1916

As the May Balmacaan Letter has told you, President Charlie Brundage has teed of! our 55th Reunion at Hanover in June 1971 by securing an all-star committee headed by George Dock to handle it. This is your chance to add to the memories of our 50th and of El Nathan last year — or for the others to make up for all you have missed. So re-read your Balmacaan. Mark the dates, June 11-13. Send your suggestions or preferences as to program or arrangements to your regional chairman. Yes, and come.

By the time this MAGAZINE is in your hands, we hope that your copy of the comprehensive new 1916 directory will be on its way by bulk post to you at the address you had registered at the Alumni Records Office as of May 1. Look for it.

Holders of an honorary degree from Dartmouth were invited to send a greeting to the College on its Bicentennial. We feel that the gist of Ed Kirkland's greeting will be of interest to more than 1916:

When Wheelock located his college, the site had practical importance for his purpose: it was near the Indians he hoped to educate. Since then, political and economic changes have operated across two centuries to emphasize the College's location. This outcome stirs some to impatience. Actually, they should rejoice in the College's good fortune. For a college should be apart the better to serve its purpose. The College is not a course in therapy; whether its students are always completely happy there is relatively a matter of indifference. Nor is the College intended, as an institution, to be activist, taking a moral stand for good causes and opposing evil ones. The purpose of the College is singular and simple - it is education. Its product is students trained in freedom to make up their own minds and form their own values. The geographical and historical position of Dartmouth thus gives it an exceptional opportunity. It need not imitate others nor surrender to educational fashions and temporary distractions. After all, "the old pine above her" in Hovey's Men of Dartmouth was a lone pine - and consequently a taller tree.

Oliver Frederiksen has helpfully detailed his colorful and serviceful career for our records. (Have you?) In brief: after WWI infantry service in France, he was with the International Committee of the YMCA's student famine relief program in the Soviet Union 1922-25; then as boys' work secretary in Estonia, Latvia and Greece 1925-32. A.M. and Ph.D. degrees earned at Cornell in 1933-34 then prepared him further for teaching courses in European History and Russian History and Language at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio until and immediately following WWII. But also for being Chief, Slavic and East European Section, Foreign Nationalities Branch of OSS at Washington 1943-44, Chief Historical Consultant of the U.S. Army, Europe, at Karlsruhe 1949-54, and Academic Consultant, Institute for the Study of the USSR 1954-64 at Munich - where he and Jane have since lived.

Two of Freddie's publications will attest to the range and significance of his work: "The American Military Occupation of Germany: 1945-53. Headquarters Division, Hdqtrs. U.S. Army Europe, 1953"; and "Winter Station: Stantsiya Zima." English Rhymed Version by OJF with Original Russian Text by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Munich, 1964.

Florida Department: Charlie Jones' brother, Wes '20 from Palm Beach, gets over to visit with Charlie at his Fort Worth nursing home every day. "He can write little and that only with great effort," says Wes. "But he is still so keen in mind, and his memory is fantastic. Also his sense of humor: he had me looking for a white heron outside his window on April 1. Any news of Dartmouth and particularly of 1916 is a highlight for him." Address, Box 6672, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33405.

Ralph and Lossie Parker from Cocoa Beach reported the fishing and swimming as nice as ever, the pleasure of a few days' visit from Bill and Ruth McKenzie and "saw Apollo 13 go up yesterday."

Quite unplanned, Paul and Gay Goward divided their Florida winter between being hospitalized with the flu and staying in the apartment of friends, seeing them through a double emergency. But helping others is S.O.P. for the Gowards.

Larry and Irene Doyle had six weeks at Pompano Beach in February and March. Their son Kevin '40 is now general manager sales, Canada for Crown Cork and Seal Corporation.

The doughty Charlie Cressy passed away in New York on April 9. He had an incredible siege over the years, but he was game to the end. Our sympathy goes out to his family. As Charlie would have wished it Burt Lowe is preparing our In Memoriam notice for this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Now we have learned only that CharlieDudley has also passed away — at Salem, Mass., on April 23. An In Memoriam notice will follow as soon as the needed information reaches the Secretary.

It was the Wass family that Esky was reported last month to have visited at San Clemente. Please excuse.

Herb Kimball is now making his home with his oldest daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Hart at 2635 North Brookfield Road, Brookfield, Wis. 53005. Those of us who met Dorothy at the Gowards' picnic last summer will know what a happy arrangement this is.

This June Jim and Mary Colton are staging a picnic for the Eastern Massachusetts group at their camp on Lake Chaugogagog-manchaugagogchabunagungamog. All you good Indians will know where that is.

Larry Stephans '70 brought the message from Hanover to a Boston dinner meeting that Parker Hayden, Chet Woolworth and Roger Evans were fortunate to share at Boston on April 29.... The next evening, Parker and I drove out to Belmont to see May Tucker. When recent removal of the old organ in the All Saints Church which she and Ken attended for over forty years revealed an old window, May secured the opening for a stained glass memorial to Ken. It appropriately will feature a lyre and scroll, and a small Dartmouth seal in the lower left corner.... Now in gorgeous spring weather, with Jim Colton for company, we have driven up through the greening Vermont and New Hampshire countryside to join Charlie Brundage, John Stearns and George Dock for the annual meetings of class officers here at Hanover. Again, our big window looks out on the campus. Remember, you all can be here in June 1971.

Secretary, Box E, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081

Class Agent, 50 Rugby Rd. Manhasset, L. I., N. Y. 11030