1961

This month we start with two letters from members of the Class living abroad. DickWright's letter is from Shizuoka-ken, Japan. "Quite a bit has been happening to me lately, and I'm happy to pass on some news for what it's worth.

"The main event is that I have been appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Studies and Training, in Japan. My wife Ginny and I arrived in Japan in September after a magnificent summer of travel through Europe and Asia, highlighted by our participation in a monthlong climbing and exploring expedition in the Hindu Kush range of the Afghanistan Himalayas. My main assignment here is presenting lectures and seminars on International Financial Management. The Institute is an interesting place. It was created four years ago jointly by the Japanese government and a consortium of large Japanese firms for intensive international training of selected junior executives. The trainees average 30 years of age, and all have several years of experience with their sponsoring firms. They will be among the future leaders of Japanese business. Working with them is a challenging and fascinating experience. The campus is in a corneous wooded setting on the lower slopes of Mt. Fuji, yet less than two hours' drive from Tokyo. All in all, we're having a great year!

"After September 1973, I'll be back at my regular position on the Faculty of Management at McGill University. If anyone is coming through Japan or Montreal soon, look us up!"

And, from Galerie "18" — 18 rue de Miromesnil — 75008 Paris, Tony Field writes: "I've been secretary of the Dartmouth Club of France since five years, and president since two years, and I believe that I've met my first '61 last Friday at one of our informal gatherings for a dinner at our treasurer's house.

"Steve and Sandra Bosworth have been in Paris for nearly two years: Steve is working (or so he pretends) at the U.S. Embassy screwing up the European Agricultural System, as I understand it. He also assures me that the Alumni Office keeps sending his mail to his former address in Madrid, including interviews he is supposed to make of prospective Dartmouth applicants. Our Club secretary has finally caught up with him through a mutual friend ... now that he's about to move on in a few months.

"I've also been interviewing Dartmouth applicants, and must admit it's much more fun since we've gone coed - officially, that is!

"Otherwise still have the Art Gallery, one wife, one kid (or should I say brat?). Will be resigning from the presidency of the Club on May 12, the day after we climax the Club's existence with a dinner in honor of President Kemeny who will be visiting Paris and The Dartmouth French Language Center in Bourges before he goes on to London."

Closer to Hanover, the New York Times recently wrote up Investor Responsibility Research Center, Inc. This is a group which does research "on social issues involving corporations, that would enable institutional shareholders to make more informed judgements as to the merits of their positions" in other corporations. Elliott Weiss and others head this venture, funded initially by the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation.

Another lawyer, Frank Greenberg, has become a member of the New York firm, Rabin V. Silverman Attorneys at Law.

John Damon recently organized an Alumni" Seminar for the Boston Alumni group. "Metropolitan Boston Space and Time" explored the ways in.which Metropolitan Boston - the broad residential area for which the city has served as the economic hub - has developed in the past and may develop in the future. Congratulations to him for a stimulating and informative day.

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