1929

After some urging to forget his modesty, Pinky Flannery (Wilbur E. Flannery, M.D., to his admiring world) sent his greetings and included a feature story from the New Castle, Pa., Vindicator, picturing an alert-looking Pinky busy at work on the 50th anniversary of his practice. Pinky took a master's degree at Oberlin and spent a year as a Baptist minister before going to Harvard for his M.D. He still does his hospital rounds seven days a week and carries a full office schedule and says, "I've not thought much about retiring." It was rewarding to turn to his story in our 25th yearbook and then read the article on his work as author, lecturer, school board chairman, and member of myriad public service and church groups. It peps me up to read it,

I clipped one of Don MacCornack's lovely sketches from an old "Dartmouth Pictorial" and sent it to him. Back came an attractive folder on the Historical Museum of Sugar Hill, N.H., and a note saying, "Up in the North Country is a very good, small museum. We who participate are proud of it." Don is genealogist, historian, carpenter, number-three custodian, and deputy director. I've heard other good reports of it.

He goes on: "What else happens in our lives? The usual: going to visit family, having visitors here, maintaining house and yard, keeping in touch with town affairs, pursuing hobbies, and all this taking place in days which seem to have fewer hours than of yore." It's the story of all of us, but his writing gives me the feeling of a life well lived. Don's art wasn't flashy enough to outshine Abner Epstein's (class of '31), but I hope he includes it in his daily doings.

Gene and Mimi Davis's delightful daughters gave them a lunch to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. It had added Dartmouth flavor as they included their son-in-law Alan Dynner '62 and neighbor Dick Sklover '55.

Duke Barto reports that Nina George, Panos Georgopulo's daughter, has prepared a memorial book honoring her father. Contributing remarks are by GeneDavis, Nick Panoras, Janet Woodbridge, and Duke.

Our flourishing Cape Cod Dartmouth Club had the joy and honor of Dave and Judy McLaughlin's presence at our annual dinner. Dave handled the subject of the Indian symbol carefully and well. In my frequent Hanover visits I talk with students, faculty, and administrators and have to assure you that the objections to the Indian symbol are not trivial. I'm impressed with Michael Dorris, now a full professor of Native American studies and only the second of his race to achieve that rank in the country. He reminds me that Dartmouth has now graduated nearly 300 American Indians and has one of the most respected Native American programs.

Rusty Ayers has sent me many pages of his and Frell Owl '27's research and conjectures on the Wheelock-Occom story. They found "the tidy summaries of the old lore are as full of holes as a wormy apple." I'd welcome the chance to talk or correspond with any of you on the subject. I still dream of a time when some of our own American Indians come up with what Ave Raub '30 calls a Dignified Dartmouth Indian Symbol.

Meanwhile I give thanks for the wisdom of Professor Dorris and President McLaughlin and have to go along with their judgment at letting it alone for now.

If I'd been called on to say grace at our dinner, I'd have said:

Oh, God, whose Truth and Love we find In Dartmouth, guide our hearts and minds. Grant us the grace to understand And so to love our fellow man. Amen.

Duke Barto '29 supplied this photograph of some classmates celebrating "Old-Timers' Day,"a tradition which began around 1925 and lasted till about the mid-thirties. According to HalRipley '29, the day was observed by students "letting beards grow and donning the mostdisreputable costumes we could find and generally looking like tramps for the day. (Withsome of us it was hard to tell the difference.)" Ripley is offering copies of the 1929 Dartmouth Pictorial and the Jack O'Lantern as prizes for the first three who correctly identify thosepictured.

Gene Davis '29, center, recently celebrated 50 years of marriage to his wife, Mimi. At theanniversary party were Davis's son-in-law Alan Dynner '62, left, and Dick Sklover '55,right.

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