The special issue featuring "special places" on campus has been postponed until the March/April issue. Send me your reminiscences; deadline for the column is mid-December. Remember too the bulletin board for class discussions; there's a link at the top of our class Web page.

Messages during the last two months often touched on the September 11 attacks. Newell Grant and family were in Edinburgh on September 11 with their son who is attending the University of Edinburgh. Trans-Atlantic travel was halted and they had to stay an extra week before they could join other family members back home. Al Cotton was in the Pentagon City Hotel/Ritz Carlton for a meeting on the President's energy policy when the jet hit the Pentagon, across the Mall. The meeting was in a windowless conference room, and unaware of the WTC attack, they thought they had felt an earthquake. Read the rest of Al's detailed impressions on the class bulletin board (http://www.alum.dartmouth.org/~classtlk/).

The retirement itch continues to affect our class: Three years ago Dean Razzano retired from his private practice of orthopedic surgery in Marion OH and designed and had a home built on lake Erie in Ohio where they boat and play golf and cut grass and plant flowers from mid May through mid October. When winter comes, Dean and his wife of 30 years, Sandy, move to Naples Florida for the winter and golf a whole lot more. In between, they see their three daughters. "Life is good notwithstanding the fact that our offspring will never know the security and peace of mind that we all grew up with." A more recent retirement is that of David deCalesta, who in July 2001 completed 15 years as a university professor and 13 as a Forest Service scientist. He keeps busy consulting on forest and wildlife management, conducting green certification assessments for the Forest Stewardship Council, and "finishing those novels I started years ago. I'm keeping my hand in research also, hopefully, as an adjunct professor of forestry at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse New York. The green certification work takes me to New England occasionally, so I'll get to visit Dartmouth now and then." On the other side of the fence is Harvey Tettlebaum (Husch & Eppenberger, Jefferson City MO) who expresses the thoughts of many: "I am not ready to retire. Is that news?"

Jim Stewart writes that he is engaged to Jane (Director of IS at JFK Hosp of anthrax fame) with 4/20/02 tentative wedding date. Jim is owner/President of Quantum Orthopedics/Neurogenics, a medical implant distribution company. He visited Hanover last fall and "Noted unhappy 'demise' of Zeta Psi and spiffy new buildings-can't believe the 'shower tower' still exists. Have replaced tennis with racquetball and kayaking-need much more of each!" I asked Jim what kinds of implants he distributes and he answered, " Previously total hip and knee; currently [hopefully] spinal products; staying ahead of the 'curve'Š no pun intended [Lordosis/Scoliosis]."