1949

A colleague in the business of monthly class secretarial reporting, Os Skinner, of the class of 1928, was thoughtful enough to send me a New York Times clipping with respect to the marriage of Bob Nutt's daughter, Sarah Hovey Nutt. Sarah, who is with CBS Television Network in New York City as director of market analysis, and Thomas M. Van Leeuwen, a vice president in the equity research department of E.F. Hutton and Company in New York, were to be married October 25. Sarah graduated from Staten Island Academy and the College (class of 1980) and received an M.B.A. degree from Columbia. Bob resides in Riverside, Conn., and is a senior vice president and director of Doyle Graf Mabley, an advertising agency in New York. Incidentally, Bob's middle daughter, Susan (Sarah is the eldest of three daughters), graduated in the class of 1981.

My old roommate in 404 New Hamp- shire Hall, Bob Weber, sent word in Au- gust that in addition to their law office in Century City (Los Angeles), his wife and he have opened two restaurants, Marix Tex Mex Cafe and Marix Tex Mex Play a. The former is in West Hollywood, and the latter is on the beach, actually 50 feet from the Pacific Coast Highway, in Santa Monica Bob declares that they are plan- ning another one in the San Francisco Bay Area and a fourth such restaurant in the San Fernando Valley. Son Jack has just completed his freshman year in Berkeley, and as Bob puts it, "two more chances for Dartmouth rest with Nina (16) and David (15)."

September was an interesting month, with San Francisco visits from John "Bull Moose" Stearns, Gordon "Punchy"Thomas, and Ort "Ort" Hicks Jr. Bui Moose's daughter, Winifred, class of 1982, is teaching at the French-American International School (a private elementary and high school) and also operating a mountain climbing and "outdoor experience partnership business in San Francisco. The most recent Dartmouth graduate m the Stearns family, Tony, class of 1986, is teaching history and serving as an assistant football coach at Hanover High School. I use Tony (although he doesn't know it) in public speeches on the dec me of teaching as an attractive profession for graduating seniors. It's regrettable that more Dartmouth graduates like Tony aren't flocking to public school teaching. It's one barometer of why public education has declined over the past three decades. Punchy was here in connection with litigation involving the Continental Banking Company in the United States District Court in San Francisco, and Ort was hot on the trail of more money for the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, where he is director of development.

Charlie Eaton furnished me with an interesting, although not buoying, statistic. Remember the windsock which Charlie sent me, and which I reported about last month? He sent windsocks to 53 of his best Dartmouth friends. Can you imagine that only one classmate paid for the windsock, 13 (including me) returned them, and 39 did not respond to Charlie or return the windsocks? Hey you guys, at least return the windsocks and restore Charlie's'faith in his classmates. Incidentally, Charlie has received 1,784 orders from Princeton alumni and can't figure out why there's such a disparity with his own college classmates. Neither can I, even if I don't have a place for a wind sock. In fact, what the heck is a windsock?

You may have read of the death threats against Professor Douglas Yates, who arranged for the Policy Studies Program to cosponsor, with the Review, a speech on the Titanic by Robert Ballard. The perpetrators have not been apprehended, but as a student commentator in the Dartmouth, Ed Sims, stated on August 8 "some. . .demented person tried to wreak havoc by striking below the belt. They decided to strike indirectly, not at the Review, not at Ballard or Bruce Valley, another lecturer that evening, but at a symbol of the College a professor. Professors represent part of the mission of Dartmouth, which is to educate America's finest students to go forth with liberal arts backgrounds and lead the world into the future. The death threats show us that some people don't understand this College's mission." As a result of the two weeks I spent last year lecturing for the Policy Studies Program in Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, I've become acquainted with Doug Yates, a solid academician with wit and perspective. It's a sorry spectacle to observe those kind of problems occurring at Dartmouth recently.

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