1951

A few days before writing this, the Charlie Hoods, Howie Phillipses, Gary Mansurs, and I were in Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. The weather was beautiful, and the major topics on the program and for unofficial discussion were student unrest and how it is being handled in Hanover. The resolution of the Afro-American Society's demands, many eminently reasonable, is a credit both to the College and to its black students. The SDS and ROTC pots, however, continued to bubble.

Much as I would like to devote the rest of this column to those topics, I've got more than enough news about classmates to fill this month's column, the last until October. I shall therefore defer to our new Class Newsletter Editor, Gary Mansur, and to Charlie Breed, who penned an article on the subject in a recent Third Century Fund Bulletin.

Regardless of what you may think of student unrest (I personally believe that most, although by no means all, of it is healthy), Dartmouth has, I think, not only handled the situation well but grown in the process. But even where the pot has boiled over - and no one can guarantee that that will not happen in Hanover - higher education is still our best bet for the future. To put it more bluntly, as President Dickey did to the assembled Class officers, it is our "only bet."

My point is simply this: Time is running out on this year's Alumni Fund, and this year Dartmouth needs and deserves our support more than ever. To deny higher education such support is, as President Dickey cogently put it, to play into the hands of that extreme fringe of student dissent which is unreasonable, uncompromising, undemocratic, hellbent on tearing down, rather than changing, the system, and totally lacking in plans for a substitute.

P.S. His fellow head agents have shown their appreciation of Howie Phillips' job well done by electing him to represent them on the Alumni Council. As of May 1, the Class was running slightly ahead of last year in dollars but 25% behind in donors to the Alumni Fund. Let all of us give Howie a resounding vote of confidence by making this '51's best year yet in the Alumni Fund, not just in terms of dollars, but in terms of the percentage of classmates contributing.

The News in Brief. ... Berl Bemhard reappointed General Counsel to the Demo- cratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and also named Special Counsel to the Democratic National Committee. ... Major BillFarnham awarded the Air Medal at Pleiku, Vietnam, for air action in Southeast Asia. .. . Finally, after four daughters, a son, Wesley John, born to John Sargeant and wife Muriel of Pasadena, Calif.

Jim Reynolds, associate professor and chairman of Colgate's department of psychology, also associate director of the University's new computer center, has been granted continuous tenure. A member of the Colgate teaching staff since 1964, Jim holds a Master's in Education from Rutgers and a Ph.D. from Syracuse as well as a Dartmouth A.B.

Knapp Bros. Shoe Corp. has named JohnClayton vice president, direct sales. After graduation from Tuck School and service with the Air Force in Japan during the Korean War, John joined Knapp as a sales trainee in July 1955. He was promoted to assistant regional sales manager and then to East Coast regional sales manager in 1959. He, wife Marsha, and family reside in Hingham, Mass.

Medic Bob Tomfohrde is a general practitioner in Berkeley, Calif., where he is on the medical advisory board and chairman of the G.P. section of a local hospital. He and wife Mary, a Wellesley '53 who sings in the Oakland Symphony Chorus, have four children: Andy, 13; Peter, 10; Lisa, 8; and Kiri, 6.

Bachelor John Homsy is a music specialist teaching at John W. McCormack Jr. High in Boston. He is busy pioneering a program in class piano using electronic pianos for the Boston schools. Pete Smart is quality assurance manager in the manufacture of communications devices with Ford Industries of Portland, Ore. He, wife AudreyAlice, daughter Alison, 8, and son Howard, 5, live in Newport Beach, Calif. Pete is still active in the Naval Reserve and purports to be a "right-wing radical."

Bob McCabe writes foreign news for Time, concentrating on Asia and Africa. He and wife Inger have two daughters, Kari, 6, and Marit, 2, and a son, Alexander, 5. On the side, Bob is "helping fix up an old (1876) church, now desanctified, which serves as our newly purchased summer home in Stonington, Conn."

Ned Hunt is now executive vice-president of Zallea Brothers, Inc., manufacturers of expansion joints. He, wife Pat; Ted, 14; Brad, 11; and Wendy, 6, now live in Chadds Ford, Pa. (Wyeth country). TedEberle is director of marketing for C. Eberle Sons Co. He has two sons. Tod, 11, and John, 10, and keeps fit with squash and tennis.

C.P.A. Al Brout is a partner doing Securities Exchange Commission work in the new (by merger) firm of Brout, Isaacs & Company with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Bridgeport, Conn. His partner is Jed Isaacs '55. On the side, Al plays golf, gardens, and lobbies for a coed Dartmouth for the benefit of his and wife Joan's three daughters: Kathy, 10; Ellen, 9; and Amy, 5.

PPG Industries Veep Frank O'Neil heads up sales and distribution of glass for what used to be Pittsburgh Plate Glass. He and wife Rose Marie have a brood of six: Leslie, 12; Denise, 11; Frank Jr., 10; Christopher, 9; Kimberley, 6; and Mike, 1.

Minneapolitan Dick McFarland is vice- president of the stock brokerage firm of Dain-Kalman & Quail. He is also a director of National Fiberstok of Philadelphia and Custom Service Corp. of Minneapolis. Dick and wife Joyce have four children: Stacey, 10; Cathy, 6; Jim, 5; and David, 2.

After two years as Audio-Visual Director of General Learning Corp., the educational affiliate of Time, Inc. and General Electric, Bill Terry has moved over to Time-Life Broadcast, Inc. to function as a film director for The World We Live In series. While with General Learning, he was director of production for the first 12 films in the series. Time has decided to make more and give Bill a more creative role in their production. He has recently moved his family, consisting of wife Mary, 4-year-old Martha, and Feb. 19 arrival Abigail to the Northern New Jersey suburb of Harrington Park.

For the benefit of those of you who have replied to my news solicitation mailing to those who have moved since their last appearance in this column, I have been favoring those not heard from for the longest time. I've got a good dozen replies left over for fall, and I hope that you will be patient if you are among them.

Have a good summer! And if you received a letter and haven't sent back the reply postcard, make that one of your summer projects.

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