1947

It is indeed a scanty mailbag available for this final column of the school year. However, we'll tackle it and hope for lots of news for next fall.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. RobertDorion upon the birth of their daughter, Kristel Alexia in March of this year. That may not be a lengthy item, but it certainly is a pleasant one.

From Kingston, N. Y., comes news that Robert A. MacKinnon was appointed to the Board of Directors of Don MacLachlan, Inc., a fast food chain with restaurants in Ulster, Orange, and Dutchess Counties in New York state. Bob, who is a prominent Hudson Valley attorney, has been practicing law for over 16 years in the Hudson Valley. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Kingston, N. Y., and was a former assistant district attorney for Ulster County, and is now serving as town attorney for the Town of Hurley, where he lives with his wife, Amy-Lou and daughter, Laurinda.

Bob Harvey recently brought his considerable talents to Breck, McNeish and Nagle, Inc., of Boston, Mass. This firm, prominent in the financial community, recently moved their offices to Three Center Plaza, Boston. Bob had been a vice president of Arthur C. Harvey Co., general manager of the Boston Plant of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., in addition to numerous community activities before joining Breck, McNeish and Nagle.

More '47's in politics. A. Leonard Bjorklund was a candidate for the Marin Municipal Court judgeship. The election was held June 2, and while we do not know the results at this writing, we hope that it was favorable. Len is a trial attorney and former deputy district attorney in Alameda County. He received his law degree from Harvard after leaving Dartmouth. He is a past president of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce and the Marin County Heart Association. He is also a director of the Sausalito Rotary Club and now lives with his wife, Marilyn and two children at 6 East LaVerne Lane, Mill Valley.

A nice letter was received from RussFraser, one of the most prominent educators in our class, who is currently chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Russ' biography is interesting. After leaving Hanover, he took a Ph.D. at Harvard, taught briefly at UCLA where, because he refused to sign the state loyalty oath, lost his job and went to work for a time as a longshoreman. Shortly thereafter, by virtue of several fellowships and awards (one from Dartmouth), he did research for a year in the British Museum. He then returned to this country where he spent four pleasant years at Duke University. After that, it was on to nine years at Princeton, the last three of which he served as associate dean of the graduate school. In that same period, he was a visiting professor at Columbia and then went to chairman of the English Department at Vanderbilt University, and finally to the chairmanship at Michigan where he's been for the past two years. He has lectured all over the world, at the Free University of Berlin, the National University of Hungary in Budapest, and Charles University in Prague. Russ says that he hopes his travels are over, Ann Arbor is a big, lively place full of activity and bright people, and seems to be a good place to remain. We think that it would be worth-while to quote somebody who is so close to student affairs. The following is Russ' opinion on today's college students: "I've never had to do with any student with whom I couldn't talk on a decent and constructive basis. I love to teach, and I respect, almost without exception, the people in my classroom. I think the activities in which students engage now, on the whole, are much more constructive than those which distinguished me and my classmates so many years ago. This doesn't mean that I am not tempted! once in a while, to escape the agitation of our time by fleeing to a coconut island. But I know that once I got there, the natives would rise, and I would be put in a pot. And so I intend to carry on here." Russ is the father of an eleven-year-old boy in grade school and a twenty-two-year-old girl, a recent graduate of Barnard College in New York.

Our busy alumni fund chairman, Dick Menin, manages to find time for other activities and has recently been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the lona College Institute for Arts. While we are familiar with Dick and his duties as fund chairman, you may not know that he is an insurance analysis and financial consultant in the firm of Menin, Kornish, Simon and LeBlagn. He is the son of a noted violinist, an amateur musicologist, and has been active for many years in New York musical affairs.

There is no more appropriate time than when commenting on Dick than to give a last reminder to everybody who has not yet sent in their contribution to the 1970 alumni fund. There cannot be any doubt how badly this money is needed at this time, and while all of us may not agree with everything that Dartmouth is doing, we think on balance, there can be little doubt that a good job is being done and a valuable contribution to education in this country being made. Our support is needed, deserved and counted on. If you have not yet mailed in your check, please do so, as time is getting short.

It's vacation time for everyone, including yours truly. We had hoped to be visiting Hanover this year as a father of our son Richard in the Class of '74. He was accepted, however, he chose Brown over Dartmouth, which of course, was quite a shock to us. The main reason, lack of coeducation at Hanover, and we really couldn't argue too strongly. Have a good summer everybody, and while you're having a good time and doing interesting things, drop us a note so that we'll be able to report in full come next September.

Secretary, 23 Whippoorwill Rd. Chappaqua, N. Y. 10514

Class Agent, 46 Avondale Rd., White Plains, N. Y. 10605