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We have a thought provoker to get this month's column under way. Pete Salom, in response to an area Alumni Council member's letter, unburdened his thoughts on the admissions dilemma that confronts the College. He says, "I wanted to see Dartmouth remain a college for men.... It is a sad thing and restriction of a freedom to choose, when there is in fact no choice. Since President Kemeny's arrival the college has become a pseudo-psychologists/ sociologists dream. The college was pressured from within which succeeded in perverting what most of the Alumni believed in - a small but excellent college for men. We are not a state-supported institution, so what is the problem? We simply decided to be "with it." ... The college is no longer isolated in terms of geography.... Transportation is no longer a problem. If we chose to have an all-male student body, that is a valid and unrestricted choice for a private institution. I cannot see the benefit of a mixed population when access to one or the other is readily available outside of 'working hours.' College work is difficult and requires intellectual discipline and dedication. This is what is lacking today. Fun-time can come on the weekends and access is easy. Why divert and subvert this discipline which our country needs?"

While you're thinking over Pete's remarks, we will report from the West Coast that Harvey Yorke recently celebrated a tenth anniversary of Air Force retirement (Lt. Col.) by "retiring" again from the employ of the State of California. Appointed to Governor Reagan's staff as that state's first chief of information services, his term ran through one year of Jerry Brown's administration. In March, Harvey ran and won a tight race for the Novato City Council. He has also set up as a public-relations consultant based in self-same Novato (25 miles north of San Francisco), signed a contract for consultant work with the state auditor general, and will also manage some public-relations seminars for American Management Associations on the west coast. Meanwhile, Harvey is half-way through a master's in public administration through the Cal. State Univ. off-campus program. He has worked for two former bosses, Reagan and Hayakawa, on this summer's political campaigns trail, and this September was scheduled to visit his daughter in Japan. Now that's what we would have to call the most active retirement we've heard of in some time.

Closer to home we have a report that Bob Kaiser participated in a program of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education at a Washington, D.C., confab this past July. Bob has also been elected to a five-year term on the executive council of Psi Upsilon at their 132nd convention. He had been the principal speaker at the previous year's closing banquet.

Seen aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal in New York Harbor on July 4 were Bob and Louise Howe. They viewed the Tall Ship fleet from this privileged vantage point. Our spy tells us Bob was wearing a peaked naval cap and appeared ready to take over if necessary. We were told it was not.

From Whit Cushing we learn of his discontent with the changing face of Palm Beach outside the windows of his studio. Developers tearing down the old, for replacement with the new. He advises that he has purchased some land on the Yankee side of the Mexican border in a town called Columbus where he plans to set up shop for a bit of desert painting. He reports painting in the American Virgin Isles recently, and had plans for going back to the womb this past summer at a session of the Alumni College in Hanover. Whit's paintings were represented in Mike Ellis' "One of a Kind" gallery in Delray, which Whit calls "easily the most unique gallery in southeast Florida."

Sam Dix tied in a family bicentennial trip to Boston this past spring with a swing through New Hampshire - this all the way from his home in Grand Rapids, Mich.

We have just received an up-to-date address list of the entire class. For this reason we don't rightly know who has moved this summer - only where they now reside. But should any of you guys want an address, I'm your boy. By the time you read this our fall reunion will have become history, but we'll give those who couldn't attend a follow-up report in our next. In the meantime, have a jolly turkey come Thanksgiving.

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