Further Mention
Ralph Nading Hill '39 is a man to amuse casual readers and to impress professional scholars. He proves it again in YankeeKingdom: Vermont and New Hampshire (Harper, $8.95, Updated Edition, with illustrations by George Daly). The range is from the earliest settlers, who "did not come here on account of their religion but to fish and trad" to the modern boom in the ski and tourist world of sport and scenery.
Hill is a penetrating commentator on Daniel Webster, Stephen Douglas, and Horace Greeley; a keen-eyed geographer ranging from the Isles of Shoals and Portsmouth to Burlington and Ticonderoga on the historic shores of Lake Champlain; a dramatic raconteur about Indian scalpings and massacres and the Revolutionary exploits of Ethan Allen, Robert Rogers, and John Stark; a good-natured humorist wryly relishing the quirks and quiddities of a half hundred varieties of Yankees in New Hampshire and Vermont towns and villages producing almost as many squares as eccentrics.
Surely you must know that Hill spent about a million hours and jotted down more than a million words before condensing his efforts and rough drafts (along with other men's) into TheCollege on the Hill: A Dartmouth Chronicle but are you also aware that he served in Europe as an officer in the Counter Intelligence Corp? And that as president of the Shelbourne Steamboat Company, for four years he operated the 220-foot sidewheel steamboat Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain? And that he was largely responsible for its being hauled overland to the grounds of the Shelbourne Museum of which he is a trustee?
You will of course be wise enough to buy the Yankee book and Yankee enough not to loan it to your best friend. He would refuse to return it, and you would no longer call him friend.
With a son or daughter applying for financial aid at Dartmouth College, may you as father, divorced wife, or widow expect fair and sympathetic treatment from Robert K. Hage '35, Director of Financial Aid? The answer is an unqualified yes. After analyzing your Parents' Confidential Statement he may give you more than you ask, he may give you less, and without change he may o.k. your petition. About 25 per cent of applications need adjustments.
In an article entitled "Twenty-Two Reasons For Reviewing the FNAR," which appeared in the January 1974 issue of Financial Aid Report, published by the College Scholarship Services of the College Entrance Examination Board, Hage points out that he must make many changes on the basis of the general over-all evaluation of each case. He may make a subjective reduction in the contribution of a family if it has a large number of children or large and recurring medical expenses. He may ask for a larger contribution from a family if he discovers that it is much better off financially than the need analysis shows. As a check he requires copies of the latest federal income tax forms after students have matriculated. The Internal Revenue Service return may point to other appropriate adjustments during the year or at the time of renewal. Through careful review and IRS comparison Mr. Hage is convinced that he can adjust financial aid in a way that best recognized individual family circumstances.
In The College Board Review, Fall 1973, which tackles such difficult problems as student recruiting, minority admissions and their support, the over-emphasis of non-traditional studies, the plight of empty and expensive dormitories, and the seemingly endless red tape in admissions offices, appears another article by Hage, entitled "How Well is Your Financial Aid Office Being Run: Some Techniques for Improvement." Among 18 recommendations he suggests that all financial aid officers should engage in two or three weeks of admissions recruiting each year.
Richard p. White 'l8, Cornell Ph.D., is a "specialist who has taught at Kansas State and Rutgers. From his intensive research into the history of the nursery industry comes a book, "handsome and hard bound, illustrated with numerous photographs. A History of theNursery Industry Association of the United States, A Century of Service, it has the distinction of being the first book on the subject and will be released in 1975 when the American Association of Nurserymen holds its Centennial Convention.
A former American Association of Nurserymen executive vice president, White retired in 1966 from his position as director of the Horticultural Research Institute to devote full time to research for his forthcoming book.
If you were lucky enough, or talented enough, to discover Jane Fonda, become her first agent, and launch her on her professional career, what would happen to you? You would get mentioned and quoted in a new biography, called simply Jane, written by Thomas Kiernan. Turn to page 97 and the next few chapters and you will learn that the lucky, or talented, first agent is Ray Powers '49.
A Dartmouth expert on boxing gets high praise without asking for it in the Christmas number of a foreign publication, Wine, the official journal published in London of the International Wine and Food Society. In an article "Gastronome or Gourmet: 'Do you know any?" Basil Woon remarks on the late A. J. Liebling '24, one of the great reporters of World War II and a connoisseur of food, restaurants, chefs, and wines: "They tell of him that once, when working for a New York newspaper, he suddenly disappeared, and they next heard of him in Paris. When his editor expostulated, A. J. blushed and apologized: 'i was hungry,' he said."
