1957

Dave Orr, Dartmouth's senior associate director of alumni relations, retired at the end of June. He has been proud 1957's irreplaceable on-campus presence, using his selfeffacing tact and diplomatic skills to guide us and all the other classes through countless reunions and special events. Alumni clubs all over the world have benefited from his perennial good sense. Howie Howland remembers one evening, freshman year, after walking with Dave along Mass Row, when Tom Herlihy declared, "That guy is the most gung-ho Dartmouth of anyone I have ever met." Plus ca change..).

Jay Greene deserves thanks for igniting the blaze of reminiscences of professors such as John Finch and John Adams and Lew Stilwell. Lee Hirschey lit the flame of memories about Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy, including Herb Roskind's anecdotes about living with the remarkable "Jewish Christian thinker" and John Lange's puzzlement about his theory that "divorce causes cancer." Should other classes want to read the full array of nostalgic e-mail about lifelong learning, not all of it suitable for a family magazine, please surf to www.happy. dartmouth.org/classes/57/. From there, click your way to the extensive "teachers" file. You could also investigate the illustrated World War I diary of Bob Shirley's father, Thomas E.Shirley '18 (or even myriad other fascinating revelations about our class).

Merwyn Bagan has received the 2000 Humanitarian Award for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons...for his extensive volunteer work overseas...and for furthering the development of neurosurgical training in Nepal [Concord, New Hampshire, SundayMonitor"

Martin Anderson testified in favor of awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. He said, in particular, that historians will write about how Reagan's "comprehensive economic program...ignited what economists today already call 'the long boom,'" about how "Reagan won the Cold War...and ended the threat of global nuclear war," and mostly about his leading "the final battle that defeated Marxism and killed the very idea of communism."

Gary Gilson was honored at the 2000 awards banquet of the National Conference for Community and Justice in Minneapolis. (Thanks to Rob Brown '59 for the announcement.) John Cusick, having been a director of the Global Tele Exchange, has also become strategic advisor to CEO Phil Anderson .John's career, after Dartmouth, Navy duty, Fontainebleau and Wharton, included tours with AT&T as president for Japan and as president for Germany-Austria-Switzerland. If you have or need stuff like bandwidth or minutes or even dark fiber, you can do your wholesale trading at www. theGTX.com.

Tony Williamson didn't want to tell anyone, but the Maine School of Science and Math has established the Tony Williamson Centre for Northern Studies. Thanks to Tony Pell for the information leak. Tony Williamson's lecture last fall about 40 years in northern Labrador kicked off the opening of an exhibit at Bowdoin Colleges Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. After a career conducting research on aboriginal resource use fromAlaska to Labrador, Tony retired from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1996. Since then he has helped the Labrador Inuit Association with environmental assessments and land-claim decisions [Brunswick, Maine, Times Record].

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