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Add to the long list of things that couldn't happen in our day the unbelievable fact that there were no separations from the college for academic reasons in the first semester. No wonder we're all worried about the younger generation!
A recent business magazine success story featured Len Schmitz and Acme Visible Records Inc., the largest U.S. independent office equipment manufacturer. After a successful law career in Chicago, Len took over the operations of Acme in 1960. The plant is located in Crozet, Va., on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and Len is chairman of the board, part owner, and the driving force that has made this company tops in its field. Pete Callaway has been elected to the board of Near East Foundation and is also a director of the Washington Post Company. Dave Latham is president of the board of trustees of Rogers Hall School in Lowell. Dave, who is "vitally interested in the education of youth," could attribute much of that interest to his and Harriet's seven youths ranging in age from 15-to 30. He is chief of surgery at Lowell Hospital. Nels Rockefeller's State of the State message was as comprehensive and imaginative as any national message and gives rise to the question as to whether his 1968 plans are really "irrevocable." Congratulations to him and Happy on the birth of their second son, Mark Fitler, on January 26.
The engagement of Gregory Dickerson to Deena Boehn has been announced. She is a Goucher graduate and is teaching in Buck's County, Pa. Gregory attended Andover, Harvard, Princeton, and the American School in Athens, and will teach at Bryn Mawr next year. On February 4, Heather Cole and Airman 3c A. Michael Steers were married in Montclair. This consolidation of Dartmouth interests must make Vi and Shaw and Bill and Hannah very happy. And on February 11 Caroline McFarland will marry Dr. Robert C. Seidler in Newton.
High honor to Win Stone who has been elected president of the Modern Language Association. He succeeds a long line of famous scholars including James Russell Lowell, Kittredge, Kemp Malone, and Howard Mumford Jones. Win has been a participating author in an eleven-volume work, "The London Stage," which has taken five scholars thirty years to complete. All this and Dean of New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Another of our scholars, Dick Parker, professor of Egyptology at Brown, has been named to a five-man commission to choose a site in the United States for the Temple of Dendur, a Nubian monument displaced by the waters of the Aswan High Dam. The 2000-year-old temple has been offered as a gift to the United States by the United Arab Republic.
Operation Mason-Dixon. Ed Conklin of Hyattsville, Md., has arranged a February regional meeting at Fort McNair in Washington for the forty-one 1930's in the area. Fred Scribner will be there and Congressman Bob McClory and Herm Schneebeli have accepted.
Operation Deep South. John Tiedtke has agreed to serve as regional chairman for Florida and to set up a file of addresses of permanent or casual residents. So if you plan to be in the state, advise him c/o Rollins College, Winter Park, of the place and dates that you will be resident. John has made the suggestion that classmates attend the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida on March 17 at Winter Park. Ort Hicks '21 will be the speaker and the local club would be delighted to have 1930 use this meeting as a rallying point. Dick Funkhouser will serve as regional chairman for Northern California.
Jack Rich, chairman of the March 31 meeting of the Class at the Harvard Club in Boston, promises to make this an exciting first in a series of meetings to be held over the years to honor classmates in various vocations. Secondary education will be the center of attention this time. Wives invited. Executive Committee meeting in the afternoon. More on this in Fran Horn's newsletter. Save the date.
Our classmate Malcolm B. Ripley died on January 23 in Hingham, Mass., and our sympathy is extended to his wife Dorothy.
Win Stone '30, Dean of New York University's Graduate School of Arts andSciences, has been elected president of theModern Language Association. The finalvolumes of an eleven-volume work on The London Stage, which has taken Winand four others thirty years to finish, willbe off the presses this spring.
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