1963
Dave Rosenbaum got a "refund" this year from the Internal Revenue Service. I reported last month that Dave and three other prominent Washington journalists had been drawn into federal investigations of news leaks by government employes. In Dave's case, it was the Internal Revenue Service which had subpoenaed the local telephone company to surrender his home toll call records. The IRS apparently was interested in knowing whether Rosey had been in touch with one or more of their officials who might have been divulging tax information without authorization. Dave speculated at the time that the IRS may have sought his phone records because he was then exploring a report of pending tax charges against a major contributor to President Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. The "refund" mentioned above refers to the IRS action in March returning the records to the telephone company, without however conceding that it had acted improperly in obtaining them in the first place. Many in the media would contend that the IRS subpoena infringed First Amendment protections of a free press and that its effect, if not its motivation, was to intimidate government workers generally from providing reporters with information. My own sources indicate that, indeed, Dave believes some of his traditional informants in the federal establishment are now less willing to assist him.
The crystal ball predicts that Lee Erdman will soon be taking, if he hasn't already done so, a long trip. A release from Marine Midland announced that he has been promoted to vice president and has become their Sydney, Australia, representative. Lee, who took his MBA at Columbia, was an assistant vice president in the Mid-South and Southwest district of the national division of Marine Midland Grace Company.
The half million residents of Providence, R.I., will be hearing from Stephen Lewinstein as chairman of that city's Cancer Crusade for funds for the American Cancer Society. Vice president of the UST Corporation, Bostonbased bank holding company, Stephen is responsible for its acquisition program and serves as president of two of its subsidiaries. He has also found time to write two books for adolescents.
The financial plight of the College this year is well known, I'm sure. In that light, I found BobFinney's recent remarks in The Dartmouth enlightening. Bob is Director of Foundation Relations in the Office of Development. He says the College is giving special attention to the oil companies which, in view of their profits and the hurt that high fuel prices have done to college operating budgets, have incentive to lend even greater assistance to higher education than they have in the past.
"It's rather remarkable," Bob said, "that we're in the top 20 schools receiving funds from foundations when you consider the university systems of Michigan and California and notice that we're not located in a metropolitan center." (Yes, Bob, we'd noticed the latter.) "Most corporations are in New York and tend to support local institutions or urban universities with large graduate schools that will conduct research for them."
Bob says the College is in a more secure position generally than other Ivy schools because it has traditionally relied less on federal grants. These, too, have been dropping off and complicating any university's financial picture. At Dartmouth, however, it is the alumni who provide the year-to-year stability in the fiscal base. This year, Bob says, we are being asked to make that extra effort necessary to tide the College through a troubled transitional period in the economy.
It should be of interest, therefore, that the College has received an anonymous "challenge gift" of $250,000 which will match dollar-for-dollar every increased contribution from those who gave $100 or less in 1973. Thus, if we give somewhat more than we had initially planned, our effort will be doubly rewarding to the College. Go to it.
Incidentally, Al Davies, who is masterminding the class fund drive from his New York headquarters, wrote recently, more or less as a favor to me, providing grist for this column. As I've encouraged others to do, if you are doing something of unique or special note, why not share it with the Class? Although Al's work may not be unique, it does sound interesting: real estate management in Manhattan. As secretary-treasurer of the family-owned enterprise, Al watches over brokerage, management, appraisal, consultation, and ownership of properties. (Al, are you still using beads and trinkets?) Al also teaches real estate, much of it for national Institute of Real Estate Management. He also is regional vice president for New York and New Jersey for Advanced Management Research. Travel stats: 100,000 miles annually.
"In order not to let the grass grow between my feet," Al adds, "I have become a full member of the Third Alarm Association. This is a division of Red Cross Disaster Services which responds to all multi-alarm fires in New York City. Our major responsibilities include the care and relocation of people who are burned out of their homes or apartments. I sometimes find the telephone ringing to call me to a fire disruptive to my bachelor life, but occasionally one has to trade one kind of excitement for another kind of excitement."
Strictly news:
Greg Prince, our adopted class member and assistant dean of the faculty, has been helping to plan an intensive weeklong program on mainland China, scheduled at the College in mid-May . . . Dr. Chuck Racine is a visiting assistant professor of botany at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He has been at Ohio State University in recent years . . . George Parker, presently chief of radiology at the Groton (Conn.) submarine base, will leave the service soon to join Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. Scott David, their third, arrived last November.
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