Not Good Bye

Mark Twain, when apprised that stories were being circulated that he was dead, couldn't have been more surprised than President Dickey when told he was retiring.

The day after Commencement the President was besieged by alumni and friends inquiring about a news story that referred to him as "retiring president of Dartmouth."

With the 19th century humorist he could reply that the stories "were greatly exaggerated."

The error occurred when a harried wire-service newsman in Boston construed the "President's Valedictory to the Class of 1957" to be a (lower case) valedictory to the College.

A corrective story was printed in later editions of those papers that used the phrase.