1934
Secretary, Apt. 1-B, 333 East 55th St. New York, N. Y. 10022
Class Agent, 369 Graydon Terrace Ridgewood, N. J. 07450
Recent reports on Dave Hill and his California marriage last year brought an address-inquiry from Bob Korns, M.D., up Glenmont, N. Y., way, and some glad personal and professional tidings:
"Our five children [his and Esther's] have ail grown to 'maturity' and are on their own in various parts of the world, except for our youngest Steve who was our "caboose," coming eight years after the fourth child. He is still with us, somewhat remotely, as a sophomore at the University of Chicago. I've been active in medical research throughout my career [Bob served as deputy to Jonas Salk in the 1954-55 Poliomyelitis Field Trial, and is now with the New York State Department of Health in Albany], and am currently trying to make some sense out of the fascinating story of the increase in colon cancer in the Western World, which may shortly exceed the front-runner, lungcancer, as the most lethal (total number of deaths per year) site of malignancy."
Life, on the yuther hand, goes on. Stan Bloomfield, reporting from Chapel Hill, N. C., fleshes out our February note about his son Robert, a junior at Dartmouth, by asserting the lad is "learning how to keep all his female friends from scratching each other's eyes out" while Stan himself is "trying to scratch up enough to keep the entire family happy." And from (I believe) the Boston area, the following which gratifyingly speaks for itself:
"Sean Langdon Malloy born January 12, 1972. Mother, Edith Powers Malloy, daughter of Wilbur Langdon ("Ike") Powers '34, varsity football, varsity hockey, Class first marshall. Sean's great-grandfathers, Walter Huston Lillard '05, varsity football player and later head coach; and Walter Powers '06, football manager. Sean's great-granduncle, Walter Powers, Jr. '03, executive athletic manager. Sean's great-great-grandfather, Wilbur Howard Powers 1875; and great-great-granduncle, Frederick Langdon Owen 1877."
Last month we mentioned our indebtedness to Ernie Barcella for an item on Laurie Herman, the classified-ad kind of St. Petersburg, Fla. Now Barcella himself is the subject of a note from Tom Beers, who reports running into GM's public-relations chief in January, "at one of the black-tie social dinners for men only here in Washington. Between Ernie across the table and General Motors' counsel at my elbow, I was in fine automotive company. Ernie looks great, still walks his two miles a day, and was, as always, a cheerful, interesting companion." Tom goes on to pose a provocative question, which I hope will provoke an identifying answer:
"Over the weekend I came across a letter I'd written on November 1, 1945 from Manila Bay. In it I referred to a classmate whom I'd run into on the Naval Base in Cavite. Unfortunately, I didn't include his name, but he was the Executive Officer of a DE which the next day departed for Hong Kong. It's of no importance, of course, but I wonder who it was."
While all you ex-ExecOffs are ransacking your memories of glamorous Novembers in the Pacific, Al Jacobson is already thinking ahead to a fun-filled June in Hanover in 1974—yep, our fortieth reunion. Concrete plans won't be formulated for a good while yet, but Al's taking no chances of not being ready. Which is why it's likely that this year, under his leadership as Alumni Fund Head Agent, we'll all have reason to come through with our gifts on time. Al reports that as of March 4 he'd signed up no fewer than 80 classmates as assistant agents, and that 50 men had already made their 1972 contributions. Another 400 or so by June 30, Al, and we're in business.
In business right now, as he has been since he co-authored the historic "Men Under Stress" with Roy Grinker more than 20 years ago, is John Spiegel, Director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence. John has just published "Transactions: The Interplay Between Individual, Family, and Society" (455 pp., Science House). Based on the review we've just read in Psychotherapy & Social Science Review for March 3 this latest work may be another "Men Under Stress" for seminal significance.
The reviewer, Matthew P. Dumont, M.D., himself a mental-health authority, opens his enthusiastic notice this way:
"What splendid arrogance in John Spiegel! He strides through the portals of professionalism like a Western gunman entering a saloon. Psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, urban planning, bang, bang, bang! And now in this long awaited volume we can see what has always been there: A pattern of study and intervention rooted in a vigorous and disciplined philosophy of inquiry. It is really quite staggering: something between research and action but partaking of both; more thoughtful than "action research" and more conscientious than social science. One is tempted to call it human ecology but the term has been preempted by the environmentalists. If he were a shade less diffident, Spiegel would have called it a Science of Man."
More on Spiegel, especially his "nativistreconstructivist analysis" of American society, next time. More news on Johnny's classmates, too. if I get any. Send some along, huh, with your check to the Alumni Fund. OK, Al?
