1931

In the last ten years DickBaldwin and his wife have flown over 20,000 miles in Alaska, including the coastal area from Prudhoe Bay to Point Barrow, and routes to many other places. His curiosity about and interest in things in geographic, geologic, and ethnic, and in waterfowl-breeding, developed in Hanover. These, combined with having a daughter and her family in Alaska, prompted this exploration. Dick anticipates attending our 60th in 1991.

Dick Henry finds his TV-like viewing monitor a blessing in helping him read, and is confident he'll master its typewriter arrangement. Except for rising costs for students, Dick generally is comfortable with Hanover's overall performance. TowerSnow, however, expresses concern.

The Hood Museum announced the display from September 2 to November 26 of Ming-Ch'i figures from Chinese funerary sculpture assembled by our Bill Little.Wally Lyons confirmed he'd contributed to the Alumni Fund, and Beany Thorn announced a forthcoming snorkeling tour of the coast of New Guinea.

Comments on the college/university issue: Monroe Karasik's "Dartmouth's mission is to teach undergraduates, and to get the best possible teachers to do the teaching ... and, to attract such teachers, they must be given the time and opportunity to continue to learn, reach out, research, and teach graduate courses"; but becoming a big university would "distort the College out of all recognition, and relegate its virtues to feeble adjuncts of a machine for the mass production of specialists." Ed Rothschild's "I gather there is no danger of the College becoming a university." Chub Hetfiela's concern for Dartmouth's traditions. SamGroves's recollections of his having been a trustee at two universities and several other organizations. Rusty Rusterholdtz's expression of pleasure and surprise with the English Department's stand against graduate instruction at last April's COW session in 105 Dartmouth, and "Throughout my career I wanted to, and did teach on the college level only. Surely Dartmouth can recruit enough faculty who feel that way." John H. Chamberlin's ". . . we should remain a college, the best of that class, and I've written same to Chairman Munroe."

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