Class Newsletter February 2002

Check out the Chokemobile, October 11-13, 2002

Aging in Chicago; Hip at Golf; It is a Small University, but….; and How to Be Truly Content

Let us begin this on a rare high note, looking ahead to good things rather than backward to 9/11 or your recent hip replacement. Alan Danson, when not skiing, traveling the Northwest, Morocco, and Italy, or writing award-winning poetry (see below), is hard at work on our Class 65^th (say it ain't so) birthday bash in Chicago. And so he writes:

SAVE THE DATE--IT'S GONNA BE GREAT (This was not the award winner--see further on down)

The Class of 1960 65^th Birthday Party will be held in Chicago over the weekend of June 5-8, 2003. We would expect most people to arrive on Thursday, June 5 and depart on Sunday, June 8. The "local" Birthday Committee, including Barry and Mary Ann MacLean, Walter and Karen Freedman and Mike and Leslie Notaro, is working on a variety of activities that will entertain and delight even the most difficult-to-please among us. Chicago is a happening place, with its fabulous architecture, art museums, restaurants, music venues, the famous Lincoln Park Zoo, Wrigley Field, excellent golf courses and beautiful Lake Michigan. [So how come Danson lives in Vail?] We've already had birthday parties on both coasts, so we felt that it was time to give the Great Heartland a turn at bat. You right and left coasters, who think that nothing exciting happens if it's not near salt water, are in for a wonderful surprise. We expect a record turnout for this wonderful event as Chicago is easy and inexpensive to get to from virtually everywhere in the U.S. and abroad, and we're working on accommodations to fit all budgets.

We will be getting detailed information out to all classmates next fall, but we want to ask all of you now to circle the date on your calendars. To help us gage the potential interest, could you simply write in "For Sure," "Most Likely," or "Sorry, no" and your name on the enclosed Green Card [and maybe you could include some personal news for your hard-up newsletter editor?] and send it in. Thanks for your help. We guarantee that this will be one class event that you will not want to miss.

And now we return you to our normal crass programming. As many of you older types know, the arrival of a first grandchild is likely to inspire strange, even weird, behavior---oogling, ogling, cooing, and other incoherent speech patterns, to name but a few symptoms--and I have to confess to suffering some of that illness as a result of the arrival Sept. 4 in Warsaw, Poland of one Sarah Marie Genzer. I was even prompted during her Christmas visit to Hanover to send some classmates a digital photo of her attired in her new Dartmouth sweatshirt--one of the items still available at Gene and Allen's incredibly shrinking Dartmouth Co-op. I accompanied that email with this introduction: "Just once, we understand, we are allowed to mess up a few Dartmouth computers with a photo like this one. "

Mitchell Agley

Having given myself that small privilege, I now offer it to all of you, in somewhat modified form. I will be pleased to run in this elegant journal a photo of you and your grandchildren, however many, if only to balance

Hank and Laurel Greer and tykes

some of the political and travel writing we have--happily--had so much of in recent months. I will even provide an award for the best photos--Hasenkamp, check your closet for T-shirts. So send them in. And let's hope you get nicer responses than I got: from Dave Farnsworth: "Very cute & sartorially perfect. Couldn't help notice she already has more hair than Grandpa Goodman." [to which I say, balderdash.]. From Round John Mitchell: "Great picture but why no Indian Head sweat shirt?" (Ask politically correct proprietors Kohn and Stowe.) And from Rick Roesch: "What a cute guy! And how fortunate that he looks more like Grandma than Grandpa! Aren't grandkids just the best!!!" (Guy? Did Mr. Roesch spend too much time at an all-male college?) Anyway, as someone (Hank Greer, to be precise) has noted, " Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing YOUR children." (But as he also said, "Nevertheless-----be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.") And how better to start this all off than with this photo of a Greer gathering.

