1931

By this time many of you will have read the recommendations by the Committee on the Student Life Initiative, and I look forward to receiving your comments on them. Such a complex, huge undertaking is going to cost a bundle, and raises the questions of how and over what period of time it will be funded.

In his December 1999 letter to the Dartmouth community on this subject, President Wright mentioned an example of creativity in the student body, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science. Because of my background and business career, this caught my eye, and I wrote him asking if his office could give me directions on how I could obtain a copy. In reply he kindly sent me a copy, which I have read. The talent displayed by the several undergraduate contributors, and the fact that the College is able to attract such individuals for study make me feel proud of being a Dartmouth alumnus.

In reply to my note of condolence, Anne Conklin wrote that it had been of such help to have messages from old friends, and while her family misses George dreadfully, they try to remember the wonderful years they shared together. She had just returned from a recent visit with Patsy and Bill Walsh, with whom she had a lovely time remembering trips to Hanover and Costa Rica.

Sorry to have to report the loss of Joe Merriam on October 16 and Mac MacKechnie on November 26. Ruth MacKechnie wrote from Delray Beach how much she appreciated my expression of condolence from the class; and the Rev. John Merriam '70, in addition to thanking me for the note of condolence, wrote of his pleasant memory of attending our 1956 reunion with his father.

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