1968

Warren Cooke sends greetings to the class from Wayne, Pa., where he has decided to take a year off from formal studies to earn some money, pursue his own studies, and "think things over." Bravo, Warren! He has worked since August as an escort-interpreter for the U.S. State Department, traveling all over the U.S. as guide and interpreter for French-speaking official diplomats, writers, etc. Warren is leaving this month for Besançon, France, as group leader for eighteen students on the Independent Study Project of the Experiment in International Living. Sounds like a pretty full life for someone who wants to take it easy. Great hearing from you, Warren.

Jim Payne is presently studying Folklore (yes, that's right - Folklore) at Indiana University, after having spent a summer in Appalachia teaching grade-school drop-outs in Neighborhood Youth Corps basic education classes. He describes his experiences as "eye-opening, if frustrating and occasionally discouraging." I had to laugh at the final comment in Jim's letter: "After six months studying Folklore, I've pretty much decided to go on into Comparative Literature instead." Best wishes, Jim.

Finally, another letter, this one from DaveSalsbury, informs me that I erred in a past column. Steve Schwager is not at Tuck. He is teaching math at Diller University in New Orleans. Dave writes that Steve is now "vicechairman of the department if you look at it one way, or half the math department if you look at it another way." Also, Jim Henle is currently living in the Philippines where he is working for the Peace Corps. Unlike most members of that organization, Jim is living in a penthouse on a hillside overlooking a bay, and he has also been given free rein to teach whatever he wants, however he wants, in the field of mathematics. Some guys have all the luck. Dave himself is leading a "dull" life at Berkeley (is that possible?). He writes that in between the cops and the strikers, hippies and radicals, pot and free love, there's not much time left for studying. I guess that it is the studying he calls dull.

Nothing else I guess. I am presently arranging to take thirty high school students to France for July and August. Stay well and keep us informed of whatever, whenever.

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