1938

WHAT'S UP, WESTY? "Plenty" is the only answer where Julius Westheimer is concerned. This guy apparently keeps forgetting to look at the calendar. Here's a sampler of what's up with Westy: in addition to keeping a practiced hand in the stock brokerage business, he's continuing a 21-year streak doing "Wall Street Week" with Louis Ruckeyser; airing 12 weekly radio broadcasts on station WBAL; making six weekly appearances on WBAL-TV; and producing a twiceweekly column for the Baltimore Evening Sun.

No social hermit he, either. He and Dorrit managed, among other things, to make a gettogether at A1 Wolff's home recently. Westy and Dorrit are already planning to make the 1993 reunion. He also recollects with fondness his happy experience at The Dartmouth, The Oldest College Newspaper in America. All of which forms a natural segue to the next item...

O, BRAVE NEW WORLD. "Aldous Huxley Talks" was the lead story in the January 7, 1938, issue of The Dartmouth, sent in by Bob Reno. Among Westy's associates on the masthead at the time were Hal Berman, editor-in-chief; Bud Walls, business manager; Lou Kraft, managing editor; Val Cravens, advertising manager; Asher Lans, editorial chairman; Jim Yankauer, assistant managing editor; John Emerson, sports editor; and BobCarson, circulation manager.

Does this awesome array of journalistic talent interest Reno? Nah. He was far more impressed by a 14-line tailor shop ad that heralded: "Pants Pressed ... 15 cents."

'96 OUT! Fred Becker, a disciple of the "tempus sure does fugit" persuasion, reveals that his grandson Jeffrey has been accepted for early admission to the class of 1996. Statisticians among you will leap to die unassailable conclusion that Jeff will graduate 58 years after his illustrious grandsire, and just four short years before the turn of the century.

Such intelligence has Fred wondering if there are other class grandchildren whose fathers inhabited the class of '69. He seems to recall that Paul Urion, George Nichols, and Pete Schaeffer had sons in that class. Perhaps there's a chance here to form a 1938 grandfathers' support group.

THE MELODY LINGERS ON. A November note from Paul Ossen contained his recollection of the fall mini-reunion which he and Bonny attended. Late perhaps, but his enthusiasm for the event and for the "sterling efforts of Dick and Jean Francis" was as fresh as ever.

Paul's estimate of the College today: It's still standing tall, and, all in all, "it's still an excellent place to visit and be thankful."

ECHO. This may be "old" news, since the College did distribute a copy of an American Meteorological Society release headlined, "Lorenz Wins Kyoto Prize." This is the award for achievement in basic science that has been equated in prestige and monetary value with the Nobel prize. Lorenz, of course, is our own Ed Lorenz of MIT, "a meteorologist renowned for his work in the dynamics of atmospheric conditions and the first to recognize what is now called the chaotic behavior in the mathematical molding of weather systems." Have a nice day, Ed.

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