As for Mr. Danson's remarkable poetry: "…….I thought you might be amused to see my first and only attempt at poetry - written after a trip to Morocco over the Millennium, during which we visited the Roman ruin at Volubilis. I submitted it to a local poetry contest and won first prize --- I've decided to quit while I'm ahead." So here is "Volubilis":

"Unexpected./We saw you first from a hilltop on the Fez to Meknes road/Floating below us, white island on a dark green sea of early winter wheat/Your myriad marble columns like some petrified forest bereft of branches/Your triumphal arch and noble basilica first lit then shadowed as clouds raced past the winter sun /We read of wheat and olives sent to Rome from your fertile fields/Of lions and bears exported from your woods for that capital’s bloody games/Of proud troops billeted at this most distant outpost of the Empire/And of King Jubba II who raised you up two thousand years ago/Memories only, words in some book recounting long vanished events/Not so your graceful columns, your still vibrant mosaics, your baths and fountains/-- dry perhaps but persisting – living relics of an ancient time/Volubilis – in your precincts I am a time traveler, able to span the millennia with ease."

Morocco is not all that Alan and Sylvia are up to: "We have been enjoying a glorious ski season. This year both Silvia and I will be Community Guest Service volunteers, working one day a week on Vail Mountain to assist skiers and improve the quality of their on-mountain experience in any way that we can. I've also volunteered my services as a board member of the Gore Range Natural Science School, a local non-profit dedicated to raising environmental awareness by providing natural science education to children and adults in the greater Eagle Valley area. Silvia is volunteering her time to help local Spanish-speaking elementary students. Vail is an incredibly stimulating place in which to live, and we are always seeking new ways to give something back to the community…..Silvia and I traveled to Italy this fall and were able to celebrate our 25^th wedding anniversary in Florence."

New ways of reaching curmudgeon David Bond: Curmudgeon@harumpf.com, or 44 Ridge Road, Canmore Alberta, T1W 1G6, or 403-609-0080, or fax 510-217-5228. Howie and Judy Frankel have a new email address: hjfrankel@comcast.net.

The last NL prompted Sandy Ingham "to add my 2 cents worth on the uproar over the faculty criticism of U.S. policy and its bearing on Sept. 11. In the town where I live, Marlboro, N.J., 13 people lost their lives at the World Trade Center. In the Jersey shore area, covered by the newspaper I help edit, 170 were lost at last count. Day after day, I edited the stories we printed about these innocent victims--their lives, their work, their families. I defy anyone--exalted professor or not--to come here and explain to these bereaved wives, children, parents, brothers, sisters, why our country is responsible for their loss.

"Certainly Americans understand far too little of the rest of the world. But our ignorance is hardly justification for what happened 9/11. I believe--and I am generally liberal--we had every right--indeed no choice--but to go after the terrorists. The alternative would have been to, what, 'open a dialogue' with bin Laden, Hussein, et al., and watch next as the White House went up smoke?

"To segue (journalists are wont to use such words too) I'll be in the front row of the WWOZ Jazz tent at Jazz Fest in New Orleans April 26-28 and May 2-5. Fellow jazz fans, be there! P.S. Get after Lee Horschman, who has some news of a happy nature!" [I tried, but so far Lee ain't talking.]

Bruce Hasenkamp sent along a report of Mort Kondracke's appearance before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco last July. Much too long to include here, but, with all the talking heads on television since Sept. 11, Mort's reply to a question on pundits seems appropriate to repeat: "We talk too much. The generation of pundits who only wrote columns and never went on television has died out, partly because you can't make a living only writing newspaper columns, you have to be on television. Once you get on television--and McLaughlin started this--thinking time has been compressed to practically nothing. So you're spitting out opinions faster than you can really think, and it results in a lot of foolishness, a lot of instant opinions, a lot of half-baked thoughts. Sometimes, unless you are really careful, you could do damage to people. You become a wise-ass, and you can insult people."

Hap Dunning offered this about Mort's new book: "Mort Kondracke was in the San Francisco Bay Area in July giving a talk on his new book Saving Milly - Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease." The book is a memoir of Mort's life, his marriage to Milly and their fervent search for a cure for her case of 'Parkinson's-plus.' Mort the journalist has become Mort the lobbyist as he seeks to double federal funding for the National Institutes of Health, and his crusade for that cause, and particularly for more funding for Parkinson's research, is inspiring. Dartmouth is mentioned occasionally in the book, including Mort's yeoman work on 'The Daily D,' but shame on the indexer for the entry 'Dartmouth University.'"

I would only echo the praise others, including Phil Kron, have offered for Saving Milly. It is clearly and smoothly written, maybe the most honest personal statement I can remember reading--ever. And it breaks your heart.

