1929

Anent the quotation, in last month's Notes, concerning Larry Lougee and "A Court on Governors Island," the Washington (D. C.) Post & Times Herald of August 4 carried a story in which our lawyer-classmates will be especially interested. The nub of it was that the Army challenged the Supreme Court's ruling on the previous Hirschberg case because Larry, as court martial law officer, ruled against Gallagher's plea for dismissal which was based on the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling.

Another issue of the same Washington paper carried a very interesting story about MarvBraverman's introduction of Gary Cooper and Ralph Bellamy at a dinner given during the filming, in Washington, of "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell."

Ernie Earley '18 has very kindly written in that he saw in the New York World-Telegram-Sun of September 13, among the preview of this year's debutantes of the greater New York area, the name of Nancy Gunther - Jackand Jerry Gunther's daughter who is now a freshman at Smith College.

The New York Times of September 28 carried the announcement that Harry Enders has been elected vice president and secretary of Young and Rubicam, Inc., in New York. Harry was previously secretary and treasurer of Young and Rubicam which he joined in 1936. All of you doctor-classmates who will be attending the American Medical Association meeting in Boston this fall - be sure to look for the evidence of Frank Foster's multitudinous efforts to make this meeting a great success.

We are "stealing" a quote which was part of a letter written last spring by an alumnus some 35 years out of college to his class secretary — we don't know the author, unfortunately - because it says so many things, so well, that many of us have felt, seen and thought:

"I'm just back from flying to Hanover with the Cornell swimming team. Glover and company took the meet neatly. But it was not the meet that got in my blood, but the campus. It's been decades since I was there, and yet it felt like yesterday. There was a comfortable assuring feeling of belonging. Same February thaw; roads half glacial ice, half running streamlets; sidewalks three inches in slush; cloudless blue sky and brilliant sunlight sparkling on snow, mellow brick, and old white clapboards. Same smells of melting snow, tomcats, and faint beer dregs.

"I couldn't resist calling in where Ithaca students were housed - boys I had interviewed when candidates for Dartmouth. One way and another my route took me to Tri-Kap, Beta, Deke, C & G and Alpha Delt. The new brick houses were more impressive than the wooden ones of our vintage. So were the occupants more impressive. They are more genuinely mature, more poised, more gracious. will carry abroad at graduation a highly creditable demonstration that the Dartmouth product of the Fifties can match his father as a man and outstrip him as a gentleman, as of graduation, of course. No longer are graciousness, thoughtfulness, and poise suspect, but are combined with manliness to build the full stature of the new Dartmouth man.

"This is doubtless no news to you, but those of us, who like myself have waited too long to revisit Hanover, have a stimulating experience in store for themselves. They should return soon and often. Their visits will prove richly rewarding in nostalgia and in human contacts."

And now for a combination "it's a smallworld" and "how times have changed" item Jim Hodson writes from Seattle that aboutthirty years ago, when his family had a summer place on the Sound at Milford, he used to ride his horse down from Waterbury in June and back in September along the many dirt roads then available and he regularly went by the site on which your scribe now lives. Jim's sister, Mary, who lives nearby, recently confirmed this. Jim also passed on the word that he and Hessie were now grandparents - daughter Julie had a son about the middle of September and phoned them the news, from Colorado Springs, within an hour after the baby was born. And here's an interesting paragraph from Jim's letter:

"I had the whole month of August off, and we spent our time painting our fences and preparing horses for the Seattle International Horse Show which was held last week. I have a big chestnut hunter which Hal Hirsch found for me a few years ago and a little hackney harness pony which I just bought this summer. We showed both of them and managed to pick up a couple of ribbons. Next week I am taking the pony over to Yakima to show him at the Central Washington Fair. Incidentally, Hal has a lovely new thoroughbred hunter which carries the name Lord Dartmouth."

Sons of classmates in this year's freshmanclass ('59) are as follows: William B. Ardiff,Channing Bete Jr., Michael D'Elia, RichardFinlay, Robert E. Monahan, John C. Payne,Judson A. Pillsbury, Alvin B. Snider, David H.Tucker, and Wallace W. Willard Jr.

Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30 as General Counsel of the Treasury Department is sworn in bySecretary of the Treasury Humphrey at ceremonies in Washington. In his new post Scribneris chief legal officer of the Treasury Department. A resident of Portland, Maine, he was apartner in the law firm of Hutchinson, Pierce, Atwood & Scribner, and National RepublicanCommitteeman from his State.

Secretary, Center Rd., Woodbridge, Conn.

Treasurer, 1728 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.