Alumni Articles
The March issue of Foreign Service contains "American Diplomacy—the Pelican in the Wilderness." The author is Career Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs '21, who from 1925 to 1962 was accredited to seven countries, on three continents, by appointment of four Presidents, with an eighth mission pending at the time of his retirement.
Among recent publications by Dr. David Seegal '21 of Presbyterian Hospital, New York, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Columbia University, are: "Excursion into Venery," with three illustrations from AnExaltation of Larks by James Lipton, and four short poems, "So It Is Writ," "Short Poem," "Sine Qua Non," and "Intelligence" in Physicians and Surgeons Quarterly, Columbia University; "The Cat as Educator," Beatrice C. Seegal co-author, with four cartoons, in the Harvard MedicalAlumni Bulletin; and an editorial "On A Cheerful Note, An Intangible Elixir in the Doctor's Bag" in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.
Ralph Nading Hill '39 is author of "Mr. Gore's Steam Wagon" in the Spring issue of Vermont Life.
In Airport World, January issue, "Air Freight—No Profitless Infant" is written by John C. Emery Jr. '46, President of Emery Air Freight Corporation.
John N. Washburn '45, LL. B. 1957 and Ph.D. 1970, is author of "The Current Legal Status of Warsaw Pact Membership" in The International Lawyer, a quarterly publication of Section of International andComparative Law, American Bar Association.
David Rafael Wang '53 has translated into English a Chinese poem by Mao TseTung entitled "At The Yellow Crane Pavillion," which is printed in the 1970 Fall edition of Contemporary Literature in Translation published by the Department of Creative Writing, University of British Columbia. Mr. Wang in the SenecaReview, December 1970, has produced the English version of a poem by Ouyang Hsiu (1007-1072), "The West Lake: Four Sightings," written to the tune of Tsai Sang Tsu. An original poem in English by Mr. Wang, "The Intercourse," is printed in InvisibleCity, February 1971, a magazine produced by Red Hill Press, Fairfax, Calif.
In the Living Heritage department of Vermont Life, Spring Issue, appears "Them Is Us" by Charles T. Morrissey '56 Director of the Vermont Historical Society.
