1929

By now the newsletter has reported the fine Class Officers Weekend, during which John Kemeny and Dave McLaughlin '54 and the staff gave us added confidence in Dartmouth's future.

Standing at the Inn corner, we saw Phil Fitzpatrick with that great smile as bright as ever. They were on their way to babysit with grandchildren. They're back from a six-week vacation ("Vacation? I haven't done anything but loaf since 1972," says Phil.) in Coronado, Calif., and went on to Olympia, Wash., to see his son Bill '68 and to Bill and Marian Reyes's beautiful spot in Squim. Earlier they renewed acquaintance with Tom Cummins, who's still practicing medicine and is revered throughout the Ticonderoga, N.Y., region like his doctor father before him. Tom gets to Hanover for an occasional hockey or football game. Let's work on him and all of you to make the fall minireunion at the William and Mary game on October 10.

Jack Thompson writes Jack Hubbard on the near perfection of Hilton Head, S.C., where the only thing wrong is its distance from Hanover. His brother Chick '36 moved there in November. Jack and his Bert are well and enjoy their church and their short walk through 80-foot pines and oaks to a fine Atlantic beach. He plays golf four or five times a week on some of their many courses.

Duke Barto reports a visit from Dick andMary Eberline in April. They were on a genealogical search of Mary's Sibley family in the East and South. Phil May, still looking like an undergraduate, dropped in on Gene Davis in Manchester, Conn. Phil spied a senior cane at an antique show in Wethersfield and was told the price was $125, so don't throw yours away. A Hanover source reports that one fraternity sells them and that a store on the back street "will get one for you." Sounds like speak-easy days.

Harry Baehr by now will have reported the good news that Maury Mandelbaum has married. We missed reporting some kind of record last year. John Minary, our longest holdout bachelor, was married last summer and became a grandfather on November 26. We have no details and would love to know his secret.

Some classmates, nameless, lest you know 'em, Bemoaned my last month's missing poem. But poem? Though it may rhyme and scan, it's Best termed a bit of word mechanics.

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