Another fun annual fall reunion was enjoyed by some 30 attendees. The class is solvent and we’ve added a new memorial bench near the new life sciences building with a plaque of three lines reading; “In Honor of the Class of 1948, The Hill Winds Know Their Names.” Class of 1948 annual scholar-athlete award-winners Erika Flowers ’12 and Adam Rice ’12 joined us for dinner and gave us their thoughts. Erika, a Nordic skier, plans to go to medical school next year and Adam, a soccer star, plans to go into the public school system after a possible Rhodes scholarship. These students are so bright and dedicated they make you feel good about Dartmouth. Our featured speaker, Martha Beattie ’76, newly appointed VP of alumni relations, spent 30 years teaching mathematics and coaching crew, mostly at Phillips Andover Academy. She wants to encourage the goodwill and active support of all alumni and have them be “proud and happy to be part of Dartmouth life.” She recognizes that some procedures and reports are outdated and wants, “to make sure things Dartmouth asks for are meaningful.” Sounds encouraging.


Pentti “Finn” Siiteri wrote, “It is time to tell the class what I have been up to since 1948.” He got an M.S. in chemistry at UNH; married Helen, a sister of classmate Everett Aspinwall; had four boys and one girl across five years while attending Columbia night and day, obtaining a Ph.D. specializing in reproductive steroid hormones. There he met an M.D. from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where he joined him in the obstetrics and gynecology department for 10 years doing research in his specialty. He then was invited to join the obstetrics/gynecology department at the University of California Medical School, where he continued his research until he retired in 2002. Finn has published 175 scientific papers in major biochemical and medical journals and received numerous awards and honors, including an honorary M.D., an award from the president of the U.S. Society for Gynecologic Investigation and a knighthood from the president of his homeland, Finland.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net