1913

Spring is just around the corner and the following classmates have birthdays in April. Joe H. Byrnes, Andie Comstock,Vic Dunbar, John A. Fitz Randolph, Cy Jones, Lloyd Riford, and Al R. Urion Jr. Happy Birthday and good health to all of you.

As usual Joe Barnett's "Tower Tiding" was a professional job and very informative and interesting. A census was taken some time ago about coeducation at Dartmouth and the results are in. The old timers as a whole were not in- favor but it looks as though coeducation was coming in a matter of time.

Mose Linscott phoned that he had just returned from Florida after spending several weeks in the "Sun-shine State." It was unseasonably cold and Mose wore a topcoat on several occasions in his daily walks. He planned his walks for three times a day and averaged about 13 miles a day. He is looking forward to spring and summer and will go to his camp in New Hampshire and maybe do some mountain climbing and play tennis.

Bart and Benza Shepard went to Florida to see their son Alan and his fellow austronauts take-off for a trip to the moon and return. Bart and Renza must have heaved a sigh of relief when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Alan Shepard's home town of Derry, N. H., took the successful finale of the Apollo flight in stride on the recovery day—right up to 4:05 p.m. The day before Derry looked like >t does every day. The flags fluttered in front of the American Legion Post on West Broadway. A bank, the Town Hall and a hardware store also flew flags. Here and there on Broadway store windows dis- played Shepard pictures. By 4 p.m. West Broadway, the town's main street looked like a street in a ghost town. Few cars moved. Pedestrains ducked into stores to watch the splashdown on TV. Promptly at 6 p.m. the action began. Countless flags were tied to parking meters or stuck in curb side snow banks. Horns tooted. The bell in the tower of the First Baptist Church was the first to peal. Many cars traveled to the Shepard's home. The American Legion put on an impromptu parade watched by hundreds lining the road. Included in the parade were bright red fire engines with American flags flying. Temperatures well below freezing didn't daunt the mini-skirted girls in the school band, nor the white-sweatered baton team from Pinkerton Academy, Shepard's alma mater. Also included in the parade were DPW equipment trucks, U. S. mail trucks and cars carrying several members of the town government and the state legislature. It was a gala occasion for the town and the Shepard family.

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