1921

Tina, daughter of Skinny Moore, writes from Rayong, Thailand, what it is like to be a Peace Corps worker. At 6:30 on a Sunday she pops out of bed to wash the floors but can't. No water. She teaches at one school in the "real" country reached over roads smothered in dust or treacherous with potholes capable of immobilizing a persistent jeep. In another school where doctors give physicals to kids, Tina barbers, cuts finger-and-toenails. and combs out lice. Despite a critical eye, at first she could find no lice on some little girls' heads and learned that she must carefully scrutinize for louse eggs. She addresses a convocation of farmers about cooperatives, and to her dismay they with a primitive dialect cannot understand her educated Thai. She teaches teachers at night and merchants by day. In a Buddhist tenpie she learns about "tham boon" or "make merit" by giving the monks something in a symbolic gesture. In orange robes on floor mats 30 monks eat their luncheon as Tina, foodless, observes. All dishes must be handed them in a stylized gesture, for a monk may not touch a woman or anything which she touches. Such religious res riction forces monks to extend a portion of their robes as they hold on to the section near themselves. and a woman places the dish on the end of the robe. After the monks satisfy their hunger, Tina helps eat up the left-overs. Later she is escorted to the temple, an enormous room with three Buddhas of assorted sizes and ages (one 700 years old), lacquered tables, and many-tiered altars in front.

This is a paragraph about two Dans. Dartmouth is engaged on a major task of gathering and collating Daniel Webster papers to be photocopied and mads into a microfilm edition for library and scholarly uses. The 30,000 items now in Baker to be augmented by much material unknown to scholars ate being studied by a project director and staff with an advisory board headed by Francis Brown '25, Editor of the New York Times Book Review. Dan Ruggles has presented Baker with a picture of Webster as a young man and a letter signed by Webster and sent to Charles Henry Thomas, known as Henry, the eldest son of Captain Thomas from whom Webster had purchased his Marshfield home. Webster referred to Henry in his will as "always an intimate friend, and one whom I love for his own sake and that of the family." Henry, present when Webster died, heard how Webster two hours before the end roused himself to exclaim, "I still live," and how he later responded with a smile when a friend quoted the stanza from Gray's Elegy, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." Dan '21 inherited the letter and picture from his father. Judge Daniel B. Ruggles '90, a Boston lawyer, Special Justice of the Nantucket District Court, member of Greater Boston courts, the Corporation of Faulkner Hospital (Jamaica Plain), Old University Club, Pacific Club of Nantucket, and Eliot Club of Jamaica Plain. Our Dan's great-grandfather was Daniel Blaisdell 1827, Treasurer of Dartmouth, and his grandfather was Edward R. Ruggles, Class of 1859 at Dartmouth, Chandler Professor of Modern Languages and English Literature (1866-1893) and Chandler Professor of German (1893-1897). Our Dan's uncles were Edward F. Ruggles '94, a nationally known highway engineer, and Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles '02, grandfather of Arthur H. Ruggles III '66, Superintendent and Physician in Chief of Butler Hospital, Providence, and a Dartmouth trustee. Dan '21 has two Dartmouth sons, the elder, Daniel B. III '46, owner of radio stations in Montpelier and Milford, and a state senator, and Tom '50, President of the United Display Corporation of Boston.

HERE AND THERE: Hugh Cruikshank? Not in his business manufacturing centrifugal pumps, not in his home in Teaneck, N.J., but traveling and writing in happy retirement. ... After 15 months in Europe on a fellowship, Prof. Jeff, son of Cliff andGladys Hart, is back in the Dartmouth English Department. ... Jim Smead spent May in England. ... Em and Olive Corbin are flying to Hawaii to celebrate Christmas with Susan. ... DOE and Alice Sawyer, who summered in South Africa, praise the Cape wines. ... Phil Noyes is teaching French at Williston Academy. ... Otis Severance, retired from teaching, is treasurer of the Marion Library Association, Congregational Church, and Plymouth County Teachers Association, and secretary of the Marion Lions Club.... En route to Princeton and Brown, Furb Haight visited Jerry and Helen Cutler in Adrian, Harvey and Helen Burton in Pawling, and Ben and Constance Tenney in Washington (Conn.). ... In San Diego DocFleming amuses himself with water colors, golf, and swimming. ... Bob Patterson of Sioux Falls married in October a widow, Mrs. Paulton. ... In River Forest, Ill., Gordon Shepherd continues to sell foreign cars at a furious rate. ... Once a year Hugh Penney invites for a reunion his family of 28 of whom 18 are grandchildren, a '21 record. ... Pete Bailey sojourned last winter in Fort Lauderdale, will return this, and continue on to Puerto Rico to visit his Air Force son Bob. ... Mason Dickinson called recently on Mike Dcran in Bristol who described how he (Mike) and Frank Ross when undergraduates being hazed had to count the seats in the park in Lebanon and run several laps around the campus as midnight was tolling. ... After gadding swiftly about Europe for several months, Connie Keyes pulled a cartilage in Sunnyvale and crutched himself slowly about California. ... Paul Sanderson reports: "My handicap - one stroke. No right hand. Walk and talk O.K. Can't remember anything." But thousands of Springfield babies and their mothers remember Paul with gratitude. ... When gazing up at the Canadian Rockies in September, Joe andTave Lane missed Rog and Caroline Wilde.... Herrick and Avalita Brown will gladly talk to you about Rome, Venice, Vienna, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, and Edinburgh. ... Concerning Whaler's Cove, Hawaii, with the whaling ship Essex and porpoises leaping about, Kent McKinley writes, "This is paradise." . . . Although HarryChamberlaine has built himself a studio for serious painting, he is raising $1,000,000 in 110 churches in his Rye area as part of a $50,000,000 drive for the Presbyterian Church. Nonetheless, he has time to offer a drink to any '21 men at Surfside Apts., Naples, Fla., this winter. Better accept. Additional attraction: Dud Robinson. ... GusPerkins is perkin'. He did not have a coronary but only fibrillation, which though uncomfortable leaves the heart undamaged. ... In honor of Howie Ransom, the New Haven Y's Men's Club presented a memorial pavilion to the Northern Branch of the New Haven YMCA. The invocation was spoken by Howie's son, Rev. David P. Ranson '54. ... In Reader's Digest, October, The Saga of Patsy and Oscar by HarlandManchester tells the amusing story of a jolly friendship between his female poodle and a beaver in the Manchester, Vt., pond. In games of tag the beaver always won because he could swim fast, submerge, and emerge in areas never figured out rightly by Patsy whose I.Q. and agility were topnotch. ... As volunteers Celia Sonnenfeld devotes herself to the Albany Medical Center Hospital Auxiliary and Marcia, a Democrat, to the Republican congressman of her district. Bill Sharfnian has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at Albany. ... Only 35. Charlie, son of Speedy Fleet, is a V.P. at Dominick & Dominick, 14 Wall Street. ... Secretary of the Islam Temple (Shrine) Golf Club, Jack Garfein invites Flora for golf four times a week and a different private club each month. ... Boband Martha Burroughs long for the cold snows of Switzerland and the hot baths of Finland.

Peter Kiewit '22, flanked by his wife Evelyn and class president Bill Bullen, thanksclassmates and friends for the dinner given him Princeton weekend.

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