1937

I have just now returned home from what will be my last Class Officers' Meeting in Hanover. These annual meetings bring together the various officers of all classes for work sessions in which we discuss common problems, swap ideas, and generally try to learn how to do a more effective job for our respective classes and for the College. All '37 officers were on hand except for Boz Bosworth who was in Europe on business and unable to cut short his travels so as to attend the sessions. But Ballantyne,Bryant, Fenn, Ruggles and Allen were there, the first two accompanied by Mavis and Sherry who, along with Lee Stearns, report that Hanover still seems to be populated by a suitable number of delightful wolves.

From the standpoint of a class secretary, our greatest problem is that of communications. And of course our chief vehicle for communications is through these pages. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE tries to serve the alumni in three chief areas. It tries to keep us informed on what is going on in Hanover by reporting on the changes in plant, student body, curriculum, faculty, etc. It tries to keep us informed on what is happening to our fellow alumni, mainly through columns like this. And it tries to keep us abreast of developments in various areas of undergraduate education so that through special articles we alumni have opportunity to continue the educational process we shared together in Hanover 25 years ago.

So many fine things happened during this two-day Hanover visit that it is hard to know what to report. For one thing I learned that Fran Fenn has been chosen President of the General Association of Alumni, and as such will preside at the general meeting of alumni that is held during Commencement weekend.

On Saturday afternoon we tried to get all our Hanover contingent together for a cocktail or two, but most of them were either out of town or tied up with other commitments. For example Russ Stearns was away and not due home until the 4:00 A.M. train Sunday morning (we did not stay up to greet him, I'm afraid), but his good wife Lee came over to visit with us just the same. Jud Smith joined us for a while and reported that all is in readiness for Reunion as far as Hanover arrangements are concerned. He mentioned that John Milne can no longer get his car in his garage because of all the donations he has received for our Reunion Door Prizes!

On Friday evening, as we were leaving 105 Dartmouth after an exciting panel discussion on "Important Developments at Dartmouth," we found the Sigma Phi Epsilon men gathered on the steps of Dartmouth Hall practicing for the fraternity hum. And who was the tall lad leading the group? Why, of course, it was Bill Coe's son John, a senior and music major, who is heading for Ethiopia after graduation as a member of the Peace Corps.

But the most exciting event Friday evening was when Rog Allen was summoned from his seat to come to the platform to receive a beautiful color photograph of Dartmouth Hall, the award of the Class Newsletter Editor of the Year.

Fran Fenn reported that we are continuing to make substantial progress toward meeting our goal of $525,000 during our 25 years since graduation. But in case you have missed this one point, I would like to remind you all of the fact that while the Alumni Fund Campaign in general does not close until June 30, our own Twenty-five Year effort closes its books on Saturday, June 16 of Reunion weekend. So if your gift is not yet in, please don't delay any further. If you wish, you may send in a pledge, payable anytime up to February 1, 1963, but get it to Bosworth, Fenn or to Hanover before June 16.

A month or more ago I reported that Tony Turkevich is spending this year in Geneva. But his name continues to crop up in American scientific journals. lust recently his picture appeared in Chemical and Engineering News, and the news release prompted the following editorial in the Chicago Tribune:

A University of Chicago chemistry professor is among the five scientists chosen to receive the 1962 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial awards for outstanding work development, use, or control of atomic energy. Dr. Anthony L. Turkevich, the Chicagoan, was honored, according to a press release from the Atomic Energy Commission, "for contributions to radio-chemistry in activation analysis, to analysis of intranuclear cascades, and to utilization of radio-chemical techniques thruout atomic energy." . .

Those 21 words within the quotation marks are illustrative of the vast learning gap which exists today between even the educated lay citizen and the scientist pushing forward in such fields as nuclear fission. Never in the history of the world has the separation been so wide.

We'd like to praise Dr. Turkevich intelligently for his. achievement, but we can't. We wouldn't know an intranuclear cascade if we saw one. So, we'll limit ourselves to a word from our own dictionaries: "Congratulations."

A recent news item in one of our local papers reveals that Morgan McGuire, our New London (Conn.) attorney, is runn ing for the position of state senator. I believe that the Republicans in Connecticut will choose their candidate on June 14. This means that Morg will have to get the delegates to cut short the speeches, and get him nominated without delay so he will still have time to get to Hanover for the start of Reunion festivities!

Rog Allen listened to my pleas for news for this column by giving me a returned questionnaire he had just received that day. It comes from Ed Kelley from whom we haven't heard in what seems a coon's age. Ed was married, I believe not long ago, to Mary Audrey Barroul of Mobile, Ala. Ed is captain of the two-masted fishing schooner "Victor" of Mobile, owned by the Southern Fish & Oyster Co. He spends his time taking 23-4 day trips to the Compeche Bank off the Yucatan Peninsula, fishing for red snapper. He comments that "it is a rugged life but interesting, what with hurricanes, northers', temperamental fish and crews."

This does it for tonight, people. Before I write another column, I will have seen all of you, I hope, in Hanover. Put that big 25th Reunion sticker on your car windshield, and LET'S GO!

Secretary, 25 Old Stamford Rd. New Canaan, Conn.

Class Agent, 4285 N. Port Washington Rd. Milwaukee 12, Wis.