1938

"SHORT RETIREMENT URGES SWEET RETURN": So spake poet John Milton. Poetically. Jack Fitting, however, takes him literally. Here's a guy who is willing to stop (occasionally) . . . slow (sometimes) . . . maybe even squeeze left. But never to yield. Having recently retired for the third time, Jack is now independently brokering investment management companies. He first retired as president of Dreyfus Sales Corporation as a lad of 65, moving to be consultant for Gerry Tsai at the then American Can Company. Most recently he said ta-ta to the job of chairman/CEO of National Securities and Research Corporation. What's next? Real retirement? It would be only fitting and proper. But it's not bloody likely.

YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT: Dartmouth was featured in a recent USA Today article on crime on college campuses. In general we do right well: 97.6 percent of the students feel safe walking alone at night vs. 38 percent nationwide; 37 percent never lock their room doors, compared to 8 percent across the country. Five percent the same as the national rate say they have been assaulted on campus. But 61 percent of those who have been attacked at Dartmouth (compared to 31 percent nationally) say the attack was sexual. According to the article, a Dartmouth official remarked that "If (rape) appears to be higher here, it's because we have educated people to what it is." Who says there's been no academic progress in the past 50 years?

COVERING HILTON HEAD: A brief but highly satisfactory conversation with Fran and Nancy Worcester reveals that all's well in the Hilton Head compound. Our 50th was not only the first reunion that Fran had attended, it marked Nancy's first visit to Hanover. Both had only good things to say; both regretted not having done the deed before.

There must be a good number of you out there who haven't made the Hanover scene in years—or ever. The mini-reunions are a great way to rediscover old places and old friends.

Incidentally, Fran reports seeing TomMcGrath and finding all well there, too.

THE WAY WE WERE: December 1938. Your secretary at the time: Carl vonPechmann. The Baron's column, which received an assist this time from Bud Wall while Baron was suffering the defection of his appendix in an emergency operation, ran some three and a half columns and mentioned the multifarious activities of the entire class. Or so it seemed.

Luke Nims, Jim Cooney, Gerry Ullman, Stan Brown, and John McLane were all enrolled in Harvard Law, while Harvard Business claimed 16 classmates. Sametime, Ted Bear and John Emerson were doing graduate work in history, Ernie Hartung in biology, and Ed Lorenz in physics. Fair Harvard?

Not to be outdone, though, second year Tuck saw 18 of us toiling in the graduate vineyards. Then, finally, in the midst of his lively litany of who was doing what where, the Baron interjected this morsel:" ... and not to digress, Frank Brett is growing a mustache." Now that's coverage!

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