1952

Well, I guess I might as well clear up a few things right at the start this month. Jack Collins wants everyone to know that he is not now, nor ever was he, proprietor of an eatery. From his Orinda, Calif., home he writes, "... I work at Clorox where I am group vice president, and I do not have anything to do with a restaurant except when Janet and I eat out."

Gosh. You know I get such little information sometimes that I have to rely on the foggiest rumors. Now I suppose I'll hear from Jack Barclay telling me he has no intention of starting a Museum of Flight; Blackie Smith will probably inform me he's never heard of the Chattanooga-Atlanta Railroad; and Ace Lynch will deny ever even considering the race for coroner of Allegheny County. Ah, the tribulations of the humble scribe. Jack did have to admit, though, that if he did have a restaurant it would have the whitest white tablecloths in the Bay Area.

You know the old adage, if you want something done get a busy guy to do it? A few months back I reported that Jack North had been elected a director of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Well, the Bean-towners decided John didn't have enough to do so they've now elected him to the corporation of Boston's Museum of Science. Now let's see what else we can get for him to do.

In Washington, the Washington Post Company has named classmate Robert Schuldt vice president for human resources. Bob will develop programs to assess and evaluate management performance, compensation, and incentives plus a wide range of duties. He came to the Post from Mead Corporation where he was vice president for management development, and before that he was a personnel executive at General Electric for 20 years. Good luck on the Potomac, Bob.

Among alumni representing Dartmouth at college presidential inaugurations around the country was '52s Bill Biddle. Bill, who lives in Plymouth, N.H., represented the College at the inauguration of Dr. Kasper C. Marking as president of Plymouth State College on October 1. Bill is associated with the Holderness School in Plymouth.

This past summer if you'd been in Hanover you could have seen, once more, William Saroyan's marvelous play The Time of YourLife. It was the final production in the Dartmouth Players Repertory Company summer season and was directed by '52s DugaldMac Arthur.

While Dugald had developed a love of theater from Warner Bentley, it took him several years after graduation to get back to it. First it was an M.B.A. at Harvard, then a term in the Army, and then several years in business. But some years ago he went back to the stage in Texas, and from there to Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, then to chairman of the largest drama department in the country at San Francisco State College, to the California Institute of the Arts, and finally now he runs the professional training program at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has directed productions at some of the country's most eminent professional theaters and repertory companies; among them, the Guthrie Theater, the Arena Stage, and Harvard's Loeb Theater. I wish I'd been in Hanover to see this production of one of my favorite plays, don't you?

Somebody who is in Hanover all the time now is Paul Sanderson. Sandy moved up to the valley last summer and bought the Old Stone End Farm in Wilder-cross-the-river. I can't remember the name of his organization, but he's in charge of coordinating study for foreign students at U.S. private schools. So you can look forward to seeing Sandy and Gayle whenever you're in Hanover.

And by the time this appears I hope to have seen many of you up there.

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