1957

Ted Bradley and Enie will be part of this summer's reunion of the 1955 crew's trip to the Henley Royal Regatta in England. The Bradleys recently retired from Michigan to Albuquerque, where they are both docents at the museum, Enie plays cello in two orchestras, and Ted is still getting used to the persistent sunshine.

The saga of the Alumni Memorial Book Program continues. Although the library cannot honor specific book-by-book requests, it can accept a "broad topic of interest" to guide a class's book selection. Should we try to agree on, say, "environment" or "political fashions," or "free enterprise" as a preferred area? So far, no one seems to care very much how he (or we) will be remembered on the shelves of Baker.

Gray Powers has moved from McLean, Va., to Hilton Head, S.C., where he has joined ERA Dunes Marketing.

Bruce Sloane reports (via the e-list) from Rappahannock County, Va., that he and Joy and household are in the last white house at the head of the Thornton Hollow Trail. His book Scenic Driving Virginia should be out from Falcon Publishing just about as you read this. Joy is president of the Rappahannock League for Environijiental Protection. Pressed by expansion from D.C., they are trying to limit ridgetop development, define small villages as historical areas, and limit paving of unpaved back roads. The threats are "developers who drool at the sight of open farmland and the Department of Highways who, with backing from Richmond legislators, want to four-lane the entire planet."

Jin and Joel Samuelson's address has changed to . And the class has a new address, too: .

The e-list has been hopping. As I write, Hanny Mason's offer to count "ballots" on the Clinton issue has been taken up by more than 50 classmates who seem evenly divided in their judgment and as thoughtful in their reasons as they are gracious in their polite but firm bases for disagreement.

And there's the continuing conversation—comparably temperate but no less passionate—about how Dartmouth could have let the proud Indian slip away as a Dartmouth symbol. Some are happy that a burr has ostensibly been removed from under many saddles. Some are sorry that the purported burr was only plausibly, not absolutely, shown to be big and bothersome. The level of discussion may not be quite as high as that at Plato's Academy, but it's pretty far above the bombast level of Washington, D.C., in January.

Excerpts from the conversation:

• "Why shouldn't the old traditions fail if they're not good traditions? Antiquity is as poor a shield for wrongs as patriotism."

• "The whole PC movement bothers me because, in my view, it has developed into the tyranny of the offended."

• "We Anglos celebrate what we wantonly destroyed."

Perk and Dick Canton took a trip last fall to Italy and would be happy to share suggestions about what to do between Florence and Rome. Reach them at or 2905 Gulfshore Boulevard North, #501, Naples, FL 34103

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