1929

Your correspondent received the following letter from Bill Davenport of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.:

In response to your request for news, I got out the 25-year book and there we were side by side, on page 87, looking very fit. I thought the best thing would be to pick up where the book left off, just hitting the high spots. In 1958, Macmillan published my "Voices in Court," an anthology of legal literature based on ten years' experience in giving a seminar at USC Law School (it has since appeared in an Arabic translation, God knows why); and, in 1962, the same house issued my "Good Physician," a collection of medical literature. Having done doctor and lawyer I suppose I should do merchants and chiefs, but actually I'm immersed in a volume which is supposed to make this age of technology understandable to the layman. In 1965-66, I did a text on biography and a teaching manual for Scribner's, both in collaboration and both, as well as the above titles, reviewed in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. After 20 years at USC, I left to become Dean (later an unfrocked dean) and Chairman of the Division of Humanities at the then (1957) new Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering in Claremont, at the time the baby of the group which includes Pomona, CMC, Scripps, and most lately, Pitzer. Along with teaching and research, I have done a great deal of consultation work for UCLA (on the Ford Foundation), the Board of Governors of the Federal System, etc., as well as post-doc research at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

One daughter is teaching, one is divorced and working (I am a grandfather); my wife Isobel gardens and throws her slight weight around as an officer of the local Fine Arts Foundation (Claremont is quite an art colony and very much like a New England village). We had a round-the-world sabbatical for '63 cancelled financially and physically by my radical surgery for cancer in the fall of '62 —so far, so good, but I'm still a bit haunted ... and lucky. I see Joe Ruff now and then. Lots of Dartmouth people around here, including our bona fide Dean, Gene Hotchkiss '50, whom we plucked from Hanover on John Dickey's recommendation, and Louis Benezet '36, the new Presi- dent of Claremont College, whose son was killed in a tragic accident in the Hanover area a few years back. I have never made a reunion although I get back to New York and Connecticut for a quick meeting or conference almost annually.

I still play the piano (remember the Commons "orchestra" which did have some good musicians as well - guys like Ed Plumb and Russ Goudey) and enjoy martinis, but have had to give up tennis. I envy the N.E. and Middle Atlantic alums still pee-rading to the Bowl. However, perhaps this overlong letter may convey the notion that we happy and scattered few on the Pacific Slope still grab the sports page every Sunday morning in the football season to get the score, and study the photos in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, if only to shed a nostalgic tear over a recognized landmark or scratch our balding heads trying to figure out what this new building is.

Herm Liss lists some personal information as follows: Business Association - vice president and director of Scudder, Stevens & Clark Balanced Fund, Inc. and manager, Bond Department of Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Outside activities include being director and vice president of Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, trustee of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a trustee of the Beaver Country Day School, a director of the Family Society of Cambridge, and vice president of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Greater Boston, plus various other associations with charitable organizations.

Lew Clarke writes: "Thanks for your note of March 17, asking for news. Living up in the 'woods' at Waukegan does not bring many '29 connections, although I see BobDrake every once in a while. I am still eking out a meager existence practicing law in Waukegan and still smoking Blue Boar Tobacco. Having eight lawyers in our firm in- stead of the original two keeps me busy and usually out of mischief. Jerry (my wife) and I returned in February from a Caribbean cruise on the Meteor and are now getting our boat ready for a summer cruise. We have a 38-foot cutter and usually cruise to the North Channel and Georgian Bay and hope to again this summer. Our older boy, Lew Jr., is in Washington, D.C., recently married and is waiting the results of the Washington bar exam taken in March. Our younger boy, Chuck, has just returned from a three-year hitch in the Army; two years of which were spent in Germany. I still keep up some interest in pistols and Jerry and I do a fair amount of hunting during the winter. Otherwise, I lead the usual life of a dignified? and harassed barrister."

Bruce Sutherland sends an interesting article concerning Literary Criticism of Australian Literature by Australians. Bruce had study leave under a grant from the Johnson Fund.... Here is a nice letter from DukeBarto: "Here is all of the Dartmouth-Barto news that I can think of: The 31st reunion was the very first one that Horty and I have not attended. Since there is a need to earn a living, I was forced to be present at a conflicting week-long conference in Cooperstown, N.Y. In August we attended the Alumni College for the second year. Janetand Paul Woodbridge were the only other classmates participating. It is a wonderfully stimulating and delightful two weeks that more of you should be experiencing. Missed the fall reunion due to the death of my almost 88-year-old mother. Attended the Princeton Delight with Jane and Fred Ingram, Polly and Ed Chinlund, Mary and Dick Barrett, Helen and Mat Rock, and of course, saw many others such as Marge and Art Clow, Cynthia and Jack Blair, Janet and Paul Woodbridge. The game aside it was a great weekend and class reunion. About three or four weeks ago, I received a beautiful silver tray, inscribed with the seal of the college and the words 'With appreciation to Wellington F. Barto, Class of 1929, June, 1965.' Believe me, it is just about my most cherished award. I can't say more without becoming maudlin. Have just returned from a business trip to Hanover. Had dinner with Ruth and Trunkie Brittan and became the first member of the Class to sign up for the Fall Reunion. Also saw BobMonahan on the street —he is putting on too much weight. As for my personal life, Horty and I are staying young gracefully and enjoying a quiet life of gardening, fishing, the theatre, reading, art, and the other things that Dartmouth men of my generation should be interested in - including women. Our son and daughter-in-law presented us with an additional interest - a granddaughter, age 14 months, who, of course, is a beautiful blue-eyed blonde with great intelligence and extremely precocious."

