1959

Chairman of the Anthropology Department of the University of Alaska, Dr. JohnCook, has a rather interesting assignment in addition to his duties in the classroom. Aided by a substantial grant, he and his associates are to make sure that the 800 mile North Slope pipeline will not transgress or destroy any historical or prehistorical sites with which the country's largest state is loaded. (Note: Remember that Alaska served as a land bridge for the Mongoloids who left Siberia and eventually settled as far south as Peru and thus is rich in archaeological information. Armed with a 1906 federal law called the Antiquity Act, the archaeologists and the conservationists have the right to stop the digging on the pipeline and either remove valuable relics or propose that it be detoured.

In October, the Kev. Alan Gilburg was installed as assistant minister of Westminister Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N.Y., one of the largest congregations in Western N.Y. State. Christian education will be his major responsibility. After ordination in 1963, Al served as assistant pastor of Westmoreland Church in Washington, and in 1968 went to Ceylon as chaplain to the students of Affna College as well as instructor of English literature. Al and his wife have two daughters and a son.

The picture of Dick Dunnells' swearingin ceremony as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Management which appeared in the October issue of the Alumni Magazine, merits the additional information which space limitations precluded at the time. Dick was associated with the Washington law firm of Hogan and Hartson before being appointed a special assistant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1959, and had been serving as Acting Deputy Assistant for several months at the time of the appointment to his present position. Nice going Dick!

Pete Salo, who for the past year has been at Stanford University combining a law practice, teaching and working towards a Ph.D., will spend the next several months in Europe doing research for his dissertation. Under a scholarship of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Service Research Council he will travel to London, Paris, Belgrade and the Soviet Union gathering material about the history of eastern Europe, especially the origins of World War 11. Pete has spent a good deal of his time since Dartmouth at Stanford, earning law and masters degrees there. He took a break during summer of 1968, however, to participate in an archaeological expedition to Yugoslavia and somehow found time to study the Serbo-Croatian language while there.

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