"Greensleeves" Alumni Issue

A SCORE or more of professional writers who carry Dartmouth's banner in the world of contemporary letters will have their work in the special supplement to the spring issue of Greensleeves, the student literary magazine, now being prepared for publication.

The alumni issue will contain unpublished poems, fiction, character sketches, scenes, and other works by alumni who have gained renown for themselves and the College by their talents - and work by a number of up-and-coming younger professionals. This alumni publication will be sent along with the regular Green Key issue of Greensleeves to alumni, parents, and others who make a contribution to help erase a debt of $823 which has too long dampened the creative flow through Greensleeves.

One of the many well-known writers agreeing to be represented in this issue is Budd Schulberg '36 whose credits are long and varied: Academy Award winner for the screenplay On the Waterfront; author of the novel What MakesSammy Run? — now running as a musical on Broadway and often used as a Sociology text; short story and article writer for leading periodicals.

In responding to sophomore Ric Grefe's invitation to have his work in this special Greensleeves effort, Schulberg wrote: "I should like to contribute to the spring issue of Greensleeves. When I was an undergraduate my first short stories appeared in a forerunner of Greensleeves called The Dart. It was at Dartmouth that I felt myself becoming a writer. I drew a lot of inspiration from Sidney Cox, but the proof was in the pudding of The Dart, Jacko, The Dartmouth, and the plays we did. I am happy to find that you are aware of a Dartmouth tradition in literature."

Another Dartmouth playwright with work currently featured on Broadway, Frank Gilroy '50, author of the muchpraised The Subject Was Roses, is also a contributor to the edition. His previous Off-Broadway drama, Who'll Save thePlowboy?, won an "Obie" for the Best American Play of the Year (1962).

Prof. Alexander Laing '25, author of The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, The SeaWitch, and other fiction and poetry, will be one of the Hanover-based authors represented. Another popular Hanover man of letters — and one who has been honored with the Bollingen Prize, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and selection as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress — Prof. Richard Eberhart, will be one of three from the Class of 1926 scheduled at this time as contributors to the special Greensleeves.

Professor Eberhart's classmates who join him in Greensleeves, poet Richmond Lattimore and Robert L. May, creator of the children's classic, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, illustrate the diversity of talents offered in the issue. Lattimore, well-known as a translator of the classics for which he too gained a Bollingen Prize, is also a poet whose first published volume of verse (1958) was described in The New York Times Book Review as a confirmation of the "impression of persuasive grace that one has so long taken from his dispersed work."

Reuel Denney '32 will be another contributor to the special issue. Poet Alan Tate said that Denney's In Praiseof Adam (1963) placed him "as one of the three leading poets of the postwar period, the two others being Lowell and Shapiro." Carlos Baker '32, novelist, poet, and official biographer of Ernest Hemingway, will be represented by a poem. Poet Philip Booth '47, The Islanders, said he was "doubly glad to be in the strange good company that Dartmouth poetry keeps."

Also to be represented in the alumni issue are poet Kimball Flaccus '33, author of Avalanche of April and TheWhite Stranger; poet and novelist Evan S. Connell Jr. '45, Notes from a BottleFound on the Beach at Carmel, Mrs.Bridge, and The Anatomy Lesson; poet Samuel French Morse '36, Time of theYear, The Scattered Causes; William Cahn '34, author of several popular biographies, poetry and other pieces; poet Robert Pack '51, Guarded by Women,The Irony of Joy; and many other alumni writers whose fiction and poetry has appeared in leading journals. Some are young and are just becoming known for their talents. The list grows by the day as alumni writers re-establish contact with Dartmouth undergraduate creativity. The one major task facing the Greensleeves editors in fact will be in deciding how much alumni writing they can get into the special supplement.

Contributions to wipe out the Greensleeves debt and at the same time reestablish a very exciting contact with both alumni and undergraduate literary creativity should be sent to Greensleeves, Box 145, Hanover, N. H.