Among the responsibilities of newly appointed class treasurer Dan Van Dorn is supervision of the $10 per classmate voluntary fund solicited each year with the billing for class dues. In recent years the fund has been used to supplement grants for undergraduate internships awarded by the College’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and for fellowships and internships of the Tucker Foundation. We have recently received reports from the two 2009 Class of 1952 named interns of the Rockefeller Center. Mitchell D. McIntyre ’10, who worked at the U.S Department of Commerce in San Jose, California, and Natalie A. Young ’10, who spent her summer at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a non-governmental agency based in Washington, D.C. In an effort to keep the class informed of where, as they say, “its dollars are working,” I have asked Webmaster Ben Lawwill to post their reports on our class Web site (www.dartmouth.org/classes/52) and will do so with the Tucker reports when received. 


In January a lead article in the weekly “Science Times” section of The New York Times, in discussing a new book on the health problems and death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, referred extensively to the earlier work in the field by our Dr. Harry Goldsmith. Harry’s dogged investigation into the secrecy and mystery surrounding FDR’s health has been a lifelong avocation, which culminated in the publication of his own book, A Conspiracy of Silence: The Health and Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 2007. That his efforts are still receiving recognition provides testimony to the significance of his work. 


In February five of us—Bob Brace, Bill Randall, Tom Schanck, Dick Watt and I—enjoyed an impromptu mini-reunion when we shared a table at a meet-and-greet luncheon for College President Jim Yong Kim with alumni in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We had a chance to reminisce a bit before being treated to and impressed by President Kim’s wide-ranging and warmly received remarks on the complexities of administrating today’s Dartmouth, his heartfelt appreciation of its traditions and his plans for the future.


—Dave Drexler, 1706 N. Park Drive, Apt. 8, Wilmington, DE 19806; (302) 428-0398; dave@drexler.com