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Keep thinking 25th reunion! Publicity Chairman Dick Perkins advises that planning continues in full swing with the following special events being considered: computer introductory courses and practice time, discussions and lectures concerning the College and concerning current events, bridge tournament, activities for the older children, a wives panel concerning their career paths, and great-issues discussions focusing on what will be the great issues of the next 25 years (we can look back at our 50th and determine how astute we were).

For the physically active, versus mentally, there will be: eight tennis courts reserved for us (possibly a mixed doubles tournament will be set up), golf and possibly another tournament, an organized 2.6-mile run followed by discussions that will include one of Dartmouth's running coaches, and rowing on the river. In addition, the following are also being considered: a film from our college years with an update, a fitness-first lecture, a display of classmates' art, crafts, and collections, and a speaking group based upon classmates participating in both the State Department and in the new administration.

Additional people throughout the country are needed to join the reunion committee, especially in assisting in organizing a special event or in developing attendance. Please let the committee have your suggestions by phoning Dick Perkins at (617)723-1800.

Two of our classmates have received considerable press as key members of the Reagan administration. Martin C. Anderson has been named by President Reagan as assistant to the president for policy development, the top advising post for domestic affairs on the White House staff. Marty has been active in Republican politics since 1969 when Richard M. Nixon tapped him to be a White House adviser. Prior to that he had taught both finance and business at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth, Marty went on to earn an M.S. degree in engineering and business administration from the Thayer and Amos Tuck Schools and a Ph.D. degree in industrial management from M.I.T. After completing his first White House appointment in 1971, he has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, a conservative think-tank on the campus of Stanford University. In 1972, he was head writer for the platform of the Republican National Convention. Marty took a leave of absence in 1976 to become campaign issues adviser to the Reagan candidacy and was deputy chairman for policy development on the Reagan campaign in 1979-80.

Marty has also found time to be the author of three books: The Federal Bulldozers: A CriticalAnalysis of Urban Renewal, Conscription: Aselect and Annotated Bibliography, and Welfare: The Political Economy of WelfareReform in the United States. He also has been a member of Nelson Rockefeller's commission on critical choices for Americans, the Defense Manpower Commission, the Council on Trends and Perspectives of the United States Chamber of Commerce, served as public interest director of the Federal Home Loan Bank in San Francisco, and on the Committee on Present Danger.

The Boston Globe stated that "Martin Anderson is a scholar with a rare quality that politicians value - the ability to boil all he knows about a subject into a few terse, clear observations that are immediately useful."

In political philosophy, Marty is considered as close to being a libertarian, believing that government should do for people only what they and private enterprise cannot do. One of his areas of expertise is welfare and the welfare state. "The war on poverty has been won," he recently wrote. "We should now begin thinking about how to eliminate unnecessary programs and to focus more on the social problems that widespread dependency will bring."

Laurence H. Silberman is an adviser to Reagan on foreign affairs. A former ambassador to Yugoslavia and subsequently a West Coast banker concentrating on developing and guiding his bank's foreign business, Larry "broke a lot of diplomatic china" with an article last year in the quarterly magazine Foreign Affairs, where he stated he had concluded from his experience that so long as career officers compete for senior posts with political appointees, the Foreign Service "will instinctively resist presidential direction of the substance of foreign policy." Automatically, he concluded, career status is equated with merit, while political appointments are implicitly regarded as non-meritorious.

Larry urged settling the perennial dilemma of presidential control versus professional expertise by requiring career officers who might get top jobs to quit the Foreign Service so that then, like the businessman or lawyer who fancies a diplomatic fling, they would have to please the White House to attain and retain the top diplomatic posts.

We wish our classmates the clarity of mind and strength of purpose to provide the new administration with the soundest of advice which, if heeded, will be for the benefit of a stronger and more vibrant U.S.A.

Keep thinking 25th!

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