Editing by Hypocrisy
Lamentably Cutesy
No facet of Dartmouth more strikingly reflects the hypocrisy of President Freedman's fanfaronades about intellectuality than the Alumni Magazine.
Lamentably concomitant with the magazine's slicker appearance (and the addition of cutesy features) has been a steady attenuation of the magazine's content. Is Dartmouth really producing an alumni body as vacuous as Crosby and Parkhurst think we are? If so, the value of the entire enterprise is put in grave doubt.
Schenectady, New York
Good Chew
Two Dartmouth Dogs (or Hanover Hounds) of my day were memorable: Herbie was a middle-sized Airedale who roamed widely and, as I recall, never without an empty beer can in his mouth. (Beer I think; maybe it only came in long-necks back then.) And Blimey (I don't really remember his name, but it's fitting), an English bulldog who sounded like a steam engine, breathing quietly. The big Baker study room's silence multiplied the sound several times as he went from chair to chair working the chewing gum wads off the bottoms and chewing and snorting. Helped us concentrate.
I loved the Sam Spade piece on Orr—both style and substance.
Springfield, Missouri
Good Float
Jim Collins '84's exquistely lyrical essay entitled "Floating Home" [Summer] stands among the finest examples of prose writing ever to appear on the pages of your magazine. Poignant, beautifully crafted phrases blend with just a hint of possible romance must have evoked similar memories for alumni readers down through the years.
Accompanied by a beautiful watercolor painting of the couple settingout, the essay reveals that special magic called Dartmouth-Out-O-Doors which makes our college so unique. Only at Dartmouth could an adventure like this have occurred.
Any reader who passed over this brief, real-life story missed an enchanted trip back to nostalgia.
Etna, New Hampshire
Vice Grip
THE PERSONAL STORY OF Brett Queener '92, "The Grip of a Vice" ["Undergraduate Chair," Summer], is a tragic story that is being repeated in households and on campuses on a daily basis.
I congratulate you for having the courage and compassion to print such a powerful message for your readers.
Coordinator of Drug and Alcohol Programs Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Losing Small Change
YOU QUESTION IN YOUR LAST edition in "Dr. Wheelock's Journal" why the annual fund drive has increased in the amount given but decreased in the percentage of class participation.
In former years every donor, whether giving $5 or $5,000, was listed by name and class in the alumni magazine. For reasons of their own, the fund directors now issue a special yearly fund report which lists by name and class only those who have given a minimum, I believe, of $250. Absolutely no name recognition is given to those who donate less. Possibly this latter group feels that the College is in such good shape that it is not interested in "small change" gifts, so they don't bother giving at all.
Goshen, New York
Continuing Ed Continues
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE Misinterpreted information recently published in such sources as the DAM's summer issue ["Presidential Range"], concerning budget cuts and continuing education at Dartmouth. In fact, Alumni Continuing Education is alive and well, and all its programsalumni college, club seminars, alumni colleges abroad, reunion seminarsare thriving. The other CE programs, such as those run by John Rassias, the Dartmouth Institute, and the professional schools, are also intact.
The Alumni Affairs Office has just completed a very successful Alumni College '92 on "Facing Mecca," and has already started planning for the summer of 1993. We are working with alumni clubs on more seminars than ever before.
In next month's DAM you can see the advertisement for all the Alumni Colleges Abroad in 1993, to places far and near, on a variety of subjects and for a variety of prices.
Alumni Continuing Education is a central component of the Alumni Affairs Office and is one of the best ways for alumni and parents to keep being part of the College—by continuing to be educated by Dartmouth's excellent faculty.
Director, Alumni Continuing Education
Bill's Final Salute
ON AUGUST 7, 1992, THE Church of the Redeemer in Brookline, Massachusetts, was filled with friends, classmates, and loved ones who had come to pay their final respects to F. William Andres. Touched by a moving service that was led with grace and affection by the Andres's grandchildren and son, many from the period of Dartmouth's history that was shaped by Bill Andres reunited to celebrate a life spent in devotion to others and a spirit that will leave an indelible mark on the College that we have known and loved for its compassion and commitment to the development of leaders.
I was privileged to serve on the Board of Trustees with Bill Andres for more than a decade and was his immediate mediate successor in the chair. He taught me, as he did others, the meaning of commitment to Dartmouth's cause and the ability to subordinate one's own preferences in the longterm interest of the College. These were lessons shared with the Dickeys, the Dudley Orrs, the Richard Hills, Edward Lathem, the Paganuccis, McCullochs, Braces, Tanises, Webers and others who were present at the church. It seemed a shame that there were no representatives from the faculty, the administration, and the active Trustees to give a final salute to this good servant of the College and to his Dartmouth.
With the passing of F. William Andres, the College has not lost a loyal son—we have gained a legacy of love, caring, and devotion through his example and inspiration. As his classmate John Dickey was fond of saying, and as his son William Andres exclaimed at the service, "the word is not good-bye, but so long, for in the Dartmouth family there is no parting."
Aspen, Colorado
