1923

This is the next-to-last news column until fall in which to give out a few important notices from the College and a few lighter notes about our depleted membership. Our losses have been heavy and replacement next to impossible.

The 70th anniversary of the Alumni Fund is celebrated this year. Let's do all we can. Bud Freeman suggests suitable memorials in the names of our lost classmates.

This year the Alumni College will discuss the empires of the Aztec and Mayan states along with world order, Chinese history, and Ottoman and Islamic tradition. It would be well worth attending and would be a great opportunity to indulge our nostalgia for the Hanover Plain at a very reasonable cost.

A new cluster of residence halls will be built in Hanover. Will this have any effect on or be even a substitute for fraternity life?

Your class secretary has, on behalf of the class of '23, congratulated Ted Geisel '25 on the publication of more than one hundred million copies of his books under his nom de plume of Dr. Suess. You may remember his cartoon which was auctioned at our 50th.

Carl Gray, who is our skiing maestro in spite of two metal hips, has been honored as "Mr. Sun Valley."

Class Officers Weekend will bring a few of us back to Hanover, and we may be able to get some more in-depth news for future publication. Without the "Dear Babe" cards we are somewhat at a loss for copy.

Erv Schultz writes that he spent most of the year hospitalized with osteomyelitis. PaulMcKown writes enthusiastically of the Dartmouth alumni cruise on the Royal Viking to Athens, Istambul, Odessa, turkey, and Crete.

The alumni office informs me that we have another author in our midst. Arthur Gordon has just published an Illustrated Introductionto Latin Epigraphy. He is visiting professor of classics at Ashland College in Ashland, Ohio. Congratulations!

We hear by the grapevine that the next issue of "Skiddoo" will be guest-edited by CapPalmer, a master of rhetoric.

Bunny Metzel has sent me the following thoughts as wisely expressed by Truman, and I close by quoting:

"I am eternally grateful for my flying, for the hours of pure exaltation which have been mine, for the pulse-quickening exposure to the constant threat of danger, for the indescribable peace that I have known moving through the skies, for the actual spirituality of many moments I've been blessed with in the clouds. I treasure the moments when I felt alone, with no machine, all by myself, free of earth, free of everything, completely free, a new kind of being, not me at all, a splendid creature belonging only to the vast spaces beyond the world I came from."

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