1956

Western Washington University's School of Education has named Paul Ford as vice president for academic affairs. Paul has been at WWU since 1970 and continues to make significant contributions in the areas of teacher education, public school administration programs for the handicapped, and innovative and enriched education. Congratulations, Paul!

The 50th birthday list has peaked, as one would expect. October and November 1934, however, were still prolific months.

Born in October was Bill Beard, who complains from Syracuse, "Why is there so much more to learn?" Mickey Baten will turn 50 in New York, Jim Breeden in Lexington, Mass., Prentiss Carnell in Albany, Tom Curless in Chatham, N.J. and Dick DeVoto at the Colorado School of Mines.

Alan Dekker takes an optimistic view in Columbus, Ohio: "Life begins at 40 true. I believe that it may even get better at 50." Jack Devine is a teacher in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Crile Doscher is a surgeon but lives in a hot-air balloon above Mount Vemon, I11.Peter Downs will celebrate in Wellesley, Mass., Bill Ehrenfeld in San Francisco, JimFlynn in Big Flats, N.Y., and Walter Granville-Smith in Rowayton, Conn. East from the University of lowa, Bill Grigsby will clock 50 in Hanover. Bob Grossman will observe the day in Chicago, Leo Halligan in Newark, N.J. Mott Hupfel in Wilmington, Del., DickKarslake in Camp Hill, Pa., and Richard Keesey at the University of Wisconsin. Another educator, Sandy Heath, in Moores town, N.J., suggests that we "not shrink from our responsibilities towards the rest of mankind." Quite a birthday challenge. Columbus, Ohio, will be the site of Paul Keith's birthday, Hinsdale, N.Y., for Tom Krampf, New York City for Arnold Levin, and maybe Arlington, Va., for Gill Livingston.

An APO resident is Matthew Lorimer, last heard of in Helsinki. George Mangone will turn 50 in Medford, N.J., Bert Poritsky in St. Paul, and Tom Porter in Anchorage. JamesQuan will observe the day in New York City, Roy Raja, farming in Quincy, Mass.,Ed Ross in Milwaukee, Wise., and Bud Schattman in Woodmere, N.Y., as president of Mountain Coaster Corporation, whatever that does.

Tom Strauss will continue his "inner journey" in Lakeside, Ariz. Dick Tiersten is a physician in New York City, Herb West, a professor at VPI. New York TV director BobWolfe regards his life as "well worth living." Isn't it!

A few less in the month of November. Steve Alven will celebrate with "Those Guys in Amsterdam, N.Y." Bruce Baekey will take a day off from McGraw-Hill in Milford, Conn. "More is better cannot go on forever/' observes Neill Barker in Pittsburgh. Presumably this does not include birthdays. BobBecker may have a garbage birthday cake in Tampa, Fla. Ted Beck with will celebrate in Painesville, Ohio.

Pete Bernard from Skillman, N.J., takes time off from collecting class dues to observe that "the individual is the only defense and can make a difference." Roasting coffee in San Francisco, Bob Bransten agrees that "we must be sensitive to the needs of all our citizens. . . ." State College, Pa., will be the birthday location for Joe Cotter, Pittsburgh for Jim Craig. Down in Houston, another philosopher, Dave Denison, notes that "much can be accomplished through continuing and improved communication, acceptance of inevitable change, and growth within ourselves." Here! Here!

Fred Duffield, perhaps still in the navy, will turn 50 in November. The many satisfied clients of Bob Dumont will help him celebrate in Boston. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta will have a sterile birthday cake for Ken Herrman. Dr. Al Holzwarth will celebrate in Bangor, Maine. In New Jersey or Vermont, Toby Julian will receive at least a half a dozen cards from his six children.

John Koehring will mark the day in Alexandria, Va., George Kros now ski in Mechanicsburg,Pa., and Art Kunst in Black Earth, Wise. Finally recovering from the Olympics, Bob Long will return to satellite lasers in Los Angeles. An election year thought comes from Al Maca in Chicago: "I have confidence in our nation, our people, and the American way." Rick Mell, who is engaged in family dynamics, appropriately in Excelsior, Minn., finds his life "stimulating, exciting, rewarding personally, and helpful to society in a small way." Something to shoot for by all of us.

Bill Miles from the Bank of California in San Francisco shares Al's thought with a "strong belief in the strength of the human spirit to build and create." Dick Rubottom will turn 50 in Newport Beach, Calif., BobTaft in New York City, Andy Thorns in Chevy Chase, Md., and John Wilcox in Mequon, Wise. Bill Wood son will observe his birthday in Morris Plains, N.J., if he is not in Latin America or Asia for Warner Lambert.

Again out in California, Walter Wilcox will be into something new, having discovered his conquest of quantum mechanics was obsolete. There must be a story there. From Half Moon Bay, Art Zich suggests hopefully that "the best is yet to come." Happy Birthday all, and it is.

Jonathan Strong '56 was presented with the Dartmouth Alumni Award in June. His "Dartmouth heritage is four generations deep," including his father, Dartmouth administrator Robert C. Strong '24. He attended Harvard Law School and the Tuck School and is a partner in the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow, an attorney in the field of trust and estate planning, and editor of the Massachusetts Trust and Will Manual. For the College, he has served as secretary of the Alumni Association of Massachusetts, the Tuck Alumni Association of Boston, and the Dartmouth Educational Association, and as executive committee member of his class. For four years he was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, serving as its president in his final year. In the recent Campaign for Dartmouth he served as a member of the leadership gifts committee. Most recently he chaired the ad hoc committee to review the alumni affairs program. In the community he has served on the Town Finance Committee and as "corporator of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank.

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