In Brief . . .
PRESIDENT DICKEY was one of a group of prominent U. S. citizens who last month issued a report on this country's international security and defense structure. The first of a series of studies financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the report urged a reorganization of the Department of Defense, with a single Chief of Staff under the President and the Secretary of Defense, and also recommended a sharp increase in U. S. military and education budgets. The panel declared the United States to be "in mortal danger," in contrast to White House reassurances, and criticized inter-service rivalry, urging instead a coordination of the military services on the basis of "the job to be done." General Lucius D. Clay, Dr. Edward Teller, Gordon Dean, Chester Bowles, Adolph A. Berle Jr., Lester B. Granger '18, Henry R. Luce, Dean Rusk, David Sarnoff, and Devereux C. Joseph were others who, with President Dickey, served on the 24-person panel, which had Henry L. Kissinger of the Harvard Center for International Studies as its staff secretary.
President and Mrs. Dickey last month announced the engagement of their daughter Christina, a senior at Smith College, to Stewart P. Stearns Jr. '54, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart P. Stearns '22 of Belmont, Mass. Mr. Stearns served three years in the Army and is now a graduate student at the Boston University School of Education.
Inquiries from alumni as to just what classes are holding June reunions, and when, indicate the desirability of repeating the schedule: June 6-8 (Commencement) - 1888, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908; June 9-12 (Monday through Wednesday) 1912, 1913. 1914; June 12-15 (Thursday through Sunday)-1933; June 13-15 (Friday through Sunday) - 1937, 1938, 1939, 1948.
Ronald L. Snow '58, president of Palaeopitus, will be a panelist on the TV program, "College News Conference," on Sunday, February 16. This ABC program features a panel of college students questioning some figure prominent in contemporary affairs. Snow is also president of the Forensic Union and has been a top Dartmouth debater since freshman year.
