1929

It's not supposed to snow much on Cape Cod, but last week we had another foot and were happy to see it over zero by ten a.m. It looked like another slow month for news. Two cards had come back, one saying, "No longer here." The other said, "Take me off your list," and a bit more that was not a Dartmouth cheer. Then in came a batch of your good notes to old faithful Jack Hubbard in answer to his second issue of dues notices.

Then came a card from Cal Soriero (whose remarks were quoted in the December issue) pointing out, "First, I did not drop in anywhere, I am scarcely aware of a place called Cape Cod, and am certainly not lining up a business. Must be some other '29er, because this one wouldn't leave Texas for any earthly spot and still loves raising the big black Brangus cattle." Imagine my doing that to a Texan. The good visit and business plans were from Bud Terrio who loves the Cape enough to move here. His report said, "They have a fantastic Dartmouth Club on Cape Cod about 14 members of the class of 1929." Bud sees Boband Adrienne Sparks occasionally.

Frank and Elsie Weeks still travel abroad. He shows his 35 mm. slides professionally under the name Winnisimet Collection and has been asked to supply some of his slides to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and the Art Institute. He's archivist of the University Club of Chicago, active in the Society of Colonial Wars, and has seven grandchildren. He's "very happy that John Steel is a trustee."

Harry and Gretta Lewis are back from China the Great Wall, Canton, and Xian with its 6,000 terra cotta soldiers guarding their emperor since 200 B.C. Bill Davenport and family have had a bad year. She's undergoing cancer therapy, and their daughter has been ill for a year. Bill is officially retired but still handles odd jobs and appointments and has finished 50 years of college teaching and publishing. Ted and Teri Arliss spent a month in England and Europe this summer. He's "continuing his education at golf and sees Dartmouth gents on the course all the time."

Dwight Allen wrote before Christmas of "our distraught dollar more than doubling our living costs, whether in U.S. or Europe." They planned to leave for Spain and Portugal. His address is in Brunnen, Switzerland, where "the temperature seldom goes below 32 F., but the Hanover type winter which we used to love is no longer so full of attraction. My complete 'retirement' gives us time for wonderful Swiss discoveries and for helping neighbors of all ages whenever they may be in need." Ray Hedger still commutes from Long Island to New York on his sales job "four or five short days a week. I enjoy the friendship of my customers and fellow workers so much I don't care to give them up entirely. Maybe I'm the oldest Dartmouthite at the Yale Club. It's a handy place for a drink or lunch, but I never see any Dartmouth friends there. In fact Bud Foulks is about the only classmate I see. The parts keep breaking down, but this old bus still goes."

My intention is to mention Items worthy of attention, And I hope I never speak a word that hurts.

I don't meditate on credit Or on blame, for once I've said it I just hope I never get my just deserts.

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