1952

This past spring and summer, friends of mine (one couple with a daughter, one with a son) toured eastern colleges. Where else they traveled I am not sure, but both students left their hearts at Dartmouth. Each plans to apply this fall to Dartmouth as a first choice. Gratifying, but not unexpected, from our point of view. The parents had important opinions as well. All four, speaking to me separately, spoke of the liveliness of the campus in summer, of the enthusiasm of the Dartmouth students for their college, of the time and interest offered their children, and in amazed tones—of the courtesy towards strangers they found across the campus and the town.

As I take this class secretary's office from Jay Anderson, I am aware of the difficulty of matching the smoothness with which Jay wrote so interestingly of our class, yet I am glad to come closer to the College, and I still carry with me the glow of good feeling from my friends' accounts.

Perhaps it is to take better advantage of all such good news that the College has an the formation of a thirteen member Public Affairs Advisory Committee, including Pete McSpadden, retired president of Saatchi DFS Inc., and Ken Roman, American Express executive vice president of corporate affairs and communications, to advise senior Dartmouth administrators on communications and government, media, and community relations.

The 100 th commencement of Choate Rosemary Hall was held this past spring with a theme focusing on disabilities and the human condition. Principal "Doc" Dey invited his former roommate, now president of the National Organization on Disability, Al Reich, to be the centennial speaker. Al, speaking from the framework of his own fall into disability, urged the assembly to care for others and for the world; and to work to continue the lowering of barriers of all kinds that prevent the disabled from reaching their potential in normal interaction with the world.

Herb Roth has sadly sent along word of the death this past August, after a seven year battle against melanoma, of his former roommate, Dr. Si Grolnick. Si had been director of education in the department of psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. Also an author, he spent his last year in completing and seeing published a major work, The Work and Playof Winicott. Word also came from California of the death last spring of Bill Ingersoll. Bill left the College after his junior year and completed his degree at Columbia University. He was an historian with the National Park Service for ten years, and a free-lance writer since 1971.

Jay Aixderson left with his notes for me the happy news that Bob Jahrling has recovered nicely from his heart by-pass surgery this summer, and is back at his international post as a Price Waterhouse partner in the national office in New York.

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