1917

It is February 1 as this is being written and typed by your class secretary (even if it is Sunday, a day on which he swore he would not do a thing about anything except what he wanted to do and would enjoy). The worst of it is there is so little to write about classmates that it is necessary to rattle his brain to find something to put into an article for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. There are just two items of class consequence, then for some comment about the weather or the Dartmouth symbol.

A sad note to record here is the death of Wesley Thompson in Charlotte, N.C., on December 10, 1980. The obituary either has been printed or will be soon. His long illness kept him from coming to visit New Hampshire, a joy he wished for so much.

A more joyous note follows. Lo Y. Chan, a partner in the firm of Prentis and Chan, Ohlhausen Architects, has been named architect for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at the College. He spoke recently to a group of class newsletter editors at the Harvard Club of Boston. This gathering was for Dartmouth editors under the chaperonage of Nancy Elliott, our great lady in charge of the Alumni Records Office. Since your editor of the 1917 "Sentry" was not physically able to make the trip to Boston, PhilEvans and the minister of his church represented our Class at the meeting. More about this affair and the report of it will appear in the next "Sentry," which we hope will be out a bit later.

What is the crazy weatherman doing to us up here this winter? Last year we had little snow and not very cold days, but this year temperatures have fallen often to 20 or more degrees below for many days, rising to not over 5 or 10 degrees above. Other days have been just below freezing with very little snow. Two or three inches was the most we had at one timand then just insignificant and fastdisappearing dustings. Yesterday morning it was about twenty below in Hanover, but by sunset the thermometer had risen to thirty degrees with a spit of snow by evening. As the night went on the snow turned to rain which lasted all night and is still at it this morning, with a temperature of 45 degrees! What will this do to Winter Carnival, which begins soon?

The Indian symbol controversy has raised its head again and let us hope it will not be beheaded this time. Other colleges and teams use it; why should we be denied such a symbol, which seems so very natural for us in the light of the founding and tradition of Dartmouth?

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