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1935: Samuel E. Einhorn of Lantana, Fla., continues to enjoy retirement and is 96 years old.

1940s
1940: Benjamin H. Inloes of Williamsburg, Va., regretfully reports that two back surgeries limit his ability to travel.

1941: Carlos M. Chiques
of San Juan, P.R., sends regards to classmate Pierson Checket. Dr. Chiques has been retired since 2001.

1943D: Augustus Frye
of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., presented the history and development of the Tennessee Slider at the Orthopaedic Teaching Center in Chicago last October. Dr. Frye developed the “slider” technique in 1983 after noticing the difficulty in tying a knot inside a joint while trying to sew tissue together during arthroscopic shoulder surgery. Although the design has been modified and enhanced over the years, it is still considered an excellent knot used throughout the world.

1944: Harry F. Rolfes
of Bradenton, Fla., continues to enjoy retirement, playing golf and traveling.

1947: Jose G. Valderas
and wife Roberta have moved to Texas to be closer to some of their grandchildren. Both are well and enjoying retirement.

1949: Russell M. Tilley
of Washington, D.C., fully retired in 2004, although he is active on boards and committees. He is in good health and enjoys golf, duckpin bowling and gardening. He is also trying to keep an eye on classmate Jack Strahan.

1950's
1950: Enrique A. Vicens of Ponce, P.R., continues to practice otolaryngology-head & neck surgery from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

1951: S. Norman Sherry
of Cambridge, Mass., continues his weekly assignments with Mass. General Hospital pediatric residents. He is taking courses in film, art, and politics at the Harvard Extension School, and he enjoys spending time with his three young grandsons.

1952: Timothy D. Baker
of Baltimore co-taught an international course in transportation safety and injury control in Barcelona, Spain, and he continues serving on the U.S. Surgeon General’s Task Force on Global Health. Jack Watters and wife Beth of Raleigh, N.C., celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Christmas Day at a reception given by their five children, ten grandchildren and two great-grandsons. They were originally married in Santa Monica, Calif., on Jack’s return from flying Army fighters for a year in the Aleutian Islands.

1953: Sylvan Frieman
and wife May of Owings Mills, Md., announce the birth of their first great-grandson. Grandson Aaron, the father, will begin medical school at Maryland in fall.

1954: Robert H. Ellis
of Fort Collins, Colo., is semi-retired from an internal medicine practice and grateful to have practiced during the golden years of medicine. John F. Hartman of Baltimore is active as an officer in the Maryland Council of the Knights of Columbus. Norman W. Lavy of Westfield, N.J., retired as VP and head of Squibb’s (now Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.) drug regulatory affairs department. He continues to work as a private consultant in pharmaceutical research, medical and drug regulatory affairs and is a member of Naimark & Associates, Inc., Private Healthcare Consultants. Lavy is clinical professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and recipient of the department of medicine’s volunteer faculty award in 2001. Paul G. Mueller is living in York, Pa. Frank Nataro of Sarasota, Fla., is fully retired. He has six married children and 13 grandchildren. Son Jim, MD/PhD ’87, is on Maryland’s faculty in the department of vaccine development.

1956: Edward D. Frohlich
of New Orleans received the American College of Cardiology’s distinguished scientist award for basic science. He was honored for his groundbreaking work in cardiovascular involvement in hypertension. Dr. Frohlich is the Alton Ochsner Distinguished Scientist at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation and staff member of the Ochsner Clinic. He holds teaching positions at Louisiana State University, Tulane University, and Louisiana Tech University.

1958: Howard S. Levin
is now consulting at the Cleveland Clinic after retiring from his anatomic pathology practice there. He and wife Sue are splitting their time between Cleveland and Sarasota, Fla.

1960's
1960: Allen R. Myers , professor emeritus at Temple University School of Medicine, was elected a master of the American College of Rheumatology in 2000. He continues part-time teaching, patient care and is co-principal investigator of an NIH grant. The fifth edition of his textbook of medicine for medical students and residents was published in September 2004. Emanuel H. Silverstein of Baltimore is working part-time as a dermatologist. He shares an office with son Richard, a podiatrist. Morton E. Smith of St. Louis received a distinguished service teaching award and a clinical teacher of the year award from Washington University medical students.

