1946

Art Harrison of East Meadow, N.Y., has written a nice note announcing his recent retirement from radio broadcasting, after 18 years with WWRL in New York City, where he was vice president of sales. He says that the retired life is great so far and that he is surprised that he has been able to relax without all the pressures that kept him going in the past.

Sam Florman has just been named recipient of the Ralph Coats Roe Medal awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This award honors "his lifelong leadership in promoting the vital role of engineering in society... and establishment of engineering as a humanistic discipline on a level with literary, poetic, and artistic endeavors." Sam is the author of three textbooks and more than 70 articles dealing with technology and the general culture, including works in the New York TimesMagazine, Harper's, and The American Scholar. In addition to many professional affiliations, Sam has served as an overseer of Thayer School and is a past president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.

Jim Lynch has passed along an interesting letter from Bob Hunt, explaining his long and deep involvement as a founder and president of the board of trustees of the Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement in Avon, Conn. This Center has acquired an inter- national reputation for innovations and quality in the teaching of science subjects. It also serves industry and government through research pro- grams and course offerings for teachers and the general public. They now are establishing the Academy of Science and Mathematics, a private institution dedicated to educating gifted young people, either as full-time students or as part of the academy's "magnet school" program, where students remain enrolled in their own nearby schools and participate only in the science and math offerings. The full-time program will provide a diverse college preparatory curriculum, in addition to its special math and science emphasis. Currently, serving over 100 Connecticut communities, Talcott Mountain Science Center has grown to include a complex of eight buildings on a 20-acre former NIKE missile site just outside Hartford, Conn.

Over the Harvard game weekend, our class executive committee met to consider the selection of a new class project, to follow our sponsorship of a Native American student who graduated last spring. Members have been looking into various potential projects for more than a year in the hope that we might find a project that would again serve a genuine College need and through which our class might provide a leadership role. Such a project now has been found and was given approval by the executive committee members present. Dartmouth's strongest educational assets are its faculty and its libraries. Baker, of course, is a magnificent library in terms of its size and its vast collections. However, the structure was built at a time when there was less knowledge and concern about book preservation. Physical conditions, among them the lack of humidity and temperature controls, have therefore led to the serious deterioration of priceless records, documents, and books. Studies of Baker have been made by outside experts about the methods of arresting these conditions and they involve major outlays of funds for suitable control systems, far beyond the scope of any class project. Librarian Margaret Otto and the administration have, however, endorsed an ongoing project by the class of 1946 to help fund the preservation of rare papers, documents, and books, which already have suffered deterioration and are truly irreplaceable.

The executive committee has approved the project within the scope of our abilities and hopes that other classes will join us now in the support of this enormously significant new program. More details will follow in Bob Heussler's newsletter.

The fortunes of Dartmouth football certainly were down and up this fall, ending, of course, in a surprise three-way tie for the Ivy League championship. The Yale game brought a large turnout to Hanover to see a first-half Dartmouth lead of 21-10 erode to a disappointing 22-21 loss. Ed and Molly Scheu hosted a pregame gathering that included classmates Jim and Gene Von Rohr, Jack and Anona Sayers, Bill and Yummy Graulty, Don and Mary Louise Fitzsimmons, Chip Coleman, and Gene Bokor. Frank and Pat Ettari, Ham and Nancy Bailey, Bob and Dot Clifton, and Joyce Caswell were here for the game, as were the Don kens, Len Wilsons, Earle Stapleses, John Aldens, Roger Butlers, Stan Chisholms, Warren Kealeys, and Art Youngs.

Bob and Dot Clifton hosted a marvelous Sunday brunch following the Yale game at their home in Eastman, N.H. Among those present were Jack and Sally Carter, who also have a home at Eastman, houseguests Fred and Joyce Caswell from Rome, N.Y., and Bob and Jackie Kimball. Great location tough golf course. Please keep in touch. Best regards.

Edward M. Scheu Jr. '46, presented with an Alumni Award in December, was hailed as "in all respects one of the sturdy sons of Dartmouth we sing about in our alma mater." His college career was interrupted by wartime service in the Navy, but he came back to Hanover to earn undergraduate and Tuck degrees and laurels as a soccer star. In his subsequent business career, he has moved up to his current post as president and chief executive officer of Luminiscent Systems Inc., of Lebanon, N.H., while holding numerous directorships of other firms and civic groups. His Dartmouth service has also been extensive as class secretary, chairman of reunion giving for his 30th, Alumni Councilor, a member of the Visiting Committee for Native American Studies, and, since his return to Hanover in 1975, as alumni representative on a number of study committees. The citation also noted two other contributions to Dartmouth sons Edward '76 and Nichols '78.

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