1929

The Big Bear City, Calif., Grizzly featured Ed and Beverly Abbott as its Valentine Couple of the Year, pictured in a big heart on the front page of its second section. Ed and Bev were married three years ago and are great workers and boosters for their city. Ed is a poet-author-publisher and a retired FBI agent. He says, "It's never too late to make a new beginning."

Dr. Bob Fairchild sent us the Dartmouth Club of Central New York's winter letter which reports one C.J. Strickland is accepted at Dartmouth. His dad is Carter Strickland '62, and his granddad is our own Carter Strickland. His uncle is Seth Strickland '60. Can anybody match that?

Bob and his wife have been touring museums around the country, but he's still using his medical skills to do utilization reviews for the county medical association and for a hospital and for examining patients who need second opinions. Thanks, Bob, for keeping those talents working for all of us.

Bob says John Y. Andrews is around Syracuse, but he never sees him. Can any Niagara Mohawk alumnus give us word of Jack?

Mary and Larry Lougee sent a clipping reporting a Lebanon Citizen of the Year Award for Charlie Dudley's Frances. She served as secretary for the Chamber of Commerce for years and was a member of the New Hampshire legislature. BobMonahan invited us to stay with him when President Ford spoke in Hanover. Bob assumed I brought him to town. No so, but we're working on Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Phil May's card says, "Thanks for your what-am-I-doing-and-thinking note. Still breathing unassisted, take longer doing nothing than formerly. All my thinking confined to Tuesdays between 9:10 and 9:20 a.m., so only the short and sweet gets kicked around. Recommend you keep your track shoes and motor conditioned to run north to the rescue, if not already too late, or retreat further away in dismay. No, haven't seen Ted Gurney in years. Just finished whittlin' a Redbreasted Merganser decoy like you may see off the beach at Monument. Best and Cheers." (There are four of them out front!)

Never retreat in dismay from Dartmouth. A '29 wife reports a bill before the Wisconsin house to make it a felony for any person to be present in a classroom if the professor objects! I grab any chance to protest the disinformation and self-serving reports of our activist minorities whose ability to use the media is at the expense of our respect for Dartmouth. It's a national disease. Harvard professors are trying to ride their peers out of town for working for the CIA.

I did suggest that The Review switch its Latin motto to Ad Hominem because of its personal attacks. But such wisecracks are destructive. We need to work with the sincere faculty and students and help open their minds to all sides of our world.

When Harvard bans the CIA And Dartmouth fights ROTC Whose battle is this, anyway? Who's going to counter KGB? For, surely, when the bill comes due Don't look to the ACLU You'll gladly trade our Ph.D.'s For one good squad of PFCs.

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