1951

This month's column is briefer than usual, I suspect, not because '51ers are not doing things but for other reasons. You haven't had your P.R. men at work so that news releases reached Hanover, or appeared in the press with a Dartmouth reference so that the College's clipping service would pick them up. You haven't communicated with your Class officers, or have done so inadequately, e.g., a written response to the invitation for news on the class dues notice which reads "I'm back Hast" and tells nothing more.

Much as it hurts my pride, I must confess to sharing the blame. I am derelict in getting around to following up on those classmates who haven't said enough, and on mounting a news solicitation to those who should have something to report, either because they have moved since last appearing in this column or have not been reported on in a long time. I anticipate that, by the time this column appears, many of you will have received such a solicitation.

Dick Pugh is no longer a full-time faculty member at Columbia Law School. He still maintains an association with that troubled campus as an adjunct professor, specializing in international taxation matters. Dick is also a partner, working in taxation and international corporate matters, with the distinguished New York law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He, his wife Nan, sons Richard, 13, and Andrew, 10, and daughter Catherine, 5, reside in Greenwich, Conn.

Chuck Fitzsimmons has been promoted to general manager of The New Haven Copper Operations, Cities Service Company. He left Bridgeport Brass Co. in 1965 to become New Haven's production manager. A few months later, he was promoted to plant superintendent, then to plant manager in 1966, and to assistant general manager in 1969. Chuck resides in Trumbull, Conn., with wife Carole and their five children. He is a director of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Chamber of Commerce.

I happen to be one of those weak-willed souls who has made several temporarily successful attempts at giving up the evil weed, only again to succumb to temptation after a few weeks. You may have read about the recent special expensive cruise— replete with psychologists, encounter-group leaders, and a hypnotist—on the Prudential Grace liner "S.S. Santa Paula," designed to cure those willing to pay of the vicious habit. (I cannot resist noting that Prudenhal-Grace has since bowed out of the Caribbean cruise business, although I doubt that there was any causal connection. )

If you happened to read the December 14 issue of Time, which devoted a full page to the anti-nicotine venture, you already know that Time writer Bob McCabe was aboard. The editor introduced the story wuth the comment that Bob, "a three-pack- a-day smoker, suffered through a 13-day Caribbean 'Stop-Smoking Cruise' that ended last week. His ill-tempered report etc.: ' I assume that it was "ill-tempered" because Bob quit. I would like to know whether he has kept to it.

Dartmouth Professor of English Jeff "art now has a King Features syndicated column on the campus scene. Jeff is an erstwhite speech writer and political consulant to both President Nixon and Governor Reagan, an author, and senior editor of Bill Buckley's National Review. The copy of his column which I saw indicated that Jeff thought that the campus scene was cooling off.

Last fall, "The Reformer" of Brattleboro, Vt., carried a lengthy profile on MikeChoukas, headmaster of Vermont Academy for the last five years. I would like to quote one paragraph: "Mike Choukas is a new up and coming type of private school educator whose job resembles that of a college president in that he has to be a fund raiser, an administrator and a guide for faculty. But at Vermont Academy it is more than that for he is close enough to the boys both physically and philosophically to make a lasting impression on their lives. In fact, that much is said in so many words in the year book of the Class of '70."

One of the things which struck me about the profile was its suggestion that the private school, with the help of Dartmouth's ABC (A Better Chance) program and its progeny, can do more towards fostering genuine social integration than our public schools as they are now constituted.

Mike and wife Nita live on campus at Saxtons River, Vt., while their three children are away at school. Daughter Melanie is a freshman at the University of Vermont; daughter Eleanor, a junior at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Mass.; and son Michael, a sophomore at Exeter.

I close with a belated note of tribute to a classmate lawyer-educator. The Sunday New York Times "Week in Review" of January 17 ran an article on Law Dean Derek Bok's selection as Harvard's new president. Under a slug which read "Demand for Lawyers," the article referred to four distinguished gentlemen who are our seniors and then "Michael Heyman, of Bok's vintage [who] quietly helped salvage Berkeley after the historic 1964 uprising."

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