1951
That eminent Dartmouth alumnus whose imaginative books have brightened the lives of millions of children - Dr. Seuss - once created one about "The Grinch [or some similar mythical beast] Who Stole Christmas." Right here and now 1 wish to plead "not guilty" to having stolen Christmas from my December column.
Somehow or other, writing that column in early November, it completely slipped my mind that it would not be appearing until December. I was even laboring under the delusion that my discussion about admission of alumni progeny would appear in the same issue as the listing of the names of those among this academic year's freshman. (The Alumni Mag's extremely alert Class Notes Editor, Joan Hier, fortunately changed the reference )
Therefore, both to make amends for my mission last month and to cover myself in case I suffer from mental slippage again next November take this opportunity not only to wish all members of the Dartmouth '51 family a belated Very Merry Christmas 1973 same for the same Prosperous 1974 but also the respectively.
While "not guiltY" to the theft of christmas, I charge the author of the Alumni Album in the November issue, undoubtedly in conspiracy with the Class of 1950, of having Stolen one of our classmates. The article concerned five European World War II D.P.'s who were contemporaties of ours at Dartmouth, how they came to Hanover, and their careers since.
The article acknowledges that VladimirShishkoff belongs to us but labels classmate Igor Mead (Né Medvedev) as a '50. (I am certain that, among our many lawyers, we can find at least one libel expert willing to clear Igor's name.) I can also update the Alumni Album by reporting that our recently California Bay Area- based artist and art gallery entrepreneur Igor moved to Italy this fall.
The rest of my news relates to lawyers. BobFullerton has changed judgeship jobs in Denver almost as often as IBM moves its management types around. Bob, whose law degree is from the University of Denver, began his judicial career in November 1958 as a Denver Municipal Court Judge. He was promoted to the Denver District Court in February 1963, only to suffer the same fate of many other Republicans in the November 1964 Johnson landslide.
After a short stint as a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, Bob was named a Federal Bankruptcy Referee. (The title was recently improved, but I've forgotten what it is now.) In November, Bob went back on the bench as a Denver District Court judge.
At this point, I am beginning to think that this is a boomerang column on people coming back to some place they were before. My concluding news on Jack Gray confirms the suspicion. A number of years back, Jack was associated with the New York law firm of Lord, Day & Lord, the name of which always seemed to me to sound more clerical than legal.
In any event, Jack left them to become Director of Tax Planning for the Cabot Corp., a chemical company, in Boston, for six years. In January 1972, he returned to Gotham to join the New York law firm of Alexander & Green, where he is now a tax partner. He, wife Winnie, and their three children - Teddy, 7; John, 4; and Alexandra; 3, reside in New Canaan, Conn.
I'd like to close this month's column on what may seem to some to be a somewhat somber note in the way of a New Year's Resolution for classmates who return to Hanover. The resolution is to visit faculty friends when back in Hanover.
Two of mine have passed away in the past year, Francis Childs and Ramon Guthrie. Francis was vigorous to the end and always visible on the Hanover scene. Ramon was in poor health and frequently confined to his Norwich home. Two falls ago I dropped in to visit Ramon at his home, and he could not have been more delighted to see me.
I kick myself because I haven't been back since - and he is no longer there. These men gave of themselves to stretch our minds when we were growing up. May we resolve to make the time to go back to them in their retirement to say "thank you."
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