1928
The original streaker on the Hanover Plain may well have been our own Archie Holden. The current revival of streaking reminded several people of a caper which took place in January of 1927.
Frank Ryder '30, a professor at M.I.T., reminded Archie of it and I was just informed. (If I had known about the incident at the time it would have made headline news in The Dartmouth and The New York Herald Tribune.)
Archie said, "It was a typical cold January night on the Dartmouth campus - ice and snow on the ground, the stars were bright and the air was crisp. In fact, the air was so crisp that the thermometer registered between 10 and 20 degrees below zero and prompted the wager. My roommates were Robert C. Marshall from Rutland, Vt., and Arnold Van Benschoten from Providence, R.I. Van bet me that I wouldn't dare to run diagonally from our dormitory at the northwest corner of the campus to the old library at the southeast corner and back, clad only in socks and tennis shoes. As a further stipulation, the caper was to be conducted after the second movie show at "The Nugget" was over and (hopefully) the nurses were parading by on their way to Mary Hitchcock Hospital. The wager was made and the deed accomplished amid a certain amount of fanfare. And - I sure did need the money!"
A late night call to Archie, who retired from a rope fibres importing firm in New York in 1962 to Port Angeles, Wash., got no answer, so I tried Van Benschoten, who now lives in Kingston, R.I. Van was also out or away. Then a call to Bob Marshall in Rutland developed the additional information that the bet was for $l0 and that a considerable crowd from the dorm cheered Archie on.
Bob had an aneurysm about a year ago and retired from the W. C. Landon Co., a Rutland wholesale hardware firm. He enjoys his workshop and takes things easy. Mildred and he have a daughter Linda who lives in Rutland with her husband and two children.
For the past ten days I've had the pleasant experience of receiving eight to ten birthday cards a day, each with a message thanking me for the cards I have been sending. I didn't know who instigated the deluge until today when StewHoagland and Cal Billings sent copies of a full page of li vely verse from the pen of Art Kneerim, which was mailed with your last copy of the class newsletter, but carefully withheld from my copy. A heartfelt thanks to each of you for your card and the comments!
Cal Billings said he and Genie stopped in to see George Emery in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., on their way back from Maryland last week. George put in a call for Wat Dickerman in Oakland, Calif., while they were there. He didn't reach Wat, but Eleanor said they were leaving on a six-week trip to Turkey on April 7.
Sam and Hordy Gifford sent their greetings from the Dominican Republic where they were vacationing.
After a year and a half of teaching archaeology at S.M.U., John Brew is back in Cambridge, Mass., for a year, but plans to return to Dallas in January 1975 for two more terms of teaching. What a pace he keeps! He writes: "This morning I returned home from a meeting in Washington. I go back there for another next Monday and Tuesday; on Friday April 5 I have one in N.Y.C.; on April 11-12, one in Denver; April 22-23, again in Washington; on May 9, one in New York. It is said I am retired. Frankly I never want to. Fifteen minutes on a beach, however beautiful the sand and the view, is all I can stand."
We are obliged to John Phillips for sending two pages from the January-February issue of the Footballelter containing pictures of members of the Football Hall of Fame at the annual National Football Foundation banquet. Justice Myles Lane looked very slim in the two pictures in which he appeared.
Greta Cogswell writes that she loves living in San Francisco. She had six wonderful weeks in Europe, with a car and driver toured 3,800 miles with a friend.
Budd Maring's card came from Antigua with the comment, "Exploring in the Caribbean. Hope to survive other years to get the sun and salt water."
Bob Reid has been exploring the Mayan ruins in Yucatan and Guatemala. He flew to El Salvador and Costa Rica and in late March was wandering back north through Mexico.
Herb and Dottie Russell spent over a month in Arizona ... visited Elly and Nellie Jones in Cave Creek and also had dinner with Wendelland Esther MacEachran. They were just leaving for two weeks in Mexico before returning home to Suffield, Conn.
Ed Heyn died March 20, a year after retiring to Sun City, Ariz. Our sympathy goes to Millie and their children.
Lane and Betty Dwinell are spending April abroad - first going to Beirut for three weeks where Lane has an assignment for the State Department and then to London for a week to see some of the shows they missed when they were there in December.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co. Troy, Pa. 16947
Class Agent, Main St. Sunapee, N.H. 03782
