1934

As Senators Muskie and McGovern may be thinking these days, it's a long road that has no turning. All things come, in time, to them as waits - and, as a long-time waiter, I'm pleased to report that the U.S. Postal Service recently delivered some honest-to-goodness news items to me, rather than to BUI Scherman. This stellar example of governmental efficiency, which leaves me all atremble with relief, would seem to make it perfectly clear that, bit by bit, the bugs are being removed from the nationwide communications network.

And now the news, led off by Russ Smart of Kingston, R.I., man enough to open his April 15 letter this way: "It must be about 12 years since I checked in with the Class Secretary, about the time I received my first Fulbright to India." Some five years later, the distaff side of the family (which earlier had produced daughters Susan, Ellen, and Laura) got cracking in the fellowship department, too, for Russ goes on to say that

In 1966-67 Mollie and I both had Fulbrights to India, I to teach at the Lady Irwin College in New Delhi and she to do research on adolescents. She used her research for her dissertation for a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. During 1967-68, the second year of her required residence, we were co-directors of the University of Wisconsin College-Year-in-India Program.

In 1971 Mollie and I were both awarded research Fulbrights to Massey University in New Zealand. On our way home in the Spring of 1972 we had a two-weeks' Fulbright to teach and gather data in Melbourne, taught for a week at the University of Hong Kong, and collected more data for a cross-regional study of children's drawings.

In 1967 Macmillan published a textbook by Mollie and me, "Children: Development and Relationships." A second edition came out in 1972, along with a book, "Readings in Child Development and Relationships." In 1973 Macmillan rearranged the material in those two books to make four shorter ones, "Infants," "Preschool Children," "School-age Children" and "Adolescents."

At my request I was relieved of the duties of chairman of the department of Child Development and Family Relations [at the University of Wisconsin?] just before we went to New Zealand. In 1972 Mollie was finally elevated to the rank of Professor. So now we are both Professors.

Awed by that much academic distinction, your Secretary reports with considerable diffidence his own promotion to Director of Public Health Education at Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, and turns happily to hail his one-time co-worker on the Jack-o' Lantern, Robert G.("Bob") Newman. For why? Because Bob, Librarian of the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Mass., has just emerged victorious from a 27-year quest for an impossible dream. The Pittsfield City Council voted May 9 to replace the Athenaeum, built in 1876, with a new $2.5-million city-owned Library containing twice as much space, with shelving for twice as many books (282,000 volumes v. 135,000),

In reporting the story, the May 10 BerkshireEagle said, "Librarian Robert G. Newman, who has been a driving force in the effort to get a new library, said every mayor since 1946 had been approached for funds. But Mayor Donald Butler was the first to go to the Council for the money." In his cover note, Bob wrote, "I've been working on this for the past 27 years. Finally ... we made it!"

Another '34 who thankfully has also made it, health-wise, is Ernie Barcella, General Motors' Washington-based public-relations topper. And Ernie, fully recovered from cardiac illness, is doing something to help his fellow-publicists and newsmen stay healthy. How? Bob Brown's Editor& Publisher told all on March 3:

HAVE A HEART DAY - The National Press Club held its first "Heart Day" at the instigation of one of its former governors, Ernest L. Barcella. The Washington Heart Association and the Heart and Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health supplied medical personnel for tests on 235 members. Bill Gold, in his Washington Post column, reports results showed cholesterol level dangerously high in 43 members; 29 EKGs revealed cause for concern; and 50 cases of dangerously elevated blood pressure were noted, 36 in men who had no inkling of such a condition. One man advised to see his physician at once did so and was hospitalized. Barcella, a former UPI man, hopes not only that the club will establish an annual Heart Day but that other groups will plan similar check-ups.

So Ernie keeps on going, and doing good. Ditto for Herb Heston, who advised on March 23 that - while continuing to reside in Northampton, Mass., where he served long and successfully as Director of Development for Smith College - he's now lending Deerfield Academy a hand, as its Associate Director of Development.

And this onward-and-upward note from DaveHill, recently removed to Santa Barbara, Cal. Dave reminds us that the January Notes reported his being "thrown out as president of a small company that was developing anti-smog devices," his suit for breach of contract, and his efforts to start a consulting business. That business, Dave writes, has now (April 28)

evolved into a pretty much full-time contract with the Santa Barbara Research Center, a sharp outfit that develops instruments for satellites that probe earth environment and explore Jupiter and Mars. Hence the move to Santa Barbara, a happy change after Smogsville. Our new domicile looks down on the harbor, a vast sweep of coastline and the Channel Islands.

The temperamental inventor whose company I Was trying to run has been making overtures regarding a settlement of my suit. Just possibly this may be influenced by the fact that the anti-smog device the company developed is turning out to be the most effective among the contending designs, royalties are beginning to roll in and the parties involved would like to get rid of the embarrassment of my suit in preparation for going public.

So you can see that from this quarter, 1973 does not look unpromising. I hope the same is true for other 34's and for Dartmouth. The changes I read of, which seem to have been unsettling to some alumni, seem to me to be in the right direction - and move this non-graduate to continue his support of the Alumni Fund.

Which should serve as some sort of reminder to the rest of us (Mabel, get off a check to Jake today!) that the College needs our help this year, Mabel, more generously than ever before.

Dick Campen, whose 1971 book, The Architecture of the Western Reserve, 1800-1900, was enthusiastically received, has now produced another volume, Ohio —An Architectural Portrait. He has not only written this overview of 175 years of Ohio architecture from territorial days to the present, but has been personally responsible for many of the 550 illustrations which pepper the book. Dick has been the director of West Summit Press, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, which is the publisher, but recently announced his retirement from the publishing business. He offers classmates and other alumni the pre-publication price of $13.50 up until June 1 (adv.). Dick is active in the Society of Architectural historians and serves on the Planning and Zoning Commission of Chagrin Falls.

Secretary, 340 East 51st St.(14-A) New York, N.Y. 10022

Class Agent, 369 Graydon Terrace Ridgewood, N.J. 07450