1912

Correspondence from '12ers seems to be at an all-time low. We do have a newsy letter from Marc Wright, secretary of the Class of 1913, in reply to a newspaper clipping sent him covering the death of Babe Smith '13. If you think real hard you may remember Marc doing his thing down on the athletic field with a big pole and a high bar. The records of 12 and 12½ feet in those days seem a bit amateurish when compared with those of today.

Our regular correspondent, Ernest Osgood, had plans for a trip by air this spring to Boston for the meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Two of the 20 Ph.D.'s which he turned loose at the University of Minnesota will be on the program. With his wife Helen he was attending the Wayne County Jackson Day dinner and looking forward to voting "early and often" in November. It cannot possibly be for a Republican.

Harry Barnett's widow sent her deep appreciation for the memorial book in Harry's memory and for the kind expression of sympathy from the Class.

Gabrielle Forbush informs us that she is a member of the U.S. Committee for the Cornaro Tercentenary. It seems that Elena Cornaro was the first woman to graduate at the University of Padua with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1678. After 300 years she is remembered with a great stained glass window in Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College, Gabrielle's alma mater. Gabrielle is also on the Vassar committee for the Cornaro celebration in 1978. The University of Pittsburgh also honors Elena Cornaro with a mural.

The Dean of the Tucker Foundation sends us a lengthy Stewardship Report from which we quote the following paragraphs: "We cannot permit our attention to shift away from the outside world - that would be perilous - but we can devote more of our energies to the kinds of concerns which brought the Foundation in the first place.

"One step we have taken is to revive Chapel as an attempt once again to provide a logical place from which to speak to moral and spiritual issues. Hopefully also it will provide a focus for the community; one point at which people can perceive the College as a whole.

"This of course is only a beginning. There will be other programs, replacing or refining present ones. There will be other issues and structures to arise in our continuing attempt to be faithful to our charter.Some will succeed, some will fail, but we will continue to try to raise these concerns which we believe are integral to a liberal arts education."

We all must not overlook Sam Hobbs' good letter sent out in March to remind us that the 1975 Alumni Fund Campaign is on and the College expects each to do his (or her) best.

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