1940

It may be a bit late for planning, but if you'd like some excellent spring skiing it's guaranteed for the weekend of March 6 and 7 in Hanover. The class of '58 started a class project of an annual Alumni Ski Weekend and has made arrangements at the Inn for an all inclusive package deal of $80 per couple including two nights' lodging, dinner both nights and two days at the Skiway. If interested, contact Dennis Dinan at 203 Crosby Hall or our own BobMacMillen. For non-skiiers (or skiiers) Bob and Crosbie promise to whip-up some hot buttered rum and, as always, will be gracious hosts at their home.

I'm sure most of you read of the passing of Tom George's illustrious father, Rube Goldberg, this past December and to Tom we belatedly offer our condolences. How- ever, how many of you read an almost full page article in the N. Y. Times in late September about Tom's home in Princeton, N. J., entitled "Once it was a barn, Now it's a chateau!"? Without checking my files and rereading the article the one thing that sticks in my mind is that their living room is 55 feet long by 30 wide! With that amount of wall space I'm sure there's ample room for many of Tom's abstract paintings. While on that subject, a most successful one-man exhibition of Tom's work was held the last couple of weeks in October at the Parsons Gallery in NY.C.

Instead of painting on canvas another of our group has been making a name for himself with pictures on the TV screen. The mid-November issue of Look magazine devoted three pages to an article about Mel Wax entitled "TV Is Alive And Well In San Francisco." From the full page picture of Mel that was used, I'd say he's the only classmate who hasn't aged in over 30 years—or was it the make-up man who gave me that impression! Mel is both producer and commentator for "News- room," a daily show that is just that: a working newsroom where real live working reporters present stories of the day. Mel questions them and others join in the discussion. The drabness of the straight TV news commentator has been eliminated and Mel's pattern has been so successful that it's being copied in key cities like Washington and Dallas—with Boston and New York soon to follow. ABC network's "Eyewitness News" is slightly patterned after Mel's KQED show and with luck we'll all benefit soon from his efforts.

The pictures in my file also include one from the Manchester (N. H.) Union Leader of Mrs. T. Gary Allen with a 20-year-old Danish houseguest. Gary and Lucile, who have five kids of their own, are making a home for an attractive young lady exchange student who's older sister visited the Aliens eight years ago. From Laconia (N. H.) another newspaper picture—this time of Judge Stephen S. Jewett. There's no news about Steve, but I've never seen New York judges wearing wild sports jackets like Steve's—he still looks like "Joe College."

Harry Howard has been named Executive Vice President for Operations for American Can Company with responsibility for directing the company's three business groups, packaging, consumer and service industries, and venture businesses. Harry, who joined the Butterick Company (patterns) in 1945 after his naval service, was president and treasurer of that company when it was acquired by American Can in 1968, and was president of the Butterick division at the time of his promotion. Harry and his wife Lenore have five children and live in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.

Elimination of pollution in the nation's waterways is something that Dick Gary is doing something about. Dick is endeavoring to establish the Freshwater Biological Insitutue on famed Lake Minnetonka near Minneapolis. Although president of his own company selling variable speed drives, Dicks' concern for ecology, particularly as related to fresh water, has lead to his trying to raise a four million dollar fund for the building, equipping, and staffing of the institute which would become an adjunct of the University of Minnesota. Although Dick hasn't been in touch with me I'm sure he'd welcome all contributions.

A fascinating booklet entitled "Twelve Mayors of Boston 1900-1970" with photos selected from a recent exhibit at the Boston Public Library contains a great picture (circa 1945) of Jack Fitzgerald Jr. along with his father, the then Fire Commissioner, and Mayor Kerrigan. Needless to say, the name Fitzgerald appears many times in this publication. Jack informs us he met Laurie "Red" Herman at Logan Airport while the latter was en route to Holland early in October—while Jack was en route to Ireland. Shortly after his return their daughter Shiela presented Alice and Jack with a granddaughter.

The Boston Evening Globe in an article on pornography contacted Dr. CharlesPinderhughes, a psychiatrist at the VA Hospital in Jamaica Plain and a member of a violence study group working under the U. S. Surgeon General to get his appraisal as to whether or not pornography is basically damaging. Charlie begged the question by answering, "The trouble is, each person believes what he wants to believe in this area. Feelings must be withheld until we have some sound scientific data!! Amen!

Our Illinois classmate must be tremendously overjoyed at the bad news all Dartmouth men received a week ago that football coach Bob Blackman and six of his seven assistants were leaving Hanover to take over at the University of Illinois. I watched the coach on a TV interview and he spoke of "The challenge of being in The Big Ten and the opportunity of preparing a team of the near future to play in The Rose Bowl!" Bob will be sorely missed and today's N. Y. papers speculate that Joe Yukica, coach at Boston College, will take over. He was Blackman's end coach from 1961 to 1965 and went to the University of N. H. before going to B. C. three years ago. Perhaps by the time you read this the facts will be known and that with it's new coach the Big Green can go to another Ivy League (and Lambert Trophy) victory.

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