1932

The issue bearing this column will probably hit your mailbox about the time you are, we hope, taking off for Hanover and 1932's 40th Reunion. As we go to press, Reunion chairman Paul Fox foresees more than 100 of us, together with wives and other family, pitching our tents on the Hanover plain—a number that would exceed the attendance of four years ago by upwards of 10 or 15 percent.

Likewise at press time comes to hand the latest Alumni Fund bulletin on the Dartmouth Reunion Roundup (i.e., those classes engaged in a special reunion giving effort), which shows '32 hanging in there in its bid to be the second class in the history of the College (after '31a year ago) to contribute $100,000 in a single year. At $63,045 we are already running 151 percent of our 1971 total. Bill Gerstley's challenge gift still had a $5000 additional potential— s1000 for each additional $10,000 received from the Class at large. Class participation at press time: 36 percent. En avant!

We are just back from Hanover, where a passel of your officers represented you for the fourth and final time of their tenure at the College's annual Class Officers Weekend. Headed by Howdy and DorothyPierpont, the delegation included Art andDobbie Allen, Paul and June Fox, Markand Anise Short. Hanover was gray, cold, partly rainy, and still looked good.

Peg and your correspondent took advantage of the College's invitation to go up a day early and participate in Thursday's daylong symposium on education at Dartmouth, which you will read about elsewhere in this issue. That was fun and worthwhile. The key word for the occasion is "ferment," and our judgment is that the educational brew at Hanover will be the better for the yeasty stuff that's working there. An aspect of the occasion that one could hardly overlook was that while undergraduates elsewhere were seizing and occupying buildings, some of them behaving like 20th century academic Luddites, Dartmouth students and faculty were taking over sundry rooms and halls on the campus for the purpose of considering together the future educational and moral welfare of the institution.

Bill Morton has been elected to the College's Board of Trustees, in effect replacing Tom Curtis, who has served since 1951. Most of you will have read President Kemeny's tribute to both men in The Bulletin of April 25.

The College has appointed Dick Stoiber to the chair of the Frederick Hall Professorship of Mineralogy. Dick, an authority on volcanoes and volcanic minerals and gases, has studied volcanic mountains on four continents.

Art and Dobbie Allen were back in Hanover from a get-away-from-the-Han-over-schlump-season trip to Utah's national parks, the Hawaiian Islands, and attendance at a reunion of World War II D. E. skippers in San Diego. They were also just back from a fast trip to New London to attend the launching of a new submarine their son will command. In the weekend program Art presided as president of the Class Bequest Chairmen's Association.

From Newsweek's Periscope we learn that Chuck Adkins has been selected by Ralph Nader to head a new action group of retired professionals, to start a campaign to promote more use of retired persons such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists.

Just in time comes a California report from Carl Ward in Berkeley. He continues as secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada, which has a membership of 1400, some 400 of whom are active. At the association's recent annual dinner Carl found Dr. Ralph Elias, again living in San Francisco and "basically retired," and Graham Butler and wife, Graham too enjoying retirement. The Butlers are using Livermore as a temporary base while they build a home in Medford, Ore.

Carl sees Gordon Mackenzie regularly (Gordon and Betty have moved from San Francisco to Burlingame), reports DickClarke very busy with his new advertising agency set-up, and that Bruno Saia quit work some four years ago because of health problems, but last fall reported his doctor had discharged him as fit, and that's good news. "Rather than go back to work," Carl continues, "Bruno told me he' had so enjoyed playing golf when he wanted, and watching the stock market as an avocation, that he saw no reason to change his life."

Jim Moore, planning to make Reunion if he didn't take part in the Bermuda race, postcards in on returning from a Caribbean holiday, where he and Connie had found Barbuda a getaway spot to remember. He notes Connie is going great with her public relations work, and son Steve and wife Jenefer home from army duty in Germany.

That other sailor, Jim Whiton, who chucked just about everything but a boat and a bike a few years back, writes from aboard Other Woman II, postmarked Daytona Beach: "Am not sure what good it would do to utter my generally nonconformist views to a group that apparently is willing to disregard all the history it/they ever learned. Who is objecting to wage and price controls, deficit spending, subsidies? ... In the past year Marge and I have sailed from Key West to Roque I. in northern Maine; south again and across Florida via Okeechobee; to Dry Tortugas, Key West again, Miami, Bahamas as far down as George Town, Great Exuma and back. It's an interesting way of life, and it forces one to get rid of a great many tangible possessions."

We thought Bill Levi's piece in the last issue wrote a nice finis to the Great Valedictory Debate—for our money it was one of the most readable and valuable articles the Magazine carried all year. One little postscript. In the College's symposium of which we wrote above, one of the many concurrent events that followed on President Kemeny's address was a session entitled "The Development, Conservation, and Destruction of Moral Values in Education." It was scheduled for a small room in Bartlett. But 125 persons showed up to take part, and together had to seek out a far larger meeting place.

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