1929

I hope you all had as pleasant a school reunion as Duke Barto did. He attended the reunion of Central High" School in Washington, D.C., and reported that Percy Russell, who was class president, was the finalist for the Vitalis Award (having the most hair). Ted Arliss, class valedictorian, and Jack Thompson made up the rest of the Dartmouth delegation. Our freshman year the four of them ranked second or third scholastically for all schools with three or more members in our class.

I also attended my 50th at Central High School - but out in Evansville, Ind. Our superintendent of schools in those days was Louis P. Benezet '99, who over the years influenced a number of students to choose Dartmouth.

John Dickey marked a dual anniversary when he gave the graduation address at Lock Haven High School in Pennsylvania, since it was the 100th anniversary of the school and his 50th reunion year. He continues active in Canadianseminar on "The United States and Canada: Partnership in Transition" at the Deveaux School, Niagara Falls, N.Y. At the time, John was a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was recently named a trustee of New College, Sarasota, Fla., a liberal arts college which is now a part of the University of South Florida.

My next-door neighbor, Howard Kramer, who retired from the National Science Foundation, has been an invalid for many months following an operation for a brain tumor; his wife Betty is devoting herself to his care. They have two fine children whom I watched grow up in this neighborhood. Mary married an Israeli, took his religion, and lives on a kibbutz. For several summers John was a professional raftsman taking parties down the Grand Canyon and other western waters. He is now at Penn State working towards a Ph.D. in geology.

(Note: Howard died on September 8, a few days after these lines were written.)

Leonard Doob, professor of psychology at Yale, recently had an article published in TheJournal of Social Psychology entitled "A Cyprus Workshop: An Experience in Intervention Methodology." This was a scholarly report on the frustrations of trying to arrange a workshop in Italy for Greek and Turkish Cypriots. As reported in The Green Sheet, Leonard's plans had to be canceled because of the outbreak of hostilities on Cyprus. Another arena of conflict that has attracted his attention is Northern Ireland; he contributed a book review on this subject to the spring issue of TheKey Reporter.

Bob Ramage, in a recent letter from Hopewell Junction, N.Y., described his plans for a solar house, the result of untold numbers of blueprints and visits to solar houses in three states. His house will have "some 1550 square feet, set on a hill with an 800 square-foot roof at a 60 degree angle aiming southward. This roof is the collector, and the plan is to send air through 24 rooftop panels, then force the heated air down to a heat storage room filled with lemon-sized rocks

... When the sun shines the house uses the air right off the collector. When it's not shining the house draws on the reservoir of heat stored in the rocks. When that heat is exhausted a supplementary furnace takes over ... It's great fun and Statia and I feel we are making a contribution to the art, and to the problem of fuel conservation. The mistakes we make should at least help others avoid them." Bob, Congratulations on your willingness to experiment.

Misinformation supplied to Alumni Records Office resulted in the listing of John Brabb's name in the September death list. We are happy herewith to correct the error.

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