1959

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The mailbag has brought recent news from or about four classmates who are associated with the world of academia. TomNoonan was reelected to a third term as chair of the department of East European Studies at the University of Minnesota. He was also elected a fellow of the American Numismatic Society. For the past three years, Sig Ginsburg has enjoyed serving in his post as vice president for finance and administration at Barnard College. In addition to teaching graduate business at Fordham, Sig finds time to lecture, consult, and write. He reports that wife Judith is a branch sales manager at Chemical Bank, while daughter Beth and son David are sophomores at Barnard and in high school, respectively. Mai Halliday, principal of Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md., since 1971, spent last summer as a Fulbright scholar to India, from which he visited Nepal, as well. And Wells "Banger"Langbehn reports that, while visiting daughter Amy, a freshman at Indiana University, Bloomington, he had a couple of nice conversations with my old debating partner, Ken Rogers, who is dean of international studies there.

Mike Diamond, M.D., has lived in the Daytona Beach area with his wife, Sue (a graduate of both Skidmore College, 1960, and Boston University, 1961), since 1977. A 1963 graduate of Boston University's School of Medicine, Mike is engaged in a busy private practice of allergy and pulmonary medicine in Ormond Beach, which he describes as a rapidly growing community in the Daytona area. Mike is the current president of the Florida Allergy and Immunology Society, and performs the pollen counts in his area. He and Sue have two sons, Eric, 24 (University of Florida 'B5) and John, a senior physics major at Duke. Although Mike "doubts anyone knows this," he was scoutmaster of Troop 18 in Hanover, N.H., in 1958-59, when he was a senior at Dartmouth. He is still proud of the fact that Troop 18 won the statewide Camporee competition by a wide margin (finishing first in seven of nine events). Mike has remained active in scouting over the years, having participated in the last three national Boy Scout Jamborees—in 1977 as a physician with the Northeast region, and in 1981 and 1985 as public health officer for the Southeast region. I cannot improve on the last paragraph of his letter: "If Dartmouth again recruits football players instead of demonstrators, I may attend some football games. Getting a new president was certainly a positive step. By the way, I drive a white van with a green D with the Dartmouth Indian on the tire cover."

From the opposite corner of the country in Olympia, Wash., comes the news that Andy and Mary Hommeyer saw their son John '88, captain-elect of the 1987-88 Dartmouth varsity baseball team, and his teammates in action last spring at the Riverside, Calif., tourney and at the NCAA regionals at Atlanta, Ga. Comments Andy: "they are a great group of young men ... pointing to another championship season."