1929

As I sit down to my desk to start writing the April notes, I am looking at a flock of spring visitors brightly attired in pre-Easter finery, gold breasts, black wings, and white striped backs. The males have the bright colors and their spouses are still wearing last year's faded clothes. Some of you by now will recognize the evening grosbeaks without reference to their big bills. I looked in vain for one or more of their pine cousins.

Now to get down to business. March, before it passed out last night, left a legacy of happy Dartmouth memories. The Glee Club opened its spring vacation concern tour in Worcester, which was an exciting event thoroughly enjoyed by an appreciative audience. Following the program the singers and their guests attended a reception at Worcester's new Lincoln-Sheraton sponsored by the alumni, i he evening's highlight was the visit in our home of two attractive, well mannered, and considerate house guests - Barry Arnold from van Nuys, Cal., and Michael Garley of Lyme,

Later in the month I attended the Boston Alumni Dinner at the Marriott Motel in Newton. It was an enjoyable evening but a far cry from the Boston Hotel dinners which drew Alumni attendance in the hundreds and '29ers by the dozens. We had four classmates present and two wives, Alice and John Laffey from Boston, Adelaide andJohn Quebman from Norton. Bob Sparks and your secretary were the two unaccompanied '29ers and completed the delegation. Miss Adams, vice president of Dartmouth and recent President of Wellesley, brought authoritative and convincing evidence that a two letter prefix will have to be added to "Men of Dartmouth" a double "u" and a single "o". Unlike another V.P., Miss Adams was good to look at, stimulating to listen to, gracious in manner, and possessed with "What Every Woman Knows," "Maggie Shand's Charm."

The New York Times in the financial pages of March 28 quotes Gus Wiedenmeyer, Chairman of Mid-Atlantic Banks Inc., one of New Jersey's largest bank holding companies as telling his annual meeting that earnings would be up "better than 20% the first quarter, to $1.06 from 88 cents last year." The Times also said, "Mr. Wiedenmeyer announced his retirement as chairman effective June 1."

Joe Losey has been very much in the news this month. Time Magazine's March 12 issue has his picture and Jane Fonda's, headlined "Oh, You Militant Doll" in its Show Business & T. V. section. The article relates to Joe's movies adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" filmed in the "Christmas Card Setting of Roros, Norway." Says Losey, "I hated every bloody minute of it."

The Times Sunday Magazine, March 25, in an article entitled, "The White Rolls Royce" about Richard and Elizabeth Burton relates Burton's playing the role of Trotsky in Losey's production of that enigmatic figure on the world and Mexican stage.

Herm Liss, senior vice president of Scudder, Stevens, and Clark Investment Counsel,, has sent us a summary of a talk he delivered in New York before 400-500 financial people in January entitled, "Getting The Best Return From Bonds."

"'Herman Liss is the undisputed dean of bond portfolio managers. In the past he has been loath to reveal the precepts that have won him a reputation as a particularly strategic bond manager. But attendees at this unusual session will enter into a dialogue with him on how the pension official should handle the bond side of his portfolio now."

Bill Hudson writes from Hawthorne, N.J., stating that his roommate Bradley Baybutt Ladd died March 14, 1973 in Sarasota, Fla., where he has resided for several years. We have also received notice of the death of Peter Boras from the Alumni Records Office.

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