1924

In the October issue I adumbrated about our class representation in Who's Who in America and invited reports of errors. It turned out that I was too modest about our standing in this department. After the report of one alumnus about being omitted, I went back to Who Was Who in America, and after wasting an hour or two, discovered that to be listed in that you had to be not only formerly listed in Who's Who but also dead. Since I was working only with our survivors, this did not advance me. I then undertook to check the edition for living members of the class, but only got part way through the Hs before the deadline hereafter mentioned. I do want to add, however, three names that I have found out about. One by my search and two by wild stabs in the edition. These include Robin Robinson, our class newsletter editor, an extraordinary mathematician, and a music buff, and Dick Morin, our reunion chairman and former College librarian. I also discovered in my search EarlDaum, whose career with General Motors and whose, activity in foreign affairs should not have been overlooked.

At the time I did the percentage figures for the October issue, I was working with the class numbers prior to the death of DougCraig, so he should have been included as well. This would bring us up to or above the ten percent about which another class bragged in the latest issue of the Magazine.

Thanks to Os Skinner '28, I also have new light on Norm Maclean, on the re-publication of his A River Runs Through It. This gift edition was the subject of a two-column spread in The New York Times on September 23, 1983, which quotes extensively from the book and from which I crib the following:

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by Waters.

Just under the wire, I have received notice of the death of Joe Moyes. An obituary will appear in either this or a subsequent issue of the Magazine. I also regret to report the death of Helen Jenkins, widow of Arnie Jenkins, on Christmas Day, and of Ted Nilsen's wife Harriet December 27.

This column is somewhat shortened by the fact that I am leaving during the next couple of hours to get married to Elizabeth Lee Jeffers, Brown '24. We shall see you all in Han- over on June 11-13.

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