1929

January like so many 29ers is about to retire with one more day to go. The days are getting longer, and with the full moon above and white snow blanket surrounding us, the nights are getting brighter.

Our dog is in and out of the house like a yo-yo responding to the moonbeam's magnetic leash. This is less restrictive than his ope and chain which he is most adept in winding around trees, light posts, and bushes—equally inept in unwinding the same. This is particularly true after midnight when the snow is deep and the great white cold stalks abroad.

Two retirees head the news list this month: Jack Hubbard 29's efficient, imaginative, and newsgathering treasurer, informed us of his approaching retirement in a December 23 letter—"with only about four more days of work in New York." You were short changed on those four days, Jack. The Class hopes that you and Sue will have many full, happy, and useful years ahead of you. Ben Stacy, our second retiree, writes from Orleans on Cape Cod: "One year of retirement convinces me this is the life. See Henry Skelly at a coffee club here and recently saw Bill Magenau at Cape Cod Club for luncheon."

I met Squeek Bedding recently at Slagle's in Boston coming and leaving with pause for talk. He brought me up to date on their activities, which included a busy curling season with the Winchester Curling Club. We discussed news and views of the new and the old Dartmouth. While our views differed somewhat between my astigmatism and his curling, we managed to see eye to eye.

A letter from '29s leading churchman, Archie Crowley, the Rt. Rev. Suffragan Bishop of Michigan, reports that he expects to retire and will come back East to settle down and rest from his labors. They are buying a house in Chatham on the Cape. We hope that your retirement years will be many and happy ones, and that we will see you more often.

A letter from Papeete, Tahiti, from Mrs. John Henry Lynch brought news from her family last week. I expect to have more news of the Lynch family when my brother Wilbur Jaquith '33 and his wife return from New Zealand with a stopover in Papeete.

Our final newsnote and a family one relates to our son Peter Jaquith '58. Lazard Freres announced his appointment as Vice-President in charge of Corporate Finance in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in mid-January.

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