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and other unsaid functions, we have scientific military types possessing master's and doctor's degrees in the nuclear sciences, physics, mathematics and electronics. We are a joint type of organization, hence have Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officers as subordinates and superiors. So you all, in this here business, come and see us. Until then, keep the faith."

Regional Secretary Hal Bemis wrote Clark Nicols congratulating him on his new assignment at Leeds & Northrup. Clark responded with the following news to add to that which appeared in the January Notes: "There is little of major interest to report other than that I'm in pretty deep in Little League with my two younger boys. I am assistant manager of one of the major league teams here in Oreland on which both of them play. The Oreland All-Star team was very successful last year, being finally eliminated by Levittown which won the national title. The community interest sparked by this success was most amazing and gratifying. Our family recently acquired a camp on the shore in my old home town in Maine where our boating activity is a serious business. The largest craft in our little fleet is an 18-foot sloop which we sail in Jersey waters as well as  
Penobscot Bay in Maine. We have trailed this boat over 15,000 miles in the last ten years! The boys haven't started to worry much about college although I have. Two of them feel they want to be engineers, and since few technical schools offer athletic scholarships, I guess the old man will have to work a while longer."
 
District Secretary Mort Jenkins advises that Billy Bates is helping him contact the Western Pennsylvania classmates and that they should have a preliminary report soon, So watch for next month's notes for the details. . . . District Secretary Art Haskins is batting 1.000 so far on his requests for news. Many thanks to both John L. Fuller and Dexter J. Clough, 2nd for bringing us all up-to-date. Here are their letters: John Fuller writes: "As you probably know, I received only my graduate degree at M.I.T. Hence, I never became as well acquainted with the student body as one does when he goes through his undergraduate years. However, I'll try to contribute some news for you since I sympathize with anyone in your position. Currently, I am senior staff scientist and assistant director for training at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory. I do research in psychopharmacology and administer training programs for everyone from talented high school students to post-doctoral fellows in biology. With my wife, Ruth, I occupy a 135-year-old farmhouse on a hill overlooking Frenchmans Bay, Mass. Daughter, Sally, will graduate from Radcliffe this year. I'm not much of a golfer but I get the same effect from splitting wood, gleaned from our four acre 'estate.' Yes, I have written a book with Prof. W. R. Thompson of Wesleyan, entitled Behavior Genetics, published by Wiley. It's the first book length treatment of this field, but I don't expect to get rich from it." 

Dexter J. Clough, 2nd, M.D., now lives in Bucksport, Maine, and writes: 
"After graduating in Course VII, this alumnus applied himself in the next four years in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. In the summer between his third and fourth years he served as a hospital laboratory technician, thinking the better of the job because it paid $40 a month, plus maintenance, compared with pay to the interns at the same hospital of $25 per month, plus maintenance (such intern's pay being in line with the current stipend at that time as compared with the modern intern's pay averaging about $125 per month, plus provision of an apartment for wife and children by some hospitals- a bonus practically unheard of before World War II). After receiving his M.D. in 1939 and training in a general internship for a year and a half, he acquired a two-year residency at the Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, following which he has practiced in Bangor, in eye, ear, nose, and throat until 1946 and in ophthalmology alone since then. Classified 4F because of otosclerosis he had no war-time service other than the examining of the draftees. In November of 1948 he was certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, and in a three-week refresher course prior to the examination for this, at Washington University in St. Louis, he was happily surprised to find, and hospitably received into the family of, his classmate in Course VII and general friend, Ralph Woolf, then a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Barnes Hospital at Washington University and now a professor in the same specialty at the same university. In 1943 Dexter married Ellen Frances Palmer, a nurse and science instructor at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Until six years ago, their home was in Bangor, and since then, it has been on a tidewater farm on the Penobscot River in Bucksport with Dexter commuting in a DKW the 16.5 miles each way daily to and from his hospital and office work in Bangor. They have three children, Peter in his first year at Phillips Exeter, David in the sixth grade and a right end on his Pop Warner league team, and daughter Frances in fourth grades. At times the family skis at Sugarloaf, Dexter in particular finding the sport good mental hygiene, for no one can keep his mind on his worries while skiing. (But perhaps his writing his memoirs in the third person might indicate he would do better to retain a psychiatrist.) for 14 years Dexter served as a supervising ophthalmologist for the Aid to the Blind program of the Division of Public Assistance, in addition to his full-time private practice, and consulting ophthalmologist for the Division of Services for the Blind in the States of Maine Department of Health and Welfare. Besides his local, states, and national medical societies, he is a member of the New England Ophthalmological Society, which brings him to Boston two or three times a year, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology. For the past five years he has served as honorary secretary to the Educational Council for M.I.T. This involves interviewing applicants for M.I.T. in his region, and he wishes to report that the experience it has afforded him in meeting with bright young men and in re-acquaintanceship with the Institute is most enjoyable." 

I think it is time that your Class Secretary expressed publicly his most sincere thanks for the wonderful cooperation he is receiving from the Secretariat in particular and his classmates generally. Your letters are a tremendous source of pleasure and delight. It's hard to believe, but our class notes have occupied a full page in the Review for each of the last five months and I see no end in sight. I already have more than enough for the next issue, but that doesn't mean to hold up. Keep it coming. We will do something about sending out a special newsletter this summer. . . .Telephone, write or call on your nearest secretary, now: Edward C. Edgar, Kerry Lane, Chappaqua, N.Y.; Hal L. Bemis, 510 Avonwood Road, Haverford, Pa.; Elmer D. Szantay, 6130 North Kilbourn Avenue, Chicago 16, Ill.; and Gerald C. Rich, 673 Rosita Avenue, Los Altos, Calif.; Regional Secretaries.- Class Secretary, Allan Q. Mowatt, 11 Castle Road, Lexington 73, Mass. 

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As mentioned before, our 25th Reunion promises to surpass our wildest expectations. The dates: Friday, June 9 through Sunday, June 11; and Alumni Day, Monday, June 12. The place: Baker House on the M.I.T. campus. A supervised program for children's activities is being planned, and separate accommodations will be available for them.
 
Now for some other news. . . . A clipping reports an honor which has come to Cesar Calderon, Course II, of San Juan, Puerto Rico. "Cesar Calderon has been named Businessman of the Year by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, it was announced by the Chamber President Ricardo Freiria. Calderon, according to Freiria, is 'one of the most outstanding exponents of the principle of a balanced economic expansion in Puerto Rico,' and has contributed largely to the realization by local capital of what it can achieve by 'adapting to new realities.' He is president and main stockholder of Enterprise Hotel Development Corporation, which will build a 425-room hotel in the Condado section to be operated by the Sheraton Corporation. He will also construct at Punta Escambron a luxury hotel to be operated by Maxim's of Paris. In a record four months' time, he built the Conservatory of Music building, which he rented to the Government. In 1960, he developed an industrial park at Isla Verde, in which he has already constructed two of the 12 buildings to be located in it. He also started the organization of a life insurance company with local capital, and continued active in the presidency of Mantecados Payco, Inc. Calderon was re-elected a member and later named vice-president of the board of directors of the Government Developmental Bank, and was the first Puerto Rican to be named to the board of directors of the

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