1953
College is a period of life during which opinions are molded and values reach maturity. Think back. Who had an effect on your opinions and values? It was most likely a combination of the whole Dartmouth experience. Part of that experience was The Dartmouth.
Brock Brower, Princeton, N.J., was the editor in chief. After Dartmouth, he attended Harvard Law School for a brief period and then Oxford before becoming a journalist and novelist. He was a strong contributor to Life before it changed format. He published Debris in 1967; a collection of political pieces in 1968, Other
Loyalties: A Politics of Personality; and in 1972, The Late Great Creature. At present, he is a contributor to Harper's magazine, The New York Times, and New York Magazine, and is working on his third novel, Mischief Night. And finally, he's the editor of a weekly newsletter about publishing. He and spouse Ann, a realtor, have a son, Montgomery, and four daughters, Emily, Elizabeth, Margret, and Alison. Montgomery is Dartmouth '81, a Henry Luce Fellow who is with People Magazine. Emily graduated from Wesleyan and does research. Elizabeth is a Stanford grad and in Japan. Margret graduates from Dartmouth in June and is deeply involved in college theater. Alison is at home in high school. Brock has been able to retain that unique combination of being both profound and prolific.
Peter Grenquist, New York, N.Y., was editorial chairman of The Dartmouth, aptly suited to that role for he was a campus leader and Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. Following the navy, he earned a master's in English and a doctorate at Columbia. While earning his doctorate he analyzed U.S. policy goals in an organization established by Dwight Eisenhower. In 1962, he joined Prentice Hall as director for Spectrum Books; he became president of their trade books division in 1972. When Prentice Hall purchased Arco Publishing, he was a natural to assign the task of integration and reorganization of that company and was appointed president and CEO. Within a short time, however, Gulf and Western, through a series of mergers and acquistions, combined three companies, including Prentice Hall and Arco, into one and created a mid-life challenge for Peter. On the strength of his experience and accomplishments, he will not be long without employment. Peter and spouse Barbara, an editor with Gloverdale Press, have a son, Carl, who is at the Trinity School and a daughter, Louise, who is at Spence. Both Peter and Barbara are devoted to a second home at Wainscott, Long Island. We cannot leave the subject of Peter Grenquist without reminding the class that he was the publisher of our 25th yearbook, The FirstTwenty-Five Years. In the words of DonGoss, "Without Peter there simply would be no book."
Burton Bernstein, Bridgewater, Conn., was the columns editor of The Dartmouth and has had an almost uninterrupted career in journalism. His military obligation was fulfilled as an army public information officer. Upon discharge he was a writer for Mike Wallace's "Nightbeat" show on television. In 1979, he joined TheNew Yorker magazine and has been a contributing staff writer since. He has a number of publications to his credit, including The Grove, a novelized selection of short stories; The Lost Art, a potpourri of imaginary conversations; The Sticks, about rural poverty in the Adirondacks; Thurber, a biography; and Sinai, The Great and TerribleWilderness. For the research on this last book, he actually lived in the desert with Bedouins. His latest is Plane Crazy, a story about his lifelong interest in flying. Burt has applied for the journalist-in-space selection. He is divorced and has remarried Jane Anderson, a fiction editor also with The New Yorker. From his first marriage, there is daughter Karen, a state lobbyist in Boston, and son Mike, a junior at George Washington University. Both he and Jane enjoy tennis, and to his credit, Burt plays singles in the same size shorts that he had in college.
Modern media is a virtual blitz. In contrast, we depended upon newspapers and periodicals in the early fifties. The Dartmouth was an important voice, and whether or not you agreed with their position, Brock, Peter, and Burt put issues before us and thus contributed to our opinions and values.
The Dartmouth Alumni Award was presented to David Jon Mandelbaum '54 at the Alumni Council meeting in November. He has served Dartmouth as a member of 1954's class executive committee, as a class agent, class cam- paign coordinator, class treasurer (he was named Class Treasurer of the Year in 1964), class president, and longtime enrollment director for the Dartmouth Club of Westchester. He received the Class of 1954 Award in 1983. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and gives a great deal of time to causes such as the University Shelter of New York, an organization which assists immigrants to the U.S.
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