1931

Harold Glickman of Newton was recently elected president of the Brookline-Brighton-Newton district of the Zionist Organization of America.

Bill Little writes, "In early August Dink and I spent a weekend with Jane and Bob Wagner at their farm in Oconomowoc, Wise. Their home is on the side of a hill which isn't really so high, but it gives one an Olympian view of a beautiful countryside with views of 36 farms. I've always felt that this was the way God intended the world to look."

As we arrived at Bill and Dink Little's home in Redding, Conn., on the Sunday after the Yale game. Hank and Rose McCarthy and June and Ori Hobbs, breakfast guests, were just leaving. We were luncheon guests along with Anne and George Conklin, Mary "Fran" and JackGilmore, and Bee and Doug Woodring. The Littles' lovely country home is a veritable museum of oriental art.

We are indebted to John Cogswell for the following two items. From Bob Baumrucker: "Those of '31 and adjacent classes may be interested to know that an eight-minute 16 mm film of the 1931 Moosilauke Down Mountain Race has just been disinterred from the College archives and may be ordered out of the College film service in Fairbanks North Hall, along with miscellaneous other informal footage of skiing, canoeing, etc., in the thirties. It's hard to spot individuals in the blizzard of the Moosilauke race, but Vic King, Jim Laughton, and others show up in the informal reels." These films were shown at a luncheon meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada on September 15. Bob provided the commentary. Three days later a lamb barbecue was held at the Donner Summit cabin, an event cited by the Nevada County (Calif.) Bicentennial Commission. The citation reads, "We are happy to inform you that the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission has certified the following as a fully-endorsed project of the Bicentennial Era: Dartmouth College Day, September 18, including all of the activities and festivities relating to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the Donner Summit Cabin of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California."

From Howie Mason: "We are still working on Isabella's family farm home (owned and lived in by her family since 1770). It is slowly taking shape, and we have many friends (and even strangers) come to see what we are doing. Both of us had a grand time at the class reunion last June. We were pleased to learn recently that son Harvey (class baby and Dartmouth '53) was made vice president of Hollingsworth-Vose [a paper mill]."

From Doug Morris, market manager: "It's past midnight, and I'm pooped; but your letter arrived today and must be answered. How well I remember the blank sheet of paper in the typewriter, and the empty "in" box. One month, in desperation, I wrote a column with not one single fact or word of truth in it. Classmates were applauded for things they'd never done - criticized for events that never happened - and asked to remember malfeasances that were pure fiction. Know what? Not one single correction or rebuttal - not one complaint or denial. That could have meant only one of two things: (1) nobody read my column, or (2) those named enjoyed the life I fabricated for them more than the one they were actually living. Sic sempersecretaries!

"Laura and I have been in Sun City for three years; and contrary to my expectations and our four children's admonitions, we have so fallen in love with the southwest and west that I have no desire to see the east again. That, from a Nova Scotian New Englander and New York huckster, is either unthinkable, or treasonable, or both.

"I've tried to fathom the reason for it. It can't be just the raw beauty of the desert and mountains, and it can't be merely the ever-present pleasant sunshine. The nearest I can come to it is a feeling that I'm an individual again. I honestly feel that I, as a single personality, can have a positive impact on life around me. Obviously, I must have felt that I'd lost some of this, because its return has felt almost like a physical resurgence.

"Maybe it's because Arizona is young, and somewhat primitive in many ways. I'm sure that's why I've been able to become intimately and actively involved in politics. I'm on a firstname basis in the Legislature and the Statehouse - in ways that never even occurred to me in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, etc. I speak to as many as four organizations virtually every week, and refuse mo/e speaking dates than I accept.

"My lectures on 'Communications' at Arizona State University are popular; and I'm writing better than 20 years ago. Three books are in skeleton."

Retired Navy officer George Adams '31,an English teacher in Japan since 1967,and Reiko, prove twain meet most happily.

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