The Manchester (N.H.) Union writes: "You don't have to be a 'sourpuss' to be a high-ranking jurist.... Supreme Justice FrankKenison proved that at this week's Judicial Council sessions. When someone suggested placing motorcycle racing under the jurisdiction of the Athletic Commission, someone asked if that wasn't the same agency that controls wrestling. Judge Kenison dryly adlibbed: 'I had the impression that was an amusement, not a sport.'"

Here is an accolade from The Dartmouth: Swimming Coach Karl Michael recently received the highest recognition of its kind in the country when he was given the National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy "in recognition of the greatest contribution to swimming as a competitive sport in the province of undergraduate and scholastic coaching." The award, voted on by all the swimming coaches in the country recognizes Coach Michael as the Swimming Coach of the Year. A huge trophy will find its way to Hanover in a couple of weeks for everyone to see. Ask any member of the swimming team, "Coach Mike is first class all the way." ... City Attorney Arthur Bergeron of Berlin, N.H., recently was in the middle of a recount vote for two political posts in his busy city.

We received a long and fascinating letter from Hal Hirsch but lack of space permits only part of his communication:

Your note of last July 7 has remained in my dictation basket unanswered due to the press of other matters, in spite of your request that I report to you in the near future about my activities. The road to hell is indeed well paved with our good intentions. Take me for instance. Though I live far, far away from Hanover, my interest in the College and the class is none the less vital. It is only distance that prevents me from evincing my interest more actively. But in spite of constant pleas and encouragement to report myself, including your note of last July, I have somehow been dilatory. Why? ... I honestly believe that the reason many of us don't write is purely and simply a matter of reticence to talk about one's self. Indeed, that's a hard thing for most men to do. Not only is objective self-reporting difficult, but one always thinks that what interests him most, probably sounds boring or fatuous to anyone else - and it often is!. .. The big question, therefore, still remains: how can we encourage our classmates to write more frequently and more extensively without being inhibited by any of these reticences? If we hurdle this impediment, I am sure that our Class Notes will never lack for interesting and intimate content.

Never having submitted much to our class notes before, I list some curriculum vitae items as follows: Chairman of the Board of White Stag Manufacturing Company. I got myself kicked upstairs from the presidency two years ago. White Stag recently merged on a "pooling of interest basis" with the Warner Bros. Company of Bridgeport, Conn. My own company, White Stag Mfg. Company, makes women's and children's sportswear, camping and water sports equipment, and skiwear for men, women, boys and girls (since 1929). Our skiwear activity has naturally involved me over the years with various phases of organized skiing, both at the amateur and commercial levels. I was president of a National Trade Association called Ski Industries America, and am now chairman of their board. In this connection, I meet many Dartmouth men and "Hanover industrialists" who have been drawn into organized amateur skiing or the ski business in one form or another. Among them are Lane Dwinell '2B, exgovernor of New Hampshire, who is one of the board of our Association, and runs Carter and Churchill Company, makers of ski apparel in Lebanon, N.H. Also John "Squeek" Piane Jr. '5O (son of John Piane '14 of Dartmouth Co-op fame) who is on our board too, and there are many other Dartmouth men. I have also been briefly chairman of a sort of "summit group" in American skiing known as the National Ski Study Group, and am active in the United States Ski Association. For some years I've been and still am a trustee of Reed College in Portland, Ore. The president is a Harvard man, but Seward Weber '49 of the Dartmouth Admission Office is now Reed's Dean of Admissions. I indulge in a few other activities such as real estate development on the Oregon Coast where we sojourn many weekends. For sports I continue swimming, skiing and riding, which seem to flourish in both frequency and skill in inverse ratio to my age. My wife and I have found an exciting new sport in recent years white water river running, and some of our grown-up kids too. We have raised four children, two boys and two girls, two ,of whom are married.

P.S. We used to see Judge Jim Hodson and wife Hessie in Seattle once in awhile, and our kids used to see each other. But some have gotten married now (not to each other unfortunately) so we correspond occasionally about our mutual interest in horses. We see Dr. Arch Diack and wife Fran frequently here in Portland. I saw Alumni Councillor Marv Braverman in Washington, D.C., a few months ago, and attended a Dartmouth luncheon describing Dartmouth's ABC Program, where Marv presided. I've talked to Jack Hubbard several times recently on business. Saw Jim Hodge in Jack's office once. But we are really the Robinson Crusoes of the Pacific Northwest out here, although at the moment a handful of us are busily preparing for a Dartmouth Glee Club Spring Vacation Concert in Portland an all-too-infrequent but cementing contact. Our country out here is beautiful. We love it, and we urge everyone to come out arid partake of our hospitality while we are showing it off.

Just received a call from Nelson Bell of Wellesley, Mass., he is fine, having just returned from Acapulco. He probably is one of the few in our Class who has been in the same spot (the Music Box) ever since leaving Hanover. He promises to be more active in Dartmouth affairs in the future, and we will hold him to. it.

Secretary, 320 Main St. Manchester, Conn. 06040

Class Agent, 2 Gateway Center, Pittsburgh 22, Pa.