1952

Our class contribution to major league baseball, Peter Burnside, is the center of attention tonight in Washington, D. C.'s new stadium. The Senators' Number Two pitcher is throwing them tonight against our local club, the Boston Red Sox. It's the second inning now and Pete's trailing, 1-0, but he shouldn't be. The first three batters for the Senators in the first hit safely, but nary a run crossed the plate.

It seems very appropriate to report on Pete's progress as this final column of my tenure as class secretary flows through the typewriter. We reported on Pete's good left arm in one of our earliest columns, if not the very first, some five years ago. Although Pete's a bachelor, and certainly not representative of the class in the family way, his comings and goings with the Giants, the Tigers and Senators; his moments of triumph and the others of frustration and despair are quite similar to those we have all known in the past five years. It's been a period of trial and error for most of us, a time when we learned, if we hadn't learned it earlier, that our drive for education didn't end when we were granted Dartmouth's historic A.B. but was just getting rolling as we passed the 30-year tremors.

Some of us are going back to school even now as our report last month on WalkerBenning and Bill Kay indicated. For most of us it's a self-study plan of growth, some prompted by pressures from the old business of earning a living, others by a curiosity born in formal education and nurtured by a decade of experience.

It's been an interesting, and very rewarding, period between reunions for your class secretary. The advantages of following the patterns of growth of some 600 friends have been well worth the time and effort. It would be fun doing it all again. We must admit to temptation to put ourself in the class election when Bob Binswanger's nomination ballot came along, but we didn't. A class our size needs turnover and the fresh ideas and zest for organization that comes with change. We wish our successor all the pleasant moments we have enjoyed as the recipient of class messages, often sharing with classmates the joy of a big promotion or a new child.

The score in Washington is now 1-1 at the end of the fourth inning. And now to bat out some class news:

Tony Morse won the 1961 Peacock Memorial Prize of the Walker Mineralogical Club of Toronto for the best paper submitted in the field of pure or applied mineralogy. The title of his paper was "The Kigkapait Layered Intrusion, Coast of Labrador, Canada."

Dr. Paul Black, currently doing virus research at the National Institute of Health, reports that he has become engaged to Miss Sandra Menkin, a senior in Simmons College School of Nursing. The couple plans a marriage ceremony in Huntington, Long Island, on June 3. Paul recently completed his clinical training in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Davidson College music department presented Dr. Bob Lord in an all-Bach organ recital on a Sunday in February. Bachelor Tom Adams is group insurance supervisor in charge of the Salt Lake City, Utah, office of the Travelers Insurance Company. He was transferred to Salt Lake City from Wichita, Kan., last September, but the move hasn't interfered with his tennis, squash and girl watching.

Dr. Bob and Helen Rieman had their third son recently when Thomas Fitzpatrick joined brothers Charles and Christopher in the Rieman household. Dr. Bob has left the Air Force and is now practicing medicine in Clearwater, Fla. Helen reports they "want so much to get up to reunion, but at the moment it looks a little doubtful between the emergency room and the boys."

Pete just gave up his first hit since the first inning. He had put down ten. straight batters, four strike-outs. Still 1-1 after five and one half innings.

Dorn McGrath has just completed a year as a partner of The Planning Services Group, a city planning, transportation and urban renewal consulting firm based in Harvard Square. He's also teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design as visiting critic in city planning. Dorn's family now includes wife Susan, five-year-old son Dorn, and three-year-old daughter Martha.

By coincidence at the same time I received Dorn's welcome note I also received a clipping of an editorial from the Gloucester, Mass., Times about our Mr. McGrath. I quote:

The key man in our quest for Federal funds to help rehabilitate the city is our renewal consultant. Like an architect engineer or contractor on a construction project, for example, we take his professional advice as he takes into consideration our desires for the future.

Despite his youth (he's 32 years old), our renewal expert and his firm have an impressive background. Dorn C. McGrath is a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard, where he received a master's degree in city planning. His firm, Planning Services Group in Cambridge, has completed successfully over 30 renewal projects. One of them, now underway, involves 200 acres in Maiden. Another was the survey and planning application for Boston's huge Government Center. And the firm is presently developing a report for Cambridge, designed to rehabilitate an enormous area of the city from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Central Square. We seem to be in good company, and this is certainly one of the best tests of reliability.

Another honor was given recently to Head Agent John Rosenwald. On May 1 John was named a general partner in the Wall Street firm of Bear, Stearns and Co.

Bob Curtis was named town manager in Danvers, Mass. Bob has been at Ipswich, Mass., for the past 15 months in the same capacity, but the voters in that town decided to change their form of local government. Bob started his five-year term in March. Before Ipswich he and Jean and their four children were up in Maine in local government posts.

The score is still tied at the end of seven. A report on politics from California via a column clipped from the Daily Independent Journal indicates that John Clow is moving up the political ladder fast. In January he was elected a regional vice president of the California Young Republican organization. Two weeks after winning this contest he was nominated for state treasurer of the Young Republication organization. According to the clipping John had the support of the conservatives headed by the Los Angeles delegation. With this backing he cracked the moderate front early on the roll call vote and coasted to a first-ballot victory. He then stepped down as regional vice president.

And now I step down as class secretary. I haven't said anything about either the class Alumni Fund effort or the tenth reunion for by this date I hope you have mailed your gift to Hanover and have made your decision on reunion attendance. I hope I'll be seeing you on the Hanover Plain next week, but in case I don't, thanks for your help in making these columns of the past five years meaningful by sending along your news items . . . and best wishes.

FLASH: Pete Burnside pitches a four hitter to end the Senators' 13-game losing streak with a 2-1 win.

Secretary, 15 Rayton Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Class Agent, 135 East 83rd St., New York 28, N. Y.