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If success is sweet, Russ Neisloss must feel like it's June in January and he's sitting in the middle of a spring garden. After less than four years as treasurer of the University of Hartford, Russ has been appointed a senior vice president by the board of regents. Prior to entering educational administration in 1973, he had been for 25 years associated with the Hartford department store, G. Fox & Company, rising from internal auditor to vice president and treasurer by 1968.

Among the '4O sons and daughters carrying on the Dartmouth tradition — a bit belatedly — is David DeSieyes, younger son of the late Diz whose smiling presence was so sorely missed at the fall football mini-reunion — an event he rarely missed while he lived. David, who holds his baccalaureate from Lake Forest College, is doing a post-graduate year at the Thayer School preparatory to starting on his graduate degree program in engineering there. Now, between long study hours, David, whose infectious laugh recalls his Dad's, and his lovely wife, Porter, a fashion writer, are restoring an old farmhouse in Etna near Moose Mountain.

Visitors to Hanover over the holidays included Jim and Faith Kuhns, who had come east all the way from Palos Verdes, Calif., to visit their daughter Kristin Hubbard in her vacation home in Arlington, Vt. They found time during a Hanover shopping spree to lunch with Jim's senior-year roommate and regaled Bob and Crosby MacMillan with the occupational hazards of a businessman in Rumania and Hungary.

Jim was over there representing the foundry division of Garrett Corporation, manufacturer of airplane parts among other things, a sales line that apparently subjected them to special attentions which were hilarious — in retrospect. The Kuhns made that trip with another daughter, Kathy, and her husband Dan Dimancescu '64, who in the best roving tradition of Dartmouth had been among the group of undergraduates who made the Ledyard Canoe Club trip down the Danube to the Black Sea, visiting on their voyage both Hungary and Romania as well as Austria and Bulgaria.

Although Jim and Faith and family personify the Dartmouth spirit of roaming "round the girdled earth," celebrated in song, our generation of world travelers can't hold a candle to the current crop of Dartmouth undergraduates, for whom, in a sense, the world is truly their oyster. As the winter term started, conversations overheard on campus among reuning student friends underlined that, far from the isolated experience it was in our time, the Dartmouth education today is thoroughly cosmopolitan and international.

Last term Dartmouth students studied foreign languages in Blois and Bourges, France; Mainz, Germany; Siena, Italy; and St. Louis Potosi, Mexico. Others were taking foreign studies in London (English and Religion), Toulouse, Italy (classics); Florence, Edinburgh (Philosophy); Bucharest, Salamanca in Spain, Lund in Sweden (environmental studies and geography); and Central America (earth sciences). And this term, other students are away on language study abroad in Quebec City (for the first time), Blois and Bourges and Mainz again, and Granada, Spain. Still more have extended the Dartmouth campus to Vienna (music in the city of music), Costa Rica and Panama (biological sciences), Mexico City (anthropology, geography and sociology, along with Spanish literature), Trinidad (Caribbean folk drama), and also London and Toulouse. In the spring, new waves of Green will go to Blois, Bourges, Granada, Toulouse, and Mainz, while another group will study another phase of the classics in Greece. Even in summer, Dartmouth students will be girdling the earth, going to Leningrad for Russian studies and Blois and Bourges for more French language study.

It's a worldly educational fare that makes one wish one could turn back the clock a good 40 years!

Yet the more things change, the more they remain the same in so many ways. When the Winter Carnival Council had to decide the theme for the 1977 carnival this February, the choice from 70 entries was "The Spirit of Wintergreen," because, according to cochairman Peter H'Doubler, a senior from Springfield, Mo., "it seemed to us evocative of what is traditional in Dartmouth winter. If you look at the carnival themes from 30 and 40 years ago," he said with nostalgia, "they were simple: winter and winter sports. That's what we want to convey, too!"

To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, Dartmouth is Dartmouth is Dartmouth, through the decades.

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