1951

Merry Christmas to all, and best wishes for the coming year!

With this holiday season, a very pleasant count-down has begun—the one which will culminate in our gathering for our 40th Reunion next June, Monday the 10th until the morning of Thursday the 13th. You have all received some advance information from our reunion committee, and I'm sure you are impressed with the detailed planning that Al Mori, Joe Boissy, Dave "Hanover" Hall, Peirce McKee, and Jack Sutton have already accomplished on our behalf. All of them fully expect to establish a new all-time record for attendance. Heck, we commonly have about 50 classmates show up for the mid-October Dartmouth Night weekend, and our mid-winter and mid-summer minis usually draw about 20; so 160 of us returning for such a signal event this June is well within our fun-loving capacities. Of course, it is only realistic to note that this reunion may be the last chance some of us have to see each other. So send back that card to Al or Jack to commit yourself to one of the great experiences of your life. "The Spirit of '51 is Coming Back!

Perhaps some of you remain uninformed about the latest set-to between the College and the Dartmouth Review. On October 2, the Boston Globe carried a report headlined "Dartmouth Review's Use of Hitler Quote Stirs Anger on Campus." The quotation in question was featured in the off-campus paper's banner credo and is so offensive that it does not bear repeating here. Allen Drexel '91, who is co-chairman of the Student Assembly's policy committee, was quoted by the Globe as saying that the six people who wrote for the Review "are overwhelmingly loathed" and "viewed as a tasteless joke." On October 11 the New York Times published a statement by President Freedman, who wrote in part: "Conservative voices belong on campus. Dartmouth would be enriched by any number of conservative papers in the tradition of Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, and Alexander Bickel. The Review is none of these, nor is it a responsible voice of conservative opinion. Rather, it is an instrument of intimidation, attacking those principles of discourse and community that permit an academic institution to flourish. At the heart of these principles are civility, responsibility, honesty, and respect for others."

Plaudits to Jake Livingston, our Alumni Fund chairman, for a job well done.

Take care, be good to yourselves, and keep in touch.

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