1959

Hi there. Freshman, freshman, freshman. The best way to start is with a list of the legacies that are arriving on campus this month: Alexander D. Fuld, son of Stuart I. Fuld, a doctor living in Dover, Mass.; James C. Lust, son of Jim Lust, of automotive fame, in Aberdeen, S.D.; and Andrew H. May, son of John May of Lancaster, Penn.

Now let's go back and take a look at our statistics and then compare them to the entering class of 1997.

We started with 757 of us, all male. As the Alumni Magazine of 1955 states," 1959 is just about the top class to enter Dartmouth, better in every category than the previous high marks set by the class of 1957." On the College Boards we had average SAT's of 548 verbal and 585 math. Our class had a 70-percent high-school and a 30-percent prep-school graduate split. We also had some 111 sons of Dartmouth Alumni.

Now let's take a look at some of those same stats for 1997. Admissions tells us it will enroll 1,095 students with average SAT's 0f 626 verbal and 691 math. Of this number, 63 percent come from public schools, 37 percent from prep and parochial school.

From Orange County, Calif., we hear DaveViscott has just dispensed his final piece of advice after 13 years as a regular call-in host and radio therapist. Dave can be located through his Viscott Center in West L.A. He has also authored a new book, EmotionallyFree, to help people find a plan to work out the meaning of life, free of the negative effects of the past.

In January Silas Ford was elected to the board of governors of Lawrence Hospital. A Bronxville, N.Y., resident, he is the executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive Company and is responsible for the Office of the Chairman. After Tuck school he joined Colgate in 1961, first working at Corporate in New York, then in Madrid and London, returning to New York in 1980.

During a meeting in Washington recently I ran into Ed Labinsky, who was attending a fixed-income seminar. Ed is managing a $3.5 billion fixed-income fund for IDS in Minneapolis where he resides with his wife, Maureen, and two children, whom I believe are almost out of college. Let's hear more from you, Ed.

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