1933
This issue of the DAM will hit the newsstands just about the time you are running through those '53 deductions for the umteenth time to wring out another nickle from Form 1040. Many of the Class have just experienced that March 15th secondary glow that comes from a gift to the College - the primary glow, of course, arising when you dispatch your check and the secondary glow when you deduct it from your Adjusted Gross Income. Take the Memorial Fund, for instance. As of January 23, you have done the phenomenal job of putting $15,874.90 in the hands of the College for the account of the '33 Memorial Fund. We have no recent report from D'Arcy on the amount which has been pledged in addition, but we know it's substantial. Our hats are off to the Class for grabbing aholt of this thing in the way you have. There'll be no coasting, but it's a magnificent start! And take the Alumni Fund - yes, that's a good idea. Take it from here, boys, and do the job we know you can do.
Jackson and his squads of doorbell-pushers and letter-writers will soon be pushing your doorbells and writing you letters in this worthy cause. Remember '33's motto for this year, "Give early and often." Incidentally, if any or all of you wish to help as Assistant Class Agents, a letter to this effect to the chief doorbell-pusher and letter-writer, care of Boston & Maine Railroad, North Station, Boston 14, will secure your badge by return mail. The hours are easy; the work is interesting and rewarding. Hope you'll all try it.
Your reporter hopes you won't get the idea that we talk about nothing but money. Frankly, though, what else is there to talk about when the regulations of this family magazine render it difficult to talk about w--—n as we'd like to. As a matter of fact, those of your classmates chiefly charged with the responsibility of relieving you of your dough for the betterment and glory of the College spend long hours on this not inconsiderable task. In .some cases, they have found they must rearrange their personal affairs in order to give this task the time it deserves. For instance, Jackson, the aforementioned chief doorbell-pusher and letter-writer, has found it necessary in order to give you people and the Alumni Fund the time required, to be appointed effective January 1 to the plushy job of general counsel of the Boston and Maine Railroad. You see, there are no limits to the sacrifice which people will make to get this Alumni Fund job done. Cheers, Dick!
On the back of an envelope postmarked May 1953 I find a note in my handwriting reading, "Monagan has a new baby," and another stating, "Vince Merrill, landscape architect in Watertown, Mass., just building new house." We have duly reported and hereby congratulate and ask each of the gentlemen for further details.
A report has reached us that John F. Reed, member of the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming, has been elected secretary of the Ecological Society of America, a post which makes him, in effect, the executive officer of the society. Congratulations, John! As an aid to the uninformed, Webster'sCollegiate Dictionary defines "ecology," the noun from which comes the adjective "ecological," to be "biology dealing with the mutual relations between organisms and their environment; bionomics." Remember this one for Scrabble.
Out Columbus way, it has been announced that Dr. L. Chandler Roettig has been certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and elected to membership in the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Here's a couple more for the Scrabbler.s, but we know, Chan, that the honors are deserved and the result of a lot of good hard work.
Charlie Webster and Whit Kimball made Hanover recently.
Byway of Howard D. Crosse '31 and Ernie Earley '18 comes news that George C. Smith was recently named an officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with the title of manager and assigned to the Collection De- partment. Nice going, George! We find that George has been with the Federal Reserve since 1934, after receiving a M.C.S. degree with distinction from Tuck School, except for four years in the Army. He lives in Ramsey, N.J., with his wife and eight-month-old son. Immediately prior to his recent appointment, George had a job with the bank from which we hope he was allowed to take samples and spoiled material home. It was chief of the Sorting & Counting Division of the Cash Department.
From Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,comes a welcome letter from Burt Martinwhich reads in part:
"Your last letter to me came one year late, to the month ... the card with your good messages . . . but at the wrong Christmas. None-the-less so good to receive.
"This is my eighth winter in Japan (one out for the States three years ago, and one in the States to come very soon I hope!) and all the time the years have been with education, teaching now as a full professor at one university, and guest at another. The universities are separated by nearly the whole length of Japan, but I get the southern one in the winter. Not by pure chance.
"My publications are coming along pretty well, but since Unpromised Land (1948) there have been no more novels, and I have settled into the heavier (and easier?) labor of academic books and articles. The second volume of my History of AmericanLiterature comes out in a few days. But why should I go into a bibliography of my publications? The radio lectures are more interesting in a way, and so are the lectures (for me) at other and various universities, since those invitations take me all over Japan. I hope in the near future to get back to the States for a lecture tour, if the tour, as hoped for, materializes.
"Oh yes! I am doing all I can to make our Robert Frost as well known as he should be (and T. S. Eliot is) in Japan. In order to do this I am giving special lecture series and seminars on him, and at the same time writing articles about him, articles which are published in many Japanese magazines. Japan is just coming to know him whereas they know so many of our lesser authors better.
"The news has been pretty literary, I'm afraid, but then literary is now the life I lead."
This is all for this month. Will be backwith the crocus and the daffodil in April.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
