1942

Our class has been well treated by the media in recent weeks. The New York Times, for instance, carried a long and thoughtful piece by Art Cox (Arthur Macy Cox to the good, gray Times) on Ronald Reagan and a proper nuclear policy for this country. Art, according to the Times, "is a specialist on Soviet affairs and arms control. He is the author of Russian Roulette The Super Power Game.

Let me give you the conclusion of this op-ed essay: "We should return, also, to genuine arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union, giving priority to a ban on first-strike weapons, a comprehensive test ban, and a ban on antisatellite weapons and other military uses of space. These measures will provide a more stable framework for drastically reducing existing nuclear arsenals on an equal and verifiable basis." If any of you want more, or wish to debate, you can find Art in Dick Lippman's 1942 directory.

And our Hanover-based classmate Ad Winship came in for lots of nice press in the education field recently, when he was presented with the Eleanor Collier Award for the New England district of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. More on the award, and on its deserving recipient, is below.

Honored another way was Harry Jacobs, elected to chair the board of Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences. Harry has been on that board since 1979 and said on his election to the chair, "I am delighted by the honor and excited about the challenge." He is still running Bache, the firm he has worked for since hanging up his wings as a U.S.A.F. flight instructor in 1945. It also goes without saying that Harry is an active fellow in financial and civic affairs of the Empire State.

We received a long and interesting letter from Jim Rendall which is reproduced here in part: "Laura and I are just back from a marvelous Dartmouth Alumni College Abroad entitled "The Hero in History, From Alexander to Justinian." One hundred and thirty-five of us cruised the Adriatic and Aegean seas for 13 days in early October. We visited sites associated with Philip and Alexander, Paul and the Apostles, and Justinian and his successors. We had read for months before our trip and listened nightly to lectures from our four visiting professors. Lest you think it all studious, we also danced and partied almost every evening. It was a magical trip and we both want to do it again."

Harry Bond, of English Department fame, also gets around. We received a card from him mailed while on a sojourn in sunny California. He was visiting children and grandchildren and promised to return eventually to Hanover, good Yankee thinking, and honest effort. To us he sounded reluctant. California may have gotten to him. Knowing Hanover in January as we do, we wouldn't wonder if it had.

Ran into Buck Buckalew at someone's tailgate and got another illustration of how time flies. It seems that Buck had a good friend on Allen Street, where the museum was, in his college days. He came back to his 40th, tried to look her up, and found the lady, house, street, and museum all gone without a trace. Sic transit gloria.

Your scribe received a few new insights on retirement from classmates at a football game. Buckalew to Burns (Dick): "Don't worry about filling your time; to read the paper and go to the bank takes all morning." Commented Dick Rugen to Buckalew: "What do you mean; it takes me all morning to just get through the paper."

Ad Winship got a lovely letter from Tom McElin's widow Sylvia, who wrote in part: "He was really quite well, had been to three medical meetings this fall, and on that Monday had thoroughly enjoyed two hospital meetings and a two-hour session with the.medical students. That evening I had seldom seen him in a happier mood and we were making plans for Greece in the spring. I have received literally hundreds of letters from friends, patients, and colleagues - that only proves how many lives Tom touched."

One colleague from the Cleveland Clinic wrote of Tom, "His organizational abilities, intellectual curiosity, facility in communicating, and his personal qualities were a marvel to us all. He was a giant."

Another note which Ad received and forwarded to us concerned Ben Page, who went back to the hospital to check out the coronary bypasses he had done four years ago. Apparently an arteriogram indicated that further surgery was not warranted. According to the note, "Ben will spend a few days in the hospital while his medication is adjusted to take care of his angina." Ben, the class wishes you well.

Well, there you have it for the month. Keep this hapless scribe posted so that you may become famous in the pages of this illustrious magazine.

Addison L. Winship '42, vice president for development and alumni affairs at the College, wasrecently honored as the recipient of the Eleanor Collier Award of the Council for the Advancementand Support of Education. Winship is Dartmouth's second winner of the award, namedfor the lateEleanor Collier, first woman president of a predecessor organization of C.A.S .E. The first recipientWas Winship's pedecessor as vice president, George Colton '35. During Winship's 17 years infundraising for the College, Dartmouth has received more than $340 million in gifts from grantsand private sources. Said to know by their first names 10,000 of the College's 40,000 alumni, he15 regarded as one of the premier philanthropic fundraisers in the country.

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