Further Mention
Always grateful for what Wilbraham Academy had done to guide his life and help him maintain its ideals, Frank L. Livermomore '21 on the academy's 150th anniversary and his 50th reunion determined to give the reading public a book telling its story. He planned a meeting October 2, 1970 at the Eagle Mountain House, Jackson, N. H., with James Playsted Wood, a writer, to discuss with him how Wilbraham's past, present, and future should be treated. Fatigued by the long drive from his home in West Newton, Mass., on a gloomy and rain-swept day, Mr. Livermore put off serious discussion until the morning but died in his sleep during the night. Mrs. Livermore carried out her husband's plans. Limited to 1000 copies, the book appeared in 1971, designed and published by R. L. Dothard Associates of Brattleboro, Vt., and printed by The Vermont Printing Company. With a fullpage picture of Mr. Livermore and a dedicatory preface describing his business career in advertising, public relations, and food merchandising, the volume of 152 pages entitled New England Academy attempts to show what the newly formed Wilbraham & Monson stands for in a world so profoundly altered from the days when Wilbraham was founded in 1817 and even in 1917, the year when Mr. Livermore was graduated.
For $15 you may discover, if you have forgotten, what made Dartmouth students laugh when nudged with sometimes not too delicate fingers by the editors, writers, and cartoonists of Jack '0 Lantern. Did you chuckle, or grimace, at undergraduate persiflage and squinting at professors and coaches, liquor and sex, athletes and aesthetes?
The book: A Century of College Humor. The editor: Dan Carlinsky. The publisher: Random House. The Dartmouth humor magazine is only one of nearly 100 Qther in this large volume filled with cartoons,thers in stories, poems, jokes, and spoofs from 1900 to the present. Many big names are represented: Dr. Seuss, Bennett Cerf, F. Scott Fizgerald, James Thurber, Robert Benchley, S. J. Perelman, Rube Goldberg, Art Buchwald, and Max Shulman.
Arranged by decade and designed to resemble the look in type and layout of college magazines, the selections trace campus humor and wit from the early years through the wild twenties, the depressed thirties, the confused forties, the who-cares fifties, and the critical sixties.
