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60th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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Mary Steichen Calderone (MD), a sex education pioneer, has been inducted in the 1998 National Women's Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame, in Seneca Falls, N.Y., will take part in the celebrations in 1998 for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Women's Rights.

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55th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

Walter Wawro (MD) (see '92 undergraduate).

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James V. Neel '39 (PhD), '44M (MD), '74M (ScD) (Hnr) (see '53 medicine).

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50th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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45th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

Robert L. Brent '48, '53M (MD), '55M (PhD), '88 (ScD) (Hnr) writes that he and his wife, Lillian Hoffman Brent '50RC, are keeping very busy. He was chairman of this year's National Council on Radiation and Measurements meeting dedicated to discussion of the reproductive effects of environmental radiation, both before conception and during pregnancy. One of the participants was James V. Neel '39 (PhD), '44M (MD), '74M (ScD) (Hnr). In July, the journal Reproductive Toxicology published a festschrift in his honor. Marshall Lichtman '66M (Res), former dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, represented Rochester at the dedication ceremonies. Brent was honored by Jefferson Medical College with an auditorium bearing both his and his wife's names, and the chair of pediatrics at Jefferson is now called the Robert L. Brent Chair of Pediatrics. The Brents traveled to Sweden in September to dedicate a new department and professorship at the University of Gothenburg; then in October, they attended the annual meeting of the National Academy of Science, where Brent was inducted into the NAS Institute of Medicine. Their November was spent in the South Pacific, where Brent participated in an endowed lecture tour.

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Sanford Spraragen '52M (Mas), '56M (MD) (see '83 undergraduate).

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C. McCollister Evarts (MD), '64M (Res) was elected to senior membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Evarts is Penn State's senior vice president for health affairs and dean of its College of Medicine, as well as president and chief academic officer of the Penn State Geisinger Health System.

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40th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

The Happiness Project: Transforming The Three Poisons Which Cause the Suffering We Cause Ourselves and Each Other by Ronald Leifer (Res) has been published by Snow Lion Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

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Frederick L. Whipple (MD) writes that he retired from his forensic psychiatry practice in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 1.

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35th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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C. McCollister Evarts '57M (MD), '64M (Res) (see '57 medicine).

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Marshall Lichtman (Res) (see '53 medicine).

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30th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

Cyril M. (Kim) Hetsko (MD) has been elected secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Internal Medicine. Hetsko is an internist in private practice in Madison, Wis.

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Anne Marie Groth-Juncker (Flw) (see '88 graduate).

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25th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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James V. Neel '39 (PhD), '44M (MD), '74M (ScD) (Hnr) (see '53 medicine). . . . Scott M. Soloway '70, M (MD) (see '70 undergraduate).

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David Turriff M (PhD) president of En Chem, an environmental testing laboratory, was profiled in the Green Bay Press-Gazette last September. Turriff is one of the company's founders and the developer of En Core, a patented soil sampler that has been written into job specifications by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA specifies En Core use for its accuracy and sample purity.

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20th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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David B. Nash (MD) was named the 1997 individual Health Care Hero by the Philadelphia Business Journal for his contributions toward improving the quality of health care and lowering costs. Nash is associate dean for health policy and director of the Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He is known nationally for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development, quality-of-care improvement, and managed care medical education.

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15th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

Roger Kurlan '74, (Res) will lead a pilot research study at Rochester to see whether the drug olanzapine can help stutterers speak more fluently.

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William M. Tucker (Res) (see '80 undergraduate).

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Dolores Bacon (MD) received the Teacher of the Year Award from the division of general internal medicine at ColumbiaPresbyterian Medical Center/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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10th REUNION
OCTOBER 810, 1998

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The Atlanta Journal-Atlanta Constitution reports that Cheryl Goffney Franklin (MD) is practicing obstetrics-gynecology with the Meridian Medical Group in Atlanta, Ga.