1934

Cold are the winds of March, and thin the news from the world-wandering men of 1934. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the few facts are these:

Bob Korns M.D. up Glenmont, N.Y., way wrote us, sometime last year, a most informative report that we've been unable to run until now. We think, but aren't completely sure, that it's accurate (except that son Steve is prolly now a junior at Chicago). Here now Bob's news:

"Our five children [his and Esther's] have all grown to 'maturity' and are on their own in various parts of the world, except for our youngest Steve who was our 'caboose,' coming eight years after the fourth child. He is still with us, somewhat remotely, as a sophomore at the University of Chicago. I've been active in medical research throughout my career (Bob served as deputy to Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1954-55 Poliomyelitis Field Trial, and is now with the New York State Department of Health at Albany), and am currently trying to make some sense out of the fascinating story of the increase in colon cancer in the Western World, which may shortly exceed the front-runner, lung cancer, as the most lethal (total number of deaths per year) site of malignancy."

Alan Hewitt is the source of our second and final item. Seems that Alan, an incessant and omnivorous reader since his Tower Room days, has never since found a chair to compare with the loungers that graced Baker Library's top floor. Always a man of direct action, he wrote the Librarian of the College for the name of the chair's manufacturer in the hope of purchasing a duplicate. Dissolve, as they used to say in Hollywood, to much correspondence and much passage of time. Upshot: chair unavailable - except from Baker Library. Recently delivered to Hewitt, long-time member of Friends of Baker Library and benefactor of its collection of theatre materials, as a gift: one reupholstered and only slightly scarred Tower Room chair.

Concluding note: it's Alumni Fund time again, nigh onto 39 years come June 18 since the College accepted us into the society of educated men. Dartmouth, many believe, is better equipped to produce such men (and women) today than ever before. To keep it going and growing, make your gift this year as promptly and generously as you can. And send some news this way while you're at it, please (with sugar on it).

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