Dear Editor, Members of the 1953 class just celebrated our 45th reunion this past weekend at P&S, culminating in the formal dinner-dance at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Thirty-two classmates attended a magnificent dinner at the Terrace Restaurant preceding the festivities at the Waldorf the following evening. The Alumni Association should be acknowledged for arranging the logistics surrounding the honors bestowed on every graduated class from 1923 to the graduating class of 1998, in five-year group increments. Anke Nolting, associate dean, ably assisted by Katherine Couchells, alumni director, and Christopher Nicholson, annual fund director, were primarily responsible for this wonderful weekend of celebrations and should be applauded and recognized. As class chairman, I would like to request that all alumni that read this “letter to the editor” get in touch with the Alumni Office (212-305-1472) to update not only their home and office addresses and phone numbers, but their present e-mail address. E-mail has certainly replaced the “snail mail” in correspondence and it would facilitate class members staying in touch with one another now and in the upcoming years. Stan Edelman ’53 Class Chairman (by e-mail May 20, 1998) Editor’s Note: The credit for the illustration on Page 14 of the Spring 1998 issue of P&S Journal was mistakenly dropped in the printing process. Howard Roberts, P&S Journal’s designer for more than two years, created the full-page illustration that opened the ethics series article, “The Commercialization of University Medical Research.”	Dear Editor, You were kind enough to publish my letter soliciting reminiscences and anecdotes about Dr. Robert Loeb, the Bard Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, 1947-1960, in the Fall 1997 issue of P&S Journal. So far I have received only four letters containing Loeb stories and memories. Although all four letters chronicled interesting Loeb experiences, I was disappointed by the limited response to my solicitation. There must be many, many more Loeb tales to be told. Would you be good enough to again ask the P&S alumni and P&S Journal readership to record their Loeb recollections and experiences so that the Loeb legacy can be preserved? Thank you very much for your help. Donald H. Harter ’57 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chevy Chase, Md. Editor’s Note: Send recollections to P&S Journal (see address below) or to the alumni office: Alumni Relations College of Physicians and Surgeons BB 2-250, New York, NY 10032 Phone: (212) 305-3498 Fax: (212) 305-8293 E-mail: nolting@cudept.cis.columbia.edu
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