1932

Classmate of Distinction this month is Dr. Cal Fisher, Denver surgeon and president of the staff of Denver General Hospital, whose cheerfully mordant letter to this column last year delighted many, including non-class browsers. Cal, we now learn, has utilized his recreational time to become a sculptor of considerable talent and note. At hand is a clipping of Rena Andrews' column in the Denver Post last December reporting on the large exhibit of Cal's work then being held at Denver's International House. A "two-man show," the exhibit also had hand-woven, original design rugs and dress and upholstery fabrics done by Cal's wife Pat. "Dr. Fisher," wrote Miss Andrews, "combines boldness, strength, balance, and that special sensitivity of a surgeon's hands in his sculpture—be it of wood, bronze, cast iron, or Muntz metal." There is a picture of one of his bronzes entitled "Ben Ezra" that we think is great. Cal offered a simple explanation for what Miss Andrews described as "the astonishing amount of excellent pieces" in his exhibit. "All you have to do," he said, "is give up golf." The whole article, including the part about Pat's work, is too interesting to file, so we're sending it on to Mark Short for his more spacious newsletter.

Looking to put some of the class treasury to useful work, Leader Pierpoint, having inquired as to special needs of the Indian undergraduates at Hanover (see October issue, p. 32), was authorized by the Class executive committee to obtain a set of drapes for Indian House, which is located at the fireplace end of what we knew as Freshman Commons. Howdy has a letter of thanks to the Class from John Olguin, Director of Indian Programs, which says in part, "The handsome curtains were recently installed in Indian House and lend a hometype atmosphere to what had previously been a rather stark room. . . . Please invite all members of the Class of '32 to stop by for some warm Indian hospitality on their next visit to Hanover."

Dr. Les Meister, writing from the U. S. Veterans Administration Hospital at Long Beach, Calif., of a straw poll as to political preference in our undergraduates days, recalls that "the preference was rather overwhelmingly for the G.O.P. ... I may have been alone in my nose-thumbing preference for the Socialist Party."* He asks if the present class political alignment is known. For source we have to go back to Reuel Denney's questionnaire and report on the occasion of our 25th reunion which showed the Class distribution as 84% Republican, 16% Democrat. In the 1956 presidential election 85.6% had voted for Eisenhower, 12% for Stevenson, and 0.3% for "other." Ten per cent had switched from Democrat to Republican since graduation, 5% the other way. Have you switched since 1957? If so, wish you'd tell us about it.

Carl Ward, who lives in Berkeley and does yeoman service as secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada, sends us a clipping from which we learn that BobFisher, has been made a vice president of Del Monte Corporation. Bob has headed the firm's industrial relations department for a number of years. Carl mentions seeing Jack Eliot and Gordon MacKenzie and periodically talking with Bruno Saia.

Art Moreau, the sad news of whose wife's death we reported last month, tells us on a post card that his business in Manchester, N. H., had a diastrous fire over a year ago. He sold the remainder and is now retired.

And from Walt Ziegenfuss in Villas, N. J.: "In retirement I have the time to ponder the prospects of survival by making use of our knowledge of life and the universe in place of the Machiavellian 16th century practice of wishful thinking by the Establishment and the religions which it sponsors. Of course, this is the 'Impossible Dream' until we find ourselves on the brink of total disaster."

Jim Moore, a last ditch fighter, writes: "Am completely opposed to coeducation at Hanover. Let's have one spot where men can get an education without girls to gaze at. More fun to go see them or import them." Jim is working with Art Allen on a new fleet for the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club that he started in 1930. He asks that anyone wishing to buy a dinghy for the club call Art. Art's address is Pine Drive, Hanover.

* Queried would he vote socialist today, Les postals further: "... I think the crux lies simply in whether social needs are anticipated and acted upon in advance of need (socialism) or merely reacted to retrospectively—and very likely, more or less too late (the prevailing two parties). No, I'd cast my straw vote for a man not a party. Didn't Socialism, U.S.A., die with Norman Thomas?"

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