1977

We still receive Stanford's campus newspaper, and we were amused recently to note a big splash made for two graduate students at Stanford who won bronze medals in the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding contest, a national program which recognizes excellence in engineering research and design. Why the amusement? Because Dartmouth's own Michael R. Walsh received the top award in the contest, submitting a project he completed as part of his masters degree at Thayer School.

The holidays brought notes from LeaSewell, Susan Dentzer, Edy Ullman, JanMalcolm, Amy Cammann Cholnoky, Susan Kastan, and Ann and Mark Beams. In Washington, D.C., for a meeting in mid-December, A1 visited Nancy Bird and TimEckels, and then headed for the Big Apple, where he joined Michael Hogan and about 140 other members of the Handel Society in its debut at Carnegie Hall. The group was "backed up" by Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops. Heady stuff for a college professor and a Kiewit administrator!

Gary Mayo, vice president and treasurer of A.B. Gile Inc. of Hanover, was named 1991 New England Agent of the Year by the Professional Insurance Agents of New England.

Sandy and Bambi Wood have nearly single-handedly been keeping the Dartmouth Skiway in business this winter. Eight-year-old daughter Brooke is now racing, and son Todd will joinherany day.Look out, Olympics 2000?

An idea for 1992 and beyond . . . have a "columnist of the month" for each Alumni Magazine issue—hear from more people and a broader cross-section of the class and the world. The class secretary's job then becomes lining up the columnists for each issue. Any reaction to this idea? Any volunteers for a pilot" effort before we pass the baton? Just give a holler!

As we write it's pre-primary season in New Hampshire, and the pols are everywhere, of ten visiting the campus. The state has also received an unusual number of large federal awards, for everything from highway and bridge construction to education—what a coincidence. For some reason, "twin state" Vermont doesn't seem to have found access to the same funds. Apparently, too, some in Foggy Bottom have finally noticed there was no turnaround in the downward spiralling economy here in the North Country. We've mentioned the closing of stores in Hanover—now even some of the banks are leaving. Trouble indeed. With the elections pending, we leave you with a few thoughts which seem particularly apropos for our baby-boom generation. (If you don't like them, at least let us knowit makes good column fodder!)

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."—Thomas Jefferson

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