1929

Among the distinguished visitors in town for the Harvard game were John and ChrisDickey, Jerry and Marjorie Swope, Mortonand Peggy Jaquith, Johnny and Betty Davis,Phil Mayher and Herb Ball. The Dickeys made a side trip to Wellesley as Trustee and alumna, respectively, before settling down for the more hectic attractions of the weekend, and the Swopes had the fun of spending a good part of the time with their eldest son, Nick, who is in his second year at the Cambridge School, in nearby Weston. Nick, 15, and his brothers Stevie, 13, and Johnny, 11, are all good sailors and swimmers who on numerous weekends last summer made the seafaring Andres crew welcome at their anchorage in Little Harbor, Woods Hole.

Of the local gentry out in force for thefestivities we have managed to rememberSqueek and Loretta Redding, Johnny andLoria Bryant, Dick and Mary Barrett, Frankand Petey Foster, Ollie and Marion Holmes,Phil and Millie Rising, Herm and Lucy Liss,Dick and Liz Johnson, the Dick Sanders, theWen Schuhs, the Al Finlays, the Hank Steinsand Chris Born.

We heard from Marge Cavanagh that Ellie went off into the wilds hunting with Sid Hayward, loaded for anything from bear to ruffed grouse. To date no choice venison steak has been received.

Johnny and Adelaide Quebman had a good time in Hanover at the Colgate game, their only regret being the conspicuous absence of red jackets and hats! Other recent visitors to Hanover have been the MillardTuckers, Eddie Deans, Walt Gutterson and the Dud Orrs.

A recent letter from Eddie Ellinger re ported life pleasant and conditions generally satisfactory at his Saddle Rock Ranch inSedona, Ariz., with a 2000 box apple cropthen in prospect.

Ted Baehr (Robert Allen, professionally)appeared recently on an excellent PhilcoPlayhouse television show, "The Last Tycoon."

This good letter from Art Rydstrom inDenver came in just in time to help outthis otherwise brief column:

"I have been riding the rails for several days- hence my delay in replying to your note of October 19 regarding the fall meeting of the -Executive Committee on November 18, 1949. I wish I could write to tell you that I shall be present but at the moment, this appears out of the question. I realize full well that I am among those who owe you a report regarding their activities over the recent past. To date all hands in the family (wife and two children, the latter aged 15 and 12) are happy in our recent move to Denver. After almost 20 years with the Bankers Trust Company in New York, it was not an easy decision to make, particularly because the bank had been so good to me over the years. Nonetheless, we decided that we only go this way once and there is nothing more pathetic than an ulcerous New York bank vice president dead at 55. we live out in the country, have a few acres and an increasing number of farm pets, simply because the family find it difficult to kill off the pigs, chickens, etc. I will not boast about the climate as you will suspect that I am a member of the Denver Chamber of Commerce.

"As you know, Dartmouth is strong in the Denver area and with no thought of provoking an argument, I would say that it ranks second to Yale with Harvard, Princeton, etc. poor pacers I have been able to play a fair amount of golf over the past year, to do some elk and antelope hunting and some trout fishing, all of which were more or less denied me in recent years in New York City. My work is interesting, diversified and keeps me plenty busy. It is very amusing now to be sitting ,on the other side of the table and I realize there is much to -learn."

Shepard Stone, Assistant Sunday Editor of The New York Times, was named on November 3 by the State Department as a special consultant on information and cultural affairs in Germany. Planning to leave for his new post about Nov. 10, Shep will serve as acting deputy to Ralph Nicholson, Director of the Office of Public Affairs, for the duration of a ninety-day leave of absence granted by The Times.

Shep did graduate work in European history at both the University o£ Heidelberg and University of Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. from the latter institution in 1933. He has written on foreign affairs for The Times, and during the last war was on the intelligence staff of the First Army, serving in England, Belgium and Germany, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He remained in Germany until early 1946 to assist the army in the creation of its information services in Western Germany.

Kingsbury M. Badger of 17 Oak Street, South Weymouth, has been granted the license of a lay preacher by the committee of fellowship of the Universalist Church. He is assistant professor of English literature in the College of Practical Arts and Letters, Boston University, and earlier taught at Muhlenberg College and Lehigh University.

He received a Master's degree from Columbia, attended the New Jersey State Teachers' College at Montclair, and did graduate study at the University of Virginia and at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

It appears that the Executive Committee meeting in New York on November 18 will be well-attended, although we'll miss such outlanders as Art Rydstrom and Bill Page. The discussions should provide some grist for this mill which, however, we hope will be generously supplemented by choice reports from a host of you who are going to start renewing the habit of longhanding or dictating news material (a la Rydstromhe's a very good example!) or causing your ladies to do same on your behalf.

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