1957

Bob Grey has been the principal spokesman for the United States in the Conference on Disarmament. He's been working at the United Nations in New York and Geneva since last fall, but Senator Helms may still be holding up his formal elevation to ambassador rank. How to resolve the swirl of issues surrounding land mines is just one of the questions facing the conference.

Chick Igaya would like the International. Olympic Committee to move some events from the summer games to the winter games. Events like wrestling and gymnastics could be staged indoors in winter just as well as in summer. A big obstacle to reducing the unwieldy crowds at the summer games, however, is the lOC charter's requirement that sports at the winter games must be played on ice or snow. Chick was not responsible for the weather at Nagano.

One response to my "diversity" question in the November Class Notes follows (paraphrased): "Each of us is unique. Acknowledging such diversity—between individuals—'makes inordinate sense.' When we enlarge such uniqueness, however, and insist that a whole group, as a group, must be considered unique, we not only blur the distinctions between different individuals but also risk setting up the kind of 'us-versus-them' scenario that is 'the cause of so much of the strife we find in the world.'"

Larry Selig and Ida will retire in July after 36 years in pastoral ministry and elementary-school teaching. They look forward to their "recycling" phase, which will give them time for more traveling, teaching in Brazil and Israel, visiting children and five grandchildren, and (so Larry insists) "relaxing."

Will Lange broadcasts a five-minute commentary over Vermont Public Radio Thursdays at 8:25 a.m. and 5:55 p.m. His book Tales from the Edge of the Woods is in its second printing.

Marty Anderson, a member of the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, said in November (according to The New York Times), "There is a lot wrong with higher education I even wrote a book about it but the one thing colleges can't be accused of is gouging the public."

Another Times quotation: "Statistics indicate that these institutions are doing a reasonably good job. The only thing that is sure to make matters worse would be to have the federal government leap in and try to micromanage." [See Marty's Importers in the Temple: A Blueprint for Improving Higher Education.]

John Harrison has been writing books, mosdy about team management techniques, as an independent contractor in San Francisco. What's more, after overcoming a chronic stuttering problem himself, he has been conducting workshops to help others conquer their fears about speaking in public. The National Stuttering Project, whose monthly newsletter John edits, can be found at .

Bob Wilson is directing and producing and acting (South Pacific, Much Ado About Nothing) in California's Bay Area these days, and spending less time than he used to selling stoves (to Dairy Queen and Burger King).

I have just learned of the death of Bill Newman, of a heart attack, in Clarks Summit, Pa., in late October. Our condolences to his widow, Audrey, and their children.

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lor tlic United States in the Conference on I disarmament. Ted Jennings '57