1927

According to a bulletin from Cug Daley, chairman of our Father and Son weekend, otherwise known as the spring get-together, this event will be held either on the weekend of February 20, or that of April 17. Since the choice depended on a vote of those interested in attending, and since the result of that vote hasn't yet been announced, it isn't known at this time whether the devotees of skiing or the golfers won out. As it will probably be late in February before this reaches you, if the winter weekend is chosen, you will have to depend on other sources for your news. If the vote is in favor of April, you will read more about it in this column. In any event, those of you who make the trek to Hanover will be rewarded by a weekend of good fellowship with your classmates, and the opportunity to meet the sons of 1927 currently in college.

Cliff Randall returned recently from a trip around the world, during the course of which, as president of Rotary International, he visited Japan, Formosa, Ceylon, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, India and Pakistan, and returned home by way of Egypt and France. Cliff was accompanied on the tripby his wife, Renate, and his daughter, Judy.He feels that the people of southeast Asiawill not willingly adopt the Communist system, but that they may be forced to by thetremendous economic and military powerof Soviet Russia and Communist China. Toquote Cliff:

The peoples in Southeast Asia are individualistic, and want to find their own destiny, but in order to succeed, they have to make great economic progress. They fear the economic power of Red China and the ability of the Chinese to ruin their economies by underselling and flooding the market. Most of these countries have only one or two items to export and if there is no market for them, they are in real trouble. The Chinese already are disrupting the economies of Burma and India by dumping large quantities of wool and rice on the market. With the exception of India, the governments of the countries in that area are unstable and uneasy. They are fearful of the rise of China as an economic and military world power.

The peoples of southeast Asia want to build up the industry and agriculture of their countries, and although the philosophy of Communism doesn't appeal to them, they are greatly impressed by the rapidity with which Soviet Russia and Red China have moved up in the world through their collective system. If India, with its democratic approach, matches the progress that Red China makes through its communistic system, the southeast Asia countries will be bolstered in their resistance to the domination of international communism. The United States could help these countries by better understanding the grave economic problems facing them. By getting more qualified men to administer our aid and technological assistance programs, we could gain this understanding.

Thanks to George Friede and Sam Martin, we have learned that Frell Owl, who is Superintendent of the Fort Hall, Idaho Indian Agency, spoke on December 5 before the Portland, Ore., City Club. Frell's subject was "Moccasins to Shoes," and his talk was concerned with the problems being encountered by the Indian in adjusting from his traditional way of life to the white man's mode of living. Hoot is well qualified to talk on this subject, having devoted his entire life since graduation from college to working among the Indians, and now occupying the highest administrative post held by anyone of his race. He has always argued for the greater acceptance and integration of the Indian as an equal citizen, and believes that education is the key to this transition.

George Friede, who made the arrangements for Hoot's talk, gave a small all-Dartmouth cocktail party in his honor, which was attended by Sam and Ellen Martin, Dud andSue Sercombe, Paul and Sue Woelfel. making up a 100% representation of 1927 in Portland, as well as by Henry Morton Jr. and Paul Hanlon '43 with their wives. George is editor of the Multnomah Lawyer, the journal of the Multnomah County Bar Association, and co-moderator of the Portland Chapter of the National Conference of Christiansand Jews. Last summer, returning from a sixweeks' vacation in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ireland, George wasbooked on the ill-fated KLM airliner whichfell into the Atlantic, with all 99 personsaboard killed. Fortunately, at the last moment he decided to prolong his trip, andchanged his reservation to a plane leavingtwo days later.

Hank Copeland has been appointed as legislative assistant By New York state senator Harold A. Jerry Jr., of Elmira.

Although we are supposed to be at the age where we are settled down, some of us still seem to be moving around. The latest moves: Ledlie H. Berry, from Bowdoinham, Me., to 564 Pineapple Ave., Eau Gallie, Fla. (Does this mean that you are planning on taking things a little easier, Led?) Lt. Col. Elmer H. Worth, from Lackland Air Force Base to 214 Springvale Ave., San Antonio 27, Tex. (Looks as though he finally found a decent house.) Henry F. Hale from Jamaica Plain to 23 Converse Ave., Newton 58, Mass.; Lee N. Slinkard from Whittier, Calif., to 594 G St., Chula Vista, Calif.; Col. Charles M. Townsend from an APO to 8614 Hartsdale Ave., Bethesda 14, Md.

At a dinner for the rugby team given by Dartmouth alumni from the London area Bob Breyfogle '26 hosts Art Cockburn '60.

Charlie Goldsmith '29, MGM executive in London, played an important and very helpfulrole in the successful visit of the Dartmouth rugby team to England during Christmas vacation. With him are John Hessler '59 (left), team captain, and Dick Liesching '59 (right),president of the Dartmouth Rugby Club.

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