Kron, retired

Now, in the Department of What Do They Know that We Don't, Hap mentioned the unfortunate reference to Dartmouth University. In late January, a former CIA officer spoke at the College and told us how pleased he was to be at Dartmouth University. (Now, perhaps, we know why they blew it on 9/11.) And finally, from a magazine ad on "the ultimate plan for battling prostate cancer," reference to "a Dartmouth University study…" With all the literature cascading out of Blunt and all those other admin buildings along the Green, the message is still not getting out. Or maybe it is.

Gene Powell, is still working, so he has more free time than the rest of us who have wives with projects. Pens Gene: "Three months ago I had my second hip replaced. Flying is a problem as I set off all the alarms. Started playing golf 2 1/2 months after the replacement and my scores don't seem to be affected negatively as I'm still playing to my five handicap. (A lot of clanking and clicking in the swing.) This fall my wife and I will be moving to Bend, Oregon where we have purchased a small ranch that we will occupy while we build a new home. I have my own business and primarily manage commercial real estate which I own with my partners. We mostly own office buildings in Virginia and CA. I've been spending 5-6 weeks the last two years teaching Property Management in Japan." So there you have it, Vandeweghe, Stowe, Kirby, Lower, and Gould: get a hip replacement.

Headlines from some recent "Daily D's": New awards honor MLK: College recognizes four alumni for work in social justice; Students demand Asian Am. Studies; College is unfazed by Title IX litigation; One year later, Tulloch will go to trial April 22 [for the Zantops' murders]; DDS is short 60 student workers; First winter rush sees mixed results; Tuition study deems College unaffordable; Non-trad. piercings flourish; Dining Serv. may deliver to dorms.

Some of you think you can send me a Green Card that says "no news," but, like the dog that didn't bark (and who wrote about that?) there is always something to be culled from your scribblings. Judge Haley Fromholz professes to read this rag "as soon as it arrives," but offers nothing more. So what does that say about our judiciary? Clearly, that we need some good military courts.

Ray Pong rang me, hot under the collar in January, from sinful Los Angeles where he swears he's going to retire from his urology practice any day now, but with luck next year. It wasn't urology he had in mind, however, but, in a moment of rectitude, proctology. "It burns my ass," says Ray to read your last Newsletter. "Whoa," says I, "what did I write?" "Not you," says he, "but those Dartmouth professors who can't say anything good about the U.S. And also those comments [Larry Dingman, take notice] about Bush being a puppet of ultra-conservative interests." So we chatted, and, of course, I disagreed with Dr. Ray completely. But I'll let Professor Dingman defend himself. Ray says healthcare costs and red tape in California make him look forward to retirement more than ever. He says his old roommate, Tom Grow, owes him a visit, and he would like that, "despite Tom's liberal politics!"

Scoops Farnsworth, in his Christmas letter, reports three grandchildren and a three-week trip to the Southwest (Grand Canyon and much more) and a visit with Walt and Doris Sosnowski. Of Sos, Scoops says, "He's very fit as a result of deep involvement in competitive bike racing at the state and national level." (Bruce Clark and Pete Hawks, take note.)

Clark, accosted

Last edition I mentioned Jay Emery's upcoming book on fog lights and cave-dwelling terrorists and got back this cordial reply: "Please cancel my subscription to your filthy rag. I'm considering filing a discrimination lawsuit. As soon as I locate my friend Osama he will have your address." Jay's Christmas letter carried a photo of Wendy and him in Prague and a ton of news, plus a penned message, "None of this goes in the Newsletter." Jay is to fog lights as Reg Regestein is to fish.

Reg, who shall never be allowed to forget that he once wrote us on the riveting subject of piscatorial psychology, now sends the following words of self- contentment: "There is never anything new in my life. I even buy used cars. I never change my job, I never change my wife, I never change my hobbies, friends, address, or what I eat for breakfast. I read books I've already read and travel to places I've already been and see the same people again at conventions and family reunions. I am that fortunate." Reg's address is (still) 6 Worthington St., Boston 02120.

