1939

It's early May as this is written, and we're leaving for Hanover tomorrow morning for Class Officers meetings, so both the news of that weekend and of our Reunion will have to wait.

Therefore, let us hope you all do your duty by your College in the Alumni Fund and that you pull out all the stops at our Thirtieth Reunion.

This is a great year. Very tew colleges are as old as ours, celebrating her two hundredth birthday right now. This fact was brought home to us recently when we were the Dartmouth delegate at the inauguration of a new president of Western Carolina University. We marched seventh in a line of over 300 delegates and had a front row seat just behind the tuba in the college band and beside the television cameras and under the television lights. A good friend of ours from Princeton marched ahead of us and let us know it, but there were a lot of folks behind us.

We have been sent a great photograph or Bob MacLeod in zebra-striped knickers being interviewed at his desk at Teen Magazine by the Los Angeles Times. The only trouble is we ran a picture of him last month taken while receiving the mixed doubles trophy at the annual Pabst Blue Ribbon tennis tournament, which sounds to us like a good tournament to win.

Sam Dearborn has moved to 12 Woodlawn Ridge Rd. in Concord, N. H., and RogStanwood keeps ahead of the sheriff at 215 Tamerlaine Dr. in Houston, Texas.

A plaintive note from Tom Burrell reports that nothing he has done recently is at all newsworthy." Tom is just in a rut, he says, waiting for the warm weather to arrive' Being a transplanted country boy, he finds it difficult not to gawk at the big buildings in New York. We remember that Tom ran a poster advertising company, and so his practiced eye would readily note that bis building with all the sixes on its sign!

A proud note from Jim Brigden announces that son Dick of the Class of 1966 made Margaret and Jim grandparents for the first time. The Brigdens have three children through college, one a freshman, and son Bill will enter Dartmouth next fall with the Class of 1973. The Brigdens have reservations for Reunion.

Col. Bob Hall will be unable to be with us at Reunion, as he will be on the high seas at that moment in time. After a year at Fort Monroe, the Halls are moving to Hawaii where Bob will be Deputy Chief Surgeon, US Army, Pacific. He says his family is delighted, and who wouldn't be? Jane and their four children lived there last year while Bob was in Vietnam. They all fell in love with Hawaii then and send their best wishes to all of us for the very best Reunion ever. Just as if they were on Waikiki already, they added one more word for all city-dwellers: "Aloha."

Bozo Noland sent us a clipping from the Newport News Times-Herald about our Sandy Sloan, who you will remember was killed in action in 1944. His father had purchased property in Rindge, N. H., in 1940 and offered his children their choice of homesites. Sandy's selection has been made into the Cathedral of the Pines, a beautiful knoll where peace has been found by five million pilgrims, where brotherhood has been shared through prayer by 49 faiths so far, and where understanding through the development of a successful ecumenical experiment has been accomplished with the donations of stones from 111 nations. The site became first a memorial to Sandy and was made available to all for prayer and meditation and to recall what Sandy had meant to the Sloanes and what the sons and daughters who died in war had meant to other parents throughout America. Perhaps the value of that peaceful place is to find the answer to the question that plagues us all: "Why?"

Sen. Norris Cotton of New Hampshire has announced the retirement of Chet Wiggin as his administrative assistant. Chet has had a long and distinguished service in Washington, first as legal adviser to John Sullivan, the Secretary of the Navy, then administrative assistant to the late Sen. Styles Bridges, and as Sen. Cotton's assistant since 1962. His boss said, "His extensive knowledge and acquaintance in the Senate as well as all of the departments in the executive branch, coupled with his exceptional ability, have made him invaluable, but I respect his desire to return to New Hampshire."

Lou Oldershaw churned up a lot of snow with Hank Bagg on Mt. Tom last winter while they were waiting to play golf with Ray Merrick, who spent some time in Florida. Lou stays busy in Holyoke, where he is president of National Blank Book Co. and vice president of Dennison Manufacturing Co., with whom they merged in 1967. Lou gets involved in campus issues as a trustee of Mount Holyoke. The Oldershaws took a trip in March to Switzerland to see son David who is at Fleming College in Lugano this year. Son Peter is about to graduate from Boston University Law School and son Robert is a senior at Colby College. Wife Ginny is Ed Wakelin's sister, you know, and must be very proud of her wonderful family.

Bob Bryant writes to ask if the boy on the cover of the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is his son Peter '70. Bob is still at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, making his mail even slower than most fathers! He writes, "the male looks like my son but as well as I think I know him, even from the rear, I just can't decide. I could write and ask him but he's rather modest and would probably deny it. Anyway, the last I heard, he was somewhere between Hanover, Alexandria, Miami, and Nassau."

Our boy Mike Ellis and wife Michael Ellis almost won an Oscar for a documentary film this year. Mrs. Ellis was the producer of "Other Voices," which started as her original idea to raise money for the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation in Doylestown, Pa. "It struck me," she says, "that the thing that would sell this institution to the foundations would be seeing it." So what started as a ten-minute film by the two Mikes ended as a 103-minute documentary that was nominated for an Oscar. Our Mike writes that Sam Thurm was most helpful in advising how to proceed in the jungles of TV and Haven Falconer added lots of good advice based on his years in the movie business. Congratulations, all hands!

And now it's time to close.We hope we'll see every one of you at Reunion. Dot and I are bringing our son and daughter and son-in-law with us. Son John has just been accepted by the Navy for Officer Candidate School, and we couldn't be prouder of all of them. We're, proud, too, of our Class and of our College, a place unique among places.

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