1929

"Ever strive for manly ways Though adolescence keeps you down.

In commons, public buildings and cafes Remove your bonnet from your lowly crown."

When this issue reaches you an epochal change in the history of Dartmouth and of the Class of 1929 will have transpired. The same radio waves which on Aug. 28, 1945 had brought the startling and exciting news of President Hopkins' retirement and the Trustees' appointment of John SloanDickey, a young State Department lawyer, to succeed him, were, again heard announcing the Trustees' appointment of Dr. John G. Kemeny as 13th President of Dartmouth to succeed President Dickey who would retire on March 1, 1970.

The Class of 1929 has been accorded the high honor and rare privilege of the selection of one of its members to be Dartmouth's 12th president. Only one other class in this century —l901 - has been singled out in this way. The magnitude of the honor is measured by the magnitude of the man and the quality of his workmanship. The magnitude of our classmate and the quality of his work will mark Dartmouth's Dickey Day as an unsurpassed growth era. John has been weighed in the scales and, unlike Balthazzer, was found "Not Wanting" there.

His loyalty to '29 and his affection for his classmates and their families has never diminished a particle. He remained the same John Dickey who licked Alumni Fund letter envelopes to classmates, while walking Mass. Ave., Cambridge to and from the Law School. At the same time, he carried his roommate's green bag as well as his own saying "It's easier to carry two than one."

Time's bell has tolled twice in recent months marking the passing of two classmates whose lives have enriched the communities in which they lived and worked. Dr. Sherman "Ichie" Little died on a London Street closing a brilliant medical career in pediatrics and child psychiatry. BillKeyes who prepared his obituary writes of him:

I got to know Sherm while we were in Han, over, but it was not until the 1930-35 period that I really came to know him. Even though Sherm was in medical school during this time, I saw him frequently during weekends and summers at his family's house near Haverstraw, N. Y. Sherm's father, his step-mother, and his sister were great people and a joy to be with. His father was also a doctor (Dartmouth '91). I saw Sherm less frequently from, say, 1935 until the war came along, and not again until 1945. I went to New York to attend the dinner for John Dickey on the occasion of his taking oyer the presidency of the College. That evening, Sherm and I took the train back, he getting off at Philadelphia while I went on to Washington. I was delighted to learn in 1958 that the Littles were moving to California. Martha preceded Sherm out here in order to find a place to live, and spent several days with us while house hunting. She found one not far from us and we saw them from time to time during the last few years. I last saw Sherm nearly a year ago while I was temporarily grounded. He came up to our place and we had a delightful visit. I remember very well Sherm's parting remark to me on that occasion which was to the effect that when I got fed up with being treated for supposedly physical ailments, to let him know and he would give me a psychiatric going over. It is an understatement to say that the College and the Class have lost a most loyal supporter. Furthermore, I feel, and I am sure others who were close to Sherm feel, a deep personal loss in his leaving.

Ralph "Red" Ardiff died in Danvers, Mass., on Jan. 12, 1970 after a successful business career in insurance and estate planning combining private with public service to his clients, the community and his church. He was awarded many honors for outstanding service to his town, his insurance companies, and his fraternal and social associations. For the calling hours at his home at the suggestion of his two sons, William B. '59 and Ralph E., in place of the casket and flowers, the room was filled with the awards, plaques, citations and other mementoes of Ralph's life and achievements.

Herb McCreery who dropped in Saturday to loan me his Aegis - to fill a gap in my bookshelves from an absent-minded borrower - paid high tribute to both Sherm and Red whom he knew well in College. He was a frequent visitor in the Ardiff home in his bachelor days and told what a hospitable and stimulating place it was.

A letter from Bill Fitzpatrick '68 son of our Phil announced Bill's marriage in Burlington, Vt., on Aug. 16, 1969. He has sent us a colored picture of the wedding party which includes eight Dartmouth graduates and two Dartmouth wives - Janet Woodbridge '29 and Judy Fitzpatrick '68. The graduates were Phil and his two sons Bill '68 and James '71, Phil's brother Martin '28, Ellie Cavanagh and sons Jimmy '52 (our Class baby), John '55 and Chris Hysonen '68.

Momentum has been gathering among influential New Hampshire legal and official circles for the elevation of Chief Justice Frank Kennison to the United States Supreme Court. This would raise the president's judicial selection batting average by several 100% and add a sound constructionist to the Supreme Court.

Joe D'Esopo last November spent a week in France at the invitation of the French Government Tourist Office, one of four New Englanders and thirty from U.S. to be so honored. Congratulations, Joe.

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