1961

Happy Fund Drive. Are you getting inun- dated with mailings from the College, from Bill Hutton, from your local Class Agent and everybody else in the world asking you for money???? If so there is an easy way to avoid getting Envelope Opener's Finger siddown and write your pledge or check. 1 gave real early this year and I haven't opened an envelope for weeks. Makes you feel really smug ... try it... only a couple more weeks before the drive closes. Everybody who doesn't contribute on time has to chip for a keg at reunions - a 150 gallon keg.

Gregg Millett already has his Master's and will have his Ph.D. in Education this June. Gregg, his wife Sally, and son David will be moseyin' down to Austin to accept an assistant professorship at the University of Texas. Horrors, I neglected to mention Gregg and Sally's other offspring, young daughter Kimberly. Gregg and Sally will be available for consultation and hospitality to all the Austin Indians.

June 18 is wedding day for Mike Burnett and Miss Susan Henry of North Haven. Mike is teaching English in Belmont, Mass. I guess that means that Mike and Susan be at Reunion, unless they re going to ~nd their honeymoon at the Blue Spruce. Iteve CrisafulH is president of a new firm, Amerce Inc. which is located in Lebanon N.H' and deals in real estate development steve why don't you buy the old Midget Diner and put up a sidewalk cafe complete with Eiffel Tower?? That would shock the Freshman Fathers!!!

The world's tallest M.U., Eric Foster, is going to tie the suture with Miss Bonnie Thomas in July. Bonnie is from Quebec and they will be married there although Rick is going into Submarine Medicine for the Navy at New London shortly.

Steve Roeder is another member 01 me ,61 Elite —the Ph.D.'s. Steve's in physical chemistry and he is currently doing postdoctoral work at Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey. Steve's studying nuclear magnetic resonance which is so complicated-sounding I'm sure only another Ph.D. could understand. This points up a growing problem there's a lot of cheap talk about the take-over of the computers and how machines talk to each other and all and how terrible that is, but there is another, more frightening menace — Superlntellectual Rejection. Imagine that you are a Ph.D. in some ultra-complex field. You go to a cocktail (or even beer, if that's allowed) party and try to talk to people. They can't understand you and you're not very interested in them. So you sit in a corner and eat little pieces of toast with cheese on them and feel rejected. Pretty soon you develop a grudge against mankind and become a mad scientist. That's what Superlntellectual Rejection is like and it could be a force more terrifying than ... television Gasp!

Pat Irish is training in Hawaii for eventual duty in Viet Nam and Laos with the Agency for International Development. Pat and others like him will go to the rural areas in these countries and act as teachers in agricultural and industrial methods, helping the people support themselves. A fine effort by the government and men like Pat.

Don't forget the Alumni Fund. It needs your support.

It is great to see fellow '61's in print. But imagine what a kick it will be to see them in the flesh. Reunion is June 17-18-19. Only about a month away. If by any chance you haven't sent your deposit ($5 per person) to Dick Beattie, 24 University Mews, 45th at Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa., by all means do it today.

1961 Class Reunion Hanover - June 17-19, 1966

Secretary, Box 599, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201

Class Agent, 57th Floor, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza New York, N. Y. 10005