1951

For those of you who haven't been to northern New England recently, let me warn you that the ways of the devil are spreading even in the staid Yankee state of Vermont. That state's "Interstate Travelers Guide" relates that the Hotel Coolidge in White River is "newly remodeled plus somewater beds" (emphasis added). The bars are now open until 2 a.m., you can drink standing up in bars and carry your own drink if you want to table-hop, and there is even a liquor store in Norwich. The next thing you know, they'll be showing hard core porn flicks in Thetford.

Across the river in straight-laced New Hampshire, where the bars maintain a midnight witching hour and there is still no liquor store in Hanover, the College has appointed Charlie Breed executive secretary of the Alumni Fund. During his 11 years back in Hanover as an associate in the College's Office of Development, Charlie and wife Marilyn have been gracious hosts, well above and beyond the call of duty, to hundreds of returning classmates and their families.

Following graduation, Charlie spent three years in the Army before resuming his studies at the University of Colorado, which awarded him a Master's in geology in 1956. He then worked as an oil geologist with the California Company and as a district agent for Connecticut Mutual Life in Billings, Montana, before returning to Hanover in 1962."

Maybe Charlie's promotion will inspire more of us to do better by the Alumni Fund. Despite the efforts of Dick Dutton and Ed Weisenfeld and their teams of agents, and despite some substantial increases in individual gifts, we improved over last year by only 8.5%, while the Fund as a whole improved by 22%. Our $41,581 compares to $60,092 raised by 1950, $38,447 by 1955, and the spectacular sums of $70,940, $103,368, and $214,415 raised by the 20th Reunion classes of 1952, 1954, and 1953, respectively. We also had nine less donors than last year.

Knowing that our sole remaining Alumni Council member, Minneapolis Judge Jim Rogers, was due to retire in June, I wondered how many, if any, of the new members would be '51s. It turned out that we hit the jackpot with four: Al Karcher, Rochester, representing upstate New York; WesNutten, Los Angeles, representing Southern California: Dick Dutton, New Milford, Conn., representing the Alumni Club Officers; and WallyBush, Minneapolis, as senior member of the DCAC, Out of nine committee assignments between them, all four ended up on the Committees on Athletics!

The Ford Foundation gave Notre Dame $500,000 to establish a Center for Civil Rights, and the Irish named Howie Glickstein its first director and an adjunct professor in their law school. Located in an expanded law school building, the Center will house the papers amassed by Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, Notre Dame's President, during his 15 years as an original member and then chairman of the federal Civil Rights Commission.

Howie has devoted most of his professional career to civil rights. He received his LL.B. (now an ex post facto J.D.) from Yale in 1954 and an LL.M. from Georgetown in 1962. He spent five years with the Civil Rights Division of the Depan ment of Justice, where he worked on appellate cases and was involved in the drafting of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He moved over to the Civil Rights Commission in August 1965 as general counsel. He became acting staff director in September 1968 and was named permanent staff director in June 1969. During his term, the Commission issued its first comprehensive report evaluating the efforts of the federal government in enforcing civil rights laws He resigned in August 1971 and subsequent worked for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights on educating the public on the issue of school desegregation and bussing.

Lloyd Gaston, who started expatriating himself young (he did so between his sophomore and junior years and graduated a year behind most of us), has done it again. After ten years as Associate Professor of Religion at Macalester College, St Paul, Minn., he started to work in September as Associate Professor of New Testament at Vancouver School of Theology of the University of British Columbia.

During the latter half of 1970, Lloyd spent a sabbatical in Jerusalem studying Hebrew. That same year, he published a book, No Stone onAnother: Studies in the Significance of the Fall ofJerusalem in the Synoptic Gospels. Lloyd and Swiss-born wife Suzanne have three sons. Johannes, 21, is studying applied art (design) in Zurich. Tom, 19, started at Dartmouth and. following in his father's footsteps, is now on leave, Christopher, 17, is a high school senior.

IBM has named Woody Klein managing editor of Think, the company's employee magazine with a circulation of 155,000. Woody has been an executive in IBM communications for the past five years, following three years in various capacities in New York Mayor John Lindsay's first administration. He is also an elected unpaid member of the Westport, Conn., Representative Town Meeting.

George Southwick was elected third vice president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association at their annua! meeting in May. He has taught American history and constitutional law at Lexington High School for 15 years. Twice president of his local Teachers Association, George has testified before the Massachusetts legislature on educational matters.

Let's close on a note about faraway places. I recently received a postcard datelined "Kuching. Sarawak 8/13" from our peripatetic New York bachelor banker, Dick Hulbert. The stamps and postmark establish its authenticity.

The message reads: "Busy starting Dartmouth Club of Borneo - spent last night in a 'longhouse on the Skrang river with 78 Dyaks, 13 dogs, 6 cats, 23 pigs and 7 roosters - have eaten my first and last Dyak muffin and survived - Wah Hoo Wah." Dick failed to note whether he was vacationing, traveling on bank business, or pulling a Gauguin.

An investigation has been launched into theidentities of these two hirsute '51s and theresults will appear next month.

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