1938

A picture of Jack Graham, looking sober like appeared in a Boston newspaper a couple of months ago. Jack is president and director of the Norfolk County Trust Com- pany, and the news item accompanying his picture reported that he had been named to the additional post of chief executive officer of that financial institution. Renewed congratulations, Jack!

Bob Eckel is another of our classmates who s achieved distinction in his profession. A news release from the Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, conveys the information that he has been appointed chairman of the Committee on Medical Education there. Bob entered medical school at the University of Buffalo in the fall of 1938, transferring after one year to Harvard Medical School, where he was awarded his M.D. in 1942. Internships in Surgery at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and in Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland were followed by three years of service in the USNR in the Pacific. Bob was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at Western Reserve University in 1953. His special interest has been in the care of patients with kidney disease. Since 1968 he has been director of the Hemodialysis unit at University Hospitals, and he is a member of the kidney transplant team.

Bob has published extensively in his field of research interest in the mechanism of ion transport and influence of ions on metabolism and on metabolism in uremia. He is a member of several professional societies.

A release from the University of Bridgeport announces that as of next September Dr. AlWolff will resign as dean of student personnel to take up full time teaching in the university's College of Education. Al has been at the university for 29 years, the last 20 as chief student officer, a period which saw enrollment doubled to more than 8,000 graduate and undergraduate students. He was one of the few administrators to be honored by students in the turbulent year of 1968 when the graduating class bestowed on him a "bachelor of arts and sciences degree in friendship and sincerity."

Bud Walls, last occupied this space in November 1973 when he was made vice president, agency administration, for Connecticut Mutual Life. He has now been named vice president in charge of CML's new marketing administration division in Hartford. Bud joined the company after graduation, served in posts in Chicago and Los Angeles and joined the home office in 1951. He received a chartered life underwriter's designation in 1954.

The Washington Star News recently carried a by-line feature on the Dartmouth Institute, which is Gil Tanis' special province as the College's Director of Continuing Education.

Christmas-card time wasn't long ago as this is written. My thanks to those of you who sent cards, as I didn't this year.

I deeply regret having to pass on word of the death of Don Wilson some time ago. Don's obituary will appear in a later issue of the Alumni Magazine.

As those of you who read the Big Green Sports Bulletins know, a hockey tournament was held just before New Year's at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., which is only half as far from here as Hanover is. Since they were home for Christmas, two enterprising Briggs sons, Dartmouth '73 and '74, collected several classmates and friends and had quite a mini-reunion there and thereafter. They reported that there were a number of other alumni at the games, though no one clearly identifiable as '38.

Last May Carl Von Pechmann and GusSouthworth received a letter from Ginny Bonnyman, and I now have a copy of it. Even this long after Amazing 38's Great 35th, a quote from Ginny's letter may be of interest. (Following Jim's untimely death, Ginny was 38's widows' reunion chairman, and, although she has since remarried, her letter indicates much affection for Dartmouth and for her Dartmouth '38 ties.) She writes in part, "Really, there is nothing like Dartmouth! It has the most tightly knit, loyal group of alumni I've ever seen. In the past ten years of travel around this old globe I've never seen anything like the way they turn out in the farthest, most remote spots to welcome one of the brothers."

Thank you, Ginny, for those kind words. Certainly our class has, I think, evidenced much solidarity and much loyalty in the past year - with our outstanding support of the Alumni Func ... and our June reunion ... and our Princeton game weekend gatherings.

Let's preserve and maintain these friendships and this unity. You'll presumably be reading these words shortly after Carnival 1975 becomes history. How about thinking back 37-40 years and dropping me a line, or lots of lines, on the theme "Carnival recollections, going-on 40 years later." Memories can be convenient, and reminiscenses and reminiscing are compensations for getting old . . . or older. All colorful recollections will be dealt with tactfully in future issues of these notes.

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