Great Divide
The Holiday Season has confused things somewhat, but there is no doubt that the Christmas cocktail party in the holly-decked halls of the Denver Club was a success. We hold a warm place in our hearts for the entertainment committee whose efforts engineered the celebration, and anyone who missed the sparkling view of Denver from the Olympian heights should be sorry.
The luncheon which preceded the above co-educational maneuvers, on the same day, was organized on a slightly different format this year — for the better, we think. Not so confusing. Don McMichael '53, local enrollment chairman, outlined the logistics of the campaign for able candidates for the Class of 1964, and we were pleased to see a tangible sample of the work of all the committees in the likeable form of Bill Shepherd, a senior at the Denver Country Day School, who was accepted into the new class in early December via the Early Decision Plan.
Nobody else had anything vital to say so our drab lives were enriched by a return engagement of that ivy-covered raconteur, Art Kiendl '44, Dean of Students at Colorado University. Like unto somebody's maiden aunt who knitted a basket-full of steel wool into a stove, Art wove the variegated skeins of his experiences as Assistant Dean of Dartmouth College into a substantial hour of solid entertainment to the reminiscent delight of all.
Art says our beneficent sun and sky and vast plains have changed him from "an Easterner with Western ideas to a Westerner with Eastern ideas." Probably the last stop on the way to complete assimilation.
It was good to see Sandy Kelsey '47 at the head table with his father-in-law, Ralph Rickenbaugh '28. Sandy and Ann are to spend two years in the Washington, D. C., area now, repatriated at last. Jerry Samuelson '55 was back, and so was Monty Pascoe '57, vacationing from his legal labors at Stanford Law School.
No regular luncheon this past month of December, but there will be one in January and thereafter in the usual place (University Club) on the usual day (last Friday of each and every month) at the usual time (12:15 or so). Come one, come all; it's a liberal education, and besides you have to eat.
Secretary, 170 Marion St., Denver, Colo.
