1960

On July 9, in memory of our dear classmate and longtime class treasurer, jay Emery, some members of the class of 1960 living in the Hanover area will participate in the 24th Annual Prouty Bike Ride and Fitness Walk, to raise money for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

The event allows participants to bicycle 25, 50 or 100 miles up the Connecticut River Valley or walk 5 or 10 kilometers in the Hanover area. Lastyear Jay himself led a team known as Emery's Eagles that raised $3,000 for the center, of the $366,000 raised in all. Jay is no longer with us, but Rick Roesch and Jim Adler, our class president and immediate past president, remember fondly how last year, even though suffering from cancer that finally killed him, Jay led them on a longer ride than first planned, inspiring all the members of his team with his stamina.

The gift of New Guinea art made by John Friede and his wife, Marcia, to the new De Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will go on display when the museum opens in October— 350 pieces, many of which have never been presented to the public.

Roger Hackley and Peter Farquhar, San Francisco Bay Area class members, have offered to host classmates at their High Sierra cabins near Echo Lake off U.S. Highway 50 on July 17-19, part of the Left Coast get-togethers that have been arranged by Bruce Hasenkamp, but Pete told me it may be nextyear before there are many acceptances. "We find so many of our classmates are traveling then and can't come," he told me.

The next Left Coast lunch is at the University Club in San Francisco July 13. Meanwhile, monthly class lunches continue on each fourth Tuesday at the Norwich Inn in Norwich, Vermont. I was privileged to be able to attend one of these luncheons on a March visit to Dartmouth. Sixteen classmates in all attended. Snow covered the ground outside, the dress was rustic, and the food was great. In fact, I was impressed that there were more choices of entrees at our class luncheon than my employees retirement club offers for the Los Angeles Times. I sat in a corner next to Dudley Smith.

Melvin Small, professor of history and graduate director at Wayne State University, has issued his The Water's Edge: American Politics andthe Vietnam War, through the Ivan R. Dee publishing house in Chicago.

A cheerful Jake Crouthamel, athletic director for 27 years at Syracuse University, served as tournament director of the NCAA regional basketball tournament at Syracuse in March for the fourth time in the last nine years. It was the last major event of his tenure prior to his retirement in June, and the top crowd at the Carrier Dome he helped to build during the tournament was 30,916. Jake was a star on the Dartmouth football team in our undergraduate years and later coached Dartmouth football.

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