1929

The Dartmouth of February 2, 1926, reported, "A hand of bridge with 13 spades was dealt to W. F. Grote '29 last Thursday afternoon in 307 Russell Sage Hall. R. S. Burke '29 dealt the cards after J. H. Angell '29 had cut the pack. The other player at the table was S. B. Johnson '29." I believe you guys when a thousand others wouldn't.

Ken Moran came to the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club's January meeting with MattRock and reported that his son, Dr. John M. Moran '54, is now an overseer of Dartmouth Medical School.

Florida is full of'29ers. We have a picture of a prosperous-looking John and AdelaideQuebman and Gus and Mary Wiedenmayer at Gasparilla in Boca Raton. Herb Fish ran into Frank Middleton, Bill Williamson, and Ted Arliss at Sarasota. The Southwest Dartmouth Club's secretary, Rol Reading, sent a notice of the February meeting at Ft. Myers that brought out Rol and Herb plus CharlieKing; Sunny Hetfield; Wes Nord; BrettSine, who was escaping the rigors of a Calgary winter; Ben Stacey; and me; along with over a hundred other wives and alumni.

A1 Downing has retired from Arco again after 43 years. Charlie King and Jack Gunther got their work with Arco done earlier. Jack sure isn't retired from his bequest committee job. He comes up with fast action and help. Try him. And the dues still trickle in to JackHubbard with good notes for Harry Baehr's newsletter. Don't let a delay embarrass you.

A 1 has plenty to do on his farm. After they finish stripping the tobacco crop there's plenty of wood to chop and perpetual maintenance work. He and Marie hope to make the fall reunion and the 55th. He sends a picture of the modern plastic outhouse on his farm which he has "dedicated to the memory of Hal Leich, the proponent of outdoor plumbing." Actually, Hal was way ahead of that era in encouraging waterless disposal systems.

Jim Loeb, co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, with other DartmouthDemocratic alums, is an advisor for the Harbinger, a new campus publication which seems devoted to the preservation of radicalism. It editorially bemoans that "almost half the Dartmouth senior class elects to enter the corporate recruiting sweepstakes," and calls them "paper dolls."

More and more in Hanover, graduates are called "alums." It gets around the problem of alumni vs. alumnae. I give in. As in our day, students and faculty in that special world of Dartmouth dream of pure goodness, ignore Russian military plans, and deplore our own. But the maturity of the students improves. They can profit from our experience only if we tell about it. This column can spread some of your thoughts.

Hubbard's sign-off is "Stay well." Let mine be "Stay alive and speak up." And: The errors of our ways we might surmise Were we not merely good but truly wise.

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