1921

For Dartmouth men also? Writing about Smith's 50th, Lucy Briggs observes, "Communicate was what we did with our parents - by letter. Liberated was what we felt going home for Christmas. Our Grass was green, our Pot was on the stove. In is what we were by 10 p.m. To Rap was to knock on the window when locked out after 1 a.m. Bread was still Dough, but we ate it."

How Chuck and Monette Moreau loved the village of Aigre, France, Monette's home! Her happy family and friends started seven-course dinners with melons, baseball size, a hole in the top with cognac poured in. They were followed by soup, fried eels, a roast, salad, cheese with crackers and fresh creamery butter, and dessert. Choice wines complemented each course. Surprise: many young French drink coke rather than wine. Cock your ear again. France is almost as expensive as England. Samples: $65 for one night in a small Paris hotel, 65 cents for a black coffee demi-tasse, $35 to $40 for a shirt, and $10 to $25 for a necktie. Chuck believes French trains the best in the world. All cars, new, speed at more than 100 miles an hour over smooth roadbeds.

Connie Keyes likes wine also and relishes two glasses of red before luncheon and two Manhattans before dinner. Fearing a forward rotundity, he is trying to say no to all alcohol as he heads for the yard to rake leaves. He offers no comment on young French turning upnoses when offered Bordeaux and turning noses down into a coke glass with a reckless disregard for sugar and molars. Connie and Irene are now weighing the advantages of a Death Valley sojourn against the advantages of the 1921 Reunion when cool breezes from the White Mountains spell Life Valley.

For a skier who has broken his leg twice, Phez Taylor is amazingly agile and peripatetic, and Dorice, a daily Sun Valley skier, is even more so. In 1969 and 1972 they travelled in Tunisia and all Iron Curtain countries, including Russia. In -1973 they shot game with cameras in East Africa, circled about Victoria Falls and Johannesburg, and flew home via Luanda Angola, and Rio. In 1974 it was the South Pacific: Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Singapore, Manila, Corregidor, Hong Kong, and Maui. In 1976 instead of planes they are choosing a cargo ship with only 100 passengers bound for Mazanillo, Balboa. Cartagena, Curacao, Caracas, Rio, San Paulo, Buenos Aires, Straights of Magellan, Valparaiso, La Paz, Machu Picchu, Lima, and Los Angeles.

Recently at the Sun Valley Ski Club, Phez consented to sing a Dartmouth song with CarlGray '23, Dick Durrance '39, Bob Engelman '34,Harry Gilmore '34, Bernie Currie '42, and DickDale '50. In view of their sedate age they were kidded about boasting too much, but, despite false hopes about pursuit, the "girls" loved the choice. It was "Dartmouth's in Town Again, Run Girls Run."

Tom Staley regrets that our grain farmers are not entitled to a free and open, world-wide market and believes that President Ford was playing politics when he conformed to Mr. Meany's request for the embargo. The ensuing decline was devastating for American farmers. Fertilizers and seed wheat have skyrocketed in price. For 100 acres of wheat last fall Tom had to pay $48.75 an acre just for seed and fertilizer alone. Extra were charges for the use of the land, labor for plowing, seed-bed preparation, and sowing. With favorable weather he may count on only 40 bushels an acre. The cost of putting in corn runs to $80 to $100 an acre. "Without government interference, farming of any sort is a gamble at best," he writes. "With the government sticking its nose in, the situation becomes more complicated."

Bob Burroughs tells this true story about scholarship and romance. Aged 90, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, lawyer, author, and scholar, at a dinner party to illustrate some point quoted a verse of an old Greek poem, in Greek, but couid not finish the last line because he had forgotten a word. Another guest, Miss Gabriella Ladd, filled in the forgotten word. A month later, going on 91 Henry married Gabriella, Vassar '27, aged about 50. Nonetheless, they spent five happy years together before he died. If O. Henry were telling this story, it would have been five happy years before she died.

Tom Gray '23 swings down a Sun Valleyslope in top form. That's '23, not '75.

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