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Mark Short '32 was named Class Newsletter Editor of the Year May 5 at the annual Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. Accompanying the honor was the following citation:

Why Mark? For a starter, he lives on Porchuck Road where he watched stumps smolder and rocks erode until his wife, Anise, took the narrow view that this avocation was merely a subterfuge to avoid household chores. Next, he takes time to think, from which fact none should infer that he is a slow thinker.

He is a modest man with much to be immodest about. He can goad some deceptively pointed persiflage, some syncopated prose and some outlandish notions from that group of admirable, couth, fit, lean, loose-hung and many-faceted men who are the class of '32 and produce from these contributions newsletters that reflect life, news, warmth and contain ideas that titillate the intellect, fire the imagination and comfort the soul.

In Short, Mark is here cited for his erudition, gentle sense of humor, touched with ironic wisdom and logic, all of which made possible his graceful and speedy one hundred eighty degree turn with the slow, heavy, disheartening and thoroughly boring imperishable prose he prepared for an international organization to the fast, light, heart-warming and amusing chronicle of the doings and diddings of classmates.

In these days when searching for the truth is the order of the day and night, it must be confessed that the over-riding reason for selecting Mr. Short was the fact that this citation easily could be and was prepared entirely from words, phrases and sentences plagiarized from his newsletters, having shown the plagiarizee the uncommon courtesy of plagiarizing verbatim. Thus, in a sense, he becomes the first Newsletter Editor of the Year to write his own citation.

It is an honor to name you Class Newsletter Editor of the Year 1973.