1929

October has been a delightfully beautiful and busy month with summer continuing into November, sans frost and crammed with Dartmouth weekend get to-gethers in Hanover, Cambridge, and elsewhere. '29ers have crossed and criss-crossed our paths with their handsome wives, children, and grandchildren brightening our lives with fond memories of happy yesterdays and tomorrows' anticipations.

A letter from Bob Monahan who sat beside us with Alice at our fall Top of the Hop Reunion Dinner paid tribute to his close friend and Dartmouth Outing Club's "patron saint" Ross McKenney, Woodcraft Adviser to the D.O.C. Larry Lougee, who was instrumental in transmitting Ross from the Maine Woods to the Connecticut Valley in 1937, was one of the speakers at the memorial service held in the Bema October 30.

Bob enclosed a Granite State Gazette clipping describing Charlie Dudley's father's 94th birthday which was celebrated in the Drake Room in Hopkins Center. Charles Howard Dudley 'O2 is one of the ten oldest living alumni and his wife Louise, still living and active, was New Hampshire's 1963 Mother of the Year—the real mother of five and summer mother of hundreds who had attended their Interlaken camp.

Another Gazette clipping described an anonymous gift, a Third Century Professorship in the Social Sciences in honor of our classmate, John Sloan Dickey.

We are indebted to Jack Hubbard for the following notes:

Ed Felch in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands: "We feel more like a million miles from home and Hanover than the actual 8,000. Enjoyed a visit from Art Clow despite our inability to get the marlin or tuna to cooperate."

Sonny Hetfield: "I would like to join those who have retired, too, but Estelle says that 'retirement results in too much husband and not enough money.' I have been on the bench going on 31 years and was eligible to retire five years ago. I am the Assignment Judge of the N. J. Superior Court in charge of the proper administration of civil and criminal justice in Union County. I expect that I will continue until I become 'too square' for the new generation."

Shep Stone: "I have been in Paris since 1968 as President of the International Association for Cultural Freedom. This is a world-wide organization of intellectuals (excluding me), scholars, writers, men in public life who are concerned with the major problems of our times. We are financed by US and European foundations—Ford, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Volkswagen, Thyssen, Agnelli and hopefully in future Japanese philanthropy. The chairman of our board is Alan Bullock, Vice Chancellor of Oxford. Other members, including myself, are Pierre Emmanuel, French poet and member of the Academie francaise; Professors Galbraith and Doty of Harvard and Professor Shils of Chicago and Cambridge England; Marion Doenhoff, editor of Die Zeit, Hamburg; Dr. Kwapong, Vice Chancellor of Ghana University; Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian publisher; Dr. Okita, one of Japan's leading economists, etc.—We support a number of journals and magazines in many countries, Encounter, Minerva and Survey in London; Preuves in Paris; Transition in Africa; Jiyu in Japan, etc. We have affiliated groups in many countries, hold seminars, a recent one on The Relevance of History' was chaired by Raymond Aron.—All this involves living in airplanes, and chasing money. After years at the Ford Foundation, on the grantmaking side, I have become a beggar with all that implies for one's character.—Musi and I have a small apartment in Paris, with an enchanting view near Notre-Dame. And we have a place in the hills at South Newfane, Vt., where we spend holidays and as much time as possible. Musi is still there, she will not miss high-color. I've been trained by a lumberjack and I take my holidays with chain-saw, axe, wedges and sledgehammer in the woods. We love Vermont and of course we shall retire there. One of the great advantages is that Hanover is only an hour or so up the road.—Our only child, a daughter, was married last year. In the Radcliffe tradition her husband is a Harvard Ph.D. She has problems at the Dartmouth-Harvard game."

Perley Perkins: "For one technically retired from hospital administration, I find myself with an administration capacity with a big boatyard five days a week, am involved with drugs with drug firm one-two days a week, and do consulting for several medical facilities. So my week seems to be an eight-day one. Otherwise nothing new to report."

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