Wisconsin

A news item in the Milwaukee Journal stunned your secretary when he read it almost a week after our picnic of Sept. 11. Fred(Bish) Ivins '32 was severely injured only fifteen or twenty minutes after he left the B & B Ranch, the scene of our picnic. Ivins hadn't been to any of our affairs for some time, and left later than he had planned to pick up his wife and children who were visiting relatives within a few miles. In rounding a curve near Holy Hill his car must have hit an obstruction and was hurled into a rockfilled field, where it was demolished. Bish was thrown from the car and has been unconscious in a Hartford, Wis., hospital ever since. (A report two weeks after the accident is that Bish is still in a semi-coma. However, he has been moved to the Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee. Besides his head injuries he received three broken ribs.)

The more pleasant side of the outing was that we had a swell time—more were present than we had planned—and we fed them all. A baseball game was played with the usual division of the old fellows vs. the young ones. There always is more controversy in regard to this classification than there is about the outcome of the game. Even Dartmouth men don't grow old graciously!

The B & B ranch has proved to be an ideal spot for the Dartmouth picnic. We have met there for several years, and Ed Luedke '34 was more than the genial host. He and BobManegold '38 built their spacious cabin on top of a hill, and the sunset with a fanning of golden colors reminds you of the New England countryside.

Here poets brood, and here after physical exhaustion of baseball (maybe they were right, siding you with the old fellows, after all) you begin to think that you would really prefer the simple life, and why couldn't you have some quiet little cottage here and commune with nature. Then you wonder how in hell you would get your food up here all year round—so you go back to the city—and that's that for another year.

The Graham Butlers ('32) convinced the Mcßarretts ('34), or vice versa, and both families motored up from Janesville—had a good time, but left before the picnic supper because the baby sitter back home let out with an ultimatum and gave them a time limit for their return.

Gertrude and Tom Wollaeger '32 came in from Oshkosh, Bob Butler '37 and his wife from Waukesha, James Fredrickson 'a 1 from Madison.

Jim Schwedland '4B saw Hanover for the first time during the war while under Navy orders. He liked the school so well that he chose it after V-J day, and received his degree this June. Jim has been active in the DOC and one of the enthusiastic users of the Dartmouth College Grant. He will continue his school work by taking a postgraduate course in Forestry at Yale. Jim was very much a spark plug at the picnic. His songs with guitar were extremely entertaining, and doubtless helped to convince many of us that going to Dartmouth now is just as interesting as it was in the "good old days."

A SEPTEMBER OUTING for the families of Dartmouth alumni of Eastern Pennsylvania took place at the Blue Mountain farm of Lee Bausher '21, and here is most of the group of 35 who reported a fine time.

Secretary, 2584 N. Frederick Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wis.