1914
When a national magazine features a it is worthy of comment, but when one has articles in the same issue pertaining to two '14ers, it rates first place. The April Issue of Holiday devotes its first article to "The Main Line. Sylvan suburb of Philadelphia," with several photographs and paragraphs on the High School at Lower Merion. It fails to mention that this is our George Gilbert's own school, but is excellent reading. This same school could be the means of keeping George from reunion, since June is apt to be one of the busiest months of the year for a High School principal, and school committees usually do not set schedules to allow for Dartmouth reunions. But he plans to come if possible.
The same issue of Holiday closes with an article on "Madison Avenue. Where New York's ad-men work and shop in a world as dreamy as their ads." Here again no credit is given to 1914, although an excellent picture of Sig Larmon at the Ritz Grill adds to its luster.
In "Letters to the Times" of Sunday, March 12, the New York Times carries a bit more than a column letter over the signature of John Hanna, appraising evidence and pointing to many jury decisions where whimsies and peculiar attitudes have determined the verdicts. It is an interesting letter, well worth reading, but too long to abstract here.
John spent his sabbatical in 1949 partly in Seattle, where he comments on the renown and popularity of Dartmouth. With James P. MacLachlon of Harvard, he has recently published another annotated edition on bankruptcy and also new volumes on Creditors'Rights and Corporate Reorganization. Professor Hanna has started two new seminars at Columbia, one on the Securities and Exchange Commission and the other, almost unique in American Law Schools, on Co-operative Associates. John has a busy life. With his teaching and publications, he has represented the American Bar Association at several Congressional hearings, and is in constant demand as a speaker at professional gatherings.
Daughter Elizabeth is a junior at Barnard, where she has won a poetry prize and taken several parts in school plays. Margaret is a sophomore at Wellesley where she and her partner were runners-up in the eastern college tennis tournament. John Jr., in Trinity's fourth form, was blocking back on the school's JV foot-ball team and is periodically on the honor roll. Any difficulties that he may have are because of Doc Cook's complicated geometry problems. The younger daughter, Camelia, is president of her class at Brearley. It sounds like a fine family and one of which to be proud! May be more details in June, because John is hoping to attend reunion.
Following his recent illness, Chet and EveWescott are at Palm Beach, Fla., where Chet is convalescing, until April 11.
The Christian Science Monitor recently carried a photograph of Miss Rosemary Dellinger, of Tyler, Texas, in ski outfit but on snowshoes and carrying an old time yoke with two pails of maple sap. This charming young lady couldn't be anybody but the daughter of our Jack and we suggest right now that Jack keep her at Middlebury until he can pick her up and bring her, personally, to reunion.
Lee Spore is altogether too typical of many of you. "It is not that I have not appreciated your letters, but X have realized that they have a double purpose. One is to get a reply which can be published in the Alumni Notes.
"Since I am the no hit, no run and lots of errors type, there is nothing of interest for me to report. Consequently, I have had a complex which still persists, regarding Alumni Notes." And then he has the nerve to ask me to respect it. What can you respect when a guy sends nothing to you? Will some close friend take it upon himself to get Lee Spore back to reunion, where I can back him into a corner and squeeze out the truth? But it was nice to hear from him.
Thanks to the efficiency of the Southern Pacific in carrying the mails, a nice letter from Bill Washburn contains the promise to come east in June. He regrets not having seen Lay Little in California, and is looking for- ward to entertaining Jack Bowler and RockyFlanders at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in San Francisco after reunion. Bill is hereby commissioned to bring all '14ers on the west coast, including Gridley, back east with him. Between the two of them, they more or less run the Southern Pacific.
The Annual Alumni Fund is well on its way and growing fast under the excellent leadership of Charlie Zimmerman. I attended the Boston Class Agents' dinner on March 29, where I was privileged to hear an excellent discussion of the needs of the College and the whys and wherefores of the Alumni Fund. The thing that I brought home with me above everything else was not only the necessity of the Fund to maintain the College's standard, but principally the real obligation of the Alumni in meeting this need. We often speak of scholarships as though they were something special and given only to a favored few, but to every man who reads this, I want to call attention to the fact that he received a scholarship, each semester, equivalent to one-half his tuition. That relationship still holds and if the College is to continue giving boys of today the same opportunity that we had, it is up to us to pay back the amount of that gift. The College gave to us when we needed it and few of us will live long enough to give back to this generation or the next, by way of the College, what we owe them. May I suggest a little simple arithmetic, a lot of deep thought, a serious discussion with your conscience, and if you will do this I believe that none of us will worry about the results.
Sherm Saltmarsh and Jim Gregg were also both present at the dinner. Ruthie and Bino Knight are grand-parents to Margaret Benton Knight, daughter of W. D. Knight Jr. and Elizabeth Wiggins Knight. Bino's son, who has been teaching at Trinity and working at Brookhaven in Nuclear Physics, has discovered something or other which is called, "The Knight Effect." At Trinity they caifed it the "Knight Shift." If you want an explanation, as Bino suggests, talk with Dave Lilienthal. In any case, it's important and seems to be big. Late news has it that Professor Knight has accepted a position as assistant professor of physics at the University of California. Any errors in the above can be traced to our Rev. brother's handwriting. It is worse than a doctor's.
Jack Field claims the Class record for his wife as the most travelled baby sitter. "Grandma Nan did the honors in Mexico City in October 1947, South Weymouth, Mass., in 1949, and is now doing the job in Levittown, N. Y., for a new grand-daughter in son Bob's family. Please change my address to 1861/2 S. Washington Street. We moved to the other end of the town, you see." Jack then goes on to make a few very unkind remarks about the thickness of your secretary's skull. "Some skull you have, when you are hit hard enough on it to break your wrist and still not break itself how much worse it would have been had it been your drinking wrist." It seems that a couple of weeks ago, while walking out the door of a garage, a mechanic reached up and pulled down one of those big, overhead doors, truck size. It met yours truly square on the top of the head. A couple of back spins and then crash on the concrete floor. Result,—one left wrist with a chip fracture and a plaster splint. Everybody but me thinks that it is funny, but I can't see the humor. One kind classmate even insinuated that I did not get sympathy enough carrying a cane for a month and one half, so I tried this new method to attract attention. Anyway, the skull apparently stood up to the rough treatment. Do not forget reunion in June!
WILLIAM DENT 'l3, who is with the Employment Service, Department of Labor, in New York, is shown here with his daughter, Dr. Chlotilde Dent Bowen, a staff member of Triboro Hospital, Queens, L. 1., N. Y.
Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass Treasurer, 26 Garden Street, Potsdam, N. Y. Class Agent, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. Providence, R. I.
