1951
Our 25th Reunion will include cerebral activities as well as fellowship, food, and fun. There will be a panel on "The 25th Reunion Viewed as a "Rite of Passage' " followed by discussion groups. Hugh Johnston and wife Suzanne have enlisted from the faculty a sociologist, an anthropologist, a psychiatrist, and an anthropologist-psychiatrist to explore a time of life which is for many a psychological menopause.
One aspect of the psychological menopause is divorce. The Class now includes quite a few second time bachelors as well as a few still first time holdouts. While Reunion offers many family activities, Class "bachelors" will find plenty of celibate company.
Indicative of how attitudes have changed, I quote a letter to the editor which appeared in the "Daily D" 25 years ago:
"I can't tell you how shocked I am at the current book display in Nugget Alley. All of the following books are in the same window: 'Natural Childbirth,' 'Child Care,' 'Joy Street,' 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and 'Fun in Bed.' The inclusion of a copy of 'Brides' is only a moral afterthought and does not rectify the situation.
"What effect will this have on the mind of the average Dartmouth student?
"A righteous-minded citizen"
Also on the local scene, Roseland "dance palace" in Claremont burned during the Christmas vacation. There was a Wah-Hoo Wash behind Campion's. The Co-op advertised "Men's Suits Values to $65.00 now $34.50."
New Hampshire State Senator Hart's bills directed at subversion in education were in the legislative hopper. Announcement that a United Nations flag would fly on the green generated controversy. As of January 17, 1951,21 students had left the College to enlist in the armed forces. The Korean War led to the addition of Army ROTC.
Marian Anderson appeared in the College Concert Series. Alumnus author Budd Schulberg and Professor Ramon Guthrie discussed Sinclair ("Red") Lewis. Warren Pfaff starred as the "young radical" in the Players' production of Shaw's Man and Superman. Folk-singer Richard Dyer-Bennet performed in Webster.
Over the holidays, Bill Roberts and "Mo"Monahan played in the North-South Shrine post-season football classic in Miami, while Johnny Clayton and Bob McCraney were in the East-West one in San Francisco. Wes Blake was our star skier.
Then there was Winter Carnival. Pete Krehbiel designed the center-of-campus statue "Alpdoodler." Northeast Airlines put on special flights. Outdoor Evening featured Barbara Ann Scott, women's world figure skating champion. "Buck" Scott was Carnival chairman. Nepotism, Buck?
Turning to present day news, "Mish" Cohen, professor of philosophy at Richmond College and the Graduate School of City University of New York, is a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the current academic year. He has been editor since 1971 of Philosophy and Public Affairs and is co-editor of Film Theory andCriticism.
As a Visiting Scholar, Mish will spend two days each at eight institutions: Kalamazoo and Oberlin Colleges; Washington and Texas Christian Universities; and the Universities of Connecticut, Cincinnati, Florida, and Tennessee. At each he will meet with students and faculty in formal and informal encounters, including classroom discussions, seminars, and one public lecture. His lectures will cover such topics as morality and international conduct, philosophical problems of Shakespearean criticism, and civil disobedience.
For the last two years, John Rheinstein has been a group leader in radar systems analysis at MIT's Lincoln Lab. He previously spent four years as associate site manager of a radar complex operated by the Lab on Roi Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands in the Pacific. "It was a very nice, simple life" in spite of a 50-mile commute each way every day.
John and wife Betty have three children: Bruce, 16; Lilo, 13; and Eric, 8. His extracurricular activities include ham radio, scuba diving, square dancing, and church activities.
Pete Fleming is now chief of surgery and an assistant chief physician of the Permanente Medical Group in South San Francisco. He supervises surgical service in a Kaiser Health Plan 90-bed general hospital and prepaid group practice clinic. He has two children: Stephen, 13; and Sarah, 19.
After completing his surgical residency at Mary Hitchcock in 1962, Pete spent two years as assistant chief of surgery at the White River Junction VA hospital, then a year and a half in the same role at the Brooklyn VA hospital. After a brief fling at private practice in Manhattan, he joined the fulltime staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, before moving to San Francisco in 1970.
Native Minneapolitan Bob McCraney left behind the snow of Minnesota in 1973 for the warmth of his second wife Rose's hometown, Birmingham, Alabama. (Bob's first wife died in 1961.) He is a vice president and director of Sterne, Agee, & Leach, Inc., a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Bob has four children: daughter Robin, 20; Michael, 18; Mary, 9; and George, 5.
After retiring from the Navy in 1956 as a lieutenant jg, Bob joined the NYSE firm of Piper, Jaffrey & Hopwood in Minneapolis, becoming a general partner in 1966 and a senior vice president when the firm incorporated in 1969. He plays a lot of golf, some cards, interviews applicants for admission to Dartmouth, and is a director of a Monday Morning Quarterback Club which raises money for the Crippled Children's Foundation.
Frank Ulrichs is an assistant manager for Binghamton Insurance Claims Service in Norwich, N.Y. He and wife Veronica have a brood of six: Martin, 20; Patricia, 19, Catherine, 18; Barbara, 17, Michael, 14; and Lynne, 12.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF: Nels McElhatten is vice president, finance of IBM Europe.... The Franklin Mint has named "Bing" Broido, formerly vice president in charge of new product development, head of corporate program development with expanded responsibilities.... John Gambling of New York radio station WOR's early morning talk show "Rambling with Gambling" has been named to the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth College Radio, which now encompasses AM station WDCR and new WFRD-Fm.
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