1953

The mid-October .mini-reunion in Hanover was super. Along with all of Don Smith's usual precise arrangements, the College provided a tremendous alumni parade, a huge bonfire, the Harvards in two football games and five rugby matches, the picnic tent, cocktail parties, and what-have-you. The weather dealt out intermittent rain, sun, and wind through the weekend, but the football game Saturday afternoon was all Big Green! Don Goss will have all of the details in his next " !53 OUT."

Tom and Isabel Dewey's daughter Linda married Dave Hoffis, a Marine lieutenant, at the Naval Chapei in Washington, D.C., this summer. Dave recently graduated from the O.C. program at Quantico. Tom attended the ceremonies and he said that nothing had changed in 29 years except that the class included a platoon of women. Tom is very involved with the masters swimming program and competes in the 100'-, 200-, and 500-yard free-style events and does pretty well. He is with the U.S. Postal Service and teaches at the Postal Academy. You may remember that Tom is responsible for the nine-digit ZIP program, but until Congress votes to inaugurate that service, it is On hold.

Ross Mclntyre and son Rosser canoed down the west branch, of the Penobscot River and Chesuncook Lake with Dave Larson '52 in early September. They had beautiful weather with spectacular views of Mt. Katahdin and all that is Maine.

Fred Gieg has been named president of RMI Company. It's a joint partnership between U.S. Steel and National Distillers. They manufacture titanium, which is largely used in the aerospace and defense business for such items as the B-1B bomber. Fred has been with various divisions of U.S. Steel since graduation.

Don Bremmer, vice president of the Waikiki Improvement Association, reports from Honolulu that the major crime rate has dropped precipitously. The main reason is the returning-witness program in which tourists are flown back to the islands at no cost to themselves to testify in criminal cases. For years, criminals regarded tourists as easy marks because of their reluctance to return from the mainland to testify against their assailants. No more. And business is up considerably because of it.

Back in May, Kisuk and Kyung Hee Cheung visited in New England with Fred and Val England, Fred and Thelma Stephens, and Fred's brother Richard, who had spent two years in Seoul, Korea, with the Army and had gotten to know the Cheung family very well there. Kisuk reported that Professor Wing-Tsit Chan, who taught Chinese civilization when we were at Dartmouth, is visiting the University of Hawaii to conduct the World Philosophers Conference on Chu Hsi, a 12thcentury Chinese scholar-philosopher. The Cheungs and Bay and Tay Yee gave a dinner party in Professor Chan's honor.

There was an interesting interview with Andy Sigler in United Airlines' September magazine. Andy chairs the Corporate Responsibility Task Force of the Business Roundtable, a prestigious group of 200 c.e.o.'s from the nation's largest corporations. Among other things, they are studying business's role today. Andy said, "We've reached a point, whether we like it or not, where the system can no longer afford to spend money the way it has. Over a period, everything the government is doing is either going to be cut back or changed... The thing that disturbs me is that the real issues aren't being debated. Our congressmen live in a two-year time frame and you're really talking ten years. We've got to get a broader group of people involved in the debates... Everybody has said to let the corporations fill the gap, but that's ludicrous because the amount of money that the government is going to cut cannot be handled by the contributions of corporate America... Before you get to those other responsibilities, you've got to make a buck. The gap I see the corporation filling is the job gap-providing them and also training for them. That's really where our investment should go."

George Krall has been vice president and general manager of General Electric's aircraft manufacturing division in Cincinnati. His responsibilities have been greatly expanded to consolidate all product engineering, manufacturing, and employee and community relations. The plant is one of the largest employers in the area. It is recognized in the aircraft engine industry as one of the world's complete large jet engine centers.

That's it for this month.

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