1957

OK you all, be sure to mark your fall calendar to indicate a 1957 mini-reunion the weekend of October 10-12. The class has reserved a block of rooms in Williamsburg, Va., for the first Dartmouth-William and Mary football game. It should prove to be a great game and a fun weekend, with an opportunity to see old Dartmouth friends and to enjoy Colonial Williamsburg. The College is planning some special events for this weekend that will soon be announced.

Betsey and Ben Bixby and family recently returned from a ski vacation at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. It's a great and relatively uncrowded mountain in a spectacularly beautiful area, as any of you who have visited Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Tetons are well aware. Unfortunately, we were unable to make contact with the Wayne Kakelas, who, we understand, have very successfully homesteaded in this area. With the exception of some excruciatingly cold weeks during the winter months, the area is a recreational paradise.

You will be pleased to learn that David C. Hillman has recently joined the class of '57 or rejoined, as the case may be. As Dave explains it, his Dartmouth class affiliation has always been somewhat in limbo. Although he matriculated with us in 1953, he somehow ended up on the College records as a member of the class of '56. The records have now been set straight, and it's a pleasure to welcome Dave back! Dave is an M.D. practicing in Miami, Fla.

The news from Denver, Colo., is that Colorado Governor Richard Lamm has made a good move by enticing Monte Pascoe to accept an appointment as executive director of the Department of Natural Resources. Quotes from the newspaper article commenting on the appointment are indicative of the high regard in which Monte is held:

"One measure of any administration is the quality of the people it attracts. Pascoe, by the estimation of virtually anyone who knows him, is a man of extraordinary parts. He has brains, he's knowledgeable in the ways of the political world, he's articulate, and he has character. The Lamm administration is a better administration because he came aboard. And the job, dealing as it does with such diverse and crucial issues as energy, water, and wildlife, is a hugely important one. It could almost be said that as goes the Department of Natural Resources, so goes Colorado. Pascoe, for instance, will be dickering with federal officials about water projects and negotiating with them on oil shale development in the Rockies. If he's well-informed and persuasive, he could, among other things, help save the state from environmental destruction."

At the same time it was pointed out that Monte will add credence to Governor Lamm's beleagured administration. Congratulations, Monte! The admiration expressed is not at all unexpected.

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