1943

Nice to hear evidence that the Class Notes have a readership. On seeing the comments by Bill Sweeney in a recent issue, Jim Mullins called us while visiting New York briefly in his capacity as eastern credit manager for the estimable St. Louis firm of Brown Shoe, with whom Jim has been associated for 31 years. Jim and Mary, married 37 years, live in Kirkwood and are grandparents three times over. Son Rick 'Bl has just been accepted at St. Louis Medical School, and son "Mack" (James M. III) '69, after a decade in the wide, wide world, is now attending Missouri U. Medical School. Daughter Judy, mother of two children, is married to an attorney.

Jim says he occasionally sees Doug Le Resche, of Columbia, Mo., and hears from Russ Sherburne, who, says Jim, operates a consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

While covering the St. Louis territory, here's a response concerning our inquiry about '43 hotel executives, and it comes from my roommate Norm Probstein, who modestly says he and a partner have a "small hotel company in St. Louis and St. Petersburg, Fla. mostly various franchise properties." Other news: "Dale Ruedig is a lawyer hereabouts; otherwise feel abandoned since you left me at Russell Sage."

You know, of course, of the Albert J. Beveridge Award. You don't? Well, it's considered the"most prestigious" award of the American Historical Association and it carries a $1,000 honor with it. The 1980 winner as author of the best book in English on American history is John Reps, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell. His book, previously mentioned here, is Cities of theAmerican West: A History of Frontier UrbanPlanning. John holds a master's degree from Cornell and has done graduate work at the U. of Liverpool and London School of Economics, has held Fulbright, Guggenhiem, and Eisenhower fellowships, and this year is a fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. All of which pales in comparison with his feat of running me right out of the pool in backstroke on the Dartmouth swimming team!

News of this has been reported in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and elsewhere, but we were proud to report the nomination of Bob Field as Alumni Council nominee to the Board of Trustees. Congratulations, Bob, and smooth sailing to reach unscathed this position of eminence and high responsibility.

Dr. Bud Clarke was thoughtful enough to send us a copy of a poem entitled, "How to Know You're Growing Older," but he couldn't have had the class of 1943 in mind, so we won't quote from it. More at home, he enclosed a series of photos taken by Dr. Frank West of a number of first-year Dartmouth med students. Herewith are some of them. A prize (in the form of mention herein) to any of you who can correctly identify your budding physician classmates. Many thanks, Bud.

While visiting my home town of Albany, N.Y., I talked with Dr. Seward Mac Donald, busily engaged in the general practice of dentistry and in his teaching position at Albany Medical Center. Sew's wife Marene was recently involved in presenting an exhibition of the works of the distinguished painter, Edna Hibbell. Son John has an architectural design degree from Lehigh and is now studying for his master's degree at Boston Architectural Center and manages also to star as captain for the Delman Blue Jays and is anticipating a try-out with the Red Sox this spring. Son Bill, also an outstanding football and baseball athlete, is earning a business administration degree at the College of St. Rose. Daughter Lynda McCabe, a Beaver College graduate in interior design, is the mother of Seward and Marene's grandson. Seward sees lots of other Dartmouth alumni but finds '43s fairly sparse in his territory. He recently completed 12 years of outstanding service as district enrollment director and in other College local offices.

Who are these '43s in their first year oftraining at Dartmouth Medical School?

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