1953

I have just returned from attendance at the Annual Class Officers' meetings in Hanover. Two things struck me as particularly important to us as members of the Class of 1953:

The College, in my opinion, is committed to a great future. The alumni, the undergraduates, the administration, and the faculty are fiercely unwilling to be a party to anything "second rate." This is very evident to anyone on campus more than a day. In curriculum plans, buildings, and extra curricular activities, Dartmouth is changing to meet its responsibilities as a liberal arts college.

To accomplish the objectives which will maintain and increase Dartmouth's pre-eminence in the immediate years ahead, the price tag keeps going up. It is our job, along with approximately 65 other classes, to pull our fair share of the load and support the Alumni Fund with at least a $25.00 contribution this year. I pass on to you for your thoughtful consideration the fact that this is not an idle, annual exercise that TedSpiegel and his class agents pursue each year. This is a serious request for your helping hand in preserving a way of education - a training that can continue to make Dartmouth "tops" in all her pursuits.

The next thing which impressed me was the prior planning which the College is doing to make our reunion plans highly successful. They are already working very closely with Dick Blum, our Reunion Chairman, and his committee to give us a 10th Reunion that will literally be "sensational." I urge you NOW to put a big red circle around June 21, 22, and 23, 1963. It's a date for everyone of us to look forward to with great anticipation. As the summer and fall months come, you will be hearing who's coming, what the schedules are, and all the details pertinent to your biggest, best vacation and reunion, in June '63.

RAMBLINGS:

News from Hollywood and word that Herb Solow is Director of Daytime TV Programs for the CBS Television Network. And up Barre, Vt., way, Ralph Lash operates Lash Furniture Company, is President of the Merchants' Bureau, and is promoting activities in the School for Crippled Children in Rutland. In downtown Manhattan, Jack Morris is with Howard Chase Associates in Rockefeller Center. Tom and ArleneBloomer have moved from the Washington, D. C., area up near Rochester, N. Y., where Tom will continue his association with I.B.M. Sounds like Art Schweich is in for some interesting duty with a malaria eradication office in Chiengmar, Thailand. Back to New York, we note and congratulate EdPotoker who has just been appointed a President's Fellow by Columbia University for the academic year 1962-1963. Ed's field is comparative literature and English; he plans to continue his work on the fiction of Ronald Firbank. Prior to his appointment, Ed was teaching English at the City College of New York.

QUICKIES:

Sandy Learnard studying at M.I.T. - Naval Architecture; Dave Replogle, a District Manager for Doubleday, living in the Washington, D. C., area with wife Jeanne and three boys, all well; Charlie Fleet and bride living in New York where Charlie recently went to work for Dominick & Dominick investment house; Hank Fry, living in Dallas and traveling the southwest for Armstrong Cork; Dave Thomas, assistant to the branch manager for Data Processing Division in Bridgeport, Conn.

A big announcement comes out of Greenwich, Conn., where Linda Ann Luria has recently announced her engagement to BobDouglass. Linda graduated from Smith in 1959. Bob is now with the law firm of Hinman, Howard & Katell in Binghamton and with the Rockefeller Brothers in New York. Jack Crisp was one of those doctors very much in on the case of Kid Paret's skull concussion at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. Jack is one of three chief surgical residents at the hospital.

Bill and Nancy Johnson expecting an addition in July. John and Jane Springer find Hanover much to their liking, as do their children, Kelley and Dana.

Ed Boyle was able to leave Weston Seminary for a day and travel to Hanover in April for the opening of the new Aquinas House on campus.

Hugh Magill and Jane English of New York have announced their engagement. Hugh is with the Sinclair Oil Corporation in New York. June is the big month.

This draws to a close our notes section until October. I hope you all have a wonderful summer.

Cheers for now to one and all!

Jim Skinner '53 (r) and Monte Pascoe'57 enjoy the program at a recent luncheon meeting of the alumni in Denver.

Many classmates and wives turned out for the wedding of Judith Kahn to DickSteinberg '54 in Larchmont, N. Y. Standing (l to r): Jean Cohn, Sam Trock, RonnieTrock, Dick and Judy, Robin Silverberg, Irene Rosenberg and Bob Silverberg. Kneeling: Bill Cohn, Bob McKeever and Stan Rosenberg.

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