1924

Our feature this month will be excerpts of a letter from Al Anderson, who is retired and living in Hyannis. After a wonderful description of an undergraduate trip to Moose Mountain on skis by moonlight followed by an equally well described 1958 trip—which included Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau range, and the Matterhorn, eight European countries in all, including a journey down the Rhine—Al finally gets around to telling about himself.

"I earned my expenses at Dartmouth by working as a printer for four years at the Dartmouth Press. My job was to run off 2,200 copies of The Daily Dartmouth each night from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. on a Chandler cylinder press. It was always on time for your morning perusal. (I slept somewhat like Thomas Edison!) In spite of that handicap I managed to get an average of 3.0 for the four years. My scholarship for that period was a grant for $200 per year.

"After Dartmouth, plans to be a lawyer went awry, and I worked two years for New England Telephone in Boston, in their budget department. Then I went to Harvard Divinity School to become a minister. I was in the Methodist ministry in Massachusetts for 46 years, then retired to Nantucket for another two.years of service. (I still have a guest card for the Siasconset golf club.)"

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