1932

At hand is an article entitled "Violence and the Universities" by Al Levi, David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University clipped from that institution's magazine. Quite long (with a fine learned point of departure) and highly useful reading; we can only give you a few quotes. On "the hard core of radical students whose aim is nothing less than the destruction of the university as prelude to the destruction of an unequal and an unjust society":

I do not believe that teachers and administrators who have devoted their lives to the cultivation of the mind, the transmission of the tradition of humane learning, and the education of the next generation propose to sit quietly while the entire edifice of higher education is pulled down by the forces of a sometimes conscientious, but dangerously misguided and fanatical youth.

On the second class of students who participate in violent protests out of a burning concern for the country's current foreign policy and internal social problems:

[Their protesting acts should be viewed] with considerable sympathy, I think, for in most considerable symp are high. ... Yet one cannot escape the conviction that these student ... are too mindlessly committed to violent methods...

On the third class of student protesters the vast majority - "who feel rightfully hat somehow the modern university has lone astray in its neglect of undergraduate teaching and student concern :

Hp re we all have something at stake, and a Pirated faculty and wisely leading administration will do everything in their power to reduce the educational environment to manageable size to promote fruitful interaction and to make the campus, indeed, a family of learning.

The retirement bulletins continue to flash in but Alf McLaughlin is resting on no oars. on early retirement, but continuing as consultant to his company (Western Gypsum Products in suburban Toronto), he has signed on as an engineer in the Ontario Air Pollution Control Service. He is enjoying the work, "as the field is new and being developed. Family grown up now - curl, golf, and work in the garden."

That other reactivated retirer, Don (B.)MacPhail of North Conway, N. H., came through with a post card that confirmed what "we meanwhile had reported via a news clip about his new job at the U. of Vermont. Don amplifies that this work is part-time, along with consulting work in New York and Washington, and adds: One son and one daughter married, one son in U. S. Army in Germany, one son entering Exeter, one daughter in 3rd grade, and one in kindergarten."

Turning to the next missive we are minded of the Brooklyn days when with very young son David we would of a Sunday afternoon embark on the Myrtle Avenue El and by way of a fabulous complex of transfers come finally to Canarsie (where, if memory serves, Reuel Denney's yarn-spinning grandfather had resided in what must have been that community's golden days) on Jamaica Bay. Returning home, young son would report: "You can smell the sea, Mom!' The report was ecstatic, but questionable. For bona fide salty tang take a postal from Charlie Mayo:

"Same pattern with me! Tuna in the summer at Provincetown and to the Bahamas in the winter in a 65-footer. Now that Nassau has Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King stands, not to mention H. Johnson and an H. Inn, 1 stop there long enough to clear the vessel and then head for the far out islands—the further the better until I shake the Chris-Crafts. Have been assisting son Stormy '65, working toward his doctor's degree at the Institute of Marine Sciences, in collecting eggs for his fish rearing. This leads to his experiments in pollution, food conservation, and the identification and keying of known and unknown species."

In Pittsburgh Nate Pearson has been elected a director of the Aluminum Company of America. He is a vice president of T. Mellon and Sons, with which he has been associated since 1947. He is also a member of the board of directors of Gulf Oil Corporation, Koppers Company, Ampex Corporation, Carborundum Company, Hanna Mining Company, and WQED, the Pittsburgh educational television station. He is serving his second term on the Alumni Council as a representative from Region II.

Franklyn Marks continues to compose background music for Walt Disney TV, still waits for the one big hit tune. George Shearing recorded his "Echoes in the Night" last year. Frank enjoys visiting with grandchildren Lisa and Marcelo. His second daughter Carolyn plays cello with local symphonies, enters UCLA this fall.

Of his new post as president of the Commission for Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania Chuck Adkins writes from Harrisburg: "An interesting job —66 independent colleges that need to know how to meet all the problems ahead. I certainly don't have the answers, but I hope I can help find them."

Dr. Sey Rogers carries on his surgical practice in Greensboro, N. C. Son Stewart graduates from Dartmouth this month, enters U. of North Carolina's medical school in the fall. One daughter is a sophomore at Guilford College, another a high school junior.

" Pete Sawyer writes from Ashland, Me. that he got lonesome for the New Hampshire scene, so recently (April) called on Ronny Olmstead "at his Northwood hilltop commanding a view of many N. H. mountains including Moosilauke and on Squire [Dr. Jim] Brown at his New London Ranch. Returning, enjoyed freshly snowcapped Franconia and Presidential ranges."

Bus Sails reports from Massachusetts: "Still in the insurance business - still in Northampton - same wife, and love her more than ever. Constantly thinking of retiring and barring anything unforeseen, will make it by end of 1970. Mad about nothing except taxes, and how can one avoid them without retiring? Never see anything m news about Jack George, Clicky Clark, or ClarkeDixon. Are they still alive?" Yes. Hopefully we'll give you more specific tidings in the fall; meanwhile, you guys, Bus's address is 721 Westhampton Road, Northampton, Mass. 01060.

And a card from Howie Sargeant:

"My one-year term as president of the Alumni Council will end in June. It has been hard work, taken a lot of time, but I feel much closer to the Dartmouth College of today because of this official tour of duty. The key decision for Dartmouth's Board of Trustees is the selection of John Dickey's successor - the most important decision our trustees may ever have to make. I act as some kind of catalyst in this process."

We finish this column just back from a highly pleasant weekend in Hanover, where your full slate of officers, with wives, were in attendance at the Class Officers Weekend. Mark will, we trust, give you a report on this. We found Bob Ackerberg concerned that while the average Alumni Fund gift is up, the Class is running substantially behind last year in participation. We have to think that this is a temporary phenomenon, urge those who haven't yet done so to contribute both to the College and Bob's peace of mind at your earliest opportunity - like right now...

After the Hanover weekend, with it insights to the College's travails and triumphs, we more than ever agree with what Howie says above about the profound importance of the decision facing the trustees. We also came away with an immense pride in being part of the institution known as Dartmouth College, in a time that so greatly needs fine institutions that are facing up to and wading into some of the time's most crucial issues in the way this one is - with what seems to us to be about the right blend of will, intelligence, idealism, agony, and sweat.

Have a great summer.

Trustee Tom Curtis '32 (r), former Congressman from Missouri and now vicepresident and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica, was welcomed tothe Center for the Study of DemocraticInstitutions in Santa Barbara, Calif., byclassmate Ping Ferry, vice president.

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