1932

The 3,000 pages of Ernest Hemingway's unpublished manuscripts contain little - probably one novella and two or three short stories — that would add to his literary luster, Carlos Baker told the New York Times man who journeyed to Princeton for a feature interview in January Carlos, whose "Frnest Hemingway: A Life Story is due to be published by Scribner's about the time his issue reaches you, told of interviewing 250 of Hemingway's friends and reading 5,500 Hemingway letters in the course of his seven-year research and writing stmt. I followed the policy of telling al the truth about Hemingway," he said, but I hack in relating everything about some of those associated with him." His character summation of E. H., as quoted in the ''The romantic activist; the center and in many ways the originator of his own universe who became the pragmatic moralist whose leading aim was to find out how to live in life, how to last and (having lasted) how to convert a carefully cultivated stoical fortitude into the stuff of which his fictional heroes were made."

From the Chelmsford, Mass., News Weekly we learn that Ben Drew of Westford was feted by his friends at a dinner in appreciation of the strong and effective leadership he had given as a trustee, and as chairman of the board for seven years, of the Middlesex County Extension Service. Ben rated by his fellow apple farmers as one of the nation's best, operates more than 200 acres of orchard in Massachusetts and Vermont. (We have heard about the Vermont extension of his activities but believe he owes this column a direct report.) He is a past president of the National Apple Institute, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association, and the New York and New England Apple Institute. The good citizens of Westford have returned him to the office of town moderator for more than 25 years.

That old reliable correspondent who signs himself Whip Walser reports son Conrad, now teaching Spanish at Lake Placid, Fla., High School, recently married to Diane Hadley of Cooperstown, N. Y., an erstwhile Hartwick College mate, and son Eric '68 working with his father but recently classified 1-A, with physical passed. The longshoremen's strike was in its 47th day when Whip wrote - "really hurting our business, and our efforts to increase U. S. exports are all going to hell with these strikes, rising prices, etc. I hope things will get better."

Frank Eggleston writes that he is still the only '32er in the Providence area, but that he did see old roommate Paul Dunn at a transportation meeting in Boston — Paul still with the Boston and Maine and Frank with the Providence Chamber of Commerce, and a grandparent as of December.

Postaling from Berkeley, Calif., Carl Ward tells of retiring from the Air Force Active Reserves, building a vacation and retirement home in the Sierras near the Bear Valley Ski Area. The entire family, which includes a college-graduating daughter and a high school son, ski and ride horseback. Carl continues as secretary-treasurer of the 1200 strong San Francisco Alumni Club.

We have a card signed by A Damn Mad Member of 1932 who is damn mad at Mike Cardozo's comment about suffering through the next four years with Nixon. Assorted intelligence relayed by Bob Ackerberg and the Alumni Office: Bill and Starr Peck living in Sturbridge, Mass., their children having flown the coop long since and raising their own; Harry Rowe with two Dartmouth graduate' sons indoctrinating their 12-year-old brother with the Green idea; John Cabot, living in Alexandria, chief architect of the National Park Service; Dr. Ted Truex elected president of the Hartford Hospital's medical staff; Bill Kendall one of the first two outsiders elected to the board of directors of Hercules Inc.

To Dick Hazen, replying to our query concerning the Class's early Dartmouth forebears, honors for letter-of-the-month:

... When I applied for admission and came to the question, "Relatives who attended Dartmouth?" my father said: "One in every generation since the college was founded. I cannot claim all direct descendants because a couple of uncles were involved. However, the first was Silas Hazen, class of 1778.

My great-grandfather, Allen Hazen (class of 1819) was in college during the Dartmouth College Case days. Like Francis Brown he had TB and had to leave college after 2 years. Expecting not to live, he went down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on a flat boat to see the country. The warmer weather (and, he said, chewing tobacco) fixed him up. After a lew years in New Orleans he returned to Vermont to raise a family.

And since we shall soon be counting the girls, my aunt, Anna Hazen, got an M.A. at Dartmouth in 1897, the second woman to earn a degree.

Any toppers? We especially like the story of Allen Hazen. They don't snap back any more like those old-time Vermonters used to. William Nutting, class of 1807 whom we've mentioned here before, had been a farmer and carpenter when, at the age of 24 broken health caused him to abandon his' trade and enter Dartmouth. After a successful career as teacher and lawyer, he died in Randolph, Vt., at the age of 84. Some give credit to the chewing tobacco. Others of us say it was the vinegar and honey.

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