at Columbia no fewer than eight were Dartmouth graduates, my friends and colleagues. One professor was Charles Neer ’39, DMS’40, who had a big Dartmouth pennant on his wall. He was the preeminent shoulder surgeon of our generation. One of my greatest role models and mentors was Dr. Robert French Dickey ’32, DMS’33, President Dickey’s little brother. During his internship in 1938 at Geisinger in my hometown of Danville, Pennsylvania, Dickey wrote an insightful paper suggesting that all cars and buses should have seat belts. He went into private practice in his hometown of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; he was drafted and was assigned to airborne. He noticed that soldiers who crash-landed in gliders sustained many noncombat injuries, so he designed a seat-belt harness that saved hundreds of lives. He was awarded one of the few noncombat Bronze stars in WW II. After the war he went back to Geisinger, where he started the department of dermatology and has his name on a building there. Dartmouth didn’t have much of a direct influence on my medical career but the Dartmouth doctors certainly did!”
I regret to report the passing of classmates Bill van de Graaff and Cam Savage.
—Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755, (603) 643-5589, murph65nh@comcast.net
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“Like many in our class I went to Dartmouth as a premed, a natural choice because my dad was a physician. I wasn’t as influenced by Dartmouth itself as I was by the Dartmouth legends. Some were members of our class, such as Kent Salisbury, DMS’66, and John Bullock, DMS’66, both entering medical school after three years. While I was taking speech and Asian studies they talked about the rigors of med school: I was appropriately scared to death. Some role models became orthopedic surgeons, as did I. Jim Parkes ’57, DMS’59, became team physician for the Mets and Ken DeHaven ’61, DMS’63, a Dartmouth linebacker, became a leader in sports medicine and arthroscopy. In my residency class at Columbia no fewer than eight were Dartmouth graduates, my friends and colleagues. One professor was Charles Neer ’39, DMS’40, who had a big Dartmouth pennant on his wall. He was the preeminent shoulder surgeon of our generation. One of my greatest role models and mentors was Dr. Robert French Dickey ’32, DMS’33, President Dickey’s little brother. During his internship in 1938 at Geisinger in my hometown of Danville, Pennsylvania, Dickey wrote an insightful paper suggesting that all cars and buses should have seat belts. He went into private practice in his hometown of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; he was drafted and was assigned to airborne. He noticed that soldiers who crash-landed in gliders sustained many noncombat injuries, so he designed a seat-belt harness that saved hundreds of lives. He was awarded one of the few noncombat Bronze stars in WW II. After the war he went back to Geisinger, where he started the department of dermatology and has his name on a building there. Dartmouth didn’t have much of a direct influence on my medical career but the Dartmouth doctors certainly did!”
I regret to report the passing of classmates Bill van de Graaff and Cam Savage.
—Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755, (603) 643-5589, murph65nh@comcast.net