1959

59 Hello to you all. It's already fall. We've heard from our Southern California classmates. A note from HarryJeffrey (not Herb): "I have a year sabbatical from teaching at financially racked California State University, Fullerton, to complete a one-volume biography of Richard Nixon. During the Nixon administration I worked for the Cost of Living Council, which administered the only peacetime wage and price controls in American history. At Cal State I chaired the Richard Nixon Oral History Project, which produced almost 200 interviews of the young Richard and Pat Nixon. This is a great source of historical material on Nixon and the Southern California environment in which he grew up.

"I have just retired as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Orange County. During my presidency we won the award for the best medium-sized club in the country. We established a scholarship award to an incoming frosh. The recent winner of the award wrote in a thank-you letter for our club's annual pot luck: 'lt was nice to meet and talk with other Dartmouth students and recent grads. My mother was concerned about my going so far away for school. After meeting the alumni at the dinner, she feels very proud that I can attend a school with such nice people. Dartmouth's strong alumni support is one of the key factors in my decision to enroll there. I can't imagine a better alumni group than you have here in Orange County.'

"So, our local alumni clubs are important!" Historian Nicholas Monsour advises us that he recently completed the authorship of an entirely new social-studies curriculum for the County of San Bernadino, Calif. He has contributed a number of op-ed pieces to a number of daily newspapers throughout California, and last summer he participated in a ten-day conference on "Religion in America." It's wonderful to see our fellow classmen still using their brain cells with gusto.

Now to some news from Branford, Conn. It's about Bob Perron, who after Dartmouth graduated from the Yale School of Art and Architecture, where he studied photography and graphic design. According to the Branford Review, he travels to photographic assignments throughout the U.S. and South America. He flew over coastal areas in a chartered plane to take photographs, and was at first attracted to the sculpted shapes formed by water acting on sand. However, as he repeatedly photographed the same areas, he became alarmed by the drastic changes in the coastal environment and alerted the public to this phenomenon. He has seen time and again the folly of building in vulnerable coastal areas and believes that they should remain in their natural state.

Happy fall raking. Let's hear from all of you very interesting '59ers. My mailbox is at your mercy.

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