1932

For the second consecutive month, letter-of-the-month honors go to Mike Cardozo. We are much intrigued by his report from the country's most august courtroom:

"Your mention of the suit by Marco DeFunis against Chuck Odegaard in the February class column leads me to tell you about my listening to the argument in the case before the United Supreme Court on February 26. Hundreds of people concerned with education throughout the country, including the Secretary of HEW, were in the courtroom, but I doubt that any of them felt as intimately connected with the case as this classmate of the nominal defendant. It is a strange course of events that led to a hearing in the United States Supreme Court on a case that arose out of a program to help minority students enter law school, with which I was intimately connected from its beginning, and where the defendant was a friend from the days when we both went to Hanover over 45 years ago.

"Chuck is not just a nominal participant in the case, as he testified actively in the trial, staunchly defending the program, and was quoted frequently during the argument before the justices. The issue in the case, simply stated, is whether discrimination in admissions to a state institution may be based in part on racial grounds, when the discrimination is to achieve a valid social purpose, such as redressing the wrongs of many generations in the past. The case has split the ranks of the 'good' people who believe that the wrongs of the past must be righted, but some feel that the equal protection clause of the Constitution prevents racial discrimination for good purposes as well as bad ones. The Court's decision is not likely to be rendered before late spring, when DeFunis will be in the process of taking his final exams as a 3rd year law student. Chuck Odegaard did not let the defense of principle interfere with the student's legal education, abiding by, but appealing, the lower court's decision invalidating the special admissions program at the university."

Again with thanks to Ev Hokanson, who in the course of gathering in your class dues has garnered the following intelligence from you-alls:

After three years plus in his native California, Jack Eliot still misses the Midwest's friendliness and change of seasons. Retiring this month from Remington Arms Co., Jack writes that "the many good people in the shooting fraternity are great memories. It is too bad that so few appreciate all that hunters do for wildlife. The financial aspects alone are the backbone of funding for the various state fish and wildlife agencies."

Ray Bartlett in Fresno, is "still busy selling lease-financing for capital good equipment in the San Joaquin Valley for Crocker McAlister Leasing Inc. The farm economy is much stronger and healthier." Ray's four daughters are 13, 12, 11, and 2, "the three older straight 'A' students and good athletes."

Dr. Ellie Jump, back in Portland, Ore., from his year's teaching in England, was visited by AlGerould, and the two were mutually impressed by "how well embalmed we appeared - must be the residual effects of four years in the North Country." (We thought of Ellie last weekend when they wouldn't let us into Tuckerman's Ravine due to avalanche hazard, for it was the first time we'd been back there since, just 42 years ago on the senior trip to Mt. Washington, when Ellie led some of us scared tenderfeet up the headwall.)

Don Allen continues director of the Science Division of Eisenhower College, now in its sixth year, and is happy about the freshman class. Alex Christie was concerned lest the diesel supply for his boat would run dry, forcing him "to take up the old man's game of golf again." Dan Gage, having retired from Aetna Life last June, is maintaining headquarters in Farmington (Conn.) Woods Condominium, with three daughters and six grandchildren within 50 miles. Bud and Janet Hubbard are enjoying their new retirement home in San Diego. Bob Fendrich retired from his bank last November. WaltLangley in Medford, Mass., who has had no dull moment since retiring from teaching and coaching, says, "Who needs a rocking chair?"

Once again doughty Bob Ackerberg is summoning us to outdo ourselves in 1932's Alumni Fund effort. This year, as we are learning, the College needs our best effort more desperately than ever before.

Final report: As already noted, the #1 troublemaker for Tom Swift was Andy Foger. In the Rover Boys at Putnam Hall, the bad guys were Dan Baxter and Tad Sobber (Bob Ireland '36 and we were both right); Dan Baxter eventually turned over a new leaf, was staked by the Rover Boys, and, with his fiancee, was a guest at Dick's wedding. Frank Merriwell's nemeses were Chester Arlington and Roll Ditson. But Mr. Arthur Prager (whose authoritative work, Rascals at Large, or The Clue in the OldNostalgia. Doubleday, 1971, is our source for the foregoing) tells us he has never met up with Noddy Nixon. And so, with this installment, the unsolved Noddy Nixon case is placed in the dormant file, until such time as Fresh Intelligence is received.

Both hospitality and snow (the latter beingabsent in N.H.) were provided by Maryand Bob Engelman (l) at their home inVail, Colo., to Irja and Bill Wilson ofHanover. It was an all-'34 affair.

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