1944

We thought it might be fun to poll some of our '44 academic professors"the funny, funny faculty" —to see what they were up to at age 68ish. Let's see ...

Bill Foye is still going strong, full-time teaching and research as an endowed professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Services. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications and an editor and contributor to an internationally used textbook on medicinal chemistry which is in its third edition and has been translated into five languages. For relaxation, Bill and his wife and 12-year-old son frolic and fish on their 600-acre tree farm in central Massachusetts.

Neither has Wiley Hitchcock deserted the lectern. He's still hard at it as Distinguished Professor of Music at CCNY in New York and founding director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College. He has researched under Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and is the author of a number of books on music, including editorship of the multiple prizewinning New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Out in Colorado, Ric Bradley, a member of the great Dartmouth skiing family, is three years into retirement after a lifetime career as a professor of physics ("physical electronics") at Cornell University and Colorado College. Currently he is into "mountains, skiing, and quite a lot of music." He has been writing music to texts about mountains written by brother Dave Bradley '38, and wife Dorry, and three of his compositions have been performed by the Colorado College choir.

Prof. Dave Scotford (who also has a '38 brother, John) retired in 1987 after 37 years as a professor of geology at Miami University in Ohio. His research fields were structural geology and petrology, and over the years he had a Fulbright to Turkey and an NSF travel grant to Brazil. He currently spends half of the year sailing (his great love) and traveling, and the rest in his nook at the university researching and writing.

Nothing shy and retiring about Greg Rabassa. He is Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Queens College and the Graduate School at CUNY, New York. Lately he has been teaching some courses in Portuguese and Brazilian literature and a great books course . .which is far and away my favorite." Wife Clem is also a professor, at Medgar Evers College, but the two of them manage to get away to their "dacha" in Southampton, L.I., for sand and sea and relaxed reading and writing.

Bob Tompa, too, is still correcting blue books as professor of economics at Monmouth College in New Jersey, where he has been since 1955. He also served for 14 years as head of the School of Business. Travel, especially to Europe, is his great relaxer.

Stay tuned. More poop on the profs next month. And don't forget the Alumni Fund. Write out that deserving check this very day.

That's it. Blessings.

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