1961

Within a few days after you read this you should be getting a new class directory. It's been a while since we last had one though the 25th anniversary yearbook produced by Alan Orschel and Bob Rosier and their committee served that purpose around our 25th Reunion, since it contained the names and addresses even of those who didn't write in. But it has been at least a decade since we last had a true class directory. Now it seems appropriate, as we commemorate 30 full years out of Dartmouth, to have a new one.

Your executive committee decided at its Thanksgiving meeting in Philadelphia to do this directory, and it's taken a few months to get things ready to go. In addition to home listings and the names of spouses, it will have a geographical listing, a necrology, and a list of the widows, and a listing of those classmates who are "lost" to Dartmouth records though I'm sure if we awarded a finder's fee most would turn up.

This is the last chance I'll get to remind you that when the class of 1991 's Dartmouth days are history, we will officially complete 30 years in the Wide Wide World well over half our lives.

Dick Beattie called the other day to chat. Dick has volunteered for a number of public service roles while continuing his legal career. Since returning to New York after his service as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter administration, he's held a succession of key volunteer roles, mosdy related to education, under two mayoral administrations. Most recendy, he's been working on the Fund for New York City Public Education. Dick reports that Charlie Chapman is doing well at Tambrands.

The Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia reports that Dave Prewitt has been reelected vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Aeronautical and Space Law Section. As most of you are aware, Dave flies just about everywhere, and is publicity chairman of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association. Dave is now a colonel in the Army Reserves.

News Notes: Wally Palmer married Roberta Phillips this past December in Los Altos; George Breed has rejoined Hewlett-Packard as manager of sales to 4,000 small hospitals; Jerry Greenfield has been selected as a member of the Richland, Wash., City Council, replacing a member who became a state legislator; Mike Norman is physicianinchief of the Alfred I. DuPont Institute, the heart of the newly-created Delaware Children's Health Center in Wilmington. He also is chairman of pediatrics at the Medical Center of Delaware and professor and associate chairman of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College.

Though it has been 30 years since graduation, the death of John Sloan Dickey still brought me up short. He had been sick for years I observed that during my Hanover sabbatical but somehow I assumed he would always be there. Now he's gone, but he will be part of Dartmouth forever. Nonetheless, it's time for a moment of prayer.

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