1953

With opening day at hand, it might as well be spring and it is. After an unsettling month of watching football, basketball, and spring training, it appears that the seasons are all mixed up. And then when you look at the weather we have had this year, the suspicion is confirmed.

Back in February, when we spent a week watching Hitler mess up Ali MacGraw's vacation, Bill Beutel was doing some fine documentary reporting. As a lead-in to the ABC spectacular, New York's Channel7 had a weeklong report by Bill called The Path to War. It reviewed the events leading up to World War II and profiled the leading participants with film clips, newsreel footage, and, for good measure, scenes from The Winds of War.

Phil Beekman is not trying to dilute Seagram, but their entry with a new line of mixers is going great guns. Look out, Canada Dry and Schweppes.

Bill Teare has been elected to the board ot Printing Industries of America. With over 10,000 member companies, P.I. A. is the largest graphic arts trade association in the world. It serves as a spokesman for the printing and graphic arts industry, which is regarded as the seventh largest in the United States and Canada.

The Center for American Archeology is ac independent teaching and research institution affiliated with Northwestern University. Stu Struever has been its director for many, many; years. C. A. A. .is now planning the first permanent archeological teaching and research field campus ever developed in the western United States. It is located at Crow Canyon, just wesr of Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. The program will be modeled after C.A.A.'s long and successful student archeolo" ogy progam at Koster in Kampsville. The program will engage students, ages 11 through university graduate level, in first-hand discovery and excavation of pueblo ruins concentrated in that region.

Pud and Liz Harrison are grandparents and doing well in Rochester, Minn. Pud is director of the coronary care units at the Mayo Clinic. He is responsible for the cardiovascular specialists and consultants. He is also active in many organizations, including as past president of the Minnesota Heart Association. He also flies around and gives lectures. And Pud has worked on the Mayor's Committee for Drug and Alcohol Abuse. But it's not all work there is still time to ski, fish and enjoy water sports.

I'm indebted to my counterpart at Wellesley, who recently wrote in her '53 column, "When the secretary of Yale '53 is hard up for news, he can turn on the tube and see Ed Meese, Fred Graham, and Richard Valeriani. I need you modest [gentlemen] to send me news about you that is not available here in Shaker Heights."

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