1932

It took nearly two months for a card to come from Roger Benezet in Saigon, Viet Nam where he was "finishing a two-month stint in this beautifully, but temporarily confused city. Last year it was Samoa at about the same time of year, with Bangkok for the first five months of '63."

Rog, aside from your temporary address of "Headquarters Support Activity, Pub. Wks.," we have no notion of your work in these interesting spots. Can you fill us in?

Rev. Charles N. R. McCoy is a professor of political science at the University of Santa Clara, and visiting-professor at Stanford University. He is a member of the Stanford-Santa Clara Ecumenical Colloquium and, in 1963, published a book "The Structure of Political Thought" (McGraw-Hill Book Company).

Robert S. Black is now U.S. Consul-General in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following a three-year tour of duty on the Island of Java at the American Consulate, Surabaya, Indonesia. He represented Dartmouth at the convocation ceremonies at Acadia University in November.

Francis F. McGuire reports that daughter Susan, son-in-law Bob McGrath, and their four children live in a Norwich house only slightly younger than the College, while Bob is an assistant professor of art history.

John F. Weston is the chairman of the Maine Harness Racing Commission. He and his son (U. of N. H. '64) are in the pulpwood business.

Clarence Willey observes sagely trom Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.: "Still occupying the same comfortably con- forming professional chair, a mossy stone gathers no roll. Have been working on a number of self-instructional procedures which shift the instructional burden to the student, the clerical staff and sundry mechanical aids, but also prove the old Yankee adage that the laziest man frequently consumes two hours in saving one. It is a welcome change for education to be in. I agree, Clarence, that education has finally become a verity like motherhood and the Boy Scouts. I hope that the demand for it can be met and that th,e hitherto unfulfilled and the upcoming potential can be trained and utilized.

Jim Moore recounts a lot tersely: "Started a new business a couple of years ago - doing exceptionally well. (Sec. note: What kind of business? We want in.) Son Steve is at Wilbraham Academy as a junior. Son Jimmy is a junior at Drew University. My wife Lois passed away last year after a very long illness — have recently remarried to Constance M. Goodridge of New York City. Still sail 52 weeks a year and love it more than ever. Enjoyed Hanover over Princeton weekend. Very interesting changes up there."

Belatedly and indirectly (via the Phillips Exeter Bulletin) we learn that Pete Sawyer has been on the town council of Ashland, Me., for over 13 years and that while operating as the forestry agent for Dunn Timberlands he also has been "trustee of the Ashland Community Library; president, Ashland Logging Museum, Inc.; chairman, Aroostook River Fish and Game Search and Rescue Unit; and the executive board, Katahdin Area Council Boy Scout. On his farm he raises potatoes, grains, and shorthorns." (Sec. note: Pete, how do you find time to search and rescue any F & G's?)

Bob Fendrich, our trustworthy treasurer, in Newark, N. J., passes to me many news notes about your comings and goings. More importantly, however, he would like to receive your checks for class dues. He reports that he still needs about 100 more to equal last year's record of 317 dues payers. May I remind you that the class foots the bill for the coverage of all members with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. To be hard-nosed about it —if you appreciate receiving the MAGAZINE please pay your dues.

Don Allen writes from Bandung, Indonesia: "Our experience here continues to be a most stimulating one. One of my projects is an attempt to establish a research library for Bandung, a joint project of about a dozen scientific research organizations. Already have reservations on the 'SS United States' for next August." Don, I have longtime thought that I would like to operate a bar in Indonesia after I retire from the fed. government in Washington. You know, something stimulating in a different clime. I want to call it "Chez Wen." Please send me a brief report on this as a possibility.

Charles Odegaard and his wife were part of a delegation of twelve university presidents et ux. sent to meet rectors of German universities at their request last summer. Chuck says "Europeans are beginning to think that some of the practices of us colonials are worth investigation." The Odegaards also revisited France and England. Their daughter Mary Ann is a senior at Stanford and vice president of the student body.

Bill Sauer states that his son Bob '66 is advertising manager for Hanover's WDCR and is also working at the computer center. His daughter Janet is a freshman at Wisconsin. Bill and wife Loretta were at the Princeton game where the "main problem was recognizing old friends who no longer recognized me."

Doc Ted Truex has two girls through college and married; one boy in Dartmouth (Edward H. Truex IV '67) and one boy about ready to go to - maybe Harvard (Ted. can't you influence the younger one?). Ted reports an unusual and sad coincidence whereby he was involved in an emergency operative procedure on a "coronary" patient on Thanksgiving day. The patient was Jack Downs whose death was reported last month.

Our piano-playing medic, Joe Roberts, tells us that his daughter Judith Ann (Hood College '63) last July married Robert Marciniak, a '61 Cornellian who is a fourth-year med. student at Temple. His son Bill is a junior at Hanover.

Charlie Mayo reports: "We leave in a few days for Florida and the Bahamas with 'Stormy '65' in tow. He'll spend his holiday with Ing and me aboard motor sailer 'Little James' collecting fish plasma for his biology honors research. Stacy May, who taught economics at college and now is with Nelson Rockefeller, was presented with the Governor's cup this summer for the 648-1h. blue fin caught from aboard 'Chantey III.' We wound up a record season having taken 60 tuna of which 20 were over 600 pounds."

As I work on these columns, I continue to be impressed with the number of the brethren whose sons have also gone up to the Hanover Plain. I admit to bias on this observation, since my son did just that. Nonetheless I suggest that the Admissions Office and the Alumni Records Office might run a "participation index" on sons of alumni by class. The necessary data on each entering class are compiled each fall and could easily be cumulated in the available monster EDP machines. Who knows, '32 might rate high on this index, although if it correlates positively with Alumni Fund contributions (which it might!), we'd lose.

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