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reunion report by Kevin McKeough 2009 ALUMNI REUNION SCENE S FROM THE REUNION (left to right): Leonard Berlin '57, MD '59, Res '63, accepts the COM Distinguished Alumnus Award from Arlene Norsym, vice president and as- sociate chancellor of alumni relations, and College of Medicine Dean Joseph A. Flaherty '68, MD '71, Res '75; Milton Kramer '50, '52, MD '54, and his wife, Fradie, dance at the awards dinner; Lou Liay Spirit Award winner John C. Mason Jr. '53, MD '55, Res '59, and his wife, Donna, at the alumni awards dinner; alumni tour the robotic surgery training lab; Charles DeShazer, MD '84, and Linda O'Bannon, MD '84, reunite at the alumni awards reception. N MEMBERS OF THE CL A S S OF 19 5 9 (left to right) ROW 1 (BACK) : Edwin Carey, Jay Crittenden, T. Richard Harelik, Richard Norenberg, Ron Kowalski, Charles Lane, Richard Phillips, Ronald Kite, Donald Luber, Howard Lopata ROW 2 : Ronald DeWald, Lee Malmed, Leonard Berlin, Everett Grahn, Arnold Curnyn, Walter Whisler, David Discher ROW 3 : William Cavender, Robert Pasnau, Robert Jenkins, William Kramer, Rollo Nesset, Herbert Hostetler, Jerry Hoffman, Eugene Borchar, Larry Keer, Leo Fitzgerald, David Walzem ROW 4 : Roger Quinn, Robert Thurnblad, Lee Vida, Alex Solik, Ted Gabrielsen, Jerry Brody, Don Wasserman, William Caro, Jerry Jacobson ROW 5 : J.B. Pinski, Sherman Minkoff, Max Finkel, Sheldon Schwartz, Bob Epstein, Leslie Lindberg, Marilyn Miller, Barry Goldsmith ROW 6 : Fred Kobak, Roger Powell, Tom Peyla, Hal Swartz, Jay Ellenby, Gerald Glantz, Gordon Bloomberg, Ron Fishman EARLY 200 ALUMNI AND GUESTS attended the College of Medicine's 2009 reunion weekend, Oct. 15 and 16. The 50th anniversary Class of 1959 was well-represented, with nearly 60 members in attendance. "Fifty is special. I know a lot of classmates will be here," said Rollo Nesset '55, MD '59, Res '63, during a welcoming reception Thursday night in the historic University Club of Chi- cago in downtown Chicago. A full day of reunion activities followed, starting with a tour of the Dr. Allan L. and Mary L. Graham Clinical Performance Center, which provides simulated patient encounters to help educate and train medical students. Other highlights included a presentation on the medical center's acclaimed system for acknowledging medical errors, the state of the college report by Dean Joseph A. Flaherty '68, MD '71, Res '75, at the dean's luncheon, and an opportunity to handle the controls in the robotic surgery resident training lab. The afternoon concluded with a bus tour of the sites on the College of Medicine's Chicago campus. At the Alumni Awards Dinner, held in the University Club's Cathedral Hall, Dean Flaherty received the Loyalty Award for Exceptional Alumni Service, and John Mason '53, MD '55, Res '59, a retired obstetrician and chair of the college's Medical Alumni Council, was honored with the Lou Liay Spirit Award for Extraordinary Alumni Service. Leonard Berlin '57, MD '59, Res '63, winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award (see page 40), summed up the feeling repeatedly voiced by the alumni when he told the crowd, "This has been an absolutely wonderful weekend." 38 | SPRING 2 010 PHOTOS: STEVE BECKER PHOTO: ROBERTA DUPUIS-DEVLIN