1957

The Northeast has continued to be inundated with snow, and newscasters seemed to take great delight in describing the enormity of the problem by announcing the fact that Dartmouth College had, for the first time in its history cancelled classes because of snow.

The white stuff has obviously been a serious problem for major cities and for coastal communities, and it is probable that we shall be feeling for some time the financial impact of the costly snow-removal process, the destruction of property, and the loss of income due to business shutdowns. The great winter of '78 will be long remembered!

Robert C. McGuire is seeking election to the judgeship of County Court at Law No. 5, Dallas County, Tex., a newly established court with no incumbent. Bob will be participating in the Democratic primary in May and, almost assuredly, the general election in November. This particular court tries civil cases. Bob began practicing law in Dallas in 1961 and has been primarily engaged in civil trial cases. His campaign treasurer, Douglas Riley Jr., is also a Dartmouth grad. Class of '42.

Bob resides in Dallas with his wife Charlotte and their seven children ranging in age from seven to 20. His oldest daughter, Catherine, is attending Mt. Holyoke College and Karen, 18, attends Southwestern at Memphis. The rest of the gang attend Dallas public schools.

Michael B. King, chairman of the Art Department of Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., has gained recognition for a collection of original posters of Western movies. His collection was on display during January at Memorial Hall Library, Andover. Mike also shared his knowledge of Western movies with patrons of the library's Western film series.

Even back in his early movie-going days, Mike remembers enjoying the posters in front of the theater almost as much as the movies themselves. In 1947, when his parents gave him a 16 millimeter silent projector for Christmas, the 13-year-old movie fan provided competition for the local theater by showing movies in the basement of his Marshfield Hills home. In order to advertise these movies, Mike made his own display posters, eventually using cutout composites of old movie posters to develop his own advertising. Many of these old posters collected by Mike at that time form the core of the King collection today.

Mike is preserving a unique art form for the enjoyment of future generations. Some of the early posters in his collection were printed by color lithography which was used before photochemical methods were developed. In this early method, the artist's drawing was done on a stone with crayon; prints were made directly from the stone. This color process produced prints of a tremendous immediacy or vibrancy, according to King.

Mike continues to add to his collection with posters from modern Westerns and fills in gaps of the oldies when he runs across these posters, but this student of film bemoans the recent apparent demise of the Western.

Dr. Charles W. Cummings has accepted the appointment by the University of Washington Board of Regents to the chairmanship of the Department of Otolaryngology in the School of Medicine. Chuck assumed his new duties December 1.

"I am very pleased," said Dr. Robert L. Van Citters, dean of the School of Medicine, "that our nationwide search to fill this position has been so successfully completed. Otolaryngology is especially important in the Pacific Northwest because ear, nose and throat-related diseases make up a large percentage of the cases seen by primary-care physicians here.

"The School of Medicine has a large commitment to training family physicians, pediatricians, and general internists. The new educational program' under- Dr. Cummings' leadership will greatly improve these physicians' training in otolaryngology."

Chuck received his M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, served his internship at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, a surgical residency of the University of Virginia Hospital, and an otolaryngology residency at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was most recently an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences at the State University of New York, Syracuse, and has published numerous research articles, primarily in the field of cancer treatment and surgery in the region of the head and neck.

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