1928

Last November in this magazine Turk Turkevich wrote a tribute to his favorite professor, "Cheerless" Richardson, who endeavored to teach us chemistry. This served to remind us of the remarkable career of Turk himself. In a class not especially notable for its scholastic achievements, he is proof that we harbored at least one outstanding intellectual. Curly Prosser reports that Turk was awarded three degrees by Dartmouth: B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. He received another Ph.D. from Princeton, where he headed the Chemistry Department and was regularly voted the most popular professor. In 1961 he graduated from the National War College in Washington. Also, he was a world-renowned authority on catalysts, became fluent in Russian, served repeatedly on State Department scientific delegations to Russia, was retained by Brook Haven Laboratories and the Rockefeller Institute for cancer research, was ordained as a priest in the Orthodox Church, and ministered regularly in Princeton and New Brunswick. There is more, but our space is too limited to go on. Not the least of his awesome accomplishments has been helping your writer get through calculus.

The June 4 letter you received from JerrySass and Mutt Jennings contained most of the recent class news. A check with Vanvanriper discloses that our total take for the Alumni Fund was a few hundred dollars in excess of our goal of $83,000 which, boys and girls, ain't bad. Congratulations are due all around, particularly to Van.

George A.Bell,3835 N.Tazewell Street, Arlington,VA 22207