1949

I suppose the well-worn roads on the Colby run are weary of kissing the bald tires of Dartmouth students, but who can resist memorializing the way and the people involved? From its first year as a junior college for women in 1928, the lure of Colby Junior College as a dating ground for Dartmouth men either simply fascinated by the promise of a blind date or going steady with a demure vision is almost legend. It was my good fortune to be in the nearby Mount Sunapee area skiing with the family last weekend, and my Colby gal and I just had to drive our kids through the campus. To be sure, there were many more impressive buildings since our undergraduate days, but the place really hadn't changed that much. The girls still looked the same. They're weighted under with books as always, they still have a thing about knee socks, and I didn't see one of them who faintly resembled a younger version of the wife of any of my neighbors, much less the mother of his children. This almost mystical transformation of image and spirit is for now swallowed up in the intellectual processes, and life is as it has always been and should be very exciting for the undergrad.

Meanwhile in Hanover, Eddie Chamberlain and his staff are in the midst of their crouch period, culling through some 4,500 applications to pick the next freshman class of about 800. For the further edification of you who do enrollment work, some 194 men were granted early acceptance, so this is roughly one quarter of the total class. Also, the Course Guide, an updated evaluation by students of some 150 courses can be a very effective tool for enrollment. A check for $2.00 to The Course Guide, Box 749, Hanover, N. H., will bring you this gem.

Quite a few of you have responded to my double post card mailings asking for news. I sincerely wish more would do so; it is vital to this column if you want more news and less filler. Paul Denecke one-upped me. He answered my post card with a genuine letter, for which he has my deepest thanks. He wondered how I felt about student unrest and response by the administration. I am pretty far to the right in my thinking and nost of these ridiculous student sit-ins, strikes, and bits of mayhem tend to push me further in that direction, but I sincerely feel that Dartmouth has handled the situation as well as any school. And friends, believe me, when I tell you that student reactionaries are piping their tunes on every campus, freedom of thought and expression are vital to Dartmouth and rightly must be protected, but when the exercise of these rights impinges upon the very same rights of others then a line must be drawn. This was done in the placement on probation of several students who thwarted an Army recruitment. effort on campus. The college administration wisely has made clear its positive dedication to an enlightened firmness. Its success can be measured in the modicum of real problems the campus has faced. in the past few difficult years while the militia has been maintaining law and order on many a highly respected campus. There has indeed been change and growth, but all of us have served to leave behind a legacy of continuity and stability for which we can be justifiably proud.

Denecke and his family spent three weeks in Africa last March on a photographic safari. They toured Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in a Volkswagen bus, driving over 2,000 miles with a night at famous Treetops watching elephants all night. In addition, two days at William Holden's Mount Kenya Safari Club were spent in the lap of luxury.

It has just recently been revealed that Slade Gordon won a real squeaker or an election with the help of the wnte-ni vote for attorney general in the state of Washington. As previously reported, Marvin Durning was a candidate on the Democratic side but must rest on his pick axe laurels until next election.

"From Cedar Falls, Iowa, George Day reports that he received his doctorate from the University of Colorado this past June and that he is presently in his second year as assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.

Mark Feer, reported as having joined the Wall Street firm of Kuhn, Loeb, and Company, was admitted as a general partner on the first day of the year.

In his eleventh year as account executive and director of Hare and Chase, Inc., an insurance brokerage house in Philadelphia, Bill Boardman writes us that he lives on the "Main Line" with his wife and three children in suburban Rosemont. They all went to Bermuda last May on a family vacation and do a lot of skiing in the nearby Poconos.

And to conclude things while on the subject of snow and ice, Bob Zeiser, Bob Kilmartin, and 22 other Rhode Island men are about to raise the skating flag in the first indoor ice skating rink in Rumford. Maybe they'll send us a few skaters.

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