1925

In the February issue of this column, your secretary confessed to being unaware of any association between Emily Dickinson and Dartmouth. That gap in his knowledge was promptly filled by Francis Brown and by Harold Rugg, former Associate Librarian at Baker Library. The poet was a granddaughter of Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Dartmouth 1795, was one of the founders of Amherst College. There is a good book waiting to be written about the parts played by Dartmouth men in founding other colleges. Occasional individual studies have appeared, but in a complete survey there would be some impress of the restless pioneering spirit of these men who came out from a frontier college to build others on further frontiers. And surely it must include John Humphrey Noyes, although it wasn't a college that he founded, who set up the Oneida Community and whose restless spirit expressed itself, partly at least, in the remarkable institution he called "complex marriage."

From far-away Pakistan, if anything is far away these days, Dick Plummer sends his greetings in a note to Ed Roessler. Nearer home, Pauline and Bob Rhoades have just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. C. Hill announce the birth of a daughter on January 31 in New York City. Virginia and Pete Haffenreffer have recently returned from a vacation in Nassau. LynWhite has just finished the conversion into a ski lodge of a house he purchased in Intervale, N. H., near the slopes of the North Conway area. The Ed Hewitts have recently got back from Miami Beach, where they were entertained by the Paul Hexters. Dodie and TippitTower's daughter Tat has graduated from Beloit, where she majored in anthropology, and is now working for the Y.W.C.A. in Lebanon, Pa.

In Lexington, Mass., where Hal Stevens is Town Counsel, Ralph Tucker has just been elected Selectman. So that place is in good hands. Your secretary would appreciate hear ing from all of you who hold or have held public office, so that a list including the essential details may be made for the class archives .... Stan Smith has been cited by the Oil Industry Information Committee for vauable services during 1955.

Frank Osgood writes that he has joined the grandfather's club, with the arrival of Fraiklin T. Osgood III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fianklin T. Jr. '52. His younger son William. Cornell '55, now a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines, married Barbara Travis, Cornell '56, on December 26, 1955. This was the lad who had once said that Cornell men didn't go out with co-eds. A daughter Dolly is a sophomore at Wellesley and, Frank assures us, still unmarried. And now he is waiting for warm weather so he can go out on the tennis courts and see whether being a grandpa has slowed his game.

pon W. Moore has just been appointed Eastern Story Editor of RKO Radio Pictures, with offices in New York. He resigned as manager of the CBS Television Story and Script Department to take the post.

REMINDERS: — Parents-Sons weekend in Hanover, April 27-28. The chairman is Gordon S. Marvel, Washingtonville, N. Y. Boston 1925 Husbands and Wives dinner, on Friday, May 11. The chairman is Bernard L. Levison, 26 Egmont St., Brookline, Mass.

In this latitude, any snowfall after the first week in March may be the last of the season, and with that thought the prudent man perhaps should be content. Yet, when you go to the window early in the morning and smell new-fallen snow, it is possible to bear the thought that spring is still a few weeks off. Winter may almost have worn out its welcome, but in the silence of white beauty you can almost regret that it must soon be gone. This year your secretary and his family are off to meet the spring on foreign shores. We shall be in England, when April's there, and in Paris for a week near its end. All this, long planned, comes at this juncture rather unexpectedly. But perhaps we should more often grasp the unexpected occasion. There is so much despair in men's hearts today, so much fear and foreboding, although there is probably. no real lack of courage. We seem to have surrendered ourselves so utterly to the chimera of security that

"... the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action."

This may be no enterprise of "great pith and moment," but four people look to having a lot of fun for five weeks, in the Ledyard tradition, at least, if not the precise pattern of Dartmouth's great voyager.

Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass

Class Agent, 306 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.