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A meningitis vaccine which Dr. DickRoberts helped develop has proved highly effective in preventing the type of meningitis most prevalent in Army camps. Now Dick is pursuing other meningitis bacteria still proving troublesome among young soldiers. Dick's earlier work was done at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington while serving in the Army and later at Rockefeller University in New York. He's now head of the department of infectious diseases at Cornell University-New York Hospital.
Also at Cornell, Ithaca version, is JimSanderson. He left Marine Midland Bank in Rochester to manage the university's $140 million endowment.
Bob Wool, novelist and free-lance writer, wrote the lead story in the New York Times Magazine of October 11, on Hubert Humphrey's race back to the Senate. Although his talkative subject consumed most of Bob's fine article with lively quotations, he did save space for a personal observation: "Sitting and talking that way to a writer of fiction, Humphrey today becomes fullblown, a splendid character in search of a political novel. It is a novel that turns on those embattled years, when he served and suffered a man of consummate ego and power, including the power to shape Humphrey's own political fortunes; a time when Humphrey's liberal followers denounced him as a man who had sold them out, sold out his heritage and himself, playing for the favor of the President, playing for the Presidency himself; a time when Humphrey weighed ambition and principle and loyalties; a time and a tale to a novelist's eye, of the deepest conflict between the king and the man nearest the throne." Bob's next novel is clearly in sight.
Elsewhere in the fourth estate, NickKotz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a clutch of other top reporting awards, left the "Des Moines Register" to join the Washing- ton Post as a national news writer.
Franke Neumann joined the faculty of Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of philosophy and religion. Franke received B.D. and Th.M. degrees at Princeton and an M.A. at the University of Chicago. MikePlumer, teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was named curriculum director for Boston Educational Research, a company specializing in multimedia educational techniques.
Quaker Oats promoted Harry Ambrose to director of long-range planning. He was formerly manager of acquisition planning and director of materials purchasing. Harry's hideaway is in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and he commutes from suburban Winnetka.
Jack Cogswell reports that he's "back in the Boston area (Needham) after spending four interesting but not particularly enjoyable years in New Jersey. Glad to be home again." Even the commuting is better, he says. Jack also affirms that Brooks Parker "looks great and seems very busy."
Dave Miller was named manager of the corporate budget department at American Cyanamid Co., Wayne, N. J. Formerly he was controller of the company's Europe-Africa region.
John Lewis was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel and shifted from Leaven-worth to Fort Sam Houston. Air Force Major Jim Waldman lists Seattle as his home now but his assignment is Alaska.
Your correspondent was on the ecological thing this fall, serving as the executive director of the Illinois Citizens for Clean Water, a committee that campaigned successfully for passage of a referendum authorizing a $750 million state bond issue for improving municipal sewage treatment— the second largest such bond issue ever enacted, after a $1 billion program in New York.
Fifteenth Reunion Chairman GeorgePeters has completed formation of his reunion committee. In addition to George as chairman, Ralph Sautter is treasurer, LarryHagar is in charge of publicity, and attendance is in the hands of HankStephenson. Registration efforts will be coordinated by Peter Thompson. Entertainment will be planned by Dana Hennigar and John Dell Isola. Tom Byrne and Ron Campion, at the scene, will be in charge of the class tent. Banquet plans will be coordinated by Jay Whitehair.
George Peters and his committee have many outstanding activities planned. This is a unique opportunity to meet with old friends and to see and hear the challenges Dartmouth College faces as it enters the '70's. Plan to be there! The dates again— June 18-20, 1971.
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