1930

Ed Weinstein, visiting fellow at Princeton this academic year, is teaching and writing a neurological biography of Woodrow Wilson. (Ed remarried a year ago, and his wife Anne, a pharmacist, was in real estate, and is now in insurance, "which should take care of everything.") Bill Fenton is teaching a graduate seminar at SUNY and directing a dissertation or two. He is a newly appointed trustee of the Museum of the American Indian, Hugo Foundation.

Garven Dalglish also reports, from Mariemont, Ohio, on academic and literary activities. "I have been threatened for the past two years with that scourge which creeps up on men our age, the slow-moving lava of retirement. It has been coming down the cone at me since that June of 1975 when all honors paid to a prophet even in his own country day school were tendered me - pipe, tape recorder, eulogies, everything except the final wreath on the coffin. But being in perfect health and more or less sound of mind, I was allowed to what I call 'empty myself by teaching two classes this past two years.

"Now the boom is being lowered, the severance becomes final. I am looking around for another teaching berth, meanwhile working as a writer for a local magazine and as a writer and editor in radiation medicine for the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati. I also continue my own everlasting pursuit of the art of novel writing, one making the rounds, another in progress. Jane is teaching reading and other communication skills. We have a far-flung family, a son on a musical mission in the British Isles, a daughter in China studying that society, especially with reference to ceramics. Another son painting from an apartment studio in New York, another writing poetry and acting in Denver, and son Thomas '61 recently returned from Brazil, a lawyer by training, relocating in California."

1930 held a reunion of all Rhode Island classmates at Agawam Hunt recently. Present as guests of Carol and Carl Haffenreffer were Gladys and Dick Parker, and Eleanor and Charlie Raymond. The Haffenreffers were in Washington recently for a family gathering to review the Tutankhamen exhibit and in February will go to Arizona for a couple of months. Ranny Hobbs, whose publishing career began with Macmillan in 1935, has been associated with more than a handful of companies since then. In recent years they have been Hobbs-oriented, and presently his byline is Hobbs/Context at 52 Vanderbilt Ave., NYC. Willowdeen and Ed Frost (Nashville) "spent Christmas on Nantucket. The Twelve Day Festival of Christmas at the old and charming Jared Coffin House is all that it is reported to be and more. For charm you have to see it to believe it."

Ed Lynch provides a thumbnail biography: "Attended Dartmouth one year. Graduated UNH 1931. Married 1942. 3½ years in Army. Worked 30 years at VA (White River) Disability retirement in 1968. We spend six months in Lebanon and winters in St Petersburg." It's great to have Ed continue his interest in Dartmouth and 1930.

We have learned of the death of William H.Parker on October 24 and extend our sympathy to his family.

Secretary 56 Jennys Lane Barrington, R.I. 02806

Treasurer, 200 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. 02116