Mike McGinnis, a.k.a. "Mad Dog" calls from NYC with the following reaction to points in the last Newsletter: The College has allowed the men's sports program to decline to a level of hopelessness. There is no place for people to gather and just be together and feel good about being at Dartmouth. So they don't go to the games (football and basketball) and they don't feel good about Dartmouth. With regard to fraternities, because their parties are open to the whole campus, too many kids try to get in and can't or get in and can't get as far as the bar. So they drink before they leave their dorms. Unlike the fraternities and clubs at other schools, e.g., Princeton, where economics keeps some students out of certain clubs, Dartmouth fraternities are non-exclusive and the fraternities serve a valuable function, a place where students can gather, as they would at sporting events if teams were better. On the 9/11 debate, the problem is that we talk only about a military response; We need a Marshall Plan of sorts for Afghanistan and the area.

Hasenkamp, a T-shirt for Bob Fairbank. Banks emails: "Thanks for your latest Newsletter. I sent it to my brother to see if he could clear up the canoe race question. That was quite an event. Also, to answer your question, the last time Dartmouth won an Ivy League basketball championship was the '58-'59 season led by Larusso, Chuck and Sos, Gavitt and all the other good players from the classes of '59 and '60." Let us not forget Farnsworth and Barnes or, for that matter, Fairbank.

The discussion of faculty political views in the last edition prompted this thoughtful piece from Reed Browning out in God's country (Ohio, naturally). I have had to cut it some, but the full text can be found here.

"The 1960 Newsletter that arrived last week prompts me to offer some thoughts on the peculiar political skew found within most humanities and social sciences faculties today. My observations are based on more than thirty-four years of association with Kenyon College, all of them as a faculty member, eight as provost, and six months as acting president. My own politics have always been conservative (which generally translates into Republican), and so, as you might imagine, I've given lots of thought to the issue that really ought to be paramount wherever authentic diversity is an institutional goal: why are conservative-thinking faculty members so scarce in humanities and social science departments? Here are some thoughts on the matter.

"First off, it's important to realize that although academic talent is found among students across the full range of the ideological spectrum, students on the left are likelier -- and I think far likelier -- than students on the right to pursue a Ph.D. with the goal of teaching. Some students on the right find the prospect of joining a left-liberal teaching establishment off-putting; others, being likelier than their left-liberal friends to have a Hobbesian/Calvinist view of human nature, see law or business as more interesting career options; still others, their skepticism honed by four years of in-class sparring with left-liberal faculty, wind up dubious about the integrity of the humanities and social sciences. But whatever the reason, the bottom line remains the same; the shortage of Ph.D.s in the humanities and social sciences results in part from the paucity of conservatives entering graduate programs.

"Still, one might wonder: why don't some academics change their political views as time passes? After all, in most professions it is not an unusual thing for persons to shift their political thinking. Why isn't the same phenomenon found in college and university faculties? At least three forces make such shifts uncommon.

"First, there is the simple power of group-think. Few of us gladly choose to break from the patterns of thought that have in very real ways defined the communities we belong to. Left-liberal thinking is a conventional trait of academic communities, and academics, like most other people, are reluctant to violate community norms, shock their colleagues, and risk becoming eccentrics or even outcasts.

"Second, academics are more insulated from the pressures of the market than most professionals, and hence they misunderstand it. They live, for example, in a community in which the chief determinant of salary is length of service, not the quality of job performance…..

"Third, academics in the humanities and social sciences rarely need to confront anything like a chastening reality…..And if reality never intrudes to require people to reconsider their intellectual baggage, they rarely have cause to change their most fundamental professional views. This is the basic reason that faculty members in the humanities can often get away with professing foolishness while scientists, who cannot ignore the intransigence of an external reality, rarely can.

"If these points are right, they suggest that the left-liberal academic dominance in the humanities and social sciences is likely to endure. The problem, that is, is not rooted in the influence of some shadowy left-liberal conspiracy. (If only it were! Then many faculties could be shamed into behaving more responsibly.) Rather, the problem has structural foundations….

