1955

Congratulations to David K.Page, recipient of the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award, the Detroit Jewish community's highest honor for distinguished community service. A long-time partner (40plus years) with the law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn, Dave has demonstrated his commitment to the city of Detroit by promoting many cooperative projects with the Jewish community, by giving thousands of hours of volunteer time to numerous civic and philanthropic groups and by serving as a leader in his profession and in the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

The Palm Beach Daily Business Review reports that another distinguished classmate, Richard Fairley, having worked 30 years at the U.S. Department of Education helping to desegregate Southern schools, has taken an equally strong stand against race discrimination at Broward County's Nova University. He is supporting suits that accuse the university of maintaining a strict ratio between white and black students, and of correcting imbalances in the ratio by terminating black candidates unfairly. Dick, a former professor at the school, said in a sworn statement filed in court, "There are racist policies that exist at the institution."

Also in the news—as he often is, especially in his native New England—is Jere Daniell, quoted in the Boston Globe on die authors of our Constitution: "The genius of the Founding Fathers was the creation of an infinitely flexible system....lt's worked so far to accommodate all the great changes since the Great Depression, and it may be well equipped to survive into the next century." (With the next century only a little over a year away, we sure hope you are right, Jere!)

Seen in recent months in downtown Manhattan was Pete Fishbein, stoically staying trim and lean at the local Carpio Fitness Center. And, glimpsed across noisy lanes of rushing traffic, too distant for hailing—the bobbing heads of John French and Jed Isaacs.

Finally, from Dick Blodgett, chair of our gift committee, comes word that the class's contribution to the Athletic Sponsor Program made possible the campus recruiting trip of Jennifer Johnston, a power forward in women's basketball. Happily, Jennifer was admitted to the College as an early-decision candidate and will join the Dartmouth family with the class of 2003!

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Joseph Mathewson '55 honored, p. 57