1951

Promoting a 60th reunion that is more that two years away may seem premature but I am undaunted. In my possession are the bound volumes of TheDartmouth from September 1949 to June 1951, our junior and senior years. They will become my source material of reminiscing beginning in September of this year and ending with the May 2011 issue of DAM. Limited to 350 words per issue and wanting to cover current items of interest as well will allow very little of what went on during our last two undergraduate years. Dave Batchelder and I briefly talked about how he could give some space in 51 Fables for the promotion. I will tiy to build some momentum for this two-year promotion with your recollections of 1949 summer jobs or romances that led to career choices or marriages, respectively. Write or e-mail me. I'll go first: The summer before I worked for Sumner S. Sollitt '23 in his construction company Chicago headquarters as an office boy. In 19491 went out in the field to a job site doing a variety of tasks. It was fascinating work but not, for me, as a career. It was also a summer in which Rosina Schmidt and I decided to get married after college. There I was, at 20, having already made two of the biggest three decisions of my life— where to go to college and whom to marry. The third—what to do for a living—would have to wait until the next summer.

Our Peter Martin keeps his hand in many noteworthy activities. His latest came to my attention in a press release from the John Hazard Institute located in Hanover. Its executive director happens to be Peter, who was announcing a new program of long- term overseas comparative law fellowships. Each fellowship, worth from $200,000 to $300,000 depending on the destination and the status of the fellow, would provide young American lawyers with two or more years of cultural immersion and intensive law and language study, followed by a final year practicing or teaching international law.

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