1932

This is being written at the time when college classes are resuming in Hanover, so it seems appropriate to examine the migration of Dartmouth alumni to the environs of Hanover. Most '32ers have reached the time of life where a decision has to be reached about where to live during retirement years. Warmer climates beckon those who live in the northern tier. Many alumni think of Hanover or nearby Vermont or New Hampshire communities as a home at least during the warmer months.

Dick Clarke approached the question in this manner: "You asked what led us to a decision to come back to Hanover to live. First there had to be a decision to leave. We'd spent 20 great years in the San Francisco area, years heavily weighted to business activity. When I retired, we didn't think we could successfully carve new patterns in the existing environment. So we moved to Aspen, where we'd gone skiing and owned an apartment. Our seven years there were in many ways the best of our lives. But increasingly there were changes we didn't feel comfortable with, and friends were beginning to drift away.

"We decided to start over again. Did a lot of research and traveling throughout the West (our kids live in California). But nothing clicked. We discovered we were looking for deeper roots, and we started drifting east to New England. When we arrived in Hanover, June said, 'This is it!' We rented an apartment for the winter, just in time to make last fall's mini-reunion. Following the 50th, we paid a short visit to Maine that stretched into four months, while I recuperated from my heart attack, by the shore of Great Pond. Now we love Maine, too. We're moving back to the Hanover apartment while Mary Hitchcock ponders a bypass, taking one step at a time. Increasingly we like what we've seen and experienced. We're finding those deeper roots." No mention of nostalgia here. It takes a degree of courage and enterprise to pull up stakes in the sunset years and start over again, although the memory of college years makes a difference for many alumni who return to the Hanover area.

At last report, incidentally, the College was not getting as many applications for admission -acceptable applications-as the admissions office would like in order to have the desirable mix of northern New Englanders in the College student body.

President Jim Corbett also says he, too, considered moving to the Hanover area after retirement but opted instead for Lake George, where he "grew up" and where he's within easy driving distance of the Hanover Plain.

There was much gnashing of teeth last year when the National Collegiate Athletic Association demoted Ivy League football from Division 1-A to Division 1-AA, depriving Ivy League teams of television exposure and revenues derived from the game. Apparently this year's early games also show less attention to the Ivies by the print media. The New York Times listed the score but had no story on the Dartmouth-Holy Cross game September 26 and only brief accounts of other Ivy League games of that date, except for Columbia.

A report in the Wall Street Journal named Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, and Northwestern as among the schools that may follow Dartmouth's lead in issuing lowinterest, tax-exempt bonds ($29 million), known to '32ers and others as the Bill Morton Plan.

A clip from the New York Times tells of a climb up Mount Moosilauke in July celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association, and commemorating an ascent in 1932 by Ellis Jump. The Intercollegiate Outing Club Association was founded by Ellis and was a thriving organization through the sixties, with more than 150 colleges and universities participating in its activities. After 1970, membership fell off abruptly leaving only 20 to 25 dues-paying members this year. The anniversary climb in which Ellis participated at the age of 72 attracted 200 hikers and was planned to help revive interest in the Outing Club organization. Ellis is now a retired dentist living in Portland, Ore.

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