1932

Reference was made in the November class notes to evidence that demotion of Ivy League football to Division 1-AA status had affected newspaper as well as television coverage of the game. After the Holy Cross game, which was virtually ignored by The New York Times, coverage of Ivy League games by the Times seemed to improve. Perhaps there were complaints from Ivy alumni about the lack of attention to the amateur brand of college football.

During the professional football strike, more space might have been expected to be available for college games, even Division 1-AA. But when the season ended, the Times gave little attention to the Ivy League. No one would have known from reading the Sunday Times of November 21 that Dartmouth shared the Ivy championship with Harvard and Pennsylvania.

While keeping an eye on press Coverage of 1982 college football, I was impressed as never before by the degree to which the big-money teams with their semi-professional players dominate the sports news. Perhaps another year players on those teams, like the all-out pros, will go on strike for higher pay and leave some space on the sports pages for the Ivy League and other amateur college teams.

In a speech at the Dartmouth Night dinner in Boston last fall, President McLaughlin mentioned that Dartmouth is the only Ivy League college that has been following the academic guidelines for Ivy League athletic teams in all sports except one. The guidelines, which allow only one standard deviation below the class average, were agreed to by the Ivy presidents in 1956. Dartmouth moved immediately to meet the standards, but other Ivy schools have been slow to follow.

When President McLaughlin reported that Dartmouth's women's win-loss record is better than the men's, he received a resounding splash of applause. I have always been an enthusiast about women at Dartmouth, and my judgment was confirmed when a young woman from the class of '79 asked me to dance - an invitation which was accepted with pleasure. Something of an honor for the only '32 representative present.

President McLaughlin spoke briefly about all the national attention being devoted to the Dartmouth Review. "ABC, Time, and Newsweek," he said, "have all reminded us the doctrine of free speech is alive and well at Dartmouth. And it all makes for a healthy campus," which doubtless is about as tolerant a view of the situation as possible.

I saw the ABC program, which was billed as dealing with college right-wing publications, but it was almost entirely devoted to Dartmouth and the Review. The January issue of the American Spectator also reviewed the Review and took note of the notoriety achieved by the Dartmouth publication compared with right-wing publications on other college campuses.

Whip Walser, who continues to be a major source of news, reports via President Jim Corbett that he was best man at a civil wedding ceremony for Ev and Laurie Stuhrman in Gait Ocean Mile, Fort Lauderdale. Attired in his judicial black robe, Milt Alpert officiated, duplicating in civil terms a ceremony conducted a year before in the Episcopal Church. Whip reported that he and Addie are leaving for a threeweek trip to China in April.

Dr. George Hahn writes that he attended the Third Jugoslavian-United States Medical Meeting in Sarajevo, which also will be the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics. George was moderator at three sessions and banquetmeister at two official dinners. At the dinners he says repeated toasts became increasingly enjoyable. He is continuing work in the field of malignancy, surgery, laser surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy.

The obituary for Fred Birmingham '33 in the November issue didn't mention that he was an accomplished pianist, although he deprecated his ability because he had frozen his fingers as a youngster on a hike up Mt. Washington. Anyway, he was still good enough at the keyboard to attract attention. On warm spring days when the windows of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house were open, passersby would approach and stand outside to listen to his playing. And despite the injury to his hands, he was a strong tennis player.

Finally, I pass on with regret the news sent to me by Edward B. "Jack" Hall of the death of Dieter Schoeller, a German exchange student who attended Tuck with many members of our class. He died in Duren, Germany, in July 1981. Dieter and Jack became friends at Dartmouth and maintained contact with each other after college. Dieter's family operated woolen mills in Duren. He served in the German army during World War II, reluctantly, according to Jack's account, and was a prisoner of war for a time. After the war, Dieter and his wife Ruth came to this country to visit their daughter in college and had a reunion with the Halls in Rochester, N.Y. Dieter rebuilt the family business in Duren on a smaller scale after the war. Jack thought Dieter might have been one of Dartmouth's first foreign exchange students.

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