1956

Ted Briggs has managed to stir some sentiment in the most recent Wha - Who? Whisper! stating his view on the direction the College is taking with apparent disregard for the traditions of the Hanover plain. Certainly football isn't what it used to be, but Ted's point is a more serious one. Since moving to San Francisco from Boston two years ago, I have a new Perspective on Dartmouth and it's not all distance; after all, Ted Briggs writes from Africa, ahfornia is today, and the people who stay ere are activists. Change is the substance and applying today's solutions to life's new requirements is the way it works out here. In this context, the College looks good. It is a today institution and there have been some clear changes at suggest a shape for tomorrow that is pertinent to the kind of world we will live in; maximum use of resources; full participation of women in society: interdisciplinary problems and solutions.

The Dartmouth Conference in San Francisco on May 17 and 18, 1974, promises to demonstrate this western approach which I am speaking about. There will be a full representation from the College; but it will include the arts, business, law and medicine, among other topics, in short programs given by alumni who have achieved or who are in the process of achieving their fields. There will be information on recruiting, enrollment and fund-raising; but the program will be designed to make it a balanced, informative weekend in "everybody's favorite city." My quick look at our classmates' home addresses shows a large number on the Pacific Coast and we could do well to plan a 1956 regional event during the weekend, too. Perhaps we could run a bus to Napa Valley and see some of this wine growing that everyone is talking about. We might even taste some to attract the adventuresome Easterners of our class for that weekend, which is open to all. Details? Drop me a line.

Bill Carleton reports that our foreign student fund is going slower this year probably because it was hard to spot on the dues notice. Now is the time to fire off a contribution to Professor Willard T. Carleton, Tuck School, Hanover, N.H. 03755.

Dr. Don Dillon added a note to his dues and foreign scholarship return notice saying that he is enjoying private practice in hematology and internal medicine in Rockville, Md. The Dillons count seven children; Nancy, John, Kevin, Sara, Gregory, Douglas, and Mark and are glad to be settling down after Army life. Dick Leaman is now division vice president for new products at Scott. The Leamans live in Media, Pa. Pete Fay is a new Air Force lieutenant colonel living in Honolulu where he is assigned to Pacific Air Forces headquarters.

"While other small boys dreamed of being policemen and firemen when they grew up, there was a youth in Connecticut who hoped someday to be an airplane pilot" so went the copy in the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury. And today Don Sokol drives a De Flaviland Tiger Moth built in the early '40s. Replete with helmet, goggles, and six-foot red scarf, the good doctor claims it's more relaxing than golf to cruise along at 80 m.p.h. in his red and white checkerboard antique aircraft. Don is also an ear, nose, and throat specialist and though the article does not say so, I seem to recall that he is teaching medicine and active in a variety of community activities.

So that does it for the fall and it wouldn't surprise me if we had to skip a column next month.

Secretary, 112 Amber Valley Dr. Orinda, Calif. 94563

Treasurer, 6 Heneage Lane, Hanover, N.H. 03755