1927

Bequest Chairman,

Hale Ham, who is Professor of Medicine atWestern Reserve University in Cleveland,spent the summer and early fall in Europe,where he visited about twenty medicalschools and gave seven major addresses. Sincehe went to Western Reserve a few years ago,Hale has been installing a new curriculum,involving a new method of teaching medicine, which he devised. At the present time,he is on a year's sabbatical leave, duringwhich he plans to write a book on his revised method of medical education. We hopethat, in a future issue of the MAGAZINE, wemay have a more complete report on thisvery vital work in which Hale is engaged.

Dave Merriam has joined the staff of Old Sturbridge Village as financial adviser in connection with the present and future development of Village resources. Dave was formerly Trust Officer of the Palmer National Bank, in Palmer, Mass.

Van Ingham, who is Executive Secretary of the Experimental Station at Rutgers University, headed the United Fund campaign at Rutgers College of Agriculture this year. Van serves as Secretary of the Child and Family Service Bureau, a member agency of the United Fund, and serves on the budget committee of the Fund. He is a member of the North Brunswick Professional Men's Club, and has served on the Board of Education and the Board of Adjustment in North Brunswick Township.

1927 was well represented at the Americas' Cup races in Newport this past summer. Dinty and Kay Gardner were there, aboard their yawl "Borogove III." Charlie and Barbara Bartlett were aboard their yawl "Gurnet Light," Rog and Marion Bury, on their ketch "Garribee," and Ken and Catherine Ballantine were with friends aboard another boat.

A letter from Loyd Moulton explains the reason for his and Elizabeth's absence from the fall reunion. Our weekend conflicted with the beginning of the annual convention of the New England Association of School Superintendents, at which Lloyd was elected President. Adding New England to the territory which we already control, through Marty Heifer's presidency of the New York Superintendents, should give 1927 a pretty good voice in public education in the north-eastern section of the United States. Lloyd has also achieved the distinction of changing his address, while still living in the same house in the same location. In explanation of this, he reminds us of the fact that during the War of 1812, Commodore Macdonough defeated the British in a naval battle off Pittsburg, on Lake Champlain, and that his fleet was built in Vergennes, Vt., at the end of the street where Lloyd lives. Since that area is to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Champlain's discovery and exploration of that area next year, it seemed only fitting that the street should be renamed Macdonough St. Lloyd now has six grandchildren, of whom the oldest, aged 9 years, and the youngest, aged nine months, are possible Big Green football material. The rest, being girls, are out of the running.

A number of address changes have accumulated, but only a few seem to involve a change in residence. These are as follows:

Elbert A. Gruver Jr., 520 Hope St., Providence 6, R. I.; Edward P. Ripley, 6308 Orion Van Nuys, Calif.; Joseph H. Ryan, R.F.D., East Lemp-ster N. H.; Willard H. Smith, 81 Meadow Road, Northboro, Mass.; M. Frank Amann 4 Keenan Place, Garden City, N. Y.; Richard Brandon, Turnabout Theatre, Box 6277, San Diego 6, Calif., Ralph B. Miracle, 715 Holter St., Helena, Mont.; Michael H. Ross, from New York City to 3613 Longridge Ave., Sherman Oaks, Calif.

This is one of the shorter columns, not because I'm lazy, which I admit to being, but because you haven't given me much to report. If you would like more news items, you know how to get them. But whether you write me or not, I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas. See you in 1959.

A generous gift to the College has been received in memory of Herb Rubin from his mother and the other members of his family. In the note which accompanied the gift they stated that the gift was being made in memory of Herb because he had often said that four of the happiest years of his life were spent at Dartmouth. To all of us who knew Herb during his undergraduate days, and to the smaller number who had the privilege of maintaining contact with him in the years since, until his untimely death two years ago, such a memorial seems particularly fitting, as representing what he would have liked to have done, had he been here to do it.

Secretary,West River Rd., M.R. 1Perrysburg, Ohio

Treasurer,Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St.Baltimore 18, Md.