1948

Hopefully this DAM edition will hit the streets in time to enable '48s to attend presentations of Nat and Louise Merrill's series of classical grand opera in Denver's theater-in-the-round April 28 through May 13. Opera Colorado will present four magnificant performances each of Gounod's Faust and Verdi s Masked Ball, with major parts sung by laryngeal artists of international renown. Probably the largest opera chorus in the world, 110 strong, will participate. Sellouts are expected, so call the box office early at 303/778-6464 and ask for Nat.

Mention of Nat always leads to his old pal, Bob Russell of Rip Van Winkle country in Saugerties, N.Y. Bobo says his office supply manufacturing business "went under about four years ago." Undaunted, he looked for new worlds to conquer and moved into politics. He has become a quiet but prominent doer in Albany where Governor Cuomo leads the Empire State. Bob backs up various state senators in doing investigative research in areas related to the arts and cultural affairs, and taxation. He calls himself an administrative assistant, but one guesses that Bobo's work is often the stuff from which swing votes are derived. (One guesses he sees Albany neighbor JohnLanzetta occasionally.) Bob and Barbara still spend their summers in Kennebunkport, only two miles from the summer manse of another prominent American active in governmental affairs.

The onset of May always brings back painful memories to George MacGillivray. On VE Day in May 1945 he was in the Marine V-12 in Hanover. That evening a V-12 boxing "smoker" was held in Alumni Gym to celebrate the end of WW II fighting in Europe. It also turned out to be the Old Sarge's last fight. An unknowing navy 145pounder caught George right in his spleen, enlarged from malarial bouts on Guadalcanal, and truly decked our fellow '48. He'll be forever indebted to the now Honorable Judge Fritz Alexander '47, who found him passed out from pain in the gym locker room. Fritz somehow carried George across campus to the sickbay in Mass Row. The Old Sarge was agonizingly sick for months, but he feels he lives today thanks to Fritz, his fellow Dartmouth man, and V-12.

Another California '48 with an earthquake story from last October is DaveLoye. Dave and wife Riane Eisler, both of whom are prominent professional writers on psychology, got off a plane from Europe in Los Angeles late in the day of the quake. Dave says they heard of the ramble almost immediately. They were vastly relieved on getting home to Carmel, a day or so later, to find little damage. Dave was an early TV newsman after his Bema graduation in 1948, then decided to concentrate on psychology, the field in which Professor Francis Gramlich of Dartmouth had so fascinated him. At the age of 38 he began 10 years of night school at Greenwich Village's New School for Social Research which earned him his Ph.D. Dave taught the subject at Princeton and UCLA's School of Medicine and has since become an award-winning writer with such brilliant and sensitive works as TheHealing of a Nation and The Sphinx and TheRainbow.

Bob Herrick, always the consummate, loyal Dartmouth man, writes of his fear and cites evidence that the polarization among alumni regarding support of today's Hanover administration may be gaining momentum. Thus, he welcomes the work being done by Alumni Council president Murry Bowden '71 (captain of the Big Green's undefeated 1970 eleven) in enabling more alumni to be heard in current debates on current issues of vital interest to Dartmouth. I believe Bob would agree that Murry's is the kind of constructive activity—e.g., the New York debate on board membership determination which may turn the corner in keeping the Dartmouth fellowship together. As Ben Page '42 puts it, "Murry's blood runs green!" Marry's conviction that all alumni/ ae points of view be heard before important decisions affecting our College are made is one we can all support. I suggest it is to the good that Parkhurst also appears to be supporting Murry's efforts.

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