1921
Rack from a few weeks in Oaxaca de Juarez Harland and Laetitia Manchester describe it as a town of great charm and low prices with markets noted for pottery, blankets fruits, and vegetables. Interested in architecture and photography, they spent some time at Monte Alban, once ministering to a whole Zapotec diocese, a cathedral without a cathedral town, for the Indians who lived in the valley. The rums comprise ancient terraces, mounds, courts, tombs, and giant staircases which archaeologists have restored Oaxaca, on the Rio Verde at the foot of the jagged peaks of the Sierras, 288 miles SSE of Mexico City, is a stately old city built by the Spaniards on the site of the Indian capital. With early churches, old houses, and descendants of Zapotec and Mixtec Indians in traditional costume and sandals, the modern city remains even more Spanish and Indian than Guadalajara. Founded by the Dominicans in the 16th century the Church of Santo Domingo is the most superb example of baroque decoration in Mexico.
How Red Keriin would have approved of this1 In Clarks Hotel, Varanasi, India, Rowene writes that she is spending time visiting places which they missed when he was alive. After three days riding elephants in Nepal and looking for tigers without much success, she was feeling fatigued but happy. She was jubilant about breakfast with the likable Maharajah at his palace. With three months more of exploration, she was heading for Swat and Afghanistan, which with 250,000 square miles is about four times as big as New England with its 66,608. New England has only about 9,000,000 people; Afghanistan over 12,000,000; but Swat only 500,000. Mt. Washington with elevation of 6288 feet is dwarfed by the Hindu Kush mountain range rising to 24,000 feet in Afghanistan. Travel raises one's sites.
Idaho and Indiana were united in California. Ike Chester of Kokomo, spending a few weeks in La Jolla for sun and golf, invited Doc Fleming, now of 16634 Orilla Drive, San Diego, for dinner and the Dartmouth Glee Club concert. It was a return for the hospitality given Ike by Doc at his home, Rancho Bernardo.
As retiring president of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc., HaroldBraman has been pleased by unsolicited comments from visitors "from away" who call the store the finest and most complete in Northern New England. Under Hal's two-year leadership with enthusiastic members, dedicated management, hard-working directors, helpful store crew, and quality merchandise, the new store set records every week and month. The goal for 1965, sales of $1,300,000, missed by only 1.5%. More than a food store, the Co-Op sponsors studies and seminars in funeral practices, housing, water pollution, environmental hazards, traffic safety, community actions, and legislation for truth in packaging, advertising, and money loans. When Hal and Doris left Norwich for a vacation, for house-presents they bought maple syrup not at the Co-Op but at the farm belonging to Hewitt Moore.
A topnotch golfer and an oil executive with worldwide experience, Sandy Sanders has found time for civic and alumni activities. A modest man, he bewails inaudiby the loss of a large official certificate from the U. S. War Department commending him for World War II civilian services. He has held various offices in the Geological Society of Amarillo, Texas. As a representative of the oil industry, he was given honorary membership in the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. Without him the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Houston would not be what it is. With Dwight Edson '18 and Ray Smith 18, he founded it, served as Secretary Treasurer and was nominated for President but could not accept because he moved to Fort Worth. The Dartmouth Admissions Office is grateful to him for taking charge of interviews and submitting data and recommendations of applicants to the freshman class from the Southwestern District. Ella Grace, his wife, is a leading painter of the South West.
In recognition of more than 30 years of service and membership in the Springfield Hospital, Paul Sanderson was recently honored at the fifth annual dinner and given an engraved silver plate. Remember his leadership when he was an undergraduate? Phi Kappa Psi, Delta Omicron Gamma, Casque and Gauntlet, Arts, Palaeopitus, varsity football and track. Chairman of the 1921 Prom Committee, Mandolin Club, and Footlights. He was Class President from 1921 to 1926.
Though retired several years ago, FrancisHickman is trying to get out of business activity, but he has interests in Memphis and Philadelphia. Still a resident of Memphis, he spends many long weekends in his Cottondale house, built of logs, one of the oldest in the area. He owns a third home m England and is leaving next month for a prolonged visit.
Dartmouth and 1921 have meant so much to Marsh Whelden ever since his brother Perley '03 taught him, aged six, the Greek alphabet that he regrets he could not have entered with us as a freshman. He recalls his first Dartmouth-Princeton game in 1916 when with Dartmouth leading 3-0 and only 26 seconds left, Jack Cannell threw a forward pass straight into the arms of the Princeton ten-second halfback who ran to a touchdown and a Tiger victory. Concerned about the state of the world, Marsh has written a 147-page essay, "Peace Through Trusteeship by the World's Resources, Human and Natural." With the stipulations that it be studied by three members of the college staff in three different age groups, he sent it to President Dickey, who in "a very gracious reply" complimented him on his thinking and suggested that the document be sent to Grenville Clark '53h, LL.D., whose efforts for peace Mr. Dickey has long admired.
Mike Doran is making a good recovery from the shock last August which kept him hospitalized for nine weeks. A visit from his daughter Pat, who has been living in London for two years and will move to the Gold Coast, Africa, is bucking him up and giving him a chance to read about Negroes of the Ashanti, Fanti, and Akim tribes and about Gold Coast products: cocoa, rubber, palm oil, gold, diamonds, and manganese ore.
In commenting on a recent DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE article on Daniel Webster's words about Dartmouth, David Seegal writes that the key words "love" and "small" stimulate a variety of memories. At our age love has dimensions too great to be understood by young graduates, but "small" offers no comparable peril. "How small is small?" Dave asks. He answers by telling about a Chinese woman, mother of nine children, seven of whom were alive and well. Hover- ing over her tenth baby, which was puny, undernourished, and desperately ill, she could not save it. It died, and she wept. The doctor tried to comfort her by remarking compassionately, "You have seven other fine children, and this baby was so very small." Silent a long minute, the mother, staring into space, inconsolable, sighed, "I know, Doctor, but he was not that small." Moving swiftly from China to Hanover, David observes, "Webster may or may not have spoken his famous words, but, if he did, his judgment must have been obscured by an architectural criterion, for Dartmouth never has been small."
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