1951

Too late for inclusion in the November column, I received from Hank Sanders a missive about pre- and post-game gatherings at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton. I must confess that I couldn't find the Yale game gathering but did see Paul Orth, Marc Cole, Bob Leavitt, John Gambling and Chet Cotter around and about the Dartmouth Club of New Haven tent.

One of the lessons of Great Issues, you will all recall, was to read, daily and faithfully, that encyclopedia which appears in daily installments, The New York Times. As I was savoring an account of the Yale game, which jumped to page 9 of the sports section, my eye caught a story about two Philadelphia prep schools which have the longest continuous football rivalry at the secondary level.

For reasons which only The New York Times can explain, in the latter story I spied a slug which said "Choukas Moves Up." Upon reading further, I learned that Mike Choukas is now Assistant Headmaster at Vermont Academy. Mike returned to Vermont Academy as a mathematics teacher, and since 1954 he has also been coach of hockey and baseball as well as assistant football coach. He has been a member of the Academy's development committee and director of a new course, Man and His World, required of seniors and designed to prepare them for their college careers.

From reading The Times three previous Sundays, I learned that Abdul Sheikh was then in this country raising transportation funds to airlift to our shores 200 African students with fellowships and admissions to United States colleges and universities.

Then there are the Luce publications. If you took a look at page 49 of Time of October 13, you saw the serious countenance of Dr. Jack Jacobey (see cut) staring you in the face. Jack has been at work on a heart pump which saves lives in cases of coronary occlusion by opening up reserve arteries and veins with which our hearts are apparently equipped, thus giving the heart a chance to develop substitute channels of circulation around the area of occlusion. Some day, one or more of us may owe our lives to Jack's work.

Then there's a publication which crosses my desk but which I suspect does not cross any desk in Baker. It's called The Young Lawyer and is published by the Junior Bar Conference of the American Bar Association. On page 2 of the October issue appears a picture of Berl Bernhard delivering the main address at the JBC Annual Meeting luncheon in St. Louis in August. Seated next to him is Whitney North Seymour, immediate past President of the ABA and father of Dean Thad Seymour.

From my contacts in the legal teaching world, I've learned that Mike Heyman has been promoted to a full professorship at the University of California Law School at Berkeley. After Dartmouth and the service, Mike put in three years at Yale, where he was an officer of the Law Journal, before clerking for Chief Justice Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court.

John Sater strayed from the law which attracted his father, Class of 1921. now an Ohio judge. John left in October for Arlis II, one of those floating Arctic ice islands which our scientists are studying with such great care. John's experience includes 18 months' service in an International Geophysical Year project in Alaska.

Let's stray for a moment into the area of marital bliss. Dr. Blaine Boyden, one of our Hawaiian contingent, took the leap on August 20 with Nancy May Cusack in Greenwich, Conn. Our Damon Runyon, WoodyKlein, is engaged to Audrey Lehman, a 1958 graduate of Barnard. That other G.I. newspaper, the Herald Trib ("Hark the Herald Tribune Sings" - which Tom Lehrer stole) notes that Woody is not only a reporter and feature writer for the New York World-Telegram and Sun but also a member of the journalism faculty at N.Y.U.

Bill Harrington has been appointed a member of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress' advisory committee on the basis of his congressman's recommendation. Dr. Paul Simel has set up shop in Greensboro, N. C., to practice ophthalmology and eye surgery.

Much as all of us would like to enjoy peace in our time, the cold (?) war is still with us. Capt. Drew Matthews has been transferred to Formosa for a two-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps Advisor)' Group. The Air Force has dispatched Capt John Noble to the University of Oklahoma to obtain a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Howie Reynolds, who recently received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Syracuse, is now Assistant Director of the Programmed Learning Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Howie is doing applied research with teaching machines and basic research in learning theory.

Chuck Eccles has moved from Division Sales Manager in California to Product Manager in New York for Union Carbide. Franz Pick is selling American free enterprise to Europeans at the behest of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in Frankfurt, Germany, after two years in Geneva, Switzerland.

Merle Thorpe has me confused. Last month, thanks to the clipping service to which the College subscribes, we ran a story about his going to New York. Merle has recently written Newsletter Editor Al Karcher that he is now involved with a new company, Thorpe Arc-Flame Associates, Inc., in Concord, N. H., in the high temperature product and process field. What's the scoop? Or are you diversifying, Merle?

As did the rest of you who attended our great 10th Reunion, I recently received a letter advising that things were run so efficiently that we were all entitled to a $5 rebate. Things were run very well indeed; but in view of the suggestion that this is the equivalent of our currently owing class dues, I'm beginning to smell an efficient conspiracy between the Reunion Committee and our Class Treasurer. In any event, TomPorter is looking for your five-spot to continue 1951 in business.

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