1928

It is early Sunday morning of a beautiful spring day in Hanover. I am sitting in front of an open window of my room at the Inn enjoying the view of the Baker Library and Webster Hall, flanked by Dartmouth Row on the right and Crosby, Parkhurst, Mc Nutt and Robinson Halls on the left. Two students with packs on their backs are heading for the College dining hall. Not a car in sight. It looks as if nothing has changed in 44 years.

Eight of your class officers have been attending the annual Class Officers Weekend (May 5-6) and have been brought up to date on the changes in the College. For the first time the freshman class next fall will include girls, a hundred or more. The "Dartmouth Plan" for year-round operation of the College is in full swing. Talking with students, faculty and administrative officers you catch the sense of excitement which they feel about the historic changes taking place.

Attending the meetings were president Jack Kenerson and Fran, treasurer Craig Haines and Eleanor, co-newsletter editor Stew Hoagland and Bea, bequest chairman Chuck Bruder and Ingrid, class agent, George Emery, co-reunion chairman Cal Billings and Genie, fall reunion chairman Herb Sensenig and Mimi, and your secretary. The Executive Committee met Friday evening, Saturday afternoon (at the Sensenig's farm near Norwich), and at each meal. All phases of class activities were reviewed and plans made for the future.

The final date for making your reservations at the Norwich Inn for the October 14 fall football weekend reunion is August 1. It was voted to have a class cocktail party at the Norwich Inn immediately after the game and to urge all of you to come and bring your guests. If you have time, stay for supper, which will be served early.

The co-chairmen for the 45th reunion, Cal Billings and George Emery, filled us in on the advance planning for that big event on June 11-13, 1973. More detailed information will be forthcoming but meanwhile if you have any suggestions as to what you would like to see or do during reunion, write Stew Hoagland, who is in charge of publicity for Reunion.

George Emery appealed for 100% participation in the Alumni Fund this year and for increased contributions by everyone who can manage it.

In case you didn't know it, there is a committee of the Alumni Council studying the use of the Indian symbol at Dartmouth. If you want to communicate your thoughts on this matter, write the chairman: Robert D. Kilmarx '50, 111 Westminster St., Providence, R. I. 02903.

As a curious sidelight to the above, I received a letter from the Office of Information Services of the College saying they had been doing some research on the origin of the appellation "Indian" as applied to Dartmouth athletic teams and found the first usage of it in TheDartmouth of Monday, October 8, 1926 in a sub-headline on the Yale game story. Inasmuch as I was the night editor for that issue, did I remember why I used the nickname. Of course I remember—it was because I was proud of the Indian tradition at Dartmouth, as were the other men in College in our years there. Remember JackRose's magnificent set of drawings of Indians for our '28 Aegis!

A small '28 reunion took place last month when Bill and Betty Dietz enter- tained Ev and Katharine Field and RoyMyers at their home in Katonah, N. Y., for dinner.

Wayne Van Orman is able to get away from his New York law practice for two trips to Europe each year. In 1970 they went on around the world in order to visit Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. In 1969 they toured Scandinavia with the Roger Sundeens. Last year they spent June in Sintra, Portugal, and then in September and October made their second trip to Russia, traveling from Leningrad to Moscow, Kiev, Tashkent and Samarkand. Their daughter Jean is a graduate student at Harvard—City Planning. Her husband is an archivist in Boston and her two children are 5 and 7. In her spare time she runs for public office in Easton, Mass., where she was the only female elected to the Charter Commission and the Finance Committee.

The New York Times reported that on Sir Rudolph Bing's final day at the Metropolitan Opera on April 22 he was the guest of Gerry Johnston, who had put together the network of 200 radio stations that weekly constitute the Texaco-Metropolitan Radio network.

Not to be outdone by Arizona's hiker and mountaineer, John Harlow, Bob Reid just returned from a horseback trip with 25 riders of the American Forestry Association through the Superstition mountains of Arizona. In June, Bob plans to leave his home in Santa Monica, Calif., and wander through the Rockies with his motor home and then join an American Forestry group on a ten-day canoe trip through the Quetico-Superior Wilderness in Northern Minnesota.

Al Lerer, who recently retired after 43 years of service as a teacher and superintendent of schools of Maynard, Mass., was honored by the people of the area at a reception March 26.

Word has just been received of the death of Jack Goodnow of Keene, N. H., on April 26. An obituary note will appear in our next issue.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co. Troy, Pa. 16947

Class Agent, 68 Prospect Road Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 07716