1949

Continuing and sparkling deeds of the class of 1949 abound. Peter K. New, our somewhat peripatetic classmate, who is a native of Shanghai, is presently operating his intellectual and scholastic exercises from the University of South Florida iri Tampa. I regret that I didn't know Peter's location during the middle of January when I spent seven days in Tampa in my role as chairman of the San Francisco Super Bowl by the Bay Task Force. (The 1985 Super Bowl will be at Stanford Stadium.) I happen to be the chairman of the Task Force which secured the game for the San Francisco Bay Area, and I had the hardly onerous task of observing the manner in which. Tampa presented Super Bowl XVIII. Although the Dartmouth references were plentiful (the chairman of the Tampa committee has a daughter graduating from Dartmouth this June; Rusty Martin, class of 1961, is assistant director of NFL Properties Inc.; and I played tennis near Boca Raton with Stan Nelson and Dick Arnold of the class of '50 and my cousin, Tom Green of the class of 1958) I wish I had been able to see Peter. As a matter of fact, we attended a Frank Sinatra concert the night before the Super Bowl at the University of South Florida's Sun Dome. Anyway, Peter continues his research in the area of Chinese medical history as chairman of USF's sociology department. Peter is also past chairman of the medical sociology section of the American Sociological Association and current president of the Society for Applied Anthropology. There is a photograph of Peter in the university newspaper, depicting that effervescent, cheery fellow, replete with bow tie. He looks good.

Weighing in from Lakewood, Ohio, in near-college condition, is the great NellieAbrahamsen, doctor of optometry. Nellie reports that he has served the Ohio Optometric Association as president and recently completed a year as president of the State Board of Optometry, under appointment by thenGovernor James A. Rhodes. Academic fellow that he is, he reports enjoyment over such service, especially "writing and grading examinations." Nellie and wife Kay were last in Hanover in the fall of 1982. They lay claim to children with catholic tastes in education and vocations. Daughter Laura is a member of the class of 1985 at Dartmouth, majoring in the classics and showing extravagant scholastic ability. Son Erik graduated from Hobart College, served for two years as a policeman in Lakewood, and is now at Cleveland State University School of Law. Daughter Chris is an aspiring actress and director in San Francisco. While on a visit to Chris, Nellie and Kay stopped at your scribe's law office, but I missed them. Kay is a night supervisor of nurses at St. John's Hospital in Cleveland, while Nellie maintains the optometric practice started by his grandfather in 1902. His father, still practices optometry several days a week, marking 53 and a half years of practice following graduation from Ohio State in 1930. Nellie and Kay enjoy 150 acres of woods and fields in Holmes County, Ohio, 83 miles south of Lakewood. Holmes County is the largest Amish community in the world. Nellie's report should inspire Bill Marden and A1Sullivan to check in with me.

I hate to do it, but I must report an article in the New York Daily News last fall, memorializing a party at the Union League Club in New York City to initiate a $30-million fundraising effort to restore the Statue of Liberty in time for its 100 th birthday in 1986. The dinner was sponsored by the New York State Statue of Liberty Celebration Foundation. The chairman of that foundation is Charles J. Urstadt. Mayor Edward Koch stated that a donation to the foundation "is a way of giving yourself a tie with eternity, because it will be there forever." An inexpensive exercise is for each member of our class to match Urstadt's donation to the statue; Jay's "eternity" is best measured by a photograph depicting the "Maritime Princess" and "Maritime Queen," with Jay's arms somehow encircling both beauties. The leer on Jay's face is the same as it was in 1945 on his first visit to Smith. He himself seems eternal.

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