1948

Jack Bobbitt is still immersed in nautical history research of the Delmarva tidelands area and making models to reproduce the craft that plied the waters of Chesapeake Bay in the nation's early years. He's been involved with the Mariner's Museum in Newport News since they moved to the area in 1981. His training at the late Bissell Hall helps in his woodworking pursuits. He and Jeanne were a part of the same ill-fated Dartmouth alumni Mediterranean boat tour that Jim and Jean McLaughlin took. He credits Jim's tenacity in getting their refund.

Johnny and Grace Fenno greeted the millennium in a rather abrupt fashion. On their way home from skiing on New Year's Eve, a deer jumped in front of the car and they collided. No casualties other than fourlegged, but the car was undriveable. State troopers relayed them back home to Canajoharie.

Jay Rutledge still takes BART across the bay from Richmond to San Francisco daily to serve his investor clients. He has cut down on the sailing from his younger days as we can understand because San Pablo Bay can churn up in the afternoons. He claims that buddy Jerry Wensinger is a real country squire on his 40 acres of Connecticut backwoods and complains that Jerry seems to be planted there.

Tried to reach Russ Carlson but found him to be on the West Coast at some meeting or other. He is still active in financial matters around Syracuse and maintains an office there. Nancy says she's invited on his business trips but has so many other activities that she rarely has time for them.

I get the impression that not very many of us are fitting the mold of the retired, 'donothing person. The juices are still flowing and, if we are fortunate, our avocations have turned into vocations as time and health permits.

Initial response from class members to the recommendations to the trustees by the Committee on the student life initiative was that the mischief would be in the details. The new, higher standards recommended would probably eliminate some of the fraternities and sororities and could eliminate them all from having their own houses. In connection with the stricter rules for alcohol and other drugs, "...Safety & Security personnel would have free and continuous access to all areas on campus, including facilities occupied by College-recognized organizations." Many felt that the means did not justify the end, and that a College Safety & Security big enough to enforce these rules would become an all-pervasive, virtual Gestapo-like group which could be its own source of mischief. The 800 new dormitory beds are to be in clusters with live-in faculty.

There is no doubt that this bears no resemblance to the Dartmouth we knew, with two campus cops who seemed to keep us in line. It is hard for this correspondent to believe that the great kids we are sending to Hanover these days need so much control over every facet of their student life. What do you think?

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