1933

Paul Zamecnik has provided another example of the versatility of '33 members through his pioneering work in the fields of protein biosynthesis and genetic coding mechanisms. His accomplishments have won him a National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, which was presented to him by President Bush in a Rose Garden ceremony last year. Now the principal scientist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass., he has more recently capped his brilliant career in biochemistry and molecular biology by pioneering the design of gene-targeting drugs, thereby helping to provide the basis for the development of a whole new field of research. Paul was a professor of medicine at Harvard for 23 years and has received honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Utrecht, Columbia, Harvard, and Roger Williams. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and is co-director of the Cancer Center of the Worcester Foundation.

Betty Wolf, wife of led Wolf '30, sent us a laudatory New York Times piece from last August by critic John Russell praising WalterP. Chrysler Jr. for assembling the collection on display in the Norfolk, Va., museum bearing his name. Walter was considered by many to be an accumulator and a trader "who changed his objectives almost as often as he changed his shirts," but Russell asserts that the pictures he gathered into the "sprawly, lopsided," Virginia museum prove that Walter had a mysterious way of choosing work that, though ranked as marginal at the time, is completely in line with today's taste.

President Mannie Sprague has reported that 174 members of 1933 and 39 memorial givers contributed $74,291 to the 1991 Alumni Fund, for an average gift of $350.00. BobNiebling again supervised the drive as head agent, while Wes Beattie worked as matching gifts coordinator, and Ray Theriault served as memorial gifts coordinator. All plug for a boost in donations. Good work, pals!

Nuptial note: The Helen Jackson who married John Thompson is not the HelenJackson who is the widow of Dick Jackson. The latter Helen, alive, well, and active in Burlington, Vt., reveals the duplication and sends "good wishes to all Helen Jacksons who marry into 1933."

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