1932

Last month's severely truncated column was our dereliction. This month's thinness of news is yours—but that seems to be how it is after each summer.

Some late spring honors have yet to be recorded. Hard on his election as a Trustee of the College, Bill Morton was presented with a Dartmouth Alumni Award, the highest honor the Alumni Council can bestow. How richly that award was earned is spelled .out in the citation to Bill on page 33 of the July issue.

Also in June Bill Kendall was elected to the Alumni Council for a two-year term in which, as a Kentuckian, he will help to represent the Southern States region. Another representative of that region is WhipWalser (Florida). John Sheldon's Council term expired in June.

There does come freshly to hand a clip from the Baltimore Sun with a story on the appointment of Don McPhail (that's the Baltimore D. P., natch) to be the first executive director of the Baltimore Sports Complex Authority. Don took early retirement last year from the presidency of the Capitol Cement Company, a Martin Marietta subsidiary, and recently served as a fiduciary officer, under appointment of the United States District Court, handling the bankruptcy of a Maryland corporation. At the press conference announcing his new appointment Don explained that he had gotten bored with retirement, and named his sports credentials: a Colts and Orioles fan as well as a golfer who has qualified in five national amateur championships. We are querying Don so that we can tell you what the Maryland Sports Complex Authority is.

Many of you will have read one or another of the moving newspaper stories that have told of Bob Ryan's struggle, to use his own analogy, to pick himself up off the floor following Jessica's death last May just ten days after doctors' finding she had cancer. Dorothy Manners wrote in her July 31 column:

"Everyone on 'The Lolly-Madonna War' location in Knoxville, Tenn., has the greatest respect for the chin-up courage Robert Ryan is showing in the face of great personal sorrow. Ryan has said to his costar Rod Steiger, 'Everything was planned that I would be the first to go. I fought cancer off two years ago. Jessica was my mainstay and my strength. Then suddenly this happened ... No job ever came along at a better time than this one. Concentrating on my role helps to pull me together. And I'm a lucky man, our children have rallied around me in the crisis, and it means a lot.'

"The older boy, Cheyney (28), is an instructor in philosophy at Boston College and was in Miami Beach covering the Democratic convention for World Magazine. He stopped off in Knoxville on the way back to Boston to be with his father. Son Timothy is a writer, and daughter Lisa is developing as an artist. When the picture finishes, Ryan plans to take off the rest of the year to reorganize his personal life and to spend more time with his 'kids'."

For the Class we wish Bob and his family time's most beneficent healing.

Alex Christie, with a note recalling the fun of Reunion, sent us a clip from the Miami Herald with a columnist's piece on the peripatetics of Whip and AdelineWalser, and subsequently we have had a card from Whip sent along the route of their current Scandinavian voyage. That other regular traveler, Dr. Geogre Hahn, reported in upon his return from his annual Project HOPE stint, this time in Brazil, where he was also visiting professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro and received several honors. For some time now we have been planning to ask George to tell us something about what it's like to take part in the HOPE endeavor.

We had a pleasant telephone chat with Toto Hosmer, Bob's widow, on the summer day when she and the youngsters were moving from Syracuse to Casanovia. Her new address: Rippleton Crossroad, Casanovia, N. Y. 10335.

In our folder we find a summer note, source now forgotten, that Dr. Irv Kramer was taking off from Great Neck for New Zealand.

Leader Emeritus Howdy Pierpont took early retirement from the Equitable Life, where he was vice president, last June 1, and he and Dorothy are now dividing their time between Darien and the home they have built somewhere north of Hanover. Howdy has again undertaken to organize a '32-in-Hanover weekend for the Princeton game, to which we're looking forward.

We too celebrate '32's all-time, all-class record Alumni Fund contribution. Some 302 donors brought the total finally to $105,033, representing a 73% participation index and 105% of objective. We echo Mark Short's congratulations to BobAckerberg, John Sheldon, and all who helped them. And appreciation should be expressed to that group of our classmates who, already having given generously, pledged further that if the Class total hit 90 thousand, they collectively would add the final ten. As it turned out, after the $90,000 figure was reached in those closing June days, the money kept coming in, so that the group was not called upon to meet their full pledge—but nevertheless it was they who brought the final figure to its record total.

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