1932
Reading over the October column in its stark black-and-white exposure on the printed page, some submerged but nagging sense of ignorance finally compelled your correspondent to make the dictionary recourse he should have made much earlier, and there it was: he plain had not known the meaning of putative. That will teach him to handle three-syllable words with proper respect. To all of you tactful ones who were kind enough to let him discover his own dereliction, thanks.
The assumption might have been that Carlos Heard Baker, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, who would have been among those moved to at least a gentle rebuke, was much too involved in his Hemingway work to be concerned with a classmate's illiteracy. But happily there comes to hand this bulletin from the Leonard Lyons column of October 10: "After seven years Prof. Carlos Baker finished his biography of Ernest Hemingway. The 750-page volume will be published in April." Because for a good part of those years Carlos carried on gamely as newsletter editor, all of us were given a little insight to the agony that surely was part of the creative task he had undertaken — and by the same token we can now better rejoice with him in what must be an extraordinary sense of achievement and release.
Congratulations go to Bill Morton, whose election as president of the American Express Company was announced in October. Bill, who had been vice chairman and a director of the company since 1966, continues as chairman of Equitable Securities, Morton & Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express, In addition, he is presently serving the College as alumni representative on the Dartmouth Athletic Council and as a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Third Century Fund.
And congratulations too to Dr. Ed Judd of Rochester, Minn., elected second vice president of the American College of Surgeons at that organization's recent annual meeting in Atlantic City.
Howdy Pierpont, who accepted this column's commission to represent it at the Princeton game in Hanover and the Dorothy and Ben Burch bash that followed, reports that the day was beautiful, the "foliage" magnificent, the location of the seats allocated to '32 ignoble (when do we old grads get some respect around here?), and the game - well. Among classmates spotted - most with wives and some with offspring - were Bob Buckley, George Blaesi, George Bladworth (whose new address is New London, N. H.), John Palmer, Red Drake, Jim Miller, Bo Wentworth, Wally Rushmore, . Rog Hofheins, Bob Fendrich, Art Allen, Jim Moore, Bill Britten, Gordon Lane, Jay Whitehair, Howie Sargent, and the aforesaid Burches. Howdy also found himself seated next to a personable young man, who turned out to be Stan Yudicky's son and reported his father well and working hard. A couple of other gleanings: Hofheins does occasional lecturing at Thayer School; and the foundation was down for the Allen retirement-home-to-be in Hanover.
After the game a number of those named above crossed the river to join the throng enjoying the Burch hospitality at Ben and Dorothy's open housewarming of their newly remodeled home in Norwich (if you're writing, it's Dothan Road, White River Junction). At this point we dig out a postcard that Ben wrote last spring and quote: ... we went to Basketball Alumni Reunion in Feb. and bought broken down farmhouse - saw property in a blizzard - and it may not be standing now. Plan to work on house this summer." All reports agree that the house did stand and that a summer's hard work at remodeling and refurbishing has created a place of warm charm.
A further bulletin from Prexy Pierpont discloses that a class dinner is scheduled for the New York Dartmouth Club on November 18. Among those whose presence is promised is Howie Sargeant, the story on whose election to the presidency of the Alumni Council we presume you read in the July issue of this MAGAZINE. In that capacity he has been designated by the trustees committee for the selection of a successor to John Dickey as the liaison between the committee and the alumni in seeking alumni aid to the committee mission. In a letter to Pierpont concerning this vitally important quest he says in part (it being anticipated that Mark Short will give you a fuller quote): "What will be most helpful to this Committee at the present time will be suggestions that any of us care to make about the criteria which should govern the selection of such a successor.... If we do have a Dartmouth '32 class dinner, perhaps we could try to extract some consensus about the criteria we feel are important, and this might be a basis for getting some agreeing or dissenting views from other gatherings of Dartmouth '32." This will be the main item of the Nov. 18 agenda, and we shall give you a report next month.
Looking at Howie's letterhead we note that three other classmates are members of the Alumni Council: Bill Allyn for the Syracuse region; Cal Fisher, Denver; and NatePearson, Pittsburgh.
The New York Times, which goes afield to endorse a few Congressional candidates in other parts of the country whom it considers especially worthy, chose so to designate only one Republican senatorial candidate - our own Tom Curtis, whom it co-endorsed along with his Democratic opponent in the race for the Senate seat from Missouri. Said The Times: "The state's voters have the good fortune of a choice between two excellent nominees - Lieutenant-Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, who defeated Senator Long in the Democratic primary, and Representative Thomas B. Curtis, an intelligent conservative." As we consign this copy to the mails the morning after election, the Missouri vote is still undetermined, but no doubt this MAGAZINE reports elsewhere the political fate of the College's trustees' man for the United States Senate." (Editor's Note: The Senate race in Missouri was won by Eagleton with 851,669 to Tom Curtis' 811,343.)
Participating in the 1967 Geological Society of America field trip to the YucatanPeninsula in Mexico were (l to r) RichardP. Goldthwait '33, chairman of the geology department, Ohio State University;Louis C. Conant '26, U.S. GeologicalSurvey; and Richard H. DeVoto '56, assistant professor of geology, ColoradoSchool of Mines.
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