1956
Alumni Council Rep BillBehrens reports in with a seven-page letter which I provides valuable insight into the present workings and administration of the College. Dartmouth is now rated number-one in student dining, and no smoking signs are everywhere. A new curriculum is being considered which is more faculty-intensive, hence more expensive. Moody's has upgraded Dartmouth bonds to AAA, and the Will to Excel campaign has reached 60.6 percent of its goal. The Alumni Council was shown video skits on eating disorders, racism, and homophobia; students are shown additional skits on sexual assault, recycling, sexism, alcohol, and religious tolerance. The Dean of Freshman stated to die Council that the College sees itself as being "no longer in loco parentis." Several of the audience responded that the opposite appeared to be true. (Look for the entire Behrens Report in an upcoming WHW.)
Bob Picken, a professor of French at Queens College, recently attended the Fifth Sino-American Conference on Education in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. (I don't know if this was a boondoggle or a real conference. Bobplease let us know.)
Ted Wadleigh received mention, along with other Dartmouth alumni, as one of "The Most Brilliant Legal Minds of New Hampshire" in Manchester Magazine. I have two questions: How come Cube Conroy wasn't included, and what are the criteria? Anyway, congratulations, Ted, and how about letting us in on the secret?
Bob Becker has moved from Syracuse to Auburn, N.Y., where he is Auburn's director of solid-waste management (now there's a title we never had heard of when we were undergraduates). His wife, Ruth, is Alzheimer's Program Coordinator for Cayuga County.
I can personally report that Brace, Whitney, McKenna, Billhardt, Keare, Rosenthal Bud, and Rosenwald-Peterson are all doing well and having a good fall. Keare has by now retired from the World Bank and is fully employed as a grandchild-sitter while daughters Heather and Ginger blossom in their careers.
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