1951

What's on your calendar for June 19-21? 1951's 20th Reunion, I hope. Classmates and their families are coming back from all over, not just from New England and the Northeast, but also from California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Mississippi and Nebraska are 100% signed up; Tennessee,. 66%%.

When did you last see Hanover? If your family lives far away, have your kids — maybe even your wife - ever seen the place where you spent some of the best years of your life or, for that matter, New England? How many of your Dartmouth classmates, other than a few who happen to live in your area, have you seen since our 10th Reunion - or even since you left Hanover Plain?

The reunion program (and the pre-reunion program for those who can arrive Thursday, June 18) includes intellectual content, orientation to today's Dartmouth (the world has changed in 20 years, and so has Dartmouth — otherwise, it would now be only a museum piece), fun, fellowship, and nostalgia. It is not too late to sign up if you have not already.

As kind of a footnote to Reunion, as anybody who reads the ads in The New Yorker knows, in Philadelphia, "Everybody reads the Evening Bulletin." While reading that newspaper one evening recently, I came across a far too small item in the business and finance section which reported that Philadelphia Quartz Co. had promoted Reunion Chairman Paul Staley to vice president.

Returning to New England, specifically Vermont, Middlebury College has promoted Bob Pack to a full professorship in English. In addition to his Dartmouth A.8., Bob holds a Columbia M.A. and was a 1956 Fulbright Fellow in Italy. He taught seven years at Barnard College before joining the Middlebury faculty in 1964.

Bob was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1963 and is a member the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English. The author of numerous poems and book reviews, he has had several volumes of his works published. The most recent, completed during a leave of absence in 1968-69, was published in 1969.

Air Force Lt. Col. John Noble, who happens to be a native of Vermont, recently received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, and the second through eleventh oak leaf clusters to the Air Medal. The DFC was awarded for extraordinary achievement at Cu Chi Airfield, Feb. 22, 1968.

John is chief of the spacecraft systems branch of the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division and is stationed at Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio. In addition to a Dartmouth A.B. in history, he holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Fred Fahrenbruch is manager-contract accounting of Defense Electronic Products for RCA. He, wife Barbara, and children Rick, Kathy, and Gretchen live in Mt. Holly, N. J. This summer Fred plans to take his son into the MacKenzie Mountains in Canada's Northwest Territory for big game hunting. Mike and Sallie lovenko's second son, William Bingham, arrived March 3.

If you think that this month's column is somewhat shorter than usual, you're right. It is so because of our Class' silent minority, which now numbers less than 15%, whose names have not appeared in this column since I became Class Secretary at our 10th Reunion in June 1960. They have not responded to repeated requests for information, the latest in February of this year. Maybe this mention will nudge them into sending back the reply postcard enclosed with that mailing. If not, I plan to enlist the services of many of you as private investigators.

Secretary, 2107 Fidelity Bldg. Philadelphia, Penna. 19109

Class Agent, Ex. Director, CVPH Medical Center 100 Beekman St., Plattsburgh, N. Y. 12901