1930

You never know where you'll find 1930

news. According to the 1931 class notes, Bob Chittim is cochairing with Ori Hobbs '31 a Dartmouth Club of Sarasota Scholarship Fund drive to raise $50,000 over the next five years. Early returns are "encouraging."

Thanks to the Van Derbecks we have a clipping from the Sarasota Herald Tribune which begins: "What would you say about a 78-year-old man, three months off a hip-replacement operation, who swims a half-mile a day, bicycles three miles daily, and golfs three times a week?" Without glancing further at the foot-long article or the accompanying photo, we'd say it sounds like Avery Gould. It covers everything, from his Lacrosse Hall of Fame, through his $14-million year at Phelps Dodge, to his recent Class of 1930 Award. I was almost thrown off by the headline "MANATEE FACE." I never thought Ave looked like Carll Buhler's manatee. However, it turns out that Ave's face is seen so frequently at the Manatee County Commissioners' office, as he pursues his civic activities, that he is sometimes called "the sixth commissioner."

From President Charlie Widmayer comes a page from the catalog of the University Press of New England touting

"Egyptological Studies in Honor of Richard A. Parker," a 240-page collection of 17 essays honoring "one of the world's foremost Egyptologists." It was edited by Dick's successor as Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown and reflects some of Professor Parker's specialties as an epigrapher, emotist, and chronologer. One of the features is an astronomer's assessment of Dick's contribution to ancient chronology.

"The Open Wire," Nancy Elliott's bulletin to the newsletter editors, reports that the Chi Phi House was acquired by the College in July and will receive a $250,000 overhaul and face lifting to make it a showcase example for all fraternities: Nancy hopes the house won't collapse from the shock.

Hub and Margaret Christman were the first to respond with a definite "yes" for Ojai. They couldn't make Woodstock because the American Society of Diabetes Educators was meeting in Phoenix at that time, and daughter Sallie participated as president of the Northeast Ohio chapter. Considering the fact that northeastern Ohio has two medical schools, not to mention the Cleveland Clinic, Sallie must have something on the ball - in addition to having been diabetic most of her life. Son John survived a heart attack with cardiac arrest in June, and Margaret, as you know, is recovering well from a stroke. As Hub says, "The old man stays healthy except for minor aches and pains."

And now, finally, the conclusion of "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" (see the Summer issue for part one):

Inner ladle wile, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage, an rank dough ball. "Comb ink, sweat heard," setter wicket woof, disgracing his verse.

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut entity bet rum, an stud buyer groinmurder's bet.

"O Grammar!" crater ladle gull historically, "Water bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!"

"Battered lucky chew wiff, sweat

heard," setter bloat-Thursday woof, wetter wicket small honors phase.

"O Grammar, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomalous prognosis!"

"Battered small your whiff, doling," whiskered dole woof, ants mouse worse waddling.

"O Grammar, water bag mouser gut! A nervous sore suture bag mouse!"

Daze worry on-forgeter-nut ladle gull's lest warts. Oil offer sodden, caking offer carvers an sprinkling otter bet, disk hoard-hoarded woof lipped on pore Ladle Rat Rotten Hut an garbled erupt.

MURAL: Yonder nor sorghum-stenches shut ladle gulls stoper torque wet strainers.

Tempus fugit, and so did four members of Dartmouth's track team one rainy day in April1929, winning the Venn Relay Championship. Left to right, the mud-spattered legs belongto Harris Huston '29, Mai Pratt '31, Hal Ripley '29, and Gerry Swope '29.

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