"…..In some ways, it's easy to exaggerate the deleterious consequences of the problem. For example: contrary to what one sometimes reads, left-liberal faculty (so my Kenyon experience teaches me) rarely engage in tendentious teaching. Most faculty members know and respect the difference between responsible and irresponsible teaching……But in other ways the consequences are disturbing. First, faculty members usually have wide influence on the choice of outside speakers who will be invited to campuses, and they prefer to bring in speakers whose views resonate with their won. That's why, on most campuses, the array of outside lecturers is tilted strongly to the left-liberal position. [Two notes: 1) in my experience at Kenyon, both Linda Chavez and Thomas Sowell were prevented from appearing because some faculty members disapproved of their politics; and 2) conservative faculty members are likelier -- I'm tempted to say far likelier -- than left-liberal faculty members to rejoice in an authentic diversity of expressed opinion.] Second, students are fully aware of the political complexion of their faculty, and some of them, respecting their teachers and then positing a causal relationship where none exists, come to believe that intelligent analysis leads naturally to the adoption of left-liberal views. Third, the problem seems to become more pronounced the higher up the academic pecking order you go, so that whereas Kenyon has a modest proportion of conservative academics, Harvard (and I suspect, Dartmouth) has a much smaller proportion…..The effect is that the nation's flagship institutions are even less representative of -- and more misleading about -- the country at large than the already unrepresentative and misleading average college or university.

"These are some reflections from a conservative inside academe. Please use this letter however you wish - and that includes dishing it. It has been a sort of dry-run for a talk or essay I might prepare, and I've had fun constructing it." Reed is reachable at: Department of History, Seitz House, Gambier, OH 43022-9623, Tel. 740-427-5316/5762. Or just Box 382, Gambier.

More from academia: Writes Art LaFrance: "Lectured in Boston and D.C., May to Oct., on bioethics; rafted the Grand Canyon (with family) this summer for two weeks; 4^th grandchild born 10/12/01; plan to cross country ski Crater Lake with Dartmouth Club this March and bike south of France this summer…" You can email Art at lafrance@lclark.edu

Following are excerpts from two letters from Rich Pomboy, raising a question that is probably on the minds of at least a few of you. The full text of each is available under Pomboy #1 and Pomboy #2 on the Class website. Writes Rich: "…..What amazes me is that at the same time as our classmates are critical of the 'culture' of the Dartmouth faculty (and I believe rightly so) we are being urged……to give generously to the college.

"It is this unquestioning, rah rah loyalty to an institution that in no way resembles what we left in 1960 that disappoints me. The question never seems to be raised – why should we give to Dartmouth?….

"For some, Dartmouth is their identity. Others find themselves pleased with Dartmouth today. Both are rational reasons for contributing. But for many of us there is no reason to support the nonsense that I believe has permeated the campus in recent years…..

"It is not just the posture of the faculty about 9/11 that is disturbing. How about the proliferation of politically correct, nonsense courses that class contributions help pay for? Or how about the new approach to traditional courses where course material must be viewed through the prism of a variety of deviate behavioral styles? What about the 'sexual orientation' for freshmen to insure the legitimacy of all behavior patterns no matter how perverse? Or the absence of ROTC, the college’s social agenda, etc., etc.?…..

"Taking a critical look at Dartmouth need not impact our bonds of fellowship, and questioning of the merits of Dartmouth today should be viewed as a constructive exercise and not in any way undermining our college experience and our class ties.

"I set up a scholarship fund at Dartmouth in the ‘70s. Now, when I get letters from the kids who are being assisted by the fund I don’t know if I should be happy that they are at Dartmouth or whether I should feel that I am contributing to a generation which will see only the negatives in our society…."

Excerpts of Rich's second letter follow: "Thanks for sending me Reed’s very thoughtful letter…..[I]n addition to Reed’s comments I would add that many faculty members charged with opening and expanding the minds of students have closed minds themselves. While I can understand the inherent bias among faculty members which Reed describes, I think that the damage the faculty can do can be mitigated by a fair and objective college administration….

"I think we should challenge the administration, not the faculty, to level the playing field. The administration should set the standards for a clear balance of ideas and do this through guest lectures, encouraging conservative newspapers on campus and subsidizing conservative groups to the same extent as liberal ones. Dartmouth’s administration, in my view, has failed miserably in this regard and, just as in the case of Summers at Harvard, lives in fear of the vocal liberal faculty."

I asked a few of our more involved and active classmates to react to Rich's letters. Complete texts of their responses will be posted on our website under "Forum" as they are received. I would encourage all of you who are interested in this question to submit your own comments directly to the website or to Walt Daniels at wdaniels@bestweb.net. Here in part is what our chief fundraiser, Class Agent Ken Johansen, replied: "We all have our philanthropic interests that not only ask us for money but our time and talent as well. I have mine, two of which are Dartmouth and my church. Richard has his…...Richard reminds me of any former supporter of a charity who has been intellectually and emotionally disillusioned with the direction of that charity. The Boy Scouts of America are a recent classic example. Apparently Dartmouth is Richard's…..Richard accuses the college of 'nonsense courses' but fails to name any. Has he forgotten our 'gut' courses when we were at Dartmouth?…..We all have various reasons for supporting our favorite charity, but I doubt that any of us are blindly loyal. There is something more here when the Pomboy scholarship is still in place but he regrets that it is. The fact that Richard took the time to write to you indicates to me that there is still an underlying interest in Dartmouth."

