1964

"Summertime, summertime, sum-sumsummertime ..." I forget the rest of the words, but the song (if you remember it) says how I feel. By now many of you are through your winter clean-up projects, in the midst of spring cleaning, and anticipating an enjoyable summer. Spring cleaning brings about garage sales, and Susan and I run amok all summer scouting out such events where we can delve through memorabilia, bric-a-brac, antiques, and good, all-American junk. I love junk. Oh well, enough musing, on to some amusing:

Ed Williams has been an accive trial lawyer in the federal court system in Manhattan. Ed is an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York. One of Ed's more entertaining cases was the trial involving the Socialist Workers Party. Debates ensued about the nature of Marxism and the Socialists Workers Party's relationship with the Fourth International, which the government claims is a "federation of foreign Trotskyist parties with links to international terrorism and a record of revolutionary violence, assassinations, and kidnapping." This case is about the government's 40-year investigation of this particular party, with the use of 300 F.8.1. agents and 1,000 recruited S.W.P. informants. But, like all great espionage thrillers, I have no idea how the case came out. I'd appreciate an update, Ed.

Fritz Corrigan has been elected president of Cargill's flour milling division. He was formerly vice president and general manager of the company's flour milling department, which was elevated to division status after Cargill's recent acquisition of the domestic flour milling operations of Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. Fritz has been with the company since 1966. (1 hope all you classmates sent your dues to Fritz, who is doing a fantastic job as treasurer.) I just can't believe that Fritz, the guy with the flat-top haircut in college, the R.O.T.C. recruit, turned out to be a flour child.

Now for some Hanover scene news about an illustrious '64. The College's Department of Computing Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Ray Neff as director of academic computing. Ray combines his work in computing services with a position in the Dartmouth Medical School, where he is an adjunct associate professor of biostatistics. After graduation with a major in mathematics, he began specializing in biostatistics. He earned his master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1977) from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He was the director of the health sciences computing facility at Harvard for more than ten years (1971—1982). In 1979 he assumed sumed the duties of director of scientific computing at Harvard's Sidney Farber Cancer Institute. He was also an assistant professor of biostatistics in the Schooi of Public Health from 1978 to 1982. Ray brings to the Kiewit Computation Center a rare combination of academic excellence and computing experience. (I am very impressed with all the above, but I have one question: What the hell is biostatistics? It sounds like something you do by rubbing a comb through your cat's hair.)

Have a nice summer, everyone! Let me hear about your summer exploits (sunk the sailboat, caught poison oak, the pipes broke at the summer house, etc.). Bye.

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