Alumni College Association
News is still sparse, at 35 Nathan Hale Drive in Huntington, N. Y., at the time of this writing. Vivian, Michael and I plan to return this weekend to Hanover for Carnival and look forward to a visit with Jim Cavanaugh '55 ('65) and Linda who have settled in their new home. Jim is busy with his duties at the White Church, and I know without asking that he is enjoying it - and being back in Hanover to live - immensely.
Last month's ALUMNI MAGAZINE carried the story of the "Distinguished Teacher" award conferred by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Mo. on Joseph D. Harris, Associate Professor of Physics at the College and Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Medical School. Joe, a very popular lecturer and discussion leader at the 1964 Alumni College, will leave for Japan soon after the regular college session closes in June to be gone about a year. This honor is just another indication of the administration's painstaking care in selecting DAC faculty.
Announcements have been made recently about the establishment of alumni colleges at Bucknell, Stanford, and St. Lawrence Universities.
The theme of Bucknell's first alumni college is "Man in an Age of Science and Technology." "The Plague" by Camus, which is one of our basic readings, is on their list as well.
At Stanford the program will relate man to his environment. Study topics include literature, religion, biological sciences, and political and social theories affecting the destiny of man.
"The Novel and Modern Problems" and "Buddhism, the Religion of Southeast Asia" will be the subjects at St. Lawrence where the program is being directed by Dr. Daniel W. O'Connor '46. Dan spent some time in Hanover inquiring into our program and operating procedures. We wish him great success.
These five and six day sessions in July and August include a "junior" program at Bucknell and St. Lawrence. It all sounds very familiar.
Dr. Robert W. Decker, Earth Science Lecturer and discussion leader at Alumni College '66, recently presented a paper at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America about a new geological tool for volcano watching and measuring - a beam of light waves or radio waves designed to measure the expansion and contraction of a volcanic crater. This may become standard practice in volcano watching, but there is little possibility that it can be used by all of you bird watchers.
Give us the benefit of any comments, together with the news of your activities which you all, no doubt, plan immediately to dispatch to this column in response to "Ike" Miller's '22 ('64, '65) request of last month.
Until April, all the best.
