1921

As I walked along the ocean sands watching the moon break over the eastern horizon, I thought of the poet George Curtis composing what I, too, was dreaming:

1 walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be.

The waves that plunged along the shore

Said only: Dreamer, dream no more! Returning to my study, I proceeded to write these class notes for all of you to enjoy.

When Robert W. Elsasser came to Hanover in 1917 from Morris High School in New York City, he brought with him a nickname that fitted him perfectly: "Pep." In college and in New Orleans, Bob has done more than live up to his nickname; his performance all his life has been spectacular.

I knew he became an instructor in economics at Dartmouth after graduation, but 1926 found him at Tulane University, and in 1927 he became a full professor of economics at that college. I shall leave it to Russ Bailey to tell you of his steady advance in every field of endeavor that he became involved in.

I am certain that if Bob had desired to be a senator from Louisiana, he could have added that office too to his illustrious career, because he most certainly became one of New Orleans's most respected and outstanding citizens.

Here is another news item: Chuck andMonette Moreau marked their 25th wedding anniversary June 3, while visiting their daughter Susan in Fort Collins, Colo., where she is employed and lives. She loves the West so much that it seems she will never want to live in the East again. Susan, born January 17, 1959, is the youngest child of 1921.

From Nantucket, that island gem off the coast of Cape Cod, 1 have good news. JoeFolger's granddaughter went to Moscow to study Russian, which is a subject that she is already very familiar with. After all, how could the best Spanish and Portuguese professor ever to teach at Dartmouth have a granddaughter without a similar love of languages?

Marion, tell Susan to get a job at the KGB. We need someone on the inside of that huge spy apparatus, but meanwhile inform Susan to take a good look around her room to see that it isn't "bugged" which was true when Martha and I registered at the huge "Russia" (6,000 rooms). Right against a wall angle was a listening device. Maybe the Soviets pay no attention to students pouring out their secret feelings of what they think of the U.S.S.R.

Peter, another child of David Folger, went to the University of Montana to start his graduate work in geology. What can be more important in these troublesome times than to be a specialist in ways to create energy the basis of all productivity in every type of enterprise that creates the wealth of the nation.

Lots of good luck, Marion, to both of your grandchildren.

Hal Braman's Doris, still an active member of '21, writes that it is heartwarming to belong to the distaff side of the class. She now lives under the shadow of another Ivy League member Yale, of course, since her card was stamped "New Haven." That reminds me, the next day, September 25, my wife, our daughter, and I spent the day, my birthday, with our grandson, a Yale senior at New Haven.

At a future presidential news conference when some inquisitive reporter asks the same question for the sixth time "Will we have peace in the Middle East now that Mubarak has kissed Yasser Arafat on both cheeks?"

the answer from President Reagan could be the following quote from Matthew Arnold: Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm,

Endless extinction of unhappy hates

Orton H. Hicks Sr. '21, left, vice president emeritus of the College and a figure familiar tocountless alumni, and his wife Lois, center, were the guests of honor at a recent receptionmarking their 60th wedding anniversary. The noteworthy event, held in the Alumni Room ofBlunt Alumni Center, was hosted by President David T. McLaughlin '54, right, and wasattended by numerous friends and colleagues of the Hickses.

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