1929

March brought us word of the loss of Johnny Ball and Bob Drake and the news that John Dickey had a serious stroke, with recovery to be slow at best. We share their families' grief.

Bill Andres keeps in close touch with John and says Chris is carrying on with her usual great spirit. Bill had lunch with Hank Stein recently and has seen Squeek Redding, Larry Lougee, and Dick Black; all are doing well. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education gave Bill its Distinguished Friend of Education Award at its February meeting in Montreal.

A recent issue of the Dartmouth referred to "Harold Ripley '21" as a member of "the Committee on Intellectual Alternatives." They're just going by the looks.

These are all names familiar to these notes. How we'd like to hear from a hundred other '29ers. Somebody write!

We have a happy note from the great Ort Hicks '21, of the Hanover Inn Koffee Klatsch. The '29 members of that body report a 100 per cent reunion of the group in January at the Fig Tree Restaurant on Bequia, St. Vincent. Besides Dick Black, Trunkie Brittan, Ed Chinlund, and Larry Lougee, were Dick Burke, John Minary, and Karl Pittlekow, all with their wives.

Gus Wiedenmayer writes that Jack and Jerry Gunther, who were at Gasparilla Inn, Bing and Helen Carter from Tequesta, and George and Kay Case from Sanibel spent a pleasant day with him and Mary. He says, "The men have had some problems in the past year, but all are under control now, except mine — expanded girth." A photo looks great, but its color won't print in the MAGAZINE.

At the March meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida, the Sonny Hetfields, Herb Fishes, Rol Readings, and Rip. leys heard Larry Leavitt '25 tell the story of our activity in bringing promising scholar-athletes to Hanover, then heard Mike McGean '49, secretary of the College, give an outstanding report on things on campus.

We learned lately that Hal Hirsch represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of a new president of Lewis and Clarke College in November.

Dave Cogan gave a book important in the history of anatomy to the Dartmouth Medical School. The book is a 427-year-old second edition of De Humanis Corporis Fabrica by Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius (15 14—1564), who revolutionized anatomy in his time. The heavy leather-bound volume with remarkable illustrations was in the LaMonian Library in Paris in the 17th century. Dave suspects the English took it, after the defeat of Napoleon. He was given the book by his father-in-law. Dave is chief of the neuro-ophthalmologic section of the National Eye Institute. For my envoi: I do not pray to ask the Lord To break His rules for me, But pray somehow to get the word On what is meant to be. And, while I sometimes get it where it hurts, I hope I never get my just deserts.

Harold C. Ripley Box 246, 21 Emmons. Road Monument Beach, Mass. 02553