1924

Four deaths to report on in One issue is too many. We shall all miss Dick Hess, Count ShvetzofF, Ken Bubier, and Doug Craig. More details will appear in this or subsequent issues in the obituary section.

By the time you get this, our 60th reunion will be less than nine months away. Be sure to get next year's calendar early and mark down the June 11—13 dates to be in Hanover.

In the absence of direct news from any of you, your secretary has had to delve into other sources for this column. Out of curiosity, I checked our latest survival list against listings in Who's Who in America. I felt sure that our two Dartmouth trustees and Ted Lamb would be listed, and I knew that through some error I was included, but I guessed that we would be doing well if we had three others. Believe it or not, of the 190 surviving members of the class, at least 16 are or have been listed. I can't remember any other class which held two Dartmouth trusteeships at the same time and I wonder if any other class has eight and a half percent of its living members who made it to Who'sWho.

I used the 1970—71 edition in my check, on the theory that under the "What have you done for me lately?" syndrome, many people are dropped shortly after retirement. We have a well-rounded group, with a good cross section of fields of representation. Take our two who have served as trustees of the College first. Bill Buchanan, in addition to all that he has done for the College, has been not only president and director of Appleton Wire Works Corporation, but has also served as director of eight other corporations. Frank Harrington has been president of Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and associated companies and held various other directorships and trusteeships, as well as serving many civic organizations.

Ted Lamb, as we all know, has been an entrepreneur extraordinaire, as well as being an author of three books and a lawyer all at the same time.

The remaining dozen are nicely divided between business success, academic and scholarly pursuits, and government service in each case with some overlapping. There is no space to do justice to any of them, but those whose prime success has been in business are Dave Dyche, Joe Falcon, Walt Kidde, John Loeb,Ed Mansure, Harry Mills, and Brad Walker.

On the academic and scholarly side, we have George Avery, botanist, former professor, and now director of the famous Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as well as a prolific writer in the botanical field; Bill McNiff, historian, lecturer, author, and professor; Frank Rolfe, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA; NormMaclean, English professor and dean at the University of Chicago, as well as author of two highly-acclaimed books and of prize-winning poetry.

Our government service representative is Larry Hewes, a natural resources economist with the United States Department of Agriculture. Larry is the author of three books and has handled many government assignments in the Far East.

Happily, I'm sure, by next month errors and omissions in the above will lead to newsworthy letters and more personal comments.

Late bulletin from the 60th reunion committee: The committee met in August and has developed a tentative program and issued the following information about room reservations. The College has assigned the Lodge (formerly the Lebanon Street annex of the Hanover Inn) to serve exclusively for our class. One or more student assistants will be regularly on duty there. The Lodge contains 36 double rooms, each with bath. Requests for a Lodge room assignment should be made directly to the College. Those who would prefer to stay at the Hanover Inn should apply directly to the Inn for reservations, as promptly as possible.

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