1932

At a February Class dinner in New York attended by 21 of the faithful, Howie Sargeant, president of the American Committee for Liberation, talked about the work of his Committee and its operating arm Radio Liberty, which broadcasts * the free world's version of the news to interested listeners within the Soviet Union. As distinguished from Voice of America which is frankly a U. S. official propaganda station, or Radio Free Europe which broadcasts only to the Soviet satellites, Radio Liberty represents no party or government and it reaches all the major peoples of the Soviet in their own languages.

Broadcasting around the clock from powerful short-wave stations in Europe and on Formosa, Radio Liberty presents a picture of contemporary events and trends to Soviet listeners who have been cut off from the outside world by the Communist control over all internal information media. The nearly 400 former Soviet citizens who staff the operation are working, not to goad their listeners into rash anti-Communist actions that would lead only to their liquidation, but rather to keep them supplied with facts which explain and support the free world's point of view.

Another enjoyable feature of the Class dinner was a typically free-wheeling discourse by Dr. Walt Modarelli who, if he uses a similar approach in his professional consultations, must have a lot of patients who die laughing. His remarks, to the extent classifiable, appeared to deal mainly with current domestic rather than international issues, and so furnished a nice counterbalance to the program's other special feature. He did make one serious appeal for support of the Heart Fund campaign, explained by the fact that he is profoundly interested in his work as an M.D. and is also president of the Hudson County, N. J., Heart Association.

Buzzing up from Washington to attend the dinner was Ed Marks, another of our Class's representatives on the international scene. Ed had recently returned from a trip abroad where, as executive director of the U. S. Committee for Refugees, he attended the International Conference of Social Work in Rome and then went on to Geneva to address the International Conference on World Refugee Year on the subject of the Cuban refugee problem. His week's stay in the latter city included a pleasant evening chez Chuck Owsley, just back from a skiing holiday with his family at Wengen. Chuck is U. S. resident representative of a number of intergovernmental agencies that either are based or convene in Geneva.

Eddie also took the trouble to mail in a couple of newsworthy items about other classmates. The first of these was a letter from Democratic Representative Monagan '33 to his constituents (not printed at Government expense) which, in discussing the fight over the composition of the Committee on Rules, paid Republican Representative Curtis the compliment of quoting his fairminded statement to the effect that the Party of the Administration should have some power over its committees and the ability to get bills to the floor. The other item was a news report of the death of CarrollBoynton's father, Dr. Perry Boynton '90, who at age 95 had been the third oldest living Dartmouth alumnus. This grand old man, before his retirement five years ago, had practiced medicine in New York for sixty years.

A pleasant note from Bill Lieson mentioned that he was in New York shortly after the big February snow slowed things to a halt or, as he put it, after they took the city away from the automobiles and gave it back to the people. He thinks this should be done more often. The Lieson family was reported well and looking forward to a week of skiing at Bromley, in Vermont.

From Grand Rapids comes Howard Frisbie's brief note dashed off in a hurry just before packing for a deer hunting trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Seems Howie is currently with the Group Division of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Wife Dorothy Jane alternates her extracurricular activities between Blodgett Hospital and the new Mayflower Congregational Church. Daughter Diane is a senior at Michigan State and daughter Barbara is in the ninth grade.

The first book prize of $1,000 to be awarded by Phi Beta Kappa in History, Philosophy and Religion went to Bill Levi's "Philosophy and the Modern World," published by the Indiana University Press. Bill is professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of three books and has contributed numerous articles to the Journal of Philosophy, the Nation, the Psychoanalytic Review, Ethics, the Kenyon Review, and other publications. He considers "Philosophy and the Modern World" to be his most important work to date.

West Coast executive Jack Davidson has been elected president of the Coast Envelope Company of Los Angeles and San Francisco, recently merged with the Hammermill Paper Co. Previously Jack had been vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles office. Pasadena has been home to Jack for over 40 years. Following World War II he was president of the Western Lithograph Co., but joined Coast Envelope Co., as vice president in 1953, after the other firm was sold. Active in civic and community affairs, Jack is a director of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and a member of the Los Angeles Rotary Club, the Annandale Golf Club and the Los Angeles Yacht Club.

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