1938

The annual dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Maine took place in late April in Portland. A quick check of the current alumni directory (a veritable gold-mine of factual information, alphabetically, geographically, and by classes) indicates nine members of our class residing in Maine, but I didn't see any of the other eight there. Maine's a pretty big state, as New England states go, and Portland is a long way from Bailey Island, but I'm sorry more of us weren't there. It was a good meal and a good program, enjoyed by a very large turn-out of alumni and their wives, many of the latter being lovely, as they are always described when introduced at such functions. Nine Maine members of next fall's freshman class (the class of 1981!!!) attended as guests of the Club. They were nice-looking kids, appearing very young, and most of the club members must have looked very old to them.

One even older than us was Ing Baker '21. I was interested to meet him because that was my late brother Ellis' class, and Ing drove an ambulance in the American Field Service in WWI, even as I did in WWII, and his grandson is Dartmouth '74, as is my son Jim.

Anne's and my table-mates at dinner were near-contemporaries Bill Niss '36 and Abbie; Bill O Brion '30, who has a summer cottage near Alex and Libby Jones in Friendship; Bill Emerson '34, the older brother of our late classmate and first class secretary. John Emerson, and Fred Scribner '30, a Republican prominent at the state and national level.

The program featured a fine talk by Stephen Nichols '58, professor of Romance languages and literatures, on the Dartmouth foreign language studies program, together with a film, prepared, and very professionally too, by some of the participants in a recent program in southern France. Even though it was France, not Italy, it was especially interesting to me because I audited Professor Larry Harvey's elementary Italian course in Hanover two years ago. and. had I only been able to convince myself that I was more completely retired and/or younger, I'd have gone to Florence with the class the following fall.

Dartmouth's foreign study programs are among the many eminently worthwhile elements of total education at Dartmouth in the seventies. But. like everything worthwhile, they cost money. The College has to rely on the Alumni Fund for some of that money. You all have received long since the letter of April 26 over the signatures of Dick Holt and Tom McGrath. Your secretary can do little more than express a deeply sincere amen to those thoughtful words of our head agent and president.

Let's exceed our modest quota, at least by one iota.

The April 20 "Big Green Sporting News," in addition to resumés of the records of winter teams and current information on the spring sports scene, carried further comments on the Ivy League presidents' decision to authorize the addition of a tenth game to the varsity football schedules. For reasons that the "Bulletin" article makes clear, it will be 1980 before Dartmouth will play a ten-game schedule. For 1977 Yale is the pick of the Ivy League sports information directors. Dartmouth and Brown tied for second in the voting.

CARL FREDERICK VON PECHMANN '38 waspresented on May 6 with Dartmouth'scoveted Alumni Award in recognition ofhis active work for the College, hisdomestic and foreign achievements in theinsurance field, and for social service workin his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut.

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