John with an h Richardson says, "I was thinking of retiring shortly, but decided to take a new job at the [American] university instead, as Director of 'The Center for Teaching Excellence.' The Center is concerned with mentoring faculty and promoting the use of technology in support of teaching. Also I will be the University's first faculty member in residence (geezer in residence). My 12-year book project, now called Development and Deadly Conflict, should go off to the publisher in the Spring. We are selling our townhouse, close to all the Washington attractions, and building a house--with horse barn attached--in the country. It should be a lively Spring." John, if you are getting into the field of mentoring faculty, you might want to hold off on that book on "deadly conflict." You ain't seen nothing yet.

From Shelburne, VT (and why don't we see you at our monthly Norwich Inn lunches?) comes this from Jules Cote or, more likely, from wife Jackie: "Jules retired in Dec. 2000. He was elected District Governor for the State of Vermont for Lions Clubs International for 2000-2001, and is intending to run for International Director. He enjoys traveling, visiting our children and three grandchildren, camping, and gardening. [We] are really enjoying retirement!"

SEAD: Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth

This is a few months old now but still current: Bill Gundy writes: "… we were out in New Mexico visiting Santa Fe and Taos during this horrific [post 9/11] period. Very much enjoyed the beauty of this part of our country and ended up driving cross country to return to Wellesley, Mass--due primarily to the after shock and a desire to see more of this wonderful country. Enjoying retirement since the end of last year and working my way into several non-profit boards to keep productive."

Swim champ Crumbine (c) with Bruce and Sandy Molinaroli

Responding to December's call for the names of national champions from the Class, Peter Crumbine offers this: "….I appreciated the undeserved plug about looking young. Foley has me beat by a mile. As for national championships, I managed to win my age group in the U.S. Masters Swimming 1 mile championship a few years ago in (of all places) Cleveland…." [What better place?] Peter still swims in masters and was recently named Chairman of the Long Distance Committee for U.S. Masters Swimming.

How better to wind this up than with something from the inimitable "Patsy" a.k.a. Jack Patterson (translations available for a small fee): " yours is a family sheet and perhaps I need to withhold my for fun impiety / irreverence from so public a view . . . but if you need filler - spice for the next / future edition , ok to reproduce….mostly I liked Dave Bond ' s loving this country - US ( not , U . S . meant here , specifically , but we - us ; US , you and me - dig ? )( Dave Bond loves us . )( i am glad to be loved in any way / form , etc . - not sexual inference . ) ; and the open way he expressed it and his cautions , etc ….Did I tell you the latest Greedy Gal story ? Greedy Gal , is , of course , Breyer , my daughter . Who asked me several summers ago as I was streaking down the main street of Gananoque with she and her brother in my fancy truck - - "Dad , how is the estate coming ? " - - Meaning , my ESTATE, my money , her possible inheritance .

. ."Latest : this is for all our contemporaries ( with children ): I called her after not speaking for quite a while - not as there was a problem but just by chance we didn ' t speak / get together. "Hi Breyer . . . " Silence . " Breyer , it 's me , Dad . How are you ? " " Dad , will you GET A LIFE ? " She says, "Jeez , you just called me last summer!" Oh well." And from a different message: "( P.S. I also liked John Mitchell' s 'khaki' - I love Yankee stuff like that. Do we all - as a class? Probably, being there in Hanover when we were . I will never forget the men who ' drug the barrel around Davis Rink at halftime - before Zamboni ' s….I forwarded yr . analysis / recommendation in/re basketball , etc . to the Lord."

And finally, I leave you with these little thoughts: 1) send a Green Card; 2) remember, a truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn; and 3) a really truly wise man marks his calendar for our fall mini-reunion on October 11-13, height of the leaf season, an art seminar with the '59s and '61s, good football (well, football, anyway), good dining, and good friendship. dg

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