1956

There is still time to make a voluntary contribution to the Alumni Fund before StuKlapper's Kleptomaniacs take it off you. Education is a priceless opportunity, and those of us who had the good fortune to have savored some of Dartmouth's offerings are duty-bound to help make them available to future generations.

A classmate who not only lives but practices his faith and commitment is Jack To we, director of the Sign of the Cross, a housing ministry in Cincinnati. Jack describes it as a "housing laboratory" which renovates multifamily buildings and rents them inexpensively to low income tenants. The nonprofit group relies on grants and low interest loans from individuals and church groups. Jack has a career background in law management, industrial relations, fund-raising, and social services administration. An individual does indeed make a difference.

June 1935 seems to have produced an unusual crop of classmates. Four of the six born in that month are or have been involved in the medical profession as doctors or administrators.

Fred Chang is a surgeon and professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Wichita. Like many of his profession, he expressed concern about the "major problems confronting us." It is a recurring theme throughout the 25th reunion book. Classmates might wish to comment on "how we're doing" as a nation in addressing these unidentified problems.

Up in Merrimack, N.H., Dave Channen will take a day off from his job as sales manager of a floor-covering firm in Massachusetts to celebrate his birthday. Another doctor, George Groch, will probably not take the day off from his practice of internal medicine in Northfield, N.J.

Also in New Jersey, this time in Morristown, architect and planner Dean Hofe will turn 50, still concerned that "as a nation we are striving to maintain peace, the world's respect, and a sound financial/economic system." Aren't these things that we can continue to work on only while at the same time recognizing they will never be realized fully? Any thoughts?

Howard Newman, formerly administrator at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, has moved his base of operations to Chevy Chase, Md. Reaching 50 presents no problem. "I have always thought of myself as something of an iconoclast am optimistic about the future."

Our final doctor, Tom Nichols, made a career switch to environmental planner in Vancouver, British Columbia. He warns others "who might be considering taking the plunge that it is sometimes frightening and often grueling, but always exhilarating." How many others in the class have had the courage to make such a change so far along in their careers? Comments welcome, since at some point your secretary is bound to run out of birthdays. Peace.

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