1957

57 The mailbag is light this month. Hope all of you will correct that by sending on your news. As you seek out the '57 news and read it, may you be reminded that others would enjoy hearing about you as you enjoy reading about them. Send it in, everyone.

Merwyn Bagan was named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons at the group's recent annual meeting in San Francisco. Merwyn will lead die largest neurosurgical organization for the coming year. Now in private practice in Concord, N.H., Merwyn has served as adjunct assistant professor of clinical surgery at Dartmouth Medical School. He also is president and chair of Healthsource New Hampshire Inc.

Dan Searby passed on his own thoughts that he is going to try to skew his contributions toward the unknown classmate, and he sent a clipping from the Peninsula Times that featured a review of a book, Impostor in theTemple, by Marty Anderson, published by Simon and Schuster. Marty attacks the American university system, saying it is dominated by mind-numbing conformity, trivial research, and outright corruption. The book asserts the most serious problems in our universities stem from an excessive emphasis on research and publication, rather than on teaching. While "political correctness" also has done its share of damage, the major culprits are arrogance, elitism, and intellectual fraud on the part of professors, administrators, and trustees, he writes. Marty was a member of the academic establishment that he attacks for more than 30 years.

The other news of note is a fan weekend in August. Jack and Joan Hall and Happy andClark Griffiths joined Martha and me at our camp in Charlotte, Vt. We talked quite a bit about Homecoming Weekend, which may already be happening as you read this. Hope there is a good class turn-out for that great traditional affair. We also managed a tour around the lake and found Clark's brother's house right around the bay from us. We polished off some round-robin tennis in the 90degree heat (summer came to us in the last two weeks in August), languished in the fresh, clear waters of Lake Champlain, and snacked on Vermont corn, tomatoes, and blueberry pancakes. Bringing a special end to the weekend on Sunday evening, we went across Lake Champlain on the ferry for a light (hah) supper at the delightful lakefront restaurant, The Old Dockhouse, in Essex, N.Y. Happy and Clark staged two rather lovely weddings during the summer.

Joan Hall began practicing law in Princeton, N.J., as Jack thoroughly enjoys his Johnson and Johnson work in Washington, D.C. If you want to know who to vote for and who not to vote for this fall, just ask those two. Living in Washington does have a way of keeping them politically savvy.

Come to the fall mini-reunion October 16-17! Friday 7 p.m. torchlight parade to Dartmouth Night ceremony. Saturday class meeting at 9:30. Cookoutatnoon. Dartmouth vs. Yale at 1:30.Janie and Joe Stevenson's for cocktails at 4:00, and then dinner at Norwich Inn. Good fun. Call Mark Bancroft at (201) 226-1568.

That's all this month. Send me some news and I will print it. We would all love to hear.

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