1941

Sitting at my word processor, in my own space in the condo we moved into a while ago, gearing up for my almost-monthly stint of turning out a column of Class Notes for DAM, I'm thinking April. 'Tis true what has been said about the trickiness of April, an example of which is trekking through the snow on a scheduled hike during Class Officers Weekend in Hanover at the end of the month. But does not April at least herald the coming, where we experience seasonal change, of the open, warm, sun-season, the several months of baseball, outdoor tennis and swimming, track and field, gardening, cycling, and all sorts of the walking that is a mainstay for so many of us? Let's hear it for April!

In the Dartmouth context, among other things (see above), April means that the annual Alumni Fund is picking up speed for a fast finish end of June. It's not in the job description, but I'm happy to lend a class secretary's hand to head agent Art Hills and his ACAs. So it's a tip of the old sombrero to a couple of guvs named "Anonymous" and 16 others, alphabetically from Broh to Winship, whose level of giving had them listed as "Associates" in the Annual Report of the Fund for 1988. More of the same this year, and something more from the rest of us, should bring 1941 up to snuff again. Meanwhile, there are the bequesters, growing in number, and other financial contributors to the College, including nine classmates who were "Dartmouth Athletic Sponsors" in 1988. Dave Mulliken's name, let it be noted, shows up as both associate and sponsor.

More news from New Hampshire the University of, that is with a Boston Globe article filed in Durham about John A.Lockwood. Professor of physics, John was honored with a Medal for Excellence in Scientific Achievement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. What for, you're wondering. For a telescope, that's what, a telescope that, when launched in a couple of years, "will enable scientists to examine radiation emitted from distant stars some ten billion years ago ... as close to the birth of the universe ... as man (sic) has ever gotten." And that means, as John said to the Globe interviewer, that ". . . we will in a sense be looking back in time (and) we will see what the universe looked like near its creation, and learn more about what might have happened." This all began for John when he started checking things out from the summit of Mount Washington shortly after hooking up with UNH in 1948. Prior to that, as disclosed by my research in depth, i.e., 1941 Aegis, John spent some time in Thayer when he wasn't skiing.

Distinction of another sort fell to JohnTwist when he came to the aid of students in ES21 at Dartmouth, whose project in en gineering design was a device called a "moisture minimizer," intended for quicker, more efficient drying of rice in Southeast Asia. Needed for the project, but unavailable in New England, was unhulled rice. Twist to the rescue with the shipment of 50 pounds of the stuff from Memphis.

That's it for April, dear friends. Shalom.

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