1967

Bill Yaggy certainly knows how to pick a mini-reunion. Our June 10 event will feature a trip to Jerry Zaks's new production of Lend MeA Tenor which opened on Broadway recently. Under a headline of "Zaks Rides Again," The New Yorker reviewed the play and found that "the casting is expert in every instance, and the performance as a whole, under the direction of that alchemist Jerry Zaks, is near perfection." Jerry is a true credit to the Dartmouth alchemistry department.

From the campus of Williams College comes news that Bob Bell has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. To those of us who spent many hours with Bob in the Sanborn Library, it is no surprise that he will use the award to support a project called "Jocoserious Joyce," an exploration of the comic elements in James Joyce's Ulysses. After his work at Harvard as a Woodrow Wilson and Danforth fellow, in 1972 Bob went directly to Williams where he is now a professor of English. While Bob specializes in eighteenth century literature, Shakespeare, and comedy, many of us have followed his work through articles in Commonweal and his work on National Public Radio.

A note from Pamm Zimmerman, our first honorary classmate, suddenly made me feel my age when she talked of their daughter Kerry and Ralph Cohen's daughter Kate both being students together in Peter Bien's comparative literature class fall term. I found a wonderful sense of continuity in the image of those children of our class having the same magic encounter with Joyce, Mann, and Proust that so many of us encountered not so long ago. Please share your news with us.

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