1962: Johnny Buchman
of Studio City, Calif., extends greetings to all classmates. He practices dermatology in Burbank and travels extensively. Trips last year included China, New Zealand, Singapore, Laos, Thailand and Costa Rica. Leroy L. Merring of Scottsdale, Ariz., retired from his family practice in May 2004. This followed retirement in 1996, with the rank of colonel, from the Arizona Army National Guard where he served as state surgeon and head of the medical department. Francis A. Zampiello of Philadelphia is senior consultant on a national project to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. He was recently honored for his efforts by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.

1964: Eric Schmitter
of Santa Monica, Calif., continues to work full time at UCLA at Santa Monica, where he has been for the past five years. He enjoyed the 40th reunion last spring but was sorry that some classmates did not attend.

1966: Stephen F. Gordon
and wife Maureen of Savannah, Ga., were among a group of 100 members of Pave the Way Foundation to travel to Rome recently. Stephen received an audience with Pope John Paul II, who he described as charming, energetic, and engaging despite continued health concerns. The organization fosters warm relationships between Catholics and Jews worldwide. In addition to meeting the Pope, the group was treated to a private tour of the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel. Carl J. Orfuss of Los Angeles continues to practice neurology. He reports that son Matthew will be married in September. Daughter Jenny is a speech pathologist. Beresford M. Swan of Hamilton, Bermuda was recognized as an Officer of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on December 31, 2004.

1967: Kenneth B. Stern
of Portsmouth, R.I., is limiting his psychiatry practice to out-patient treatment, after many years which included hospital practice. He continues to sail in and around Newport, and he and wife Em enjoy visiting their children in the Arcata (Calif.), Seattle, and Boston areas.

1969: David R. Richmond
of Alexandria, Va., is working part-time in a bicycle shop after retiring from Kaiser Permanente. Daughter Amanda is on active duty with the Navy and is a member of the regional band in Jacksonville, Fla.

1970's
1970: Julian A. Gordon of Cleveland is chief of urology at South Pointe Hospital where he recently completed a three-year term as chief of staff. He recently joined the urology staff at the Cleveland Clinic Urological Institute. He and wife Ilka have four grandchildren. Stephen B. Greenberg of Houston was named the Margaret M. Alkek Distinguished Chair of Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

1972: John Niziol
of Wayne, N.J., is in his 30th year of practice at Notchview Pediatrics in Clifton. Hershey Sollod of Denver reports that daughter Kara was married in June of last year, and daughter Brie is engaged. She is nearing completion of a PhD in molecular biochemistry.

1974: Dawn Obrecht
of Golden, Colo., raced in the October 2004 Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. She enjoys spending free time in competitive athletics, working part-time since both daughters are out of college.

1975: Noel M. Chiantella
of Orchard Park, N.Y., practices radiology in Buffalo. Son Michael practices estate and trust law in Venice, Fla., while daughter Catherine is a junior at Georgetown University studying economics. Ken Iserson of Tucson, Ariz., established the REEME Project at the University of Arizona. It provides free educational materials, primarily in PowerPoint and videos, in Spanish, to help educate physicians, nurses, paramedics and medical students in emergency care topics. He is professor of emergency medicine and director of the Arizona bioethics program.

1976: Michael E. Cox
of Ellicott City, Md., was elected to a second term as Maryland governor for the American College of Gastroenterology. Ira Hantman of Baltimore is vice president of the Mercy medical staff. Martin J. Sheridan of Baltimore is pulmonary section chief at Franklin Square Hospital and medical director of the respiratory therapist program at Essex Community College.

1977: Martin I. Herman
of Cordova, Tenn., has cut back to working 75 percent and is enjoying life with family. Daughter Julie and son David are both engaged to be married.
Alex B. Sokil
1978: Douglas F. Bowman Jr.
, of Smethport, Pa., recently opened ARP Healthcare Consulting and is board certified with a sub-specialty in risk management. Alexis B. Sokil joined the heart institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

1980's
1980: Joseph P. Crawford of Vero Beach, Fla., reports that he survived the Florida hurricanes and has relocated his practice into a new building. David M. Fishbein and wife Wendy of Baltimore report that the oldest of their three sons is entering Maryland’s dental school in fall. David practices gastroenterology in Glen Burnie. James P. Richardson of Ellicott City, Md., was named one of Baltimore’s “Top Docs” in the November Baltimore magazine.

1981: Joel Kahn
of Irvine, Calif., was recently a two-game winner on Jeopardy. He is an emergency department director in Southern California. Stephen Ozanne of Cedar Hill, Tex., reports that both of his children are University of Texas Longhorns, and wife Bev is president of the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance. Michael Rabovsky, wife Laurie and two sons live in Beachwood, Ohio. He practices family medicine and serves as medical director for the Beachwood Cleveland Clinic Family Health and Surgical Center.

