1965

As you read this, a hard-core group of your classmates will be recovering from a terrific mini-reunion at Pierce's Lodge in Etna and a last-minute win (!) over the Crimson in a game that undoubtedly strengthened our hold on the Ivy football championship for 1984! I know we will have had fun and shared good camaraderie at Pierce's (more on that in later columns). Since I'm suffering from jet lag after returning from the heat of the West Coast, my double-barreled prognostication about our football fortunes may be more open to question. Time will tell.

News comes this month from a wide range of sources. From the home of the "Big Red," Ithaca, N.Y., we learn that Frederic V. Bogel, professor of English and director of Cornell University's Freshman Seminar Program, has won the 1982-83 James L. Clifford Prize of the American Society for 18th-century Studies.

The Clifford Prize, named for a former 18th-century-literature professor at Columbia University, is awarded annually for the best article in 18th-century studies published during the last year. Fred won for his essay, "Dulness Unbound: Rhetoric and Pope's 'Duncaid.' "

Fred is the author of numerous articles and two books: Acts of Knowledge: Pope's Later Poems, published by the Bucknell University Press in 1981, and Literature and Insubstantiality in the Later Eighteenth Century, which was to be published by the Princeton University Press in May.

Fred went to Cornell in 1982 after 13 years on the faculty at Connecticut College. In addition to his Dartmouth degree, he earned his doctorate from Yale University in 1971.

Samuel Chu '51 sent a photograph from The Free China Journal of Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, which updates Jerome C. Ogden's activities. Jerry was with the U.S. State Department liaison office in Peking in 1975 when Mr. Chu first met him. He now is deputy director of the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT), an organization which has concentrated on improving commercial, cultural, and other relations between the United States and the ROC.

And from across the Atlantic came a newsy letter from Keith Young, who was "shamed into writing for the first time by Evan Douple, associate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who is in London on sabbatical." Evan showed up for their squash match in the Royal Marsden Hospital squash league in a Dartmouth shirt. Keith currently lives on the outskirts of London with his wife Wanda, who is an orthoptist at the hospital, and two boys, Geoffrey and David. Keith works on Regent Street in London's West End for an export company dealing with Embassy provisions. His letter contained a good chronology of his post-Dartmouth activities. Following graduation he "returned to England and spent four years in steel, leaving when the whole caboodle was nationalised as the British Steel Corporation. Since I was still single and not really established careerwise I took the opportunity of fulfilling a lifelong dream. I returned to the USA by sea, bought a VW van (covered in beer adverts!) on Staten Island, drove upstate to Ontario, and spent the summer working at a motel/ golf course. Come the first snows I collected an old school friend who was doing postgraduate work at McGill, and we drove south. Through Mexico and Central America down to Colombia, Peru (where he got off), and finally Chile where I arrived on Christmas Eve 1969 after being stuck in the Atacama desert for a week with a blown engine.

"I sold the van in Chile (after driving over the Andes and back twice to get the necessary documentation) and flew back via Brazil (two weeks up in the Amazon), and the Caribbean.

"Settling back in England was something of a strain so I went to Spain for a while and worked in the travel business. I tried England again and found it irresistible after taking up motor racing.

"Then I got married, gave up travel and motor racing, and became a decent, honest citizen."

Keith keeps in constant touch with Dartmouth folk through the Dartmouth Club of London. He mentioned in particular an excellent day-trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. He says he used to see Ray Newell who married a Dutch girl and settled in Holland, and his "Sig Ep roommate Frank Bellizia was a frequent visitor he used to pop over every year just to go to the theatre" as far as Keith could see. Some years ago, Keith was best man for Tom Long "who somehow contrived to get married over here albeit to an American girl."

Thanks for the letter, Keith. You've had some good experiences and have seen some interesting places. One trip to plan on now, though, is to Hanover next June 13-16 for our reunion look forward to hearing more firsthand.

Why don't others of you follow Keith's good example and send a long, informative letter (or a postcard) and tell the rest of us what you're up to?

Happy fall hope to see some of you in Hanover. Keep the faith,

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