Newsletter Editor of the Year

Howard Corbin Wilson Jr. '41 was named Class Newsletter Editor of the Year May 5 at the Annual Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. Accompanying the honor was the following citation:

Immediately upon becoming Newsletter Editor in 1966 you gave up DOPE. This was long after the College had kicked the spring DUCKBOARDS habit. Instead of praise for this innovative idea from the New Left subscribers you got only threats from the Old Rights to turn in their gradi ad parmassi unless you returned at once to their nostalgic DOPE. You did forthwith and you had it made. You stuffed their original DOPE into your pipe, tamped, lit, puffed, and since then it has belched smoke and fire.

It was rumored that your dope sheet was going to be banned in Boston and that Loeb had offered you a job in Manchester. Fortunately none of this was true and you continued to march on hearing only the drummer behind the banner reading "Illegitimi non Carborundum."

With the help of some fast balls and curves from Bob Feller you kept the opposition under control and stirred your group to new heights of accomplishment by pointing up the long-term shortcomings of the cellar dwelling '41s—your words, not ours. You convinced many that The In Thing To Do For '72 was to contribute to D F T D and the College. You raised issues and got answers with a rouse—"Caustic, emotional, calloused, and sometimes witty"—and you never, forgot that the name of the game was to report on roommate Charlie's old Aunt Samantha's arthritic condition and other scattered infirmities and firmities among classmates and their dependents.

We can't believe you did this whole thing, but you did it, Howie, and with a flair. Now, with a characteristic '41 rouse, we name you the NLEOTY '72.