Our faithful class secretary Dick Jachens has requested a well-earned rest from his duties over, lo!, these many years. President Chip Deming has asked me to fill in for Dick. After receiving the avalanche of class data from Dick and the alumni office, I realize what a chore he performed and the debt of gratitude the class owes him. So far I have counted 140 survivors out of our class of some 600-plus graduates, with a median survival age of 90 to 91! Considering those we lost in the war the survival rate is phenomenal. It reflects what health statisticians have proved: The No. 1 factor in longevity is social support! How many of you at graduation thought that you’d become nonagenarians? At age 65 I changed my medical specialty to that of an academic geriatrician, but not in enough time to produce sufficient help to care for the onslaught of the baby boomers! In fact, the ranks of geriatricians are shrinking, not growing. High tech pays more. Who will change that if we don’t? So, let me know what you want to see published in the Alumni Magazine Class Notes, where we have been allotted 250 words bimonthly. Be newsy, but brief! Since last report our class has lost the following members: Thomas Jardine, John Kelley, Jack Selby, Andrew “Jack” Waring, John White, Ira Skutch and Stacy Hamilton Hill (see obituaries on the Alumni Magazine website, http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.) 


—Gene Stollerman, 53 Lyme Road, Apt. 10, Hanover, NH 03755; gstollerman2@comcast.net