1929

Charlie Dudley keeps coming up with new plans for our 60th. All it needs is for you to be there on June 14 through noon on the 16th. And remember the 60th is our last major Alumni Fund effort. Many classes have doubled their previous year's gift.

Old age is for heroes and'a time, for faith. It's no joy to report the recent deaths of John Milligan, Charlie Phelps, Ralph Butler, Ed McGibbon, and my old friend Earl Fyler. We have to settle for the joy of hearing Squeek Redding on the phone after his seven months' hospital stay. And to see Fran Ripley's quiet acceptance of another month in the hospital.

The beauty of a talk with Mary Burke shines through the pain of hearing mat Dick still can't speak. "Thy will'be done" is no cowardly cop out. It's the first step in losing ourselves in the work we're still able to do. The class of '29 has a lot of quiet heroes, and it would help us all to hear about them.

Faith is the word for our love of Dartmouth. When a recent sheet printed an impossibly inane version of Jim Freedman's Convocation Address, I knew it had to be a fake. Sure enough it was taken from a tasteless spoof—not labeled as such from the Review.

Some of our critics like Bill Simon and the Wall Street Journal remind me of the old Gluyas Williams cartoons in The New Yorker entitled, "Impressions of Rome (etc.) By one Who Has Never Been There." How different from Dick Eberline's kindly advice to the Hopkins Institute in which he cites the style of the real Ernest Martin Hopkins.

Bob Jones and Nick Vincent are overdue for answers to two fine letters that show faith in our college. I'm honored to be on a committee of outstanding alumni who are working valiantly to make her stronger and with full faith that Dartmouth is the best college in the country.

Sometimes it's hard to wait and follow the rules. Of lawyers we soon have our fill. We tease them with sardonic jokes. They simply write more laws until We favor less contentious folks. But chaos looms if for some noble cause We spurn the law to speed our cherished plan, For he who scorns respect and love for law Betrays his compact with his fellow man.

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