1938
As this is written, the 1972 football season is only just past the half-way mark, but, when you read these words, it'll all be over. Under the circumstances, predictions are irrelevant (and relevance is a modern shibboleth). So I make no predictions—on the other hand, a person can and should think positively.
Kay and Bobbie Ammarell, FredBecker, and Bob and Dottie Forgan were among those who gathered at Giland Fran Tanis' before the Brown game. Names and numbers of '38ers seen and recognized at subsequent contests will be welcomed by your Pace Setter editor and/or secretary.
With continuing partial reference to football, I acknowledge with most sincere thanks a very good letter from BudLynch. As we all should remember, Bud was a letterman on the '38 team (7-0-2), and his son carried on the tradition. In that connection Bud writes as follows: "Buddy, my eldest, graduated from Dartmouth last June. He was doing well last fall as a defensive tackle until he dislocated his wrist in the Harvard game. That finished his football. He is now a first year student in Dartmouth Med. School."
Other excerpts from Bud's letter are as follows:
"I am continuing my practice in pediatrics in Westport, where I have been for 22 years. I would like to retire, but that is an impossibility with all my college expenses." (Bud has four other children.) He concludes:
"I must say that I have been getting back to Hanover quite frequently the past four years since my son has been an undergraduate and will continue to do so now that he is in Med. School. It has been great to renew my acquaintance with the College, and Hanover, but I hate to see the 'old traditions fail.' I have met some of the coeds and exchange female students. They seem like real nice girls, but I think Dartmouth could get along without them and do as well as it did in the past."
Bud's letterhead reads Franklin Lynch, M.D., 20 Bay Street, Westport, Conn. 06880. Actually, he wrote two letters, explaining, "I do not want to mix up family news with the Indian symbol."
His letter in the latter connection was an endorsement of the position I took in the October Class Notes. Bud said, in part: "I just want to add my name to the list who feel the College was premature in giving up a symbol we all looked upon with pride as representative, first of Dartmouth starting as a school to educate Indians and secondly as a symbol of manly men. I feel the Indians who rebelled at the symbol were doing it to call attention to themselves, but I do not think the symbol is degrading, and I see no reason to give it up because I do not think any alumnus would think it degrading.
"I sympathize with the Indians for what the white man did to them, but having Dartmouth give up the Indian symbol is not going to make it up to them.
"I am glad to see that the football team at least still has the Indian symbol on their jerseys ... I hope the symbol comes back."
Thank you very much. Bud, for your thoughtful comments which seem to me to be eminently sound. His letter makes the tally among '38ers who responded to my letter to the Class decrying the discontinuance of the Dartmouth Indian symbol some 35-plus in favor of its preservation (or reinstatement) to three against. Under these circumstances your secretary personally prefers not to let the matter drop, though I know that not all of you feel that way. However, I also know from reading the Letters to the Editor in the October Alumni Magazine that a large number of alumni of classes other than 1938 feel strongly about the Dartmouth Indian emblem, and the great majority of the letters printed want it kept. Others are working to this end, and evidence of these efforts Appears elsewhere in this issue. Let's support these efforts. As suggested at the end of the October '38 Notes, let's do the best we can to make sure that the old traditions don't fail.
On the Saturday morning of the Brown game. October 21, a meeting of our Class Executive Committee members who were in town was held at the Hanover Inn. President Paul Urion, Gil Tanis, DawkDawkins, and your secretary were present from the committee, and Ray Ammarell and Irv Brown also attended. College Vice President George Colton joined us. Ways whereby '38s Alumni Fund performance can be improved were discussed. During his tenure as Class Agent Bob Hallock has worked very darn hard, and this coming year, during the 1973 Alumni Fund campaign, it would be good if every one of us gave him the support he richly deserves.
Word has been received of the death early this year of Howard Van Bomel. Van's business career was spent in advertising, much of it with Conde Nast, in New York City. The sympathy of the Class, and of all who remember him, is offered to Van's family.
The Alumni Magazine office has kindly provided the information that the following eight classmates have sons in the Dartmouth freshman class: Bob Carroll, FrankDavenport, Dawk Dawkins, Paul Feakins, Robb Kelley, Matty Mattimore,George Nichols, and Miles Prentice. Congratualtions and all best wishes to both fathers and sons. No '38 fathers of Dartmouth daughters yet, but it seems as if there ought to be some sooner or later.
Our entire Class will be shocked and saddened by news, received after the above notes had been prepared, of the very sudden death of Larry Hull on October 30. A further report will appear in the obituary section of a later Alumni Magazine. In the meantime the deepest sympathy of everyone in the Class of 1938 who knew Larry—and there was no one in the Class who didn't—is extended to his wife Lucille and their three sons.
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