1929

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Listen Little Lads you're here to grow up So hark to the rules you must mind In your humble cloister hang them up Lest the paddle caress your behind.

How many remember that eventful September day in 1925 when the Class entered serfdom under the Rule of '28; and subject to its code of conduct for our guidance? How would it compare with the code of '73? Would '72 be as awe-inspiring to '73 as '28 was to us 44 years ago; or just another tribe of paper Indians like the faculty and administration?

Your secretary in his third month is still riding on the momentum of CarterStrickland, Jack Hubbard, Hairy Baehr, and Gene Davis who not only did a top-notch job for the Class for which we are all grateful but also supplied the secretary with ammunition for our MAGAZINE. Here comes the second round.

Bart Bradley, formerly vice president of Plymouth Cordage Company and now with its successor Columbian Rope Company, has been promoted to vice president in charge of sales. He lives in Duxbury and is town moderator.

Ed Felch of Chatham, N. J., has completed 40 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories. As director of Whippany Labs., he was responsible for development and operation of guidance equipment for Titan, Delta, and Agena, space vehicles for which he was given the Commander's Award of the United States Air Force. He holds over twenty United States and foreign patents and has attended International Astronautical Congresses in Bulgaria and Madrid.

Hal Ripley of New Haven has been appointed president of Whitney, Blake Co., one of Hamden's largest industries making telephone wire and cables. John BrownCook, chairman of the board, made the announcement. Harry Merson, superintend- ent of schools in Falmouth, Mass., spoke recently to League of Women Voters on "The Community and Its Schools." A school superintendent since 1939, he has served on many state study committees and is currently chairman of the ethics committee of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and a director of the New England School Development Council. Warren Loekwood of New York City has been named vice president in charge of special projects for Larson Mortgage Company of Union and Freehold, N. J.

Two historic portraits now on display in Hanover have been loaned to the College by Bill and Mary Magenau. They are of Bezaleel and Mary Wheelock Woodward. Mary was Eleazar's daughter and her husband, graduate of Yale, was the first vice president and teacher of math at the College. Their son William was treasurer of the College and the defendant in the Dartmouth College Case. How these pictures and other Wheelock papers came into Bill's hands is a dramatic story which shall be told.

During the summer we have seen a few classmates. We called on Tux and PeteSmall at their delightful Oriental-shaped house at New Seabury in Mashpee facing the bay and backing up to the 18th fairway of the golf course. Tux is on the town finance committee and enjoying his retirement. Frank Jr. is a lawyer in Palo Alto with Hardy, Carley, Love and Jaffe. We also called on Harriet Wilson who is living in a cute little house on Fuller Road in Centerville. She is in the real estate business and with her knowledge of the Cape she should do very well. I had a visit with Dick Clark at his office in Gloucester two weeks ago. He had intended to come to reunion but a trip to California prevented his doing so. He told me about obtaining a substantial foundation grant for the Dartmouth Medical School and how impressed he was with its new Dean.

The New York Post on its May 20 editorial page carried a "closeup" article and picture of Phil Hoffman who recently succeeded Arthur Goldberg as president of the American Jewish Community. Yale Law School, Law Journal board, a successful attorney and mortgage banker, he has fought anti-semitism at home and abroad, and was recently appointed to the New Jersey Civil Rights Commission. Phil and Florence live in West Orange, collect art, attend New York Philharmonic and love to fish and play with their five grandchildren; three by son David and two by daughter, Mrs. Roger Marshall.

The New York Times carried a recent headline "Real Estate Trust - Organized by Merrill Lynch" describing expansion plans of "its newly acquired real estate subsidiary, Hubbard, Westervelt & Motley" who are taking over a substantial block of First National City Bank mortgages. JohnC. Hubbard, enterprising and astute chairman of H. W. & M., seemed a little nonplussed at the publicity and was noncommittal to reporters. With Merrill Lynch and Amherst and F.N.C. as partners how can you miss. Jack? Good luck and may fortune smile on you and all your plans.

A fond dream of ours came true last April when Peggy and I landed at Shannon for a 17-day tour of the British Isles. Among our tour companions were two couples from Denver, one named DuCharme who knew the Rydstroms and told me that Art had retired in the past year. An amusing conversation occurred on the trip one day when at the request of a fellow traveler, I asked Jimmy - our director - what was the name of the British Naval Academy. He said "Dartmouth." My good wife said, "Dartmouth! That's where my husband went." Jimmy looked at me in stunned surprise and gasped, "Were you in Dartmoor, Mr. Jaquith?"

We are indebted to Bob Monahan for the copy of his letter to Red Rolfe's widow which expresses so well the respect, affection, and esteem we all had for Red as exemplifying Dartmouth's best. "Dear Isabel, A week ago this afternoon I chanced to look across the campus and noted the new Bicentennial flag on the new flag pole had been lowered to half-staff. That confirmed what I had learned at noon. I looked again at the graceful flag as it curled around the staff - glad that my class had made the flag pole available to honor prominent alumni and others in the college family and pleased that I had known Red so well for so long. I can think of no more appropriate initial use of this flag and pole than to honor the memory of Dartmouth's departed son - and your remarkable husband. Sincerely, Bob."

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