1929
We begin this 33rd year of Class Notes with the announcement that Cart Strickland has been elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. We take joy and pride in this signal honor so deservedly bestowed upon our classmate. As our most recent Class Agent, Cart has led our Class to new heights in service to the College. We have confidence that his talents will meet the challenge of higher peaks in the range of Dartmouth.
Carl Spaeth has resigned as dean of Stanford Law School to become William Nelson Cromwell professor of law and chairman of Stanford’s Committee on International Stud- ies. This change was made at Carl’s request to permit him to devote full time to his major professional interests, international law and international studies. He has been most active in international affairs. From 1940 to 1946, he held diplomatic posts in South America. While on leave from Stan- ford during 1952-1953, he served as direc- tor of overseas activities for the Ford Foun- dation, developing its programs in India, Pakistan, and Burma. Last year, he was of- fered the position of U. S. Assistant Secre- tary of State for Inter-American affairs. He has been the dean of Stanford Law School since 1946 and, under his leadership, the School has achieved national prominence.
Bill Andres has been elected president of the Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni Asso- ciation. This was the result of the popular vote of Exeter’s 12,700 alumni throughout the country. This places Bill on the Board of Trustees of Exeter. He is also a trustee of Bennington College and Beaver Country Day School. We must expect to share our Bill.
The last we heard, Tom Maynard was campaigning in Maine for the Democratic nomination to Congress. News of the out- come is breathlessly awaited. In his cam- paign, he stressed federal aid to education, medical care for the aged under Social Se- curity, and protection of small business. Perhaps we should arrange for him to de- bate with Dave Martin. Tom urges tax re- form, raising the exemption from $6OO to $BOO, and calls for more simplified income tax forms. Since his high jumping days, Tom has spent twenty years as a teacher, coach, and principal, and eleven years in the securities investment business. He has served on the Portland School Committee and as a representative in the State Legis- lature. He and Clara have a son, Elliott, who graduated in June from Washington and Lee University, and a daughter, Nancy, who is a pre-medical student at Mary-Wash- ington College.
Stan Friedberg has added one more ac- complishment to an already distinguished medical career by be- ing named vice pres- ident of the 400-mem- ber medical staff of the Presbyterian-St.. Luke’s Hospital in Chi- cago. Stan’s longtime service to the hospital began after he received his M.D. in 1933 from Rush Medical College. . He interned and did his residency work at Presbyterian and was appointed to their medical staff in 1937. Stan has been chairman of the hospital’s otolaryngology and bronchoesophagology de- partment.
Herm Liss has been named Chairman of the Advance Gifts Department for this Fall’s Greater Boston United Fund Campaign. Herm is vice-president and a director of Scudder, Stevens and Clark Fund, Inc., of Boston, and a director of Cambridge Sav- ings Bank as well as of many charitable or- ganizations. He’s also a tennis and boating enthusiast.
Larry Sykes has recently been elected Chairman of the Board of Massachusetts General Life Insurance Cos. Larry is also president and director of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Cos.
These notes sound like a Marquis Who’s Who.
Which came first, poetry or painting? A headline in the Patriot Ledger, of Quincy, Mass., reads: “Poetry is Inspiration for Painting by Prof. Badger, Weymouth Art Exhibitor.” This seems to answer the riddle. Kingsbury Badger, the distinguished author, book reviewer, and professor, uses his poetry to inspire his painting. He works primarily on sea and landscapes and uses the tech- nique of clean, clear colors executed in free, broad strokes. Somehow, it gives the illu- sion of fine detailing. In a recent exhibit. Prof. Badger showed a pastel-like Gaspe marine scene done in mauve tones with del- icate shadings. King is a realist who re- serves a “searching and tolerant” attitude towards the abstract style; Basically, he is a poet, having published several years ago his book of poetry, “Unthorn the Season.” He is president of the Boston Browning So- ciety and the father of three daughters.
John Rogers is now the publisher of The Cape Cod Standard-Times. He has been the editor since 1948 and will retain the editor- ship. His wife, Frances, was the first society editor of this newspaper. They reside in Yarmouth with their son, John Jr., who is a junior at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School.
A card from Oslo, Norway, was recently signed “Marion and Bill.” It says in part, “Bill and I are just finishing a month’s trip which has taken us to England, Scotland, Sweden, Finland and now Norway. . . This is Bill Dodge and we are grateful to Marion for the news. May she be the in- spiration for more ’29 wives. We wouldn’t care if Bill just wiped the dishes. It would be news!
We have sent a photograph to Hanover of two ’29 stalwarts taken on the beach at Point O’ Woods on Long Island. Art Ryd-strom and Gus Wiedemayer and their fam- ilies were vacationing there this summer and met quite by accident. They toasted their good fortune and 1929 many times. Art is domiciled in Denver where he leads an ac- tive life with many business and civic con- nections. Gus points him out as the ‘“char- acter on the left.”
Bart Stoodley and his family are now in China and will be there for a year while on leave from Wellesley. He is teaching so- ciology at Chung Chi College in Hong Kong. He will concern himself with re- search of the “self-conceptions” of the “marginal” Chinese in Hong Kong and “the ardors of migration and the industrial- urban pressures of the overpopulated Brit- ish Crown Colony.” Something should come out of this. Bart is the author of “The Con- cepts of Freud” and the editor of “Society and Self. A Reader in Social Psychology.” The latter tome was published in July and the asking price is $7.50.
Bob Jones, general sales manager of Do- beckmun Division, Dow Chemical Cos., has been named manager of Dow’s newly es- tablished flexible packaging sales group in Midland, Michigan.
We have an early summer announcement of the marriage of Ann Elliott and Robert E. Monahan in Bridgewater. Va. Robert is the son of'our Senator and Mrs. Bob Mon-ahan. Son Daniel was married to Dianne Gifford in Stratham, N. H., on August 18.
Adolph Berger, regional director of the U. S. Bureau of Labor, has released the heartwarming news to Chicago housewives that during the month of June they saved a penny on every $lO spent for the customary “market basket.” This is significant because in all other parts of the country, the house- wife was forced to expend an extra penny.
We are sorry to learn that Wen Barney’s wife, Patsy, affectionately known as Bobby to us, passed away suddenly in June. Our deepest sympathy is extended to Wen and his family.
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