1929
Cheers for Ed Chinlund and Blinker Black for their outstanding performance in this year's Alumni Fund! In early May your class officers were in full attendance at the annual meeting of officers from all classes in Hanover, and enjoyed the hospitality of the Blacks and Chinlunds during our stay. (Trunkie Brittan's wife Ruth was ill and could not have her traditional and delightful dinner.) Movies taken by Jo-Ann Baehr at our 45th were featured one evening. While visiting the Monahans I saw Frank Foster jogging down Conant Road. (Maybe the doctor is trying to tell us something.) John and Emily Irving of St. Petersburg cooled off this summer by renting Frank's house for three months. John is now a grandfather, since John Jr. has a baby boy.
Another visit to Hanover came for me in August, to attend Alumni College as the only '29 representative. Our sessions were held at the new Murdough Center, in the Cook Auditorium, which bore a plaque stating it was a gift from the Reliance Electric Co. The plaque included the names of John Brown Cook and Harold Ripley.
John Dickey maintains an office in Baker Library and keeps busy in programs to improve Canadian-American relations. I had a chance to chat with him before he took off for his summer home on Lake Champlain. At the June reunion sessions he moderated a panel discussion on "Great Issues: Then and Now."
Seen at a recent square dance - Carl andEllen Norden. In addition to a house in Washington large enough for their four lovely daughters, they have a farm in the Virginia Piedmont where they raise Charolais cattle.
John and Ginny Davis spent a couple of weeks in Bermuda in late April.
Our commiserations go to three of our number who have suffered serious operations. Dick Barrett slipped on the ice and injured several vertebrae in his neck. He was hospitalized for three weeks and then had to wear a neck brace. Mat Rock had both hips operated on to correct an arthritis condition. Howard Kramer recently had to undergo brain surgery.
Jim Loeb shuttles between the Maryland suburbs of Washington and Saranac Lake, N.Y., where he ran two newspapers for some years. He writes: "In Washington I have been writing a book on foreign policy experience, dabbling in one cause or another, and serving as president of the Reinhold Niebuhr Award Fund, since Niebuhr was for so many years one of my closest associates and surely my most profound inspiration." In view of Jim's own experience as our ambassador to Peru and Guinea, his reflections on foreign policy should be well worth reading.
News has come of Edgar Ellinger's death at his home in Mountain Ranch, Cal. Our sympathy goes to his widow, the former Maria de Guarda.
'29ers in the news:
An article in The Washington Post this spring on the effects of the White House tapes included the following paragraph:
"Rep. Dave Martin (R.Neb.), among the most conservative of Republicans and part of the party leadership as ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, said, 'I think the general impression is this has hurt the President. 1 think the American people will be disillusioned. It should knock out the myth of King Richard.'" Truer words ...
And after the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller for Vice President, The ValleyNews of Lebanon quoted Bob Monahan's enthusiastic endorsement. Bob worked hard for Nelson during the 1964 primary campaign, while serving as Majority Leader of the New Hampshire Senate.
The Portsmouth Herald of May 30 described the establishment of the "Frank Rowe Kenison lecture" to be given annually in honor of our distinguished classmate, the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Judge Nadeau, president of the Judges Association, stated, "Chief Justice Kenison is recognized nationally for his contribution to the judicial system." Congratulations!
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