1961

Bring a classmate with you to our 35th Reunion. That's the Reunion's underlying theme—to help classmates reconnect with Dartmouth and with the rest of us, according to Reunion Chair Roger McArt. "Bring back an old friend who you haven't seen in awhile," Roger said. He is asking classmates to help in the roundup. Call '61s in towns near you and encourage them to come with you to Hanover on June 13-16.

As we talked about our summertime Reunion, the mid-December snow was piling up outside Roger's Wilton, Conn., home. Roger has lined up Bill Cook, professor and chairman of the English department, and Don Pease, another English professor, to do their Robert Frost seminar on the Saturday morning of our Reunion as part of the celebration of the Frost statue, the 1961 gift to the College. Cook and Pease have presented the Frost seminar to several large Dartmouth gatherings over the past several years.

As of this writing, Roger has gotten Duane Cox's commitment to help lead our "Passages" discussion. These discussions have become a fixture of 1961 reunions, both in and out of Hanover, and Duane did a fine job in West Hollywood and New Orleans. Roger was hoping to get others involved as well. The discussion seems appropriate in view of our slogan, "Hitting Stride at 35."

Even in the midst of snow, we thought ahead to when you would read this, and Roger added, "Get your deposit in."

I haven't seen Peter Hanauer since the Fifth World Conference on Smoking and Health in Winnipeg in 1985 but he is still involved in the crusade against smoking. He's one of the authors of The CigarettePapers, a book based on the 4,000 pages of internal documents of the Brown & Williamson Corp. spanning three decades. One of Peter's colleagues Dr. Stan Glantz of the University of California, San Francisco—received a box containing the papers in early 1994. "The only indication of the identity of the sender was the name 'Mr. Butts,' undoubtedly a reference to the Doonesbury character." Peter was one of a team of five that Glantz assembled to analyze and write about the documents. They produced a 500-page manuscript.

"We submitted five articles, excerpted from the book manuscript, to The Journal of the American Medical Association. After much wrangling with the AMA's attorneys, the journal published the articles last July and they received a great deal of press coverage."

Peter adds that the book has a foreword by former surgeon general C. Everett Koop '37, "which of course gives it an even more distinctive (and distinguished) Dartmouth connection."

Parker Albee has coauthored Shadow ofSurbachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima, which debunks some myths surrounding Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph, including the claim that it was staged. According to the New Hampshire Sunday News, "the authors undertook an unenviable task in attempting to unravel this 50-year-old controversy and set the records straight—Shadows of Surbachi is a fascinating book that should be well received by both academics and the general reading public."

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Hitting Stride at 35June 13-16,1996