1932

The Alumni Records Office sent me four items which demonstrate the current involvement of our class in affairs of the day. I pretend not to evaluate these items, though I deem each noteworthy and significant. I suggest only that it is interesting to group these coincidental evidences of thinking that may have budded on Hanover Plain.

Item 1: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States releases a news feature datelined Washington: "Although supporters of federal medical care under Social Security for the aged were challenged two years ago to find one elderly person needing and seeking hospital care to whom it was denied because of poverty, they have yet to supply the name and address of a single one. ... The challenge was issued in 1962 by Rep.Tom Curtis (R-Mo.) at House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the Administration's medicare program, and it has been issued by the congressman at subsequent hearings. ..."

Item 2: Ben Drew's daughter Leslie is with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, Africa. A graduate of St. Lawrence University, she teaches mathematics in a girls' high school. Ben's oldest girl, Sarah Jane, now Mrs. David Reeves, is preparing for the ministry in her last year at the Harvard Divinity School. Ben Jr. works in New York, Holly is a sophomore at Connecticut College and George is at Kimball Union Academy. Ben, one of the nation's largest apple growers, has been moderator in his home town of Westford, Mass., many times.

item 3: Bob Ryan spoke at the Hopkins Center Theater in January. His talk, sponsored by the Dartmouth Community Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, was entitled: "Politics and Peace: A Sane Approach." A board member of National SANE and a co-founder with Steve Allen of the Hollywood group of that organization, Bob makes frequent speeches in favor of an end to atmospheric testing and for multilateral disarmament.

Item 4: Howie Sargeant, president of the American Committee for Liberation, announces that it has changed its name to Radio Liberty Committee. The organization and mission of the Committee are not affected.

Lindsay Beaton was recently honored by the Alumni Association of Northwestern University, where he received medical degrees in '40 and '41. A psychiatrist in Tucson, Ariz., Lindsay was one of 13 N.U. alumni granted the Alumni Merit Award for worthy achievement at the U. U. Founders' Day. He is a past president of the Arizona State Medical Society and led the campaign for the establishment of the first medical school in Arizona.

Dick Olmstead's wife had a boy, James Nicholas, on January 13.

President Dickey spoke to the Washington area alumni, including Burch, Curtis, Dublin, Fanelli, Marks, McRae, Pyles, Wakelin, and me. All the new plans for the June-to-September period sound good.

Don't forget to send your check to the Alumni Fund and your newsy letter to me. Bo Wentworth sent a postcard from Jamaica, but you don't have to leave home to write.

Secretary, 1606 Kenney Dr. Falls Church, Va.

Class Agent, Route 1, Box 3331, Issoquah, Wash.