1935

Although you will be reading this in mid-November, it is being written on September 8, so the time frame and frame of mindis essentially End of Vacation Time Goodbye Summer. Or, if you wish, time to settle down to serious business. Comes hard!

Thanks to some leftover input, mostly contributed by Dero out of sympathy for my Empty Mailbox Syndrome, there is enough material on hand to produce a reasonably respectable column, especially since the new editorial policy has cut us back to 500 words.

Additional replies came, during my vacation travels, to my question about the theoretical consequences, in retrospect, of application of the Ad Hoc Committee separation philosophy to some of 1935's schoolboy swingers. Dave Buxbaum says "a few friends who visited Joe Pilver, or did some smuggling from Montreal occasionally, have become very solid citizens; I'm glad the College didn't terminate them." Phil Hemphill speaks out against termination "except for flagrant abuse of rules and regulations ... it is the interplay of diversity of personalities and life styles that helps us develop and mature and that creates the true image of Dartmouth." Amen.

On another controversial subject, which surfaced in the interchange between HuntHarrison and Bob Boehm in the Tear Bag,Joe Sholkin "couldn't agree more with Bob Boehm's views on South Africa. In a way they parallel my views on Nicaragua. How disturbing that the Contras, supported and directed by our government, represented our only danger, while the Nicaraguans did everything to protect us." (This reference was to a trip within the combat zone to help inaugurate a home for war orphans.) He adds that tax deductible contributions to International Helping Hands, Box 60, Newton Highlands, MA 02161 "will make a lot of kids happy." John Gregory is "totally appalled at the apartheid idea, but somewhat ambivalent about American companies pulling out so long as they are vigorously opposing apartheid in their own domain." And Rudy Pacht says, "Count me with Bob Boehm."

When Rudy attended a luncheon briefing by recent Hanover graduates he "reminded all that we managed without an Office on Residential Life by using a little ingenuity, imagination, and creativeness." He visited the Mumlers while in Palm Springs, and, on that score, we have a note from Jack Wright '33 that Bill Mumler has "multiple health problems" and is a patient at a nursing facility for doctors and their families. I am obtaining the address and will supply it to anyone who wants to contact Bill.

Also in the illness department, Kirk Liggett '36 passes along a copy of a letter from Ernie Hedler, who not only is relearning to speak ("At my age I don't have much to say.") after a stroke two years ago, but is now gradually losing his eyesight. Ernie's new address is 31 E. Cage Drive, Hudson, OH 44236.

On a more positive note, a report from Sax Ziemen lists the Curtises, Dodds, Kenneys, McLellans, Wallaces, Weils, and Sax and Carolyne as guests of the Cahoons at their annual Cape Cod Dartmouth get-together, complete with long distance "salutes to President Freedman via Oscar's proud little brass howitzer."

Jack AuWerter forwards a lengthy and highly complimentary newspaper profile of Duke Mills, just retired as president and founder of the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida. And Steve Hopkins advises that he and a friend have signed to buy the Country Club of New Hampshire, just south of Eastman.

That's it for now peace and love to you all. All y'all.

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