1938

Winter and the winter sports calendar are both drawing to a close as this is written. Except for a few great upset victories, it's been pretty much of a 'Wait til next year!' season for the Big Green. But the hockey team took Cornell and tied Harvard in a tremendous performance. Harvard and Cornell have been the hockey powerhouses, not just of the Ivy League, but of intercollegiate hockey throughout the country. When you beat and tie the best, you must be doing something right.

Jim Cotter attended and reported enthusiastically on the Harvard game and also on a visit with Bill Andres '29. Bill is chairman of Dartmouth s Board of Trustees. For those of you who may not have read his remarks as reported in the February Alumni Magazine, I'd like to quote his opening words in answer to the question, What does the Board of Trustees consider the top priority for the year coming up?" Bill said "... perhaps the top priority is to bring the Dartmouth fellowship back into that tremendously mutual devoted force that it has been in the past . . . Your secretary thinks these are good and true words, from a good and true, and deeply devoted and dedicated Dartmouth alumnus. I suggest that our Dartmouth traditions have been one of the most vital unifying elements in preserving "that tremendously mutual devoted force" and I suggest further that the present lessening of that force can be attributed to the under-cutting of those traditions, of which our Indian symbol is one, and an important one.

Further in this connection John Merrill sent me a note and a number of clippings from sports pages citing teams with Indian names. John ends his note with the query, "What makes our Hanover Indians so sensitive?" That is a good question, but I think there is a good and reasonable answer too. I believe that the truly tragic confrontations at Wounded Knee and Gallup, and some months ago in Washington, underscore the continuing failure of our federal government s Indian affairs policy. As was stated in a Christian Science Monitor article, Indian grievances (and they are many) were supposed to be presented to and acted upon by the present administration. They've been presented, but 'nobody would listen." I consider the resultant Indian frustration thoroughly understandable, thoroughly justified. May I respectfully suggest that any of you who agree write to your senators and representative, as I have done, urging them to enact legislation which will provide Indians the fair hearing they so richly deserve, and then, hopefully, some degree of satisfaction.

But I don t believe, as I've also suggested before, that trying to eliminate the Dartmouth Indian symbol should in any way be equated with recognition of and sympathy for Indians' many just grievances; or, contrarywise, that efforts to preserve our Indian symbol should be construed as evidencing lack of sympathy.

Hal Berman, professor of law at Harvard and a member of the Russian Research Center there for the past 25 years, was the guest lecturer at American International College in Springfield, Mass.; in late January. His topic was Soviet- American relationships, and there is probably no American better qualified to discuss them. Hal has visited the Soviet Union nine times since 1955, spending 12 months there in 1961-62, chiefly in Moscow, where he studied at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences and also gave courses in American law at Moscow Univer- sity. He is the author of 15 books and more than 100 articles in educational and law journals.

Also in January Dick Jones addressed the Cortland, N. Y., Rotary on the topic "State of Education" as one presentation of a four-part series, State of the Union." The series of talks was recorded and subsequently broadcast over a local radio station. Dick has been president of Cortland College, one of the colleges of the New York State University system, since 1968.

An engagement announcement date-liner Gladwyne, Pa., reported the approach"611 marriage of Miss Jessie Hayt Potter. The the daughter of Ann and Brue Potter, and Hoppy's granddaughter. As many of us will remember, the mother of the bride-to-be was very lovely Carnival Queen our sophomore

Only a simple-minded secretary like '38s would drive 333 miles (180 going, when I got lost a coupie of times, and 153 returning, straight) to attend" a "class meeting" near Manchester, N.H that only three others made it to. It was, however' pleasure to eat and discuss with Class Preside™ Paul Urion, Bob Reno, and Irv Brown. Continuing consideration was given to ways to improve '38s alumni fund support. Some alumni may feel about Dartmouth as Stephen Decatur did about the United States when he said, "Our country1 may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong." Other alumni may think this too jingo-istic a basis for Dartmouth loyalty and may want to consider the Dartmouth Alumni Trust, an advertisement for which appeared in the February Alumni Magazine. Also at the Manchester meeting, thinking ahead not to this June but the following one, Paul mentioned that DawkDawkins had agreed to head up our 35th Reunion Gift Fund Committee. It was suggested that the method of disposition of the funds collected for this gift to the College be decided by a vote of the entire Class.

Secretary, Box 187, Damariscotta, Me. 04543

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