1944

I bumped into Gradus ad Parnassum the other day (we were both in the library), and I fell to wondering how many other non-Latin-taking students were as slow as I was as an undergraduate in not knowing what it was that old Eleazar took into the wilderness along with a Bible and 500 gallons of rum. My Random House says: "Gradus ad Parnassum: Latin tide of a dictionary of prosody much used in English public school during the 18th and 19th centuries." So there.

We were pleased to receive notice that Warren Leopold, our class head agent, received a "Chairman's Citation" For outstanding service to the 1988 Alumni Fund. Leo, now retired at his home on Long Island, was one of the largest Buick dealers in the whole wide world.

Sticks-in-the-mud Chuck and Joan Foster call Warren, Vt., home, but you'd hardly know it. In 1988 they spent five days on British Anguilla, in the Bahamas; toured the Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia coastal areas looking for a retirement site; and swung through Europe (four days in Paris, seven days in Switzerland, and quick jaunts to Austria and Germany). They picked Ford's Colony of Williamsburg, Va., as their eventual Shangri-La, and even bought a parcel of land there.

Marsh and Caroline Tenney were featured in the Hanover press last fall. Marsh retired after 32 years of distinguished service to the Dartmouth Medical School. He was a professor of physiology, the school's dean, its acting dean twice, and he was instrumental in moving the school back to the four-year M.D. program. As an emeritus Marsh will continue his research on the effects of high altitude on humans; and he will continue as the executive vice president of the Parker B. Francis Foundation, which awards grants for pulmonary research.

Caroline Tenney, meanwhile, received a special award from the Hanover Conservation Council, on its 25th anniversary, for long and meritorious service in conservation. She was one of the council's original founders.

Word is just in that Dr. Bill Trier was recently elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Triers live in Seattle. The academy is an organization of 36,000 pediatricians dedicated to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, adolescents, and young adults.

Also in the newspaper was Jim Hardigg, who was the subject of a feature story in the N.H. Gazette., In 1955, soured by work practices by both management and labor, Jim founded his own plastic container firm, Hardigg Industries, in South Hadley Falls, Mass. "I wanted to show everyone," he says, "that I could run a company on Christian ethics." And run it, he did. The 20-acre facility, now in South Deerfield, employs 269 workers and has $25 million in sales; and Jim recently opened a new $2.5 million plant in Columbus, Ind.

Incidