1951

Well, here we are almost on the eve of the momentous 50th reunion. Reunion chair Hank Sanders and his committeemen have labored prodigiously to program our Green-Letter Days on the Hanover Plain, and with any luck at all the weatherman will do his part as well.

By the time you read this, a major new development in journalism will be well underway out in the Sandwich Islands. A stumbling daily newspaper, the Honolulu Star Bulletin, is being given a new lease on life by new owner David Black, a Canadian press titan, whose purchase saved the venerable publication just as it was about to fold. This changing tide swept up our classmate, longtime journalist Dick Halloran (New York Times,Washington Post, Business Week), who was recruited to become editorial director, running the editorial and op-ed pages and the Sunday section of commentary and analysis. Dick wrote, "We start on March 15, the Ides of March, and launch the new Sunday paper on April 1, April Fool's Day. Who picked those days is still a mystery....To say that I am excited about being back in a newsroom would be the understatement of the week. Scratch me and I still bleed printers ink. The chance to work on something new and to help build it up is most appealing, as is what I hope to be a contribution to my adopted home state. You may ask why, in my late middle age, I am eager to take on these tasks. I would remind you that after the late Middle Ages came the Renaissance."

You may remember that Al Moses was American ambassador to Romania for a three-year stint, returning to his Washington law practice in 1997. But this seems to be one of those cases where taking the man out of the country doesn't take the country out of the man. The International Herald Tribune recently ran an informative opinion column by Al, headlined "Romania Deserves Encouragement." He observed, "With the exception of Albania, no country in Europe was more devastated politically and economically by communism." The piece expressed hope for success of a newly elected president because "Romania, the second largest country in Central Europe, is too important strategically for the West to ignore."

After 31 years teaching pediatrics at Yale Medical School and attending at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Howard Pearson has joined the emeritus faculty. We reported here two years ago his accomplishment building and operating the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for young cancer patients, financed by actor Paul Newman. My old roommate Jim Lowell and Barbara were touristing here in Washington the other day and treated me to pleasant dinner. Jim says he'll finally retire when he sells the building he owns and manages in Collinsville, Connecicut.

Please join us in raising a purse we can be proud of for our 50th reunion gift to the College in this special year of our Dartmouth relationship. See you in Hanover next month.

P.O. Box 5462, West Lebanon, NH03784; loye.miller.51@alum.dartmouth.org

REUNION June 8-10 2001