1951

It's June! It's June! The merry month of June! I'm now on my annual three months' vacation from writing this column. Before you start your vacation, or before June 30, whichever comes first, your annual Alumni Fund contribution should be in the mail. Do your share to keep the Green glowing!

This fall some gals, as well as boys, will be wearing the Dartmouth Green for real, instead of vicariously. Among them will be some '51 daughters, three of whom were accepted for admission to the Class of 1976: Amos Gile's Pamela, Harvey Goldstock's Anne, and Bob Shannon's Cynthia.

While we're on the Hanover scene, let's take a moment with some of our faculty classmates and their increasing responsibilities. Frank Smallwood, Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, is serving as acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences while Dean Rieser is on leave. At the same time, Frank is representing President Kemeny in his absence while Provost Morton is recuperating from an illness. If there was ever a time for the Class of 1951 to take over Dartmouth, this is it!

Frank is a close personal friend, yet I always find it difficult to get to see him when I return to God's country. In addition to the above reasons, he is also director of the Dartmouth Public Affairs Center, chairman of the college's Urban Studies Program, chairman of the faculty Committee on Athletics, and faculty representative on the Alumni Council. At that point I stop so as to be able to recognize other classmates in this column.

Last month I had an item on English professor Jeff Hart. After I wrote it, I read elsewhere in the April Alumni Mag of Jeff's appointment by President Nixon to a seven-year term on the 26-member National Council on the Humanities. In the event that you didn't see the story, I am repeating it here. The Council hands out Congressionally appropriated money to the tune of $6O million a year to support projects by scholars, artists and writers.

A specialist in 18th century literature, Jeff is the author of our books: "Eighteenth Century Political Writers," "Burke's Speech of Conciliation," "Viscount Bolingbroke: Tory Humanist," and "The American Dissent." He, wife Stephanie, two sons, and two daughters reside in East Thetford, Vt.

If you live within the broadcast range of certain New York radio stations, you can start your day to the mellifluous voice of classmate John Gambling, who has long since replaced his father as radio station WOR's early morning soother of those about to confront the ordeal of the New York subways and commuter railroads. (How John does it with having to get up at a perfectly obscene hour to drive in from Long Island, I don't know.)

If you are in the same residential category and are a classical music devote of New York Times radio station WQXR, you have undoubtedly heard the voice of classmate Dick Halloran reporting on the Washington or Far East scene on Clifton Daniels' 7:30 p.m. feature story type program called "Insight," which saves you reading time on plowing through the next morning's edition of the ecncyclopedia which appears in daily installments.

Presently a Washington Correspondent of the Times, Dick will be heading back to Asia next month to become Tokyo bureau chief. In addition to Japan, he'll be covering both Koreas, Taiwan, and the Philippines. He writes that his career has fallen into "a nice, neat, and predictable pattern—l go to Japan, spend a couple or three years, come home, change jobs, and go back to Japan." Since 1954, he has served there three times—once with the Army, then with Business Week, and "not so finally" with the Washington Post. Add to that three months there last fall on a temporary assignment for the Times.

Dick has written two books and is working on a third. The first, "Japan: Images and Realities," was published in 1969. The Second, "Conflict and Compromise: The Dynamics of American Foreign Policy," will appear in the fall. The third is an assessment of Japanese power and "Is still very much in the typewriter." Dick and wife Carol have three children: Christopher 13; Laurie, 11; and Catherine, 7.

If the mating instinct continues at its present pace, I may end up being the J. Edgar Hoover of the Class. At a New York Dartmouth function a few months ago, Dave Krivitsky introduced me to a very attractive young lady named Maria, who turned out to be his bride as of September 11. Dave does textile marketing as a vice president of Beaunit Corp. (I don't know whether "textile marketing" is a high falutin' description for his old task of peddling ladies' "intimate wear.")

Bachelor Bill Rentier is an Air Force lieutenant colonel. In December, he was reassigned from H.Q. Strategic Air Command (Omaha, Nebr.) to H.S. MACV (Military Air Command Vietnam), Office of the Inspector General, Saigon as Assistent Inspector General. Bill, who has been "in and out of Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, for the last 18 years," regards his present assignment as "very interesting."

His current "ground" service is different. Bill notes that "we usually are looking down on things and not horizontally at them." He has been "traveling around the countryside ... poking into anything and everything." Bill's letter includes a remark on the significance of what happens "up North in Quang Tri in the next week or so" which I do not think I should publish in view of subsequent events.

Medic Frank Bruch resigned from Kaiser group practice in Cleveland last summer and moved to storrs, Conn., to join the U. Conn. Student Health Service as Associate Director, a job which he has since left. Frank and wife Sally have six children, aged six through 18. Frank notes that he is "trying like hell" to keep up with the medical generation gap."

On the New York business scene. KitFuller is vice president, finance, of Pepsi-Cola Company. To keep fit, Kit skis and plays paddle tennis. He and wife Carolyn have three children: Katie, 11, Pam, 9, and Chris, 1. Dick Price is director of marketing battery products, for Union Carbide's Consumer Products Division. He and wife Peggy also have three children: Bob, 19, Bill. 16, and Wendy, 13.

Bill Roberts has been promoted to national sales manager, industrial trades, for the Building Service and Clean Products division of 3M Company. Bill joined 3M in 1958 as a sales representative for industrial coated abrasives and later was named sales training supervisor for the Coated Abrasives division. He has served as an area sales manager for the BS&CP division and, most recently, was product sales manager, industrial trades, for that division.

NEWS IN BRIEF ... Frank O'Neil, vice president of PPG Industries of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration ... Denver real estate man Bob Hackstaff has been elected chairman of the Denver Urban Coalition. ...

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