1960

A couple of months ago, I reported that Bruce Hassenkamp was running for reelection to his local school board. The election results are in and awesome. Bruce was the top vote-getter with 1,111 tallies. He reports "a few days after the election I encountered someone who congratulated me but shamefacedly confessed to not having voted. I thanked her 1,111 is a much better total than 1,112!" How can he be so sure she would have voted for him? Anyway, to celebrate four more years of thankless public service, Bruce changed jobs. Currently, he is executive director of Saint Francis Foundation, a San Francisco health care organization which benefits Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and its community purposes. A double round of snaps is in order.

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR ALL FORMER MEMBERS OF DARTMOUTH GLEE CLUB. Tom Ruggles '50, a former glee clubber, is a keeper of Dartmouth traditions. For his past two major reunions, Tom has put together an alumni Glee Club which has performed at the "kick-off' dinner. According to Tom, this year's group will sing authentic, unexpurgated Dartmouth songs, the ones that had wah-hoowahs, Eleazars, etc. For those eligible, this is the 31st reason to attend our 30th Reunion, June 11-14, 1990. At this writing, over 120 classmates have indicated interest in attending. Don't miss it!

After graduating from Dartmouth and getting a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Colorado in 1962, Jim Herbert traveled to Athens, Ga., to teach at the University of Georgia. He doesn't like to travel so he has stayed, taught, and excelled. In fact, he doesn't drive and hates to fly, so the trip he took to Moscow in September for the opening of a show where two of his huge paintings .were featured put him to a test of willpower and physical stamina. His courage of conviction is absolute: "Artists should be, to some extent, in violation of custom ... Sometimes a beautiful obscenity is better than a very nice, wellknown piece of appie pie." To maintain his youthful vigor, he continues to jog and work out with weights, as he has since age 13. Considering his current medium of painting canvases as large as 12 feet square, he needs both strength and agility. Smearing acrylic paints with his hands, he uses a tall stepladder to reach the top. "One of the reasons I paint large is that it gives me a chance to really move my whole body into the work. The scale becomes a kind of environment. The painting is so big that, in a way, you can't see what you're doing when you do it. I generally keep moving, go back and take a glance, make an overall judgment and dash forward again." Jim's perceptive talents have been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation twice and the National Endowment for the Arts three times. His varied work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. But Jim shuns the art meat markets of New York. "I look upon it much as someone would look upon the war in Beirut."

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30th REUNION GREAT CLASS OF JUNE 11-14 '60 '90