1956

Now that we have made it through the fall football season, it is not too early to contact Cube Conroy to secure reservations for the Fun Fantastic Five Weekend in. New York. This annual extravaganza is scheduled for January 28 and 29, 1983, once again at the Yale Club. The speaker this year will be Professor Bill Cook, who heads the African-American Studies Program and the Faculty Policy Committee. The Big Apple beckons.

Presumably someone had to do it, so why not John Kramer. The world cried out for TheAmerican College Novel, An Annotated Bibliography, a 286-page volume costing only $40. In it John has listed the 425 American novels set in colleges or universities. He is now working on a similar list for mysteries. "When that's done I will have read the entire body of college fiction," says he with a touch of pride. "I think I'll be the only person to have done that." John is a sociology professor at the State University of New York in Brockport. He notes that serious academic work or teaching is almost never part of a college novel since it does not make the most exciting reading. Hypocrisy, greed, lust, and ambition are more popular themes. Sounds like most other novels we read. John himself plans to write his own novel, admitting that it too will be about the academic world. Serious it will not be, however "I couldn't write a serious book about it."

The Mutual Real Estate Investment Trust (M-REIT) of New York has selected Jon Blum as president. Jon will give up his presidency of Kuhn, Blum and Company in Philadelphia. He has served as a trustee of M-REIT for the past 13 years. Jon also has chaired the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and is a member of the prestigious Philadelphia Partnership, a group of chief executive officers who have dedicated themselves to the improvement of the quality of life in the Philadelphia area. The press clip quotes Jon: "The challenge of the next decade for the real estate industry will be to manage prudently, finance creatively, and grow profitably." And interest rates? Congratulations and good luck, Jon.

While others in the class respond to the frivolous contests sponsored by Newsletter Editor Flint Ranney, Josh Hill, Dartmouth College editor, engages in more serious games of skill. No palindromes for him. In mid-August, along with 249 other finalists selected from 8,000 crossword aficionados, Josh sat down in New York to match his wits in the first U.S. Open Crossword Puzzle Contest. In the end, he finished a satisfying 16th, a remarkable feat for one who admits to having practiced not at all except for the Sunday New York Times puzzle. Josh had to contend with such obscure clues as "library study nook at year's end" ("Xmas carrel," of course). He also managed to make "the pie-eyed piper" out of "drunken exterminator." Josh has been doing crossword puzzles for 30 years "and admits to having "a kind of garbage can vocabulary. There's a little bit of everything jammed in there." Well done, you threetoed sloth. (We're being treated to a picture of the champ himself, pen and puzzle in hand, on the next page.)

David Dolben has been named by Time Inc. to be director of the company's subscription service division in Chicago. David has been with Time for almost twenty years, essentially in the financial end of the business, and was elected vice president of finance in 1979. The subscription service division handles all the subscription and mail order business for Time as well as reports for the company's marketing research subsidiary. David will also be responsible for TV Cable Week, scheduled for production in March 1983.

During the summer, Ruth and Bob Becker spent a long weekend with us. Bob is operations manager with the County Solid Waste Department serving the Tampa, Fla., area. Calling himself "a garbageman," Bob has been involved in some of the major practical research and experimental work in solid waste disposal going on in the country, first in Syracuse, N.Y., and now in Florida. One need but look around to recognize the importance of not only disposing of the enormous amounts of trash we generate as a society, but also obtaining some useful benefits from it. Landfill and reclamation are one thing, but Bob's latest project is a thermal power plant which will use garbage as its fuel. Bob and Ruth celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary while with us. Alpha Thet members in the class will be saddened to hear of the death of Bob's father. Mr. and Mrs. Becker were often at Dartmouth, particularly for the Hums.

Another 25 th wedding anniversary was celebrated by Sarah and Frank Terhune. Frank's mother, also a frequent visitor along with Mr. Terhune at Alpha Thet, dropped in to see the Malins at their vacation spot in New Hampshire. She reports that Frank, sales manager for Clevepak Corporation in Dallas, still misses the rolling hills and changing seasons of New England. His work brings him to Boston occasionally, usually somehow scheduled just before or just after a weekend. Good planning, Frank!

Your secretary and his wife will have also reached the 25th-year mark by the time this column is printed. Current statistics suggest that the chances of a marriage lasting that long are pretty dismal. It would be interesting to know from those of us who have reached the silver anniversary to what we attribute that fact. Certainly, there is a large element of good luck. Hard work. And love, but love for one another is such a personal thing that it is difficult to articulate, let alone convey, even between partners in a marriage. Respect, caring, sharing, even liking one another, all come to mind. What do other classmates, or their wives, think? Before closing, however, a tribute is in order to all of our wives for having put up with us and our continuing obsession with Dartmouth. "It isn't easy being green."

Thomas H. Roulston '55 {center), owner of the University Club in Cleveland, Ohio, was recentlyawarded a certificate of recognition for recent restoration work at the club by representatives of theCleveland Restoration Society President John C. Corfias (right) and Ben M. Skall (left).Recognized for his outstanding efforts in preserving the 60-room mansion which houses the club,Roulston was one of nine recipients of Preservation Society awards, which are given annually toencourage public participation in preserving buildings and sites significant to Cleveland's history.

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