1951

Since my last report to you in May, your class officers have had yet another opportunity to meet, this occasion being the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover at the end of April, an event attended by about 600 of us from classes of 1920 to 'B9. Besides your secretary, we were represented by president Bob Hopkins, treasurer Howie Read, newsletter editor Dave Batchelder, mini-reunion chairman Jack Giegerich, and reunion chairman Al Mori. Briefly, the events: A Friday evening banquet on the floor of the old basketball court in the gym, where we received good news of the 75th anniversary of the Alumni Fund, heard a brief address by President Freedman, and saw a marvelous film about the Native American experience in higher education entitled "A Wav of Learning," which focused on the problems of educating this special minority and the progress made by. the College in doing so; several Saturday functions, including breakfast meetings for each of our respective class functions, a stimulating panel discussion among the editors of The Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Review, Dave Boldt '63 of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Morton Kondracke '60 of The New Republic; at lunch in the gym, a speaker raised the question "Is Dartmouth Okay?" the answer to which was "Yes," when one considers that we are experiencing "the Dartmouth duality: a condition of being united by the- issues which separate us."

During Saturday afternoon, your 1951 class officers met to discuss the following matters of interest: 1) Jack Giegerich reported on the fall mini-reunion in October during the Yale-Dartmouth Night weekend, which, besides football and camaraderie, will feature a Saturday morning panel to discuss some of the latest perspectives of the universe which developments in physics are prising upon us; members of this panel will be classmates Stu Johnson (business), Alary Scott (physics), Mort Briggs (hisory), and Mish Cohen (philosophy); in adition, Professor Bruce Pipes has offered to conduQt a tour of the physics and chemistry aos. 2)AI Mori is setting the pace by getting a running start on reunion plans for 1991 (and so should we all!). 3) Howie Read reports that class dues-giving has reached 69 percent, respectably high but should be better.

Other news: Woody Klein, editor of IBM's Think, has been reappointed to a new three-year term on the DAM editorial board and has been elected its chairman. Chuck Fryer has become the VP and marketing director of Duffy Darrow Inc., an advertising and public relations firm in Camden, Maine. Howie Fuller reports from Benicia, Calif., that he enjoyed my March column.

And perhaps you've noticed that 1951s have been receiving attention lately in the "Give a Rouse" section of the DAM: EarlBrabb (February), Peirce McKee (April), and Bennett Bidwell and Jim Culberson (May). Now look for Dick Halloran, military correspondent for The New York Times; and Phelps Dewey, assistant publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Hope to see you at our mini in October. Take care, be good to yourselves, and keep in touch.

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