We recently came across an old OUTLOOK cover from June 1970. The OUTLOOK was published by The Cryonics Society of Michigan, later to become The Cryonics Institute. The OUTLOOK was later to become THE IMMORTALIST, and then long life. We wondered who some of these people were, dead or alive, frozen, buried, or gone on to other lives and losing all interest in cryonics. Thanks to Ben Best, Mike Perry, Mike Darwin, and Bob Nelson, and Robert Ettinger, here's the run down.

#1 Bob Nelson, delivering the keynote address is alive and well, living in Oceanside CA, and is a member of CI

#2 Joe Cannon and John Bull, Joe died a few years ago, is an ALCOR patient John is alive and the Editor of this magazine.

#3 Joe Klockgether is alive and well and still running his mortuary business in Buena Vista, CA He might be a consultant/assistant on some ALCOR cases. #4 Lee Maynor and Richard Jones. (aka Dick Clair) No one seems to know anything about Maynor, Dick Clair is an ALCOR patient. (see GOGGLE search next column)

#5 Conley Hall-Conley is reported to have committed suicide. He was not frozen.

#6 Jack Erfurt, George Lantos, Holly Martin, Paul Porcasi and Dawn Christensen-Jack Erfurt is a CI patient, George Lantos was a friend of David Ettinger appears to have lost interest. Holly Martin, nee Holly Douglas was the daughter of Donald Douglas, founder of Douglas Aircraft Corp. Holly was married six times, was a devout Christian, and never lost faith in cryonics. She moved to Arizona approximately 15 years ago. One night, while she was having dinner in a Phoenix restaurant, she was kidnapped, raped and murdered. Her body was found brutally cut up in a Phoenix alley. Her killer was a serial killer that was roaming the Phoenix area at the time. He was eventually caught, and is now serving a life sentence without parole in an Arizona prison. Bob Nelson has a chapter in his book FROZEN HEROES about Holly and the important role she played in the early days of cryonics. Paul Porcasi is alive and well and involved with cryonics, Dawn Christiansen, is alive and well, living in Arizona. She is currently helping Bob Nelson with his book.

#7 George Lantos, and Dr. M. Coleman Harris,Dr. Harris died a few years ago, and was not frozen. #8 Carol (Mrs Marshall) Neal, Theresa (Mrs Joseph) Cannon, and Elaine (Mrs Robert) Nelson (Bob Nelson's first wife.) Carol is alive and well, Theresa is an ALCOR patient, and Elaine is alive and well.

A GOGGLE search of Dick Clair turned up 831 hits. This CRYONICS report was #1: On the 12th of December,1988 Alcor placed into suspension longtime cryonicist Richard Clair Jones. Dick was the "John Roe" of Roe vs. California Department of Health Services and was also known professionally as Dick Clair. Dick was a highly creative talent who was responsible for many of the funniest episodes of the Carol Burnett Show. He also created several popular television situation comedies, including Flo, Mama's Family, and the Emmy-Awardwinning Facts of Life. All told, Dick had won three Emmies for his writing efforts.

Dick was present at the meetings leading to the founding of the Cryonics Society of California in late 1966, and had been a Suspension Member of one cryonics organization or another continuously ever since. He has been an Alcor Suspension Member since 1979.

In Dick's case, the effort required was monumental. Most of us knew Dick very well. He was a regular at Alcor social gatherings and he was a close personal friend to a fair number of the Alcor directors, officers, and members. He was a stalwart backer of Alcor and gave generously of his money, his time, and his reputation. He opened his home to our holiday gatherings and he opened his heart to suspension patients in need. Watching Dick's slow, painful decline and having to place him into suspension was almost unbearable for everyone involved.

Two years before his ischemic coma, Dick had been diagnosed with AIDS. He was fortunate to have bad a relatively stable, complication-free illness up until the last four months of his life. Unfortunately, what he was spared in terms of minor crises was more than made up for in major ones during the last 12 weeks of his illness.

It was necessary for Dick and Alcor to go to court to obtain a restraining order forcing Sherman Oaks Community Hospital, where Dick was a patient, to give Alcor prompt access to him and to release him to Alcor's care after pronouncement of legal death. The hospital had refused to cooperate with Alcor, in part due to the position taken by the California Department of Health Services (DHS) that cryonics is illegal Dick's multiple health and legal crises were a serious drain on everyone concerned. Alcor Suspension Team Members Mike Darwin and Jerry Leaf were at the hospital around the clock for 2 - 3 days at a time. Adapted from CRYONICS