1949

As several months have elapsed since our last column, some of my datelines may be showing their age. During Class Officers' Weekend last May we had the pleasure of seeing our own Gordon Thomas receive the Dartmouth Alumni Award from Jonathan Strong '56, president of the Alumni Council. In presenting the award, Mr. Strong cited Gordon's service to the College and his humanitarian spirit as a director of the Legal Aid Society for Westchester County and as president of the Afghan Relief Committee.

Still on the College scene, Al Quirk, director of admissions for the past two years, has been named dean of admissions and financial aid. The reorganization was effective July 1 and reflects the increasing complexities confronting admissions and financial aid at Dartmouth.

Moving down the Connecticut River, my next note was from a Hartford neighbor, Charles Dodge, who says he's "been pretty much retired for ten months and glad to be!" Since Hanover days, his labors have been devoted to building a dealership for Allen Organs the world's largest builder of church organs. (Charles majored in music and was undergraduate organist at Rollins Chapel.) The dealership finally included metropolitan New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island and moved to Glastonbury, Conn., after he sold it. He plans to leave Hartford next spring and return to the old family home in Sherman, Conn., in the foothills of the Berkshires where he "hopes not to vegetate."

Included with Charles's note was a lime magazine clipping dated August 2, entitled "American Scene" and featuring another unusual member of our class Nate Gottschalk. Nate conducts the college-age group at the Chautauqua Institution, "a summer cultural encampment started in 1874 on the shaded shores of Lake Chautauqua, 60 miles southwest of Buffalo." During the school year, Nate directs the student orchestra at the State University of New York at Albany.

The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale has announced the award of a Richard Mellon Fellowship to Seward Weber, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. The fellowship carries a stipend and will allow Buck to study and teach at Yale during the 1982—83 academic year, beginning in September. He was one of three fellows selected from some 60 applicants from non-profit environmental organizations around the country.

Ort Hicks writes that John Dahle and his three teenage sons were house guests in June on their way to a camping trip in Maine. John is with the law firm of Grant, Shaforth, Toll and McHendrie in Denver.

Ort also enclosed a clipping and picture of Chet Palmer's 17-year-old daughter, who was a contestant in the Vermont Miss Teen pageant held at Norwich University in June.

Alan Hodges writes that he's still in the leather business but says that foreign imports, which account for 70 per cent of U.S. shoe sales, cause those in the domestic industry to view the end of an era. Al is a retired Navy captain and is still in the active reserves and had racked up 39 years this past summer. He sent along a clipping from the Navy Times which reported that Senator Slade Gorton had received the Vincent Hirsch Maritime Award for his "forceful and active leadership" in behalf of the nation's merchant fleet.

An editorial in the San Francisco Examiner reveals that "although he led the supervisors in the popular vote last November, Supervisor Quentin Kopp was politically maneuvered out of the board presidency, a plum that customarily had been awarded the ticket leader . . . the passage of Proposition L in the June election awarded him the board gavel for the next six months." The editorial also says that Quent has approached his new duties with enthusiasm, reasonableness, and a lack of theatrics.

I close with the sad news of the deathof Carl Struever. His obituary is in the back of the magazine, and included here is a poem he himself wrote after viewing the work of an artist friend. Carl made neckties and wrote poetry for his friends to celebrate special occasions, and the following lines are illustrative of his optimistic philosophy: See the Glory under your nose, Open your eyes, take a breath and then move. How many times have I told you? The world is all scarlet and orchids are flying. Take a taste, take it in. It's all there for the asking. Finally, mark your calendars; our 35th reunion is June 13-15, 1983!

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