1940

Sam Williams held a meeting of our class officers at his home in Hanover in May. He reports that all goes well with Bill Halsey's plans for the mini-reunion on September 23-24 and with ElmerBrowne's arrangements for the 55 th Reunion June 12-14, 1995. Ruthe and I missed the meeting since we were in Northern Italy at the time. Rhoda and Ty Cobb were also in Tuscany, but we didn't connect. We did actually meet a Dartmouth group in Siena. One of our neighbors volunteered to mail the May birthday greetings to some of you, but forgot. That explains some late arrivals. I read with interest in the April issue of this magazine the sensitive piece by the class secretary of 1941, Dick Jachens, paying tribute to his classmates who gave their lives in WWII. The similar tribute to our own classmates was done quite independently. Let's hope that no future classes will face such perilous times.

Since Dick Goulder, our recent class secretary, had to miss some of our mini-reunions in Hanover, he found a solution to the problem by organizing his own mini in Cleveland. In August 1993 he assembled nine classmates, several spouses, and Jean Benson and Trudy Williams, two of our widows for a congenial gathering.

How many of your high schools or prep schools have an alumni association in Beijing? Boston Latin does, according to a photo just received which shows our Jack Fitzgerald there as one of the founding members.

At the annual Cape Cod club dinner there was a very interesting speech by Acting Provost Bruce Pipes, who described many innovations over the years which Dartmouth made to change fundamentally the field of college and university education. We enjoyed sitting with Brudand Ruth Seller and Gordy Wentworth.

A story in the Berkeley Tri-City Post told of Mel Wax's retirement from directorship of Port of Oakland Public Affairs on July 15 following a 50-year career in journalism, government, and public affairs. A Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard recognized his skill as a writer. His activities in Oakland and Sausalito, where he was once mayor, were phenomenal.

At the 50th Reunion of 1944 Jock Brown and Dick Morse, sons of two of our favorite professors, Bancroft Brown (math) and Stearns Morse (English) took prominent parts. I remember when both of them were seniors in 1940 at Hanover High School, where I did a few weeks of practice teaching in physics. I'm happy to know that they survived the experience.

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