1982: Cathy Penton
Carpenter is vice president of the medical staff of York Hospital in York, Pa. Laura L. Stephenson of State Park, Pa., practices Ob/Gyn. Daughter Rachel, her oldest, is attending nearby Juniata College; son William is in 10th grade at State College High School. Laura and husband Joseph are building a new home which is also a bed and breakfast. Susan A. Stuart transferred to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center as a general surgeon. In October 2004, she was elected president of the Association of Women Surgeons. Her twins Gina and Nick are four years old.

1983: Nancy Ashburn
of Westminster, Md., accepted a fellowship in integrative medicine offered at Maryland and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Mary I. Jumbelic, a forensic pathologist in Syracuse, N.Y., traveled to Thailand at the request of the U.S. government to help with the identification of tsunami victims.

1984: Henri Montandon
of Walnut Creek, Calif., invites colleagues to visit his website: www.westillknowsquat
aboutthebrain.com.

1985: Dean Glaros
is medical director of the Columbia, Md., office of the Wilmer Eye Institute. He and wife Nancy live in Ellicott City with their six children, ages four to 18. Michael J. Hallowell of Sewell, N.J., reports that he biked in Ireland and in Chile during 2004, and climbed a 17,000-foot mountain in the Andes.

1987: Elizabeth Roberta Hatcher
of Topeka, Kan., graduated in psychoanalysis from the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute.

1989: J. William Cook
of Catonsville, Md., was named fellow of the American College of Physicians. He and wife Elizabeth have three children.

1990's
1995: Beth Comeau and husband Al of Ellicott City, Md., proudly announce the birth of Ava Elizabeth, their third girl, in April 2004. Kim E. Goodsell of Modesto, Calif., works one day a week preceptoring residents at the Stanislaus County Family Practice Residency Program, as she and husband Hamid are expecting their second child. She spent four years in the U.S. Army in Oklahoma and Saudi Arabia before moving to Modesto and working with the Scenic Faculty Medical Group. She stepped down from her job when their first child was born. Sandy Katz, wife Michelle and daughter Renee of Shreveport, La., celebrated the birth of Abigail Lilly on November 22, 2004. Hannah Y. Kim is a pediatrician with HealthCare Partners Medical Group, a large multi-specialty group in the Los Angeles area. She and husband Tae Hyen Kim live in Cerritos. Charlotte Harward Miller of Westfield, Mass., announces the birth of Rachel Anna on September 9, 2004. Her oldest, Sara, is two.

1996: Jessica Grubb
of Silver Spring, Md., announces the birth of daughter Louisa on May 1, 2004.

1998: Christina M. Figlozz
i and husband Manav Singla of Winston-Salem, N.C., report the birth of son Kiran James Singla on December 8, 2004.

1999: Leonard Feldman
reports that he’s living in Jessup, working at Hopkins, and happy to be back in Baltimore. He’s eager to catch up with classmates. Sherri Passarell-Burden of Beaufort, S.C., works at Coastal Empire Mental Health Center after completing a child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship. Her daughter and son-in-law are expecting their first child—her third grandchild—in June.

2000's
2000: Ndidi B. Foy-Feinberg of Dayton, Md., reports that daughter Shayna turned two in March. She and husband Adam are expecting a second. Miriam J. Mullin is practicing family medicine in Wilmington, Del. Son Max turns two in July, and she is expecting again. Allison Niemi and husband Erik of Bennington, Vt., announce the birth of David Albert, their second son, on May 27, 2004. Matthew Sedgley and wife Juliana of Stillwater, Minn., announce the birth of Edward Denis.

2001: Chris Calabria
is finishing a chief resident year in pediatrics in Ohio and is planning an allergy/immunology fellowship next summer. Allison Wentworth of Gainesville, Fla., married Jim Brindle in November. The ceremony was held in Annapolis.

2002: Ceila E. Loughlin
and husband Pete are moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., in July for fellowships—Ceila
in pediatric-pulmonary and Pete in radiology-musculoskeletal.

2003: Todd W. Flannery
is in year one of his residency in radiation oncology at Maryland. He plans to wed Jacqueline Villapiano in May.

2004: Michael Perraut
and wife Wendy of Newark, Del., announce the birth of Kylie Elizabeth on February 9.

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