1949

We start the ceremonies this month with a promotion, that of Ed Clogston, one of our men rapidly succeeding in the insurance business. Ed has done his climbing with Aetna. This rung: Brokerage Supervisor, William St. Agency, Manhattan.

Bob Thwaite: "In October a year ago we moved from Kensington, Md., to Bethlehem, Pa., where I began work in the Research Dept., Ceramics Division, of Bethlehem Steel. I had been in and around Washington, D. C., for the previous ten years. Last spring we moved into a new lab atop South Mountain where the whole Lehigh Valley is stretched out below. In my family: my wife Alberta and two sons, David, nine, and Paul, five. We've bought a new house and are happy with it. My job deals with the refractory ceramics used in lining the furnaces in which steel is smelted. By improving the life of these materials, we can effect important economies in the cost of steelmaking. Our new lab provides much needed facilities for our research. My roommate Marv Durning sent a picture of his sweet one-year-old Susan. He is in a law firm in Seattle and also has his hand in politics."

Pete New, Ace Correspondent: "Trotting here and there (from Univ. of Pittsburgh, Where he is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Public Health) around the Eastern seaboard, including delivering a paper in Boston recently. Managed a delightful three weeks in the Virgin Islands at the turn of the year." Pete encloses letter from RalphSleeper:

My admiration for Dartmouth and her most amazing alumni interest stimulation machinery remains unalloyed, albeit somewhat modified by the conditions that my three daughters can scarcely be considered potential matriculants, and that there is no conceivable way in which my Dartmouth connections can profit my business and professional interests. (This comment prompted by our News-From-Every-'49 Project, which caught up with Mate Sleeper. Ed. remembers Sleeper as no sleeper, rather a philosopher, particularly capable of sensing the nature of values operating in concept and realization of the Dartmouth Family. The most perceptive articulation of same comes from John Dickey; recommend that all should read his speeches and other messages to the members of this Family.)

At Queens I have been teaching philosophy. Since the "Great Awakening" of educational interest in New York has had the result of transforming a small college into part of large university, I have been increasingly caught up in the web of administration. Though still teaching a course in philosophy, I am administering a corps of 33 instructors in our School of General Studies who, collectively, give a course in four semesters called, somewhat misleadingly, Contemporary Civilization. I am also chairing a committee which is about to give birth to a new curriculum establishing a two-year degree program in the liberal arts, for selected adults who have missed out on the chance to "lib eralize" themselves during the years when that curious process is normally supposed to take place. It may be surmised that at least one of the objectives of such a program would be to offset the likelihood of Birchism among that portion of the metropolitan N. Y. population that we hope to serve.

Russ Blackwood, professing Philosophy and Religion at Hamilton, and chairing one or the other department, was observed in print in the Times some while ago. Among other things which he said on the subject of Nehru: "Nehru is neither a fool nor a knave, nor is he a saint. Rather, he is a complex and deeply thoughtful man who is more aware of the ambiguities of history than are many of his critics."

Quent Kopp stood up before the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and personally received the Gold Pick Axe Award which we awarded him in absentia at the Annual Meeting.

Bert Rodman and his Rodman Insurance Agency have cut out of Boston and moved over to Chestnut Hill ... breathe the fresh country air. He's reportedly a student, in courses leading to the C.P.C.U. eminence. He was Chairman of the Newton District Division, of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

Zandy Taft is having some success with the efforts of his Greenville (N. H.) Industrial Development Group and their efforts to bring new industry to their community.

Dick Elliott is home from his trip with the "SS Hope" the medical training ship which private philanthropy sent out to help train medical personnel in underprivileged countries in the new techniques. Dick was Senior Medical Officer. He will now become a practicing pediatrician in Brockton, Mass., specializing in diseases of infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The "SS Hope" was in Indonesia and Vietnam during Dick's tour.

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