1930

"You have come to a college that is distinct, unique, and without parallel. It offers you no women, very little wine, and no song but of its own brewing. It offers you nothing of cosmopolitan things, nothing of those gay and worldly things which mean so much to life in other colleges. In winter it is raw, windy, and the air is full of snow; in spring it is slushy and muddy beyond comprehension." So sayeth the September 21, 1926, Dartmouth. I visited the Baker microfilm library when attending Alumni Council meetings in June. At the end of two hours of viewing, I had advanced from matriculation to Winter Carnival, leaving three and a half years of 1930 history for possible future review. As Delta Alpha entered its 32nd year, The D was prompted to editorialize that "it should not be that a man's reputation is based largely on his behavior during Delta Alpha, but the fact remains that it is." There was bad news — the deaths of William Jewett Tucker, class of 1861, and of senior trustee John King Lord, class of 1868, and the vigilante committee's edict forbidding the wearing of flannel or corduroy trousers. There was also good news — a caption that read "Harrison Condon Jr. To Recover From Appendicitis Attack," and a Carnival offer from the Co-op "to furnish the finest costume for your girl at one-half city prices." Yale football tickets were three dollars, Harvard four dollars, and annual college expenses $1,500. Let's get together and talk about it at our 50th on June 6 to 8.

Graduating with the class of 1979 were Art Behal Jr. and grandsons Jay French and Peter Rockefeller, sons of John French III '55 and Rodman Rockefeller '54. Our John French has been elected president of the General Association of Alumni. Pat Weaver is currently a consultant for the Walt Disney Environmental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, opening at Orlando in October 1982. Daughter Sigourney received high marks from movie critics for her role in Alien. Susan, daughter of Ruth arid Rip Vogt and a Tuck School graduate, is administrator of the Mt. Ascutney-Windsor Health Center. Ted Wolf reports that son Peter has been appointed a superior court judge in Washington, D.C., and that Roger '60 is a lawyer in Tucson. Ted and Gene Magenau will be entering the over-70 doubles at Agawam Hunt in East Providence in September.

More from The D. "You will need a fur coat motoring to the game. Racoons $295 and upwards." Allen's has the finest fountain in the North Country. Macbeth at the Lebanon Opera House. Villa Clara three miles from Hanover. Matresses $7.50, special matresses at $6. "Taken by mistake from the Psi U house, a girl's red velour hat." Alumni Fund quota $110,000.

We have learned with sorrow of the deaths of Charles D. Peacock, Frank L. Fowler, Harold D. Newman, William B. Christe, Donald D. Cole, and Herbert E. Chase. Our sympathy is extended to their families, as well as to Dot and Ev Low, whose son Gilbert '61 was killed in an automobile accident in July.

Rad Kilbourne, since retiring from Du Pont, has been active in Ocean City, N.J., in the SCORE and VITA programs and has served as chairman of the Economic Development Commission of Cape May County. Henry Stein of Red Butte Ranch in Aspen continues to be active in nature conservation, recreational ski development, and land improvement for agricultural and domestic use. GeorgeKisevalter, after retiring from the U.S. Army in 1970, undertook assignments for the C.I.A. abroad and lectured on Soviet operations at several U.S. agencies. Daughter Eva is junior at Clemson University. Ben Houghton, relinquishing his medical practice in Seattle, has built a home on Lopez in the San Juan Islands, where he is becoming involved in community affairs. Dorothy and Paul Thompson of Boulder will publish this fall The Account Books ofJonathan Swift, the conclusion of ten years of constant but pleasant labor. And pleasant it is to read these words from the former chair and professor of humanities at the University of Colorado. "Win Stone and others will recognize the allusion when I say that the past 50 years have flown by like a sparrow through a meadhall. The terrible paradox that the happier one is the faster it all goes has been too true. I enjoyed my work, and I enjoy my retirement. My family has been a thorough delight to me. My life has been uneventful, as I wanted it to be, but more satisfying than I had dared to hope." ChuckKimball of Hudson, Ohio, 1.8.M. retiree, does volunteer work for the Cleveland Orchestra and is a trustee of the Ohio Chamber Ballet. Janet, emeritus professor of English, retired from Kent State University, in 1974. Helene and PeteCallaway now live at 204 Kaanapali Drive in Napa. Pete has just finished the manuscript of an opus entitled The Callaway Saga: 300 Yearsof American Living 1665-1965, and he has almost finished another western entitled Montana'sRighteous Hangmen.

We hope you'll all be on hand for the October 20 Harvard tailgate party. Also, a last call for returning your "50-Year Directory" questionnaire to Charlie Widmayer.

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