1958

With the temperature in the 80's today, it is a little hard to project this column into November, but the football season opens next weekend. Had an interesting lunch two weeks ago—the Dartmouth Club of Boston's annual welcome Boston area freshman luncheon. On my left at the table sat three obvious athletes and their fathers and on my right sat a very attractive coed with her father. I could sense the fear harbored by the father of the girl who was surely the apple of his eye, at sending his daughter to that "men's school in the hills." I asked her whether she was going to be in a coed dorm and before she had a chance to answer her father chimed in, "No way." I must be getting old because I could really put myself in the father's place thinking of my reaction to sending my daughter to Hanover ... but times have changed and much for the better. This should be a great fall to be in Hanover. Our new Dean of Freshman Ralph Manual spoke at the luncheon very ably, aiming at a level of sophistication and maturity that I can't remember being addressed when we were entering Dartmouth.

I am sure that before too long many words will be written about Ralph, but for those of you who haven't kept up with him since 1958, I will do a little updating. From 1962 to 1968 he was assistant director of admissions programs in two New England and 13 southeastern states. He was charter member of the Trustees' Committee on Equal Opportunity and was responsible for the recruitment of students from disadvantaged and culturally distinct backgrounds, as well as for liason with various referral agencies such as Upward Bound and Yale Summer High School. Ralph also undertook graduate study in Counseling Psychology at Boston University where he received his master's degree in 1967. As a doctoral candidate he received a National Defense Education Act Fellowship for graduate work at the University of Illinois' Institute for Advanced Study in Higher Education. Under that year-long fellowship he served internships at four campuses—Roosevelt University, Parkland Junior College, and both the Chicago Circle and the Champaign-Urbana campuses of the University of Illinois. He returned to Dartmouth again in 1971 as associate dean of freshmen and director of counseling after srrving two years as academic advisor at the General Curriculum Center, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Illinois. He was awarded his Ph.D. in higher education administration by the University of Illinois in February of 1972. I think we can say unequivocably that we have a very highly qualified Dean of Freshman.

I received a letter from Dick Shanaman which really has me drooling. "Every once in a while I run into a friend from Dartmouth who invariably asks what I am doing or what have I done since leaving Dartmouth. As you may know, I haven't been back for any alumni events purely because of living on the West Coast. Since school I worked for the First National City Bank in New York until 1963 after which time I joined the Bank of California in San Francisco. After spending six years as a vice president I joined F. S. Smithers & Co., a Wall Street investment banking firm as vice president and West Coast manager-corporated finance. This took place in 1969. Now I am off again, even though retaining a consulting arrangement with Smithers. My wife, two children and I are moving to Sun Valley, Idaho. An announcement of a job won't be coming until late fall since I am going to the Olympics in August. Nevertheless I will be retaining my directorships in several companies including Saska Sports Industries, the distributor of Kneissl Skis and Henke boots, and Mount Rose, a ski resort in the North Tahoe region. I just can't get away from skiing.... I hope to one day join you and others either at Dartmouth or Sun Valley." Thanks for the letter, Dick—just might see you out in the Valley sometimes.

William S. Paley, President of the Museum of Modern Art in New York has announced that Kynaston McSchine has been appointed a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. Kynaston first joined the Museum's Department of Circulating Exhibitions in 1959. From 1965-68 he served as Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Jewish Museum in New York and was also Acting Director of that institution from 1967-68. He is a member of the National Exhibition Committee of the American Federation of the Arts, a Trustee of the Studio Museum in Harlem and a member of the Visual Arts Committee of the New York City Cultural Council. He taught art history at Hunter College from 1968-69 and has been on the School of Visual Arts faculty since 1969.

Here's someone we haven't heard from since '58: Mahdi El-Baghdadi visited Hanover back in May. Following graduation Mahdi returned to Iraq and went into the foreign service in July 1959. He had posts in Ankara, Belgrade, Khartoum and Madrid before coming to the United States. For the past nine months he has served as first secretary of the Iraqui interest section of the Embassy of India, because Iraq does not maintain relationships with the United States at the present time. He is going back to be a first secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad. Mahdi is not married and, for anyone who would like to get in touch with him, he is at 12/9 Bridge Street Kadhimain, Iraq.

Walter Shea holds a new position at The Travelers Insurance of Hartford, according to a release from the company. He has been appointed director in the operations division of the life, health, and financial services department. Walter joined Travelers in 1960 and has held the successive titles of underwriter, senior underwriter, and chief underwriter. He has been assistant secretary since 1968. He is a member of the Hartford Dartmouth Club.

Dr. Bryant Barnard has completed all qualifications and is now a Diplomate, American College of Urologists. Bryant received his medical education at Cornell University Medical College and had two years of surgical training at New York Hospital followed by two years service in the U. S. Navy. He continued his training at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, plus two years of residency at Mary Hitchcock. In 1969 Bryant was appointed to the Staff of Beverly, (Mass.) Hospital and has privileges on the Urology, Adult and Pediatric Surgical services.

A dispatch from The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute News reports that Dr. A.Bruce Carlson has been awarded the Rensselaer Newman Association annual Sun and Balance Award. The student award recognizes educators who "demonstrate both in and out of the classroom sincerity and expertise in education." Bruce is associate professor of systems engineering. He was cited for his "innovative and inspirational teaching methods and his extracurricular involvement as an adviser and in university governance." The New-man Association took particular note of Prof. Carlson's freshman engineering course projects, senior level self-paced instruction, and his participation in work aimed toward revising the academic calendar.

Our very able treasurer Bill Van Law has already sent out the dues slips. We are building to our 15th reunion, so get those dues in now and while you're at it jot down some information about yourself on the back of the dues slips for the column.

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