1929

Do not wear upon your chest Charms and pins of high school years.

We care not for your jeweled vest When you're still wet behind the ears.

December was a banner raising month for Dartmouth as the College prepared to celebrate its 200th Birthday; and rocketed through the time barrier into its Third Century. Jet propelled by the promise of an ancient and unerring faith which has moved mountains and surpassed understanding, hearing and heeding that prophetic voice crying in the wilderness, Dartmouth goes forward in full stride with eyes fixed on invisible goals awaiting their light from undiscovered stars.

'29 was well represented at the Charter Day observance which was a Double D. Dartmouth and Dickey Day - not to be described here except to say that the observance was worthy of the College and the occasion; and showed perfection in planning preparation and execution on the part of all who participated in it.

The well deserved encomiums heaped upon Our Twelfth President, unaware of his allergy to praise by a host of eloquent speakers, bowed down his head and shoulders under their cumulative weight, reminding one of Dan Webster's famous senatorial encomium of Massachusetts. Chris' contribution to Dartmouth was not overlooked with the presentation to her of a replica of the Wheelock sundial. John's gracious, witty, and cogent response was timely and eloquent. Peggy and I were among the fifteen '29 couples present, all of whom could say with Aeneas of these events we were a part.

Our appeal for news did not fall on deaf ears and a bumper crop of replies has been harvested. Five copies of the Sunday Times, Dec. 7, picture of Gus Wiedmayer and article headed "Large Bank in Newark Picks Chief," announced his promotion from president of National Newark and Essex Bank to chairman and chief executive officer. He has been president of the New Jersey Bankers Association; and is state vice president of American Bankers Association. Congratulations, Gus, for making the best news out of Newark last year.

News from the academic world is headed by Bob Carr's resignation as Oberlin's 9th president effective June 30. He will join the staff of American Council on Education in Washington where he will be in charge of a study on academic profession problems. Henry Sharpe has joined the faculty of Daniel Webster Junior College where he will teach courses in American History and History of Western Civilization. His daughter Sandra is married to Lewis Coronis; and son Sumner is an instructor in City Planning at Portland State Univ. in Portland, Ore. Sunday Times, Dec. 28, has an account of the Mt. Kisco, N.Y., wedding of Judith Anne Garvin to Bartlett Hicks Stoodley Jr., son of Wellesley professor Bartlett H. Stoodley Sr. The bride is a senior at Wilson College and groom, a graduate of Queens Univ., Kingston, and graduate student in sociology at Univ. of Toronto — '29 congratulations to you both. Charley Dudley has been reelected president of Lebanon College which provides a work study program for high school graduates, permitting them to make a living and go to school at the same time; and earn an Associates' degree on completion of their course. This sounds like Dartmouth in its frontier days when students earned their way by teaching through the long vacation on Cape Anne - remember the schoolmaster in "Snow Bound" - and elsewhere, to pay for their tuition, etc.

I ran into Dick Barrett and Art Nighswander at the New England Tax Institute Tax Conference in Boston in December, both exuding good health and spirits. Dick enlightened us on Swiss bank accounts and Art explained his absence from fall reunion by a trip to Spain. Squeek Redding returned from Charter Day by way of Winnipesaukee and on wings of the Sunday snowstorm. He has undertaken some title work in Cambridge for us which we are most grateful.

Herb McCreery and I attended the Worcester Dartmouth Club pre-Christmas luncheon and heard an excellent talk by Seaver Peters '54, Dartmouth's new athletic director, who also was optimistic about favorable action on Dartmouth's Holy Cross Aid proposal. Herb is selling for the Carter Company in Lebanon and has a lucrative and steady business throughout New England in winter sports goods.

Two communications were joyfully received as this was going to press. The first from our heart specialist Jack Martin in Cleveland who became a '29er after two years in Grinnell and went on to Harvard Medical after graduation. He reminded me "a long time since we were dunked in the river" - between Wells River and Hanover on a clear moonlit night in October which he describes as "one of my favorite recollections." He is now chief of cardiology and medicine at a Cleveland hospital. He has three married daughters, one in Cleveland whose husband is in advertising; an- other in Cambridge, married to a Harvard Medical School senior; and a third in New York, married to a lawyer. He regrets missing reunion but is planning on the 50th.

The second was a clipping from Dec. 13 issue of a North Shore paper with picture entitled "Meet Ned Brown," courtesy of Al Wagner '49 of Wenham as an ecumenical inter-class thoughtful service for which we thank him. Ned - Forrest M. Brown in alumni records - is suburban editor of the "Newburyport Daily News" based in Amesbury, with a popular daily column entitled "Cabbages and Kings," in which he talks of "folksy things." His father was principal of Amesbury High School and a friend of Quaker poet neighbor, J.G. Whittier - see "Snow Bound" supra. His uncle Fred printed some copy for the author. Ned likes to write about music, books, and stories; and hopes to finish some of the books he has "started writing. He is a concert goer, book collector, and dry martini consumer. He lives on Belmont Street, Amesbury in the family home where I hope, as a Newbury-porter by marriage, I may one day make his closer acquaintance.

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