1958

After 28 years and more than

one thousand sermons, the Rev. Jim Crawford is stepping down as pastor of the historic Old South Church. Jim and Linda lived through some turbulent times in Boston in a church renowned

for its sense of civic responsibility. They arrived at the height of the racial conflict involving courtordered desegregation, and Jim rode the school buses from Roxbury to South Boston High. When The Boston Globe asked how he became a minister,jim replied that he began thinking of it when his pre-med studies came to an end with a professor who said, "Mr. Crawford, if you promise to take no more mathematics courses at Dartmouth College, I will give you a D minus."

Another who capped his career is Arden Bucholz, professor of history at SUNY Brockport. He ended his 32-year teaching career there with the highest academic honor the State University of New York can bestow. The SUNY trustees named Arden distinguished teaching professor. This rank, above full professor, is one to which only 12 in the entire system were named. Arden also received the Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977. He is internationally recognized as an authority on German military history arid authored two books on the first modern military historian, Hans Delbruck, and two on the first modern war planner, Helmuth von Moltke. He is currently engaged on the first fullscale biography of Moltke in 50 years, and his work includes more than 140 scholarly articles, reviews and conference presentations.

While Bevan French retired from NASA in 1994, he is still active and interested in space science and extraterrestrial geology. He gave a recent lecture in Connecticut titled "The 'Hole' Story: Meteorite Impact Craters," dealing with the effects of meteorite impacts on earth. Bevan maintains that, aside from the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, meteorites have also created huge structures across volumes of the earths crust. He says such impacts represent a risk to the future of life and human civilization on the planet. While with NASA, Bevan was involved with the training of the astronauts of the Apollo 11,12,16 and 17 missions.

Dan Palant recently gave a talk to the Women of Hadassah in Lexington, Massachusetts, titled "Do we give our children too much too soon?" As an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts, an attending pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Boston, and having spent about 12 hours a day for more than 30 years caring for kids, Dan has more than a passing knowledge. Perhaps he could repeat the presentation at our 45 th reunion so we get it right with our grandchildren. Speaking of which, mark your calendars now for June 9,10 and 11,2003.

The ranks of'58s continue to swell in the North Country. Don and Jane Voss have retired to New London from New Jersey. They have been to Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley functions and are looking forward to other events here at the College and at Colby (now Colby-Sawyer), Jane's alma mater.

I hope to see many of you at our mini-reunion October 18 and 19.

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