1948

The new academic year is well underway at our old alma mater in the New England hills. Here's hoping many of you will see Dartmouth this fall and experience again the deep pleasure from the grandstand on Memorial Field of that glorious picture toward color laden Velvet Rocks and Balch Hill. Those sparkling autumn days in Hanover! Remember?

Which brings to mind Harry Tanzi, the patriarch of wonderful old Tanzi's, the little landmark beer emporium on Main Street that was known to so many generations of Dartmouth men. Harry, in his nineties now but still bright as a new dime, appeared at our reunion tent in June. This lively old gentleman with the wonderful sense of humor received plenty of friendly attention from his old '48 customers, but probably no one was more pleased to see him than RickLandon, who maintains that help from Tanzi Bros, was one of the main financial pillars that got him through Dartmouth.

Rollie Sontag, who did so much for '48 in publishing the 25 th anniversary Aegis for our reunion in 1973, sent along the text of a farcical parody on U.S. history he and Paul Newman '45 wrote and presented in the beer hall basement of College Hall one night back in 1947. About Eleazar's brother Elisha and his draft boards. Rollie thinks maybe it's not so funny now, but I'm not sure. Memories, anyone?

Mouse Taylor of Clearwater is much traveled lately. He won a trip to the Far East, including the PRC. Had a great time but was sorry to miss Pete and Myra Norton when they phoned from Disney World during a trip to Florida from their Red Bank, N.J., home.

Had not spoken with Tom Kent for 40 years when we talked in May. Tom and Phyllis live in Spartanburg, S.C., where Tom runs Kent Manufacturing, a woollen mill. He well remembers Princeton weekend in 1947 when he and friends, dressed as Indians, obtained a balloon at Lakehurst Naval Air Station (with the cooperation of Life Magazine, which photographed the weekend) and used it to "capture" the Princeton radio station. Tom says it was a fan show, all well organized in advance except for the football team which lost 14—12 when Red Rowe was declared short of the end zone in a famous play. Tom remembers the disappointment when coverage by Life was pre-empted by events surrounding the QEII. Tom, still very active today, was about to leave for a U.S. Seniors golf tournament. Says he still follows Dartmouth through a nearby alumni club and sells yarn to MarveAxelrod's company, which manufactures sweaters. Said he hoped Ax would not hit him too hard in the recent Alumni Fund drive which Tom, as always, generously supported. A true son of Eleazar!

Still much debate in word and print in and out of Dartmouth circles regarding the Cole/Review-staff incident of last February: Bob and Bud Munson, for example, neir ther of whom supports the off-campus tab- loid, both express themselves as concerned for equal application of standards and pen- alties on campus. Wid Washburn, on the other hand, is concerned for the mainte- nance of free expression at American insti- tutions of learning, including Dartmouth, a basic principle and freedom whose contin- ued existence needs the support of all our institutions and of us as individuals. For the record, I suggest that Dartmouth merits the benefit of the doubt on these matters. Dr. Freedman is still new in his job and deserves our support. In the meantime, the courts may decide some of the questions at issue.

Francis R. DruryJr., 10214 Del Monte Drive, Houston, TX 77042