1938

Although by now the excellent public relations staff of your Reunion Committee will have given you all the dope, I think it permissible to add one little note. It has always been my contention that the main purpose of a Reunion is not to fly off in a whirl of planned activities like some expensive cruise to strange parts, but rather to have a good chance to sit down with people you haven't seen for a good many years and catch up on things. To catch up on the College and Hanover too enters into the picture equally.

Whi'tey Mays and his committee have planned a Reunion which fits the bill perfectly, lots of leisure time, a minimum of "managed fun," and a very sensible drink plan, minus the deadly martini in the paper cup. Those of you who remember our Eighth after the war, when it was next to impossible to plan a complicated program, will remember the great enjoyment of sitting around the tent just talking. Further than this down-to-earth program, the cost is being kept within reasonable limits, so that no one need feel that the excursion will be a major item in a budget already strained to the limit by taxes and rising costs. If you are looking for the gay social whirl of Newport the weekend of the 19th and 20th of next month, stay away from Hanover; if you want really to reune, come along and visit with the many others who have the same idea.

Almost beyond expectation, the members of the class have filled out and returned the questionnaire sent them, thus practically guaranteeing the printing of a handy pocketsize directory for distribution to Reunioners and a mailing to the rest the week after. Incidentally, the humorous angles of the replies are going to give the Secretary many a pleasant evening of reading, even if some of them cannot be printed in a respectable family organ such as the MAGAZINE. We shall summarize the results for you in the Pace-Setter, when, as, and if the Sec. gets a free minute. Somewhat to our surprise, most members of the class also sent in the financial dope, and the statistical summary of that will, I am sure, be most interesting as a sample of what happens 15 years out.

By now the Alumni Fund is in mid-swing, and if you didn't pay heed to my entreaties to get your check in early and are now embarrassed by your negligence, it doesn't take much energy to write out a nice fat one for Mallory and square your conscience. If you think you're having a hard time with the rising costs and not-rising income, remember the College has many times your problem. Don't wait to leave the College a big sum in your will; get it in now when you can deduct it from your income tax!

Very unfortunately for the Class, StearnsMacNutt feels that the press of business no longer will permit him to head our activities in Boston as a member of the Executive Committee. Stearns has carried on nobly in that area with all the multitudinous duties of keeping the organization running smoothly and maintaining interest in class activities; Boston will miss his leadership very much. All owe him a very substantial vote of gratitude and confidence; the volunteer workers for the College are obviously her backbone and what make Dartmouth the envy of all her sister institutions.

Signal honors this month went to Dr. JohnP. Merrill, whose name has appeared frequently in print as a result of his really outstanding work with the development of the artificial kidney. If distinguished achievement is to be measured in terms of scientific advances as well as the more usual rewards of office and like recognition, certainly John is one of the exceptional members of the Class of 1938. This month's award is as one of the ten outstanding young men of Greater Boston, given annually by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the Bean Burg.

"Dr. Merrill, on the staff at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, served overseas as a group surgeon during World War II. He was graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard University Medical School. Persons have come from all over the country to be treated with the artificial kidney machine.

"Dr. Merrill is a member of the Boylston Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical Society, the Lancet Club, and American College of Physicians, and is president of the Boston Chapter of American Federation of Medical Research.

"He is married to the former Suzanne Nulson and they have two children, John Jr., 8, and Stephen Grinnell Merrill, 3."

Still hitting the Greater Boston Area, HalBerman, our representative on the Harvard Law School faculty, is making some addresses before Temple Groups 011 the subject of the "Meaning of Anti-Semitism in Russia." "Dr. Berman is a graduate of Yale Law School, and London School of Economics. He has been used as a consultant by the U.S. State Department because of his knowledge of Russian Law. He is also a research associate at the Russian Research Center of Harvard and is the author of two books on Soviet law."

Affairs political are really humming in Ridgefield Park, N. J. It seems there are six candidates for the Board of Education, and the race is a hot one.

"Louis Frick was born in Brooklyn. He attended Bloomfield High School and Dartmouth. He is 36 years old and is employed in the promotion department of a publication firm. He has three children, 12, 9 and 5½, in the Roosevelt School. For two years the Roosevelt P.T.A. representative to the Board of Education, Frick feels that he is conversant enough with the Board's problems to do a good job as trustee." By now the contest is probably over, and we hope 1938 is now represented on the Ridgefield Board of Education.

Russ Dow, previously reported as on his way to Alaska, etc., reports, "My wife and I now have title to our 120 acres we homesteaded. We have a beautiful 6000 ft. mountain just half a mile south of us for an ever-pleasant view. I'll be thinking of you all (in June) and hope to make the next one."

Jim Cotter reports he is planning to make the Reunion and that Jim Chandler wants a ride; big question in Jim's (Cotter's) mind is "Who'll drive?"

Belden Bly, 1938's representative in the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is co-author of a bill to allow the claim of foster children and stepchildren as exemptions in the state income tax.

A short time back, before the Vernal Equinox, to be exact, I had a pleasant visit from Pat Gorman, acting at the moment as ring master for a group of trained Boy Scouts on the way to their lair just north of here. The genial Pat was minus his own offspring, who had taken the first opportunity to fall in the lake, and was recuperating under blankets.

Pat recounted the rather interesting career of Howie Fogg, of Basking Ridge, N. J., who has made his avocation into a vocation. As some of you may remember, Fogg was a great admirer of things railroading, being in the company of such other prominent devotees as Lucius Beebe. He is now official artist for American Locomotive, doing "portraits" of their outstanding engines for presentation to the railroads who buy those gadgets. Pat reported a planned trip, in the cab, to the West Coast in the near future. Certainly the satisfaction of devoting all your energies to something in which you are deeply interested must make such a career eminently worthwhile.

Well, let's all hope Aluisy brought back enough leopard skins for the fur coat; perhaps lie will donate a couple of likely pelts for the auction at Reunion!

REUNION OFF JAPAN: Sixteen years and 10,000 miles from Hanover days, Prof. Walter Johnson '37 of the University of Chicago, who has been traveling in the Far East with Adlai Stevenson, meets his classmate Comdr. Robert (Whitey) Fuller, USNR, Air Intelligence Officer, Commander Task Force 77, aboard the "USS Oriskany" in the Sea of Japan. Fuller is shown helping Johnson to don an immersion suit before a return flight from the aircraft carrier to a South Korean airstrip.

Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y. Class Agent, 12 White Oak Shade Rd., New Canaan, Conn.