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Members of the Bulletin staff are quite proud of this autonomy, and repeatedly emphasize that their magazine is in no sense a "house organ of the Dean's office." Joseph R. Hamlen '04, President and Publisher of the Bulletin since 1927, for example, recalls telling more than one University president the magazine could not carry an editorial or news item in exactly the form the president wanted. On the whole, however, there has been little conflict between the Bulletin and the University, and Hamlen characterizes their relationship as that of "pleasant playmates...
Into this difficult situation stopped publisher Hamlen, characterized by present Bulletin editor Norman A. Hall '22 an the "elder brother" of the magazine's editorial staff. Recognizing both the acute need for a change and the obstacles to be overcome, Hamlen in the summer of 1939 commissioned David T. Pottinger '06, associate director of the Harvard University Press, to design a completely new cover and inside format for the Bulletin. In the fall, Pottinger presented Hamlen with the new magazine he had wanted; the small, stuffy type on the inside had been replaced by an easier-reading style...
...following week Hamlen took Pottinger's design still unknown t the magazine's staff to a Bulletin board meeting. "Gentleman," he said, producing the bright trial copy from under the table, "here is the way Alumni Bulletin...
...typical of the modern Bulletin, which Hamlen inaugurated that day in 1939, that what he called "the new Alumni Bulletin" itself became old-fashioned within two years. Under the leadership of David McCord '21, who replaced Merrill upon the latter's death in 1940, the magazine was again completely redesigned for the fall of '41. In addition, the old athletic weekly was finally made a bi-weekly, and thus the Bulletin took the essential form that it has today...
William H. Allen of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; James A. Bailey 2d of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Edward L. Burlingame of New Canaan, Conn.; Thomas F. Crowley of Belmont, Mass.; John S. Hamlen of Boston, Mass.; Myron T. Herrick of Dark Harbor, Me.; Robert S. Hoffman 3d of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Theodore C. Hollander of South Hamilton, Mass.; David U. Holmes of Westwood, Mass; David B. Loring of Hamden, Conn.; John L. Newell of Brookline, Mass.; Frederick S. Nicholas Jr. (Capt.) of Malvern, Pa.; Charles A. Papalia of Watertown, Mass.; Charles Steedman of Providence, R. I.; Thomas H. Walsh Jr. of Wellesley...