1929

Box 246 Monument Beach, MA 02553

One way to hear from you is to stray from the facts. Nelson and Carolyn Bell caught me referring Dick Burke to Charles Murray's Losing Ground for thoughts on who pays for the financial aid at Dartmouth. Murray says nothing about tuition or Dartmouth. We did learn that Dartmouth has 136 students from families with income below the $12,000 poverty level and 32 who say they are "self supporting."

Remember when we figured we could have almost all we wanted in life with

$5,000 a year? Even then we paid far less than what we cost the College. How many of us have paid her back? .

Nelly has finally retired from seven days a week at the gift and specialty shop and sound equipment businesses he created. He now shares what Carolyn calls, "the nicest Christmas in my entire married life." Carolyn Shaw Bell holds a chair in economics at Wellesley, appears regularly in the Boston Globe, is frequently on the Public Broadcasting System, and

cooks like a dream. Look for them at the mini-reunion in September.

Dick Burke sets us straight on his ad- dress on the island of Bequia: "That set of numbers you thought might be a zip code is the phone number of the Moonhole office where you can call and if you get through (odds one to four) and if you can hear (odds one to two), you can talk to me after a 15-minute wait while a runner goes to see if I'm home (odds one to three). I love this place, but it's really the Third World in microcosm." He also re- minds me that my friend Ave Raube '30, with whom I tango more than I tangle, represents about nine of every 21 of our alumni.

On our search for a president he says, "What if he turns out to have the discipli- nary determination of a Gorbachev and the same ideas as to who to discipline?"

We're sadly working on more obitu- aries. Now they're for Herb McCreery, Dr. Jack Knight, and Ham Bates. Herb died shovelling snow. Jack fell while play- ing tennis and hit his head. Can anyone help with any news of Ham?

The College is still seeking the whereabouts of Donald C. Morrison, John C.Reilly, Arthur Ryan, and John O. Stigall. Please help.

For fine nostalgia re-read LeonardDoob's letter in the January/February issue citing many of the great teachers who gave us so much at Dartmouth. A happy switch from the tone of many letters to the magazine. Bill Buckley in his God andMan at Yale mentioned, "the most popular professor of psychology, Mr. Doob."

Duke Barto says Harold Montamat's foreign service background leaves him most disturbed by our present overseas situation. Hal, tell us more.

Charlie and Fran Dudley flew to San Diego and across to Orlando and Naples, Fla. They stayed for a delightful night with Gus and Mary Wiedenmayer at Boca Grande. Charlie has our mini-reunion all lined up for the September 19 Princeton game and weekend. He also passes along Frank Williams's endorsement of Fran Horn '30's letter in the September Almag. Ort Hicks '21 and I pray our new president sticks with ROTC. So: When problems international are screaming for solution Our academic pacifists respond with elocution.

Aloof in tenure, far from harm, they lecture on divestures.

Think they to stop Atilla's horde with gentle words and gesture: