1947

It seems to this writer that there are seasons in our yearly experience with Dartmouth College. The winter typifies, for me, a lot that Dartmouth means: the crisp cool days, the crunch of feet on snow, the long white afternoons, the twilight glow, skiing, ice hockey games, Carnival, and snow sculptures.

Spring means walking the Hanover countryside—as I did for Botany 20 with Dr. Lyons and Zoology 17 with Doc GriggsHums in front of Dartmouth Hall, and fraternity meetings.

Summer nearly always conjures up a Reunion memory, which to me means a bustle of activity, and some great classmates and College people. Fall, or more exactly, October, for me means a new beginning, new energy. Even though the school starts moving in September, I find as an alum I'm winding up summer and just starting to look at a new year, with mini-reunion in midOctober, new students in our class intern program, Dartmouth Night, and sort of a renewed interest.

That's my season, and I can sense a new burst of feeling already brimming for October. I also realize that in the course of several years something has been slowly taken away from me, like cutting off a finger an inch at a time. That warm new seasonal glow has often been accompanied by newspaper controversy, College controversy, incidents and events demeaning to Dartmouth. Question and controversy seem to override the memories which seem so pleasant. Like a cloud over a picnic. But all that has changed. People I've talked with say this fall will be new and bright. The Review and its controversy and continual bickering had a spoiling influence over my Dartmouth alumni feelings. But I believe the Review is now seen in a different light and Dartmouth College looks a lot better. It's all because President Freedman said, in effect, "The emperor has no clothes on." He said the Review is divisive, insensitive, and misusing freedoms not champion of a cause at all. President Freedman is as new and innocent on the scene as a child who viewed the emperor's invisible clothes, and when he says the Review is divisive, you can believe it. The sooner support for this paper evaporates from alumni and other sources, the better off will be Dartmouth College. That's why things already look better for a great new season this October.

News Spots:

Brian Frazier '89 is our class of '47 Presidential Intern. Class president Alan Epstein did an admirable job jumping into the void of our class agent's job, and we had an improved year to show for it. Danny Carroll in May was named director of Medstat Systems Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich. He is chairman of a consulting firm, Carroll Group, Inc. O.B. Butler was honored in March by the Fund for Educational Excellence. NormFink, deputy vice president for development at Columbia University, is influential in circles of higher education and fundraising, and his works are often quoted.

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