1929

The Dartmouth Experience, a hardcover book containing John Dickey's addresses and honorary degree citations, was published on December 3 by the University Press of New England, located in Hanover. Editor was Edward Connery Lathem, Dean of the Dartmouth Libraries. The volume begins with John's address on Dartmouth Night in 1945 and ends with his remarks on Charter Night, December 13, 1969, the 200th anniversary of the Dartmouth charter.

More Dartmouth news — the New York Times of January 8 carried a feature story by Harry Baehr's wife, Jo-Ann Price, under the title "Dartmouth — Intensive Language Model." It described the current program in which some 400 Dartmouth students each year study foreign languages as guests in homes abroad.

Recently, when I visited Radio Station WGMS, I met Win Vollmer and his wife, Aline Fruhauf. She is a noted caricaturist and was being interviewed about her show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Bob and Alice Monahan came through these parts recently en route home from a vacation in the British West Indies. At the St. Vincent airport they happened to meet Karl and BeatricePittelkow, who have lived there five years and are enjoying life and gardening in the sun. While here, Bob and Alice lunched with some of us: Harris Huston, Win Hatch '30, and John Martin '31.

And here is the word from Harris himself, via Jack Hubbard: "Hazel and I just returned from a look at Scotland, Wales, and England, and I must agree that inflation has them. Much like the U.S., the service people are the minorities — Asians, Indians, Caribbeans, etc., and not the natives. Perhaps the natives find the dole more comfortable.

"Speaking of the International Herald-Tribune and inflation, on September 30 it was 15 pence and on October 3 it went to 20 pence. It is worth it as the only sport news of the U.S. we saw in the U.K. was the Ali fight."

And some more of your notes to Jack:

From Maurie Mandelbaum comes, "I continue to teach at Johns Hopkins, but when I reached the age for retirement I shifted from Philosophy to our Humanities Center, where I offer work in intellectual history primarily. (I first taught that at Dartmouth in 1931-32.) I am taking a leave of absence this spring in order to teach at Dartmouth in the spring quarter. I expect to be teaching an introduction to philosophy, which was the course I most enjoyed when I taught at Dartmouth from 1947 to 1957." Welcome back to Hanover, Maurie.

From Bud Terrie: "My wife and myself are in good health and still working. Our five children are all graduated from college, married, and doing okay. We now have 19 grandchildren." Wow — a class record?

From Phil Fitzpatrick: "Spent most of the early part of this year recovering from brain surgery, which took place December of '76 in Boston. Celebrated the arrival of two more grandchildren (both girls) this year and otherwise spent a pleasant but uneventful summer."

And from Ted Arliss: "Pleased to enclose class dues and MAGAZINE subscription. Good of you to hold the line against runaway inflation and still give us those rock-bottom prices for all this conviviality. I enjoy mulling over the years between with quite a number of '29ers down in these parts. Of course, in such a lazy ambiance there's not occasion for mulling too extensively, but the Dartmouth bond makes what there is very precious indeed.

"My special interest at the moment is the Venice Little Theatre, of which I am president. We have fun bringing Broadway and occasionally a touch of culture to the community. After all, who wants to wallow in sunshine all the time? Our company is a truly delightful assembly of volunteers. Not surprising that we should have real interest in show biz in Venice, since we are permanent quarters for the Ringling Circus, not to mention Clown College."

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