1929

Larry Lougee wrote from West Lebanon wondering if they can go through a winter without snow. He described snow machinery making a pile for the Carnival sculpture on the campus. It wasn't melting on the 0° nights. He enclosed a clip from the Valley News on Marian Cook's $1-million gift for the joint programs of Thayer and Tuck Schools. It's been reported elsewhere but sure deserves another mention. John Brown Cook and I once wondered if there was enough need for an engineering school in Hanover. It was settled in our minds and Marian's when one of M.I.T.'s and the country's leading engineering teachers told us the country mustn't lose Thayer School. Its flexibility in adapting courses of study to projects of practical development just aren't matched anywhere. The INVENTE program at Thayer is just what John dreamed about.

John Irving was first to come up with the address of one of our "lost" widows, Ray Perkins' wife, We count on you not only for their addresses, but to tell them how much we want them to take part in class affairs. John has traveled widely both before and since his wife died in 1975. He says the Royal Viking ships are the Cadillacs of the field, but the Russian ships are the ones to take to lose weight. He enjoyed Alumni College, is going on the Great Britain trip in May, and is looking forward to our reunion in 1984.

Al and Marie Downing in Lexington, Ky., are looking at seven inches of snow . . . enjoying sitting in front of a roaring fire after getting my tobacco to market and sold, then splitting enough firewood to last the winter." Al spends half the year consulting for Airco Inc. and is planning a five-month tour for them up the West Coast.

Jim Kelley wrote from Mequon, Wise., catching us up on the past 50 years better than I could have hoped for. He's getting over a bad fall, but with the aid of his cat Pogo reminisced in a clear hand about John Cook's magic and his own Navy years. His wife Margo died nine years ago. Jim handled the Schlitz advertising account in its heyday and went into real estate when Margo's condition required him to stay close. The newsletter may have room for some of his illuminating experiences with the Russians during his four war years. Like many of us, Jim was shocked, at our 50th, at the condition of our fraternity houses. Perhaps we shouldn't apologize for expressing ourselves about things in Hanover.

Gus Wiedenmayer wrote Duke from his new house in Boca Grande, Fla., where he entertained John and Adelaide Quebman and John and Alma Wheatley '24. The Quebmans and Wheatleys are now with us in Naples.

We have word of George B. Locke, formerly George B. Yeaton, who died in San Antonio, Tex. He started with '28. Can anyone come up with news of his career?

John Cornehlsen heard from Janet Woodbridge that Art Rose died suddenly on December 14. There'll be more word in the obituary section. John wrote about "a performance at Lincoln Center at which our 100-man University Glee Club sang many classical numbers and particularly the 'Hanover Winter Song,' and I was asked to lead 'Eleazar Wheelock' (audience 1,000 people)."

Which reminds me, we have disputes about more than one old song: Oh, the "Star Spangled Banner's" the hymn of the land, Though a few of its high notes get quite out of hand; And some parts of its language incite us to war, And some Ms. will insist that we make it a law To sing, "Land of the free and the home of the squaw!"

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