1951

It is hard to believe, but here we are less than a year away from our 30th reunion. Toward that end our peerless prexy, Buck Scott, called a meeting in Philadelphia of the class executive committee. Present at the meeting were RussDilks, Dick Pugh, Carl Glassberg, Al Brout,Dick Halloran, Dave Orr '57 for the College, and your scribe. In addition, we were joined by Hertn Christiansen, who will be chairman of the June gathering. The class will assemble Monday, June 15, and will have four days of friendship, frolic, educational enrichment, and beautiful Hanover in the early summer. Herm has already put in many hours of work and the tentative schedule includes a wine-tasting party, presidential reception (conceivably with the new as well as the old at that time), glee club concert, and a variety of athletic events including a crew race, mini-marathon, and a mighty football battle if Dick Halloran has his way. Also scheduled will be nightly dancing, a picnic at Storrs Pond, a symposium on a subject of general interest, as well as an adequate amount of free time to fill as you please. It also should be noted that the classes of '5O and '52 will be in Hanover at the same time so this should be an added incentive to join in the festivities.

Mark the dates down and plan on returning to the Hanover plain next June.

The class was ably represented at the June meeting of the Alumni Council according to a report I received from Allan Karcher. In addition to the reporter, others present were PeterMartin, Dick Pugh, and Jim Rogers. The accompanying photo was sent by Al with an appropriate commercial: "photo on Kodak film, printed on Kodak paper." He never misses a chance, does he?

From the "keeping it in the family" department, Guido Rahr, president and chief executive officer of Rahr Malting Co., was recently elected a director. The company manufactures heavy-construction equipment.

It seems that Earl Brabb is stirring up a hornets' nest. He is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and he has sharply criticized the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in their estimate of how much earth movement might occur under a General Electric reactor in California. Once again the battle is between industry's desire for economic progress and those in the government who act as watchdog for our environmental well-being. There are no absolutes in this business and compromise is usually the answer.

Bob Koski was recently elected to a threeyear term as director of the National Fluid Power Association. This association is headquartered in Milwaukee and serves 190 American manufacturers and users of hydraulic and pneumatic systems and components. The fluid-power industry exceeds $6 billion dollars in sales and serves over 70 other major industries including automotive, aerospace, industrial and farm equipment, and machine tooling. Bob, by the way, is president of Sun Hydraulics of Sarasota, Fla.

Howard A. Glickstein, professor of law since 1976 and director of the Equal Employment Litigation Clinic at Howard University, has been appointed dean of the University of Bridgeport School of Law. After graduation from Yale Law School, Howie specialized in labor law with a prominent New York law firm. He joined the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division in 1960, serving in increasingly important federal-posts during that tumultuous decade. He helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Howie was general counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1965 to 1968 and commission staff director, 1968-1971. In 1973, he helped to found the Notre Dame Center for Civil Rights and became its director for two years, later joining Howard University as professor of law and director of the Equal Employment Litigation Clinic. During part of this period, he was on leave to serve as director of the President's Task Force on Civil Rights Reorganization, whose work led to the adoption of equal employment laws and the development of a reorganization plan which became law in 1978. So long for now!

1951 was well represented at June's AlumniCouncil meeting by (from left) Al Karcher,Pete Martin, Jim Rogers, and Dick Pugh.

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