1963

Dave Schaefer, our stalwart newsletter editor, and I recently represented the Class at Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. It was an impressive program which brought home to me much more forcefully than anything had before the difficulties that Dartmouth faces in just trying to stay as it is. Several speakers pointed out the degree to which the major economic facts of life are almost conspiring - inadvertently but powerfully - to destroy the kind of educational experience Dartmouth expects to be able to provide. Inflation perniciously attacks Dartmouth's most important expenditures, like faculty salaries, while at the same time deteriorating the value of the College's income from its endowment. And I realized that I was one of the ones who are causing the Alumni Fund big problems. I have not increased my contributions to the Fund in accordance with the rising pace of inflation. I resolved to do better, and I hope that many of the rest of you who fall in the same category will be able to so as well.

Much of the rest of the weekend I spent employing an old Hanover torture to extract some news items from Schaefs. (I kept dribbling bourbon down his throat.) We did reach an agreement that I would cover him, and he would cover me. Thus I get to announce that Dave has recently been named creative director of McKinney/New England, the Boston-based subsidiary of Harris D. McKinney Inc. of Philadelphia. He will be in charge of all copy and art produced by the advertising agency's staff in Boston.

Dave also passed along the news that SamCabot has been named president of Samuel Cabot Inc., one of the nation's oldest and bestknown makers of stains. (Watch for its ads in Yankee, Country Journal, and so forth.) Sam, who is Samuel Cabot III had been treasurer of the family-owned-and-operated firm, which celebrated its centennial earlier this year. Sam also reports that his wife Rosa is teaching Spanish to students at Manchester Memorial School, and her students include the Cabots' two sons, Sam, nine, and David, seven.

John Merrow's weekly radio program. Opinions In Education, is now carried by 190 National Public Radio stations around the country. John also reports that he broke three hours and thirty minutes for the first time in the Boston Marathon this year. It was his ninth try at that barrier. And best of all, a daughter, Kelsey, was born at 4:00 a.m. Dec. 28 "in time for New Year's celebration and tax deduction." John believes that he is "the only Dartmouth grad living in Washington who is not a lawyer."

Speaking of Washington and lawyers, Tim Kraft, one of our men in the White House, has switched from being appointments secretary to become President Carter's number two political advisor, according to a recent news dispatch. Kraft reports to Hamilton Jordan. (The recent Esquire account of Jordan's undergraduate years, during which he actually lived in his car for one term, indicated that Jordan had all the makings of a Dartmouth man, and made me curious as to why he passed up our alma mater. Perhaps Tim will tell us.)

Denny Emerson is trying out again for the U.S. Equestrian Team that will represent the United States in a three-day world championship meet to be held in Lexington, Ky., this September. Denny will be taking to the tryouts the horse (Victor Dakin) he rode in England in 1974 when the U.S. team won a gold medal, as well as a new horse named York.

Bernard Weinstein, an associate professor of political economy of the University of Texas at Dallas, will be going to Washington this September for a year as scholar-in-residence with the Southern Growth Policies Board. Bernard is also director of the Southwest Center for Economic and Community Development, and is co-author of Regional Growth andDecline in the U.S., which was published by Praeger last February. His wife Marci is on the nursing faculty of Texas Womens University, and their son Daniel, six, attends the Montessori Academy in Dallas. The Weinsteins live outside Dallas in Richardson.

Last January, Bill Spencer, wife Sue, along with Suzie, seven, Cacky, three, and Daniel, one and a half, left their farm on Fox Island, Wash., and moved to Virginia Beach, Va., where Bill went to work for Planters as a group products manager in charge of marketing peanut butter, peanut oil, and "confectionary items." Shortly after they hit Virginia Beach their forces were augmented by the arrival of a new daughter, Sarah.

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The Classes of 1964 and 1965 shared the Class of the Year Award this spring the first time a joint award has been presented. Both classes were recognized for their active executive committees, their newsletters and columns, the high percentage of dues payers, and "a resurgence of positive involvement with the College and the Class."