1972

For those of us in school, May heralds the windup of the year, and thus, the column will be rather short. Wait a minute. Why should I make excuses for you? You guys didn't send me any info either!

Adonis returns, this time on the West Coast, Lawrie Lieberman, playing rugby for Stanford, has become a Pacific legend. In an interview with a campus newspaper, Lawrie stated that in his estimation, western rugby was superior to its eastern counterpart since there is more emphasis on the scrum. This is certainly a bitter pill for this scribe to swallow.

Pete Heed who is at Cornell Law, wrote a note which related a rather amazing incident. Recitation of a case is one of the most tedious and boring parts of a law student's life, not to mention one of the scariest. As in "Paper Chase," a student is called upon to recite the high points of a case and his interpretation of them in order to prove beyond a reasonable doubt how little he really knows. Well Bill "B-man" Schur was called upon to recite the famous Dartmouth College case in corporations class. B-man was in Arizona, however, watching his beloved Cleveland Indians at their spring training camp, despite the fact that the Indians are considering trading their whole team for the Pawtuckett Red Sox. Anyway, when Bill failed to respond, Peter was called upon, and, instead of giving a standard presentation, Pete recounted the history of Dartmouth until 1815, reconstructed Daniel Webster's emotional argument before the Supreme Court, recounted the decision, and ended up with a rendition of "Men of DArtmouth." A standing ovation followed (the only other possibility would have been a resounding boo) and his prof told him that he'd never heard anything like that in a law classroom before and hoped he'd never hear it again! Pete is now a celebrity, which should buoy him when he fails Corporations. When not on stage, Pete is playing hooker (no rude comments) for Cornell's "A" team.

Vic Stibolt made an attempt to type a note to me. Despite his keyboard ability, he did manage to get the ideas across. Young Vic is a law student at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., where he found to his delight that two of his profs were Dartmouth alums: George Neff Stevens '31 and John W. Weaver '66. Vic and his wife find law school has required major adjustment after a year of living in Norwich and working at the Jug Store. He wanted to inform Joe Davis that the picture of Joe and cronies which was run a couple of months ago was very dated because everyone had glass in hand. Since "The Exorcist" has come into vogue, it would have been much more chic to show those bozos booting their brains out!

Now for a brief commercial message for the Alumni Fund. Last year our class did not evidence a very high percentage of participation, As for me, participation is the true measure of our class' effort. To be sure, the money is important, and indeed necessary to the College, but I figure that there are many people who didn't give because they couldn't give a large sum of money. That shouldn't stop someone from contributing. So, if you feel that you'd like to give, don't stop because you feel that you can only afford a few dollars. This year, a group of anonymous alums have pledged to match any new gift, or increase over last year's gift, dollar for dollar up to a total limit of $250,000. It's a good year to give.

Ghort has managed to save up four dozen cracked eggshells to give to Dartmouth. He became infuriated, however, when the anonymous alums failed to match his gift shell for shell and it has taken several nights of steak bones,chocolate pudding, and apologies before forgiveness (and a sanitary kitchen) became a reality. Aardvark ....

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