December 1, 1999
by Dick Prentke
A photo of Jim Evans recently graced the front page of the Daily Item as part of an article on a new drug (Raloxifene) that could be more effective in the fight against breast cancer. Director of the Breast Clinic at Geisinger Medical Center, Jim said “Women everywhere are at risk for breast cancer, and we are pleased that central Pennsylvania women will have the chance to participate in this important study.” The clinical trial will test whether the drug will be the next step in treating breast cancer without serious side effects.
Speaking of “daily,” former [Daily] Prince[tonian] editor Jim Slocum has become v.p. of Kalmbach Publishing as well as publisher of four magazines, including Trains magazine (“the best single resource for an insider’s view of American railroads”). Thanks to a clipping forwarded by alert subscriber John Reading (my issue hadn’t yet arrived), we learn that Jim had previously served in a number of reporting and management positions for 25 years at the Milwaukee Sentinel. In the ’80s, “Slocum,” as everyone in the city room simply called him, was known as a reporter’s editor, a man who could sniff out a good story on even the slowest of news days. This is a man we could use for this column.
One of the few perks of this columnship is my receipt from Harper Flamingo of a recently published collection of poetry by John Koethe. A professor of philosophy at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (did he read Slocum’s paper?), John is an award-winning author and poet whose poems have appeared in leading literary journals. While possibly not at your local bookstore, John’s book, The Constructor, is available in the spacious (really: 9 works) Koethe section of Amazon.com, which gave it five stars. I do as well – it’s excellent.
We just received the sad word that our friend John Tait died on Aug. 10 at the Ottawa Hospital from surgery complications.
35 years ago: Big Three bonfire, with outhouse.
© 1999 Dick Prentke and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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