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Thanks to Quentin Kopp '49 and Dick Gilman there is more than enough news to meet the new 500-word limitation this month. Quentin sent a clipping from SanFrancisco Business which featured Ann Bennett wife of Huntley Bennett who was in charge of hospitality at the U.S. Open golf tournament in San Francisco this past June. Basically her job was to provide for 15,000 meals over a five-day period for the guests of 32 corporate sponsors, each of whom had a 2,400-square-foot tent with a 400-square-foot patio. Besides providing food and drink each day Ann was responsible for meeting all code requirements for fire, health, and building in the erection of the tents. Hunt has been retired as manager of Newsweek's west coast office for five years. He and Ann were among classmates attending the activities surrounding the Navy game in Baltimore last fall.

Quentin provided news of his own activities. His stationery indicates he is a supervisor of the city of San Francisco but he is also a state senator for San Francisco and San Mateo counties. As such he has received editorial support for his proposals to protect areas where community annexation affected police protection. Also he filed legislation to protect rail commuter traffic in the whole Bay area.

Dick Gilman's retirement as president of Occidental College as of August 1, 1988, has been announced. Dick has been in charge there since 1965, so his 23-year tenure is undoubtedly the longest of any college president serving today. Among his accomplishments are the following: increasing endowment from $11 million to $130 million, national recognition for the college, reducing enrollment from 1,800 to 1,600 by reducing doctoral programs to encourage undergraduate teaching, and establishing a student-faculty ratio of 12 to 1, one of the lowest in the country. Dick owns a condominium in Cambridge which he expects will bring him to New England more often even though he will remain in California. His three sons are graduates of Dartmouth, Brad '74, Brian '77, and Tucker '81. A newspaper article enclosed with his letter mentioned his graduate degree from Boston University but failed to mention his Dartmouth degree for which I assume Dick properly chastised the writer.

I hope that many of you saw President Freedman on This Week with David Brinkley on September 5. He was forthright, articulate, and answered some pointed questions with ease and candor. A summer neighbor, Jim Shanahan '47, was on the committee which interviewed the president when he applied for admission to Dartmouth (he went to Harvard) and said that it was the only time that he felt like the interviewee rather than the interviewer. It would appear that the College is in good hands.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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