1958

There is still time to make your contribution to the Alumni Fund. We are approaching our goal, but need everyone's help to reach it and hopefully to surpass it. If you haven't given yet, give now and if you have given and can give some more, now is the time. Our fund raisers, Bob Eleveld and Herb Swarzman have done a sensational job and deserve a tremendous amount of credit.

Today was the Charles River Dartmouth Club's annual Harvard-Dartmouth Rugby game and picnic. Reminiscent of many Green Keys but for the proliferation of children, it was a fine afternoon enjoyed by all. 58's ex rugger Andy Thomas presented the cup to the victorious Big Green team. I found myself very popular as I broke open the first of many Coors which I managed to bring back east from a recent convention trip to Dallas. Any of you westerners might bring a case of two east with you on your next trip this way. We're really left out in the cold and would be very appreciative.

Another Boston social event is the annual Harvard Club black tie fight night. Objectively speaking this is a somewhat barbaric albeit very enjoyable evening, enjoying a good steak dinner while watching mostly second rate fighters turn each other into mincemeat. Among the cheering crowd were Dave Murphy, Dick Osgood, and Myles Slosberg.

The March issue of Fortune featured an article about businessmen retiring or moving to Sun Valley, Idaho. Dick Shanaman was pictured skiing down the slopes of Baldy, having moved his base of operations to that location some years ago.

Dick Schad has joined the mortgage department of Brett, Wyckoff, Potter, Hamilton, Inc. in New York. Dick was previously with Helmsley-Spear, Inc.

The Schenectady, N.Y. Gazette reports that the Union College Press has published its third book, a collecton of literary interviews edited by Union associate professor of English Dr. FrankGado, First Person: Conversations on Writersand Writing, a 207-page volume which contains transcripts of talks with novelists Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Penn Warren, John Updike, John Barth and Robert Coover. All are interviews involving Union students and faculty members. Frank's extensive introduction completes the volume. He is also at work on a book about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Frank has been a member of the Union faculty since 1963. He received his doctorate in English from Duke.

I hear from the grapevine that Jim Meeker made the Nixon list of enemies. Quite a distinction.

That empties the mailbag and also wraps up six years as your class secretary. Needless to say, it is time for a change. You have listened to my aimless prattle and put up with my 30 second interviews for too long. Time for a new outlook. Despite the last-minute deadlines and the frequent lack of communication, it has been very enjoyable hearing from you, seeing you, and trying to write about as many of you as I could get information. '58 is a great class made up of great people with a common bond from a great institution and I wish you all well. Happy summer from Jane and me.

Secretary, 43 Cornell Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Class Agent, Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson 666 Old Kent Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49502