1929

In May our distinguished classmate, Bill Andres, received an honorary degree from Colby College. This well-deserved honor included the following citation:

"A thoroughgoing Bostonian, graduate of Exeter, Dartmouth, and the Harvard Law School, Mr. Andres, by some miscalculation contrived to be born in Egypt. After this early aberration, however, he became one of the most prominent and public-spirited citizens of the complex metropolitan community that thinks of itself as the Hub of the Universe.... In his public service he has been a director of a number of enterprises, commercial and philanthropic. But it is in the interests of education that he has made his most remarkable contribution beyond his distinguished achievements in his own profession. Chairman of the board of trustees of two institutions from which he graduated, the Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College, he has also guided the world of education in its dealings with the law in his capacity as counsel for many years to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He has served as regional chairman of the United Negro College Fund, has received the Dartmouth Alumni Award, and holds membership in a number of legal organizations. Colby honors an attorney who regards the law in a broad philosophical and humanitarian perspective, and who has shown a profound understanding of the academic world and a tolerant acceptance of its foibles and vagaries."

A June note from Cleve McKenna included the following: "Regarding my personal history, I was assistant to the president and the corporate secretary of a specialty steel company when I retired in 1972. In spite of dropping all community duties (United Fund, Red Cross, Cancer, and other chairmanships), I've found myself too busy. Retirement boredom is a myth. My golf has deteriorated to an embarrassing handicap. Claybird shooting (trap, skeet) is holding up better, but I have trouble keeping up with the young fellows. Over the past year, I have built a new house, which Alice and I are enjoying tremendously. If you want to get out of a rut, build. The problems are endless and overwhelming."

Jim Loeb moved to Hanover recently and commented: "I don't know whether there is room for another Loeb in New Hampshire in addition to the one from Manchester, but this one is of a different ilk."

Jack Gunther is still active as president of the New Canaan (Conn.) Land Conservation Trust. In its first ten years the trust has been given 137 acres in 28 locations, including wooded areas, open fields, ponds, swamps, marshes, streams, and unique rock formations. Congratulations!

And from Rocky Creek Farm, Round Top, Tex., Cal Soriero sends a ditty from his high school reunion with the thought that it could almost fit D '29:

When we were students we were quiet, We didn't protest, we didn't riot.

We were not unwashed, we were not obscene.

We made no demands on Prexy or Dean.

We sat in no speak-in, we heckled no speaker.

We broke not a window, few students were meeker.

We made a distinguishment between him and her.

We answered our peers with yes mam or sir.

Now I'm forced to admit with some hesitation All we got out of school was an education.

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