1941

This year has seen a more than normal amount of movement among non-faculty employees of the College for reasons open to speculation. On the staff of the Magazine, the top man resigned, and there were several shifts, including Teri Allbright's appointment as acting associate editor and her replacement on the class notes by . Karen Endicott. I visited in Hanover with both of them in August, but not until I was back at the ranch did I learn of Teri's parting shot in my direction. She dropped the third page from my September notes, which gives me some catching up to begin with in this little essay.

IJiad commented on the 1986 Alumni Fund, and now there are final figures to consider. We're a little short overall as a body of alumni and bringing up the rear as a class clustered with five others for record-keeping. No surprises really, particularly in light of events adversely impacting Dartmouth and the fact that 1941 operated without a head class agent. Of course, it's never too late to make a contribution, whatever the year. Even a "sitterout" can change his mind and send a check belatedly. How about it?

Nice piece about Joe Wilder in MDMagazine, January 1986, and another one two months later in Manhattan Medicine. In the later, one reads that "in his three worlds surgical theater, artist's studio, and athlete's arena Joe Wilder, MD, has no peers; he is an authentic triple threat man for our time." The earlier publication featured the sports paintings Joe has turned out. See also his book, Athletes: Paintings by Joe Wilder, MD, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and the C.V. Mosby Company. Wah-hoo-wah and give a rouse, both, for Joe.

I noticed with interest Bob Frothingham's letter to the editor in the May DAM. Picked up from the Summer edition, sorrowfully, the death of John Francis Twist 111 '6B, son of our classmate, John Twist, and Patricia. Similarly with regret, I have to report the death, following an accident, of Robert Webster"Soup" Campbell on May 31 of this year. And from Hanover a "corporate change report" discloses the retirement of Priscilla K. Frechette Maynard as director of Indian Head Banks Inc. of Nashua, N.H.

In November a reader of these notes might reasonably be expecting to learn about the guys and gals who showed up for the fall reunion on the weekend of the Harvard game. Not so, of course, given the two months of lead time imposed on class secretaries each wearing the hat of scrivener. Hence, I reach back to tell you about 12 delightful August days in Hanover during this summer's Alumni College. Joining Shelley and Jack Hayes, from South Carolina, and Jan and Ed Martin, out of the Bay State, Dickie and I, fresh from a wipe-out tennis camp at Amherst, got the gray matter stirred up with a heavy trip on the "Machine in the Garden." This theme, as described in TheBulletin of April 1986, was "An tion of the value of our liberal arts education in understanding and living in an increasingly complicated, even forbidding, technological and scientific world." The lectures, on top of advance readings previously mentioned, were impressively provocative in addressing the effects of "the machine" on "the garden" from the perspectives of literature, art, history, science, philosophy, and religion. Discussion groups afforded ample opportunity for an exchange of views among the students, and I came away with the feeling that the machine is presently out of control and all of us are in danger of becoming merely gardeners in the machinery.

Fringe benefits of the experience included the excitement of the Dartmouth summer semester, canoeing on the Connecticut and swimming in the river, tennis on the clay courts, a bagpiper in the cemetery where Eleazar rests unperturbed, a visit during coffee break by Harry Tanzi, and the Big Apple Circus. All of it was such great fun that an unsolicited testimonial comes easily. The Martins are bent on returning next year, and that sounds good to me, too. Hope to see you there. But for now there is room only to add: Peace and Joy.

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