1957
Our Class President George Southwick led a delegation back to the Hanover plain for Class Officers Weekend, April 28 and 29. In addition to your secretary, this delegation included Nan and Chuck Winslow, head agent; Diane andClyde Brownstone, Campaign for Dartmouth coordinator; Shirley and Tom Schwarz, newsletter editor; and Jane and Joe Stevenson, now ever-present on campus as director of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.
In addition to meeting with our counterparts from other classes, we had an opportunity to obtain some insight into the Dartmouth student and campus life of today through a most stimulating panel presentation in which a number of current Dartmouth students participated. Dartmouth has obviously changed over the years in order to maintain its position at the forefront of superior liberal-arts education, and, as alumni, we can be most proud of the products of the College if these young people were any indication of the type of men and women who will soon be leaving the College to become contributing members of society.
We also heard a most stimulating address by President Kemeny and viewed a new slide/sound presentation on the College, entitled "Remember Dartmouth." If you ever have a chance to see this presentation, or participate with a group who might enjoy becom- ing better acquainted with the College, I can highly recommend "Remember Dartmouth" for its excellent photography and low-key portrayal of Dartmouth today. It not only includes moving scenes of the College we remember, but it also gives an excellent overview of some of the exciting opportunities available to Dartmouth students today.
And finally, this weekend concluded with the annual DOC-sponsored class officers hike. This year we hiked a portion of the Appalachian Trail that moves up to Holt's Ledge, above the Dartmouth Skiway, which affords a superb view toward snow-covered Mt. Cardigan. You'll be interested, if not amazed, to know that the Class of '57 had more participants enjoy this hike than any class represented that weekend.
Martin Anderson, as special assistant to President Nixon during the development of the Family Assistance Plan in 1969, and a consultant to President Ford on the Income Supplementation Plan in 1974, has been deeply involved in the formulation of national welfare policy during the past decade. In his most recent book, Welfare - The Political Economyof Welfare Reform in the United States, which was recently published by The Hoover Press, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., Marty draws on his background in economics and his experience in the White House to explain and analyze- the essence of the welfare reform debate. He presents eight major theses that define the central issues of the welfare reform controversy, and concludes that radical welfare reform is politically impossible in our society today.
Marty was the head writer for the 1972 Republican party platform and was Ronald Reagan's issue adviser in the 1976 presidential campaign. He has also been a member of Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, the Defense Manpower Commission, and the Council on Trends and Perspectives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, and a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. Arthur F. Burns, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System, characterizes Marty's most recent publication as "impressive and important."
Lt. Colonel C. S. Mills Jr. has corresponded with Class Agent Chuck Winslow from Saudi Arabia where Sherm is presently on assignment and where he expects to serve for another six months. Sherm was responding to Chuck's request for assistance on the Alumni Fund and advised he would be pleased to participate by writing to his fraternity classmates but would, understandably, be unable to utilize the usual method of phoning his brothers.
A special candidate search committee has tapped Donald Hutchins to seek a seat on the Longmeadow, Mass., School Committee. Don, an owner and executive of the Hutchins Tool and Engineering Co. of Springfield, indicates that he does not delude himself with thoughts of revolutionary changes or dynamic tax reductions, but feels that his background in business will enable him to make a positive contribution to the operation of the school system which must react to changes in social, political, and economic conditions. Don, we sincerely hope the electorate will give you the opportunity to bring your expertise to bear on the task of providing quality education at a reasonable cost.
Peter Searl, now a lawyer in Honolulu, Hawaii, has written to tell us about some of the accomplishments of Marjorie Patterson, the daughter of Randy Patterson. Marge is a sophomore at Punahou School in Honolulu and has developed into an outstanding runner. Recently she was one of the top performers at the annual interscholastic League of Honolulu Track and Field Championship Meet. Starting out with a convincing victory in the 440-yard dash. Marge came back a half-hour later to win the 880-yard run in a new meet record time of 2:27.4. Finally, in what Pete says could only be described as a superb effort, Marge overcame a 13-yard deficit at the start of her anchor leg of the mile relay to win by about ten yards. The newspaper photograph shows Marge on her way to her win in the 880. And it also shows Ann McCrea, the daughter of our deceased classmate, Barry McCrea.
Pete Searle's daughter Betsy is also quite a runner and contributed to the term's performance, but Pete says that Randy Patterson can be justifiably proud of Marge as she has an anomalous spinal curvature, the treatment of which requires her to wear a metal neck and back brace. Unlike many girls who might have dropped out of competition under such circumatances, Marge, who also runs crosscountry in the fall, wears the brace extra hours just so she can take it off to train.
Gregory S. Horne, associate professor of earth and environmental science at Wesleyan University, is one of three U.S. earth scientists selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships as a senior Fullbright-Hays scholar for the 1977-78 academic year. Under the terms of the award. George will spend the spring and summer lecturing and conducting research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology at Trondheim, Norway. He intends to do field studies of the underlying structure of mountains exposed in the deep fjords of western Norway, which he anticipates will enable him to contribute to deciphering the history of continental drift in the North Atlantic.
In 1971, George was the leader of a geologic field expedition to central Honduras which discovered the first dinosaur fossil found in Central America. Perhaps on this trip he'll solve the riddle of Atlantis.
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