1929

It's a mixed feeling to have young philatelists look over my old letters just for the stamps. It was better to have the College Library want a letter from E.M.H. for the archives. Carter Strickland gave them a fine one from Hoppy, thanking him for his service as president of the Alumni Council. And they now hold copies of Rusty Ayers's fine drawings of Samson Occom as he probably really looked. They even accepted my old Penn Relay watch. Give this a thought before you junk your old treasures.

The class of 1929's best item in the library may be Larry Lougee's book, Yearsto Remember and Days to Forget. He had ten copies printed for his family and gave one to the library. Only a member of the judge advocate's office could have kept such notes on World War II. It even tells how he met Mary, an achievement in itself.

Duke Barto reminds us of 1929's proud list of recipients of the Dartmouth Alumni Award, given "for distinguished and devoted service to the College and distinction in career." Of 301 recipients, 11 were from '29: Andres, Barto, Brittan, Chinlund, Dickey, Gunther, Hirsch, Moxon,Orr, Redding, and Strickland.

At Fran's 50th at Wellesley I had a delightful time with Alex McKenzie '32, who told many stories of his and Bob Monahan's work in establishing the weather station on Mount Washington. I hope we hear more of it from Bob. With his notes on our mini-reunion Charlie Dudley tells more of his work with his growing Lebanon College. They work with Dartmouth and Mary Hitchcock and have expanded to Woodstock, a fine public service.

Dick Burke and I often exchange word on the state of the College and the Union. We agree with Hoppy's saying, "One of the most tragic things in the world I know is the amount of time and trouble it takes on the part of the wise to overcome the mistakes of the merely good." Dick still winters on Becquia and "continues to struggle" with his boat. He says most of the time the wind is either south or south of east, and they can. go for months without ever coming about. How do you get home, Dick? Gus Wiedenmayer is down to 175 pounds and was about to leave on a trip to Alaska when last heard from.

In the Summer issue I quoted a line from Hoppy and added a word of enthusiasm for Dave McLaughlin from Faith Whittlesey. The combination brought an expression of "extreme irritation" from one classmate, who said that common honesty should lead me to say that I invited her and funded her visit to speak at Hanover, so "what is her testimony worth?" I must remark that her comment was in a letter on another subject and was quite unsolicited.

Some feel strongly that this column should be limited to name news of '29ers. Others feel it's for anything that brings readers from '29 and nearby classes closer to things past and present in Hanover.

Politicians pretend to be wise without end About matters from Sex to Soweto, But they stumble and fluster with long filibuster When they're called on to face a line veto.

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