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I see that our fashion couturier, Bill Van Law, has sent out the class dues bills. While it does coincide with real estate taxes, the bite is not too big so I hope you will all get your money in as soon as you can. In the process I would much appreciate your jotting down some information on the back of the bill about what you have been doing.

With Reunion coming up in June the Class is gearing up for some very significant giving to the Alumni Fund. Herb Swarzman will be lending Bob Eleveld a hand in this endeavor. I had a chance to have dinner with Herb when he was here in Boston. Herb and Bob are devoting tremendous amounts of time and energy to this effort and I am sure Dartmouth will be well rewarded as a result. At dinner I had a chance to talk to Jim Sullivan who is practicing law and is heavily involved in real estate here in Boston. The Sullivans have four children, ages 16 to 8. Having a 16 year old really sounds old to me with my two of 3 and 5, but Jim and Mel Alperin were reminiscing about the old days back at Wigwam so I guess I was just a late bloomer. I get a chance to talk to Mel quite a bit on the direct line from my office to Carol Cable Co. in Pawtucket, R.I. of which Mel is president. We are sales agents for the company and most of the conversations are to scream for material of which there never seems to be enough.

I also saw Skip Harrington. Skip is now a graduate aeronautical engineer and is working for Raytheon in their Missile Systems Division. Skip and Charlotte and their children live not too far. here in Wellesley. Joe Slotnik, John Parker and Ron Snow took part in the discussions. Ron came in from Concord, N.H. where he is a lawyer.

Class Agent Bob Eleveld has been reelected to a two-year term on the Dartmouth Alumni Council from Region III, the central states. The Alumni Council is the governing body which administers the alumni affairs of the College. Bob is a partner in the Grand Rapids. Mich., firm of Varnum, Riddering, Werengo and Christenson. He is a director of the Grand Rapids Business Opportunities. Inc., and the Planned Parenthood Association of Kent County. If all of that were not enough, he is a city commissioner of East Grand Rapids.

Jim Davidow has been elected assistant vice president in the personal banking department of the First National Bank of Chicago. Prior to joining the bank Jim was president of Lease Car of America, Inc.. a firm he co-founded in 1970.

Larry Hampton has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director of Glendenning International SARL, a marketing services group which has been going great guns in France since the opening of its Paris office in March of 1971. Larry joined the firm in 1968 as a marketing consultant, and was transferred to London in 1970. Early in 1972 he made another move - to Paris to establish a solid consulting business with French clients.

The Class has another academic dean. Joe Livermore has become dean of the University of Arizona College of Law. Joe was previously a professor of Law at the University of Minnesota where he says his students always wanted him to rush into the streets to fight for some cause. Five years ago he co-authored an article for the Pennsylvania Law Review questioning the ease with which society tosses people into mental institutions to protect itself. "The liberty of many mentally ill individuals is worth far more than the avoidance of minor nuisances in society," he wrote."While danger stemming from mental illness may be a proper basis for commitment, it does not follow that all mentally ill are dangerous." He says he is not a crusader for the legal rights of the mentally ill, but that his "only crusade is to understand." He says that he is very interested in the legality of abortion on a philosophical level. Joe takes a firm stand on law education itself. "Naturally, a law school's first mission is to prepare students to practice law. But law schools also ought to be involved in teaching law to students who aren't going to be practicing law. I feel it's an important mission, kind of like high school civics. Law is part of everyone's liberal education." He says that "service to the community, state and nation can be a happy byproduct of a law school's activity although that shouldn't be its main mission." He sees nothing wrong with law students wanting to become involved in legal aid projects for poor people. He does't plan to be tied to tradition in law education. 'A faculty should be encouraged in trying new teaching techniques. We know we have been less than perfect in training lawyers. The public has general perception that lawyers are not as well trained as they ought to be and recent law graduates are saying they have an abundance of book knowledge and a shortage of practical experience, not too much different than I feel in becoming a dean." Joe is a native of Phoenix. He earned his LL.B. from Stanford and was on the acuity of the University of Minnesota since 1965 except for an 18-month stint as prosecutor in Minneapolis court, where he found himself Prosecuting a number of draft evasion cases.

The man bag is now empty, this being the shortest column I have written. Hopefully you will all fill it up again: I will have a report next month on the class executive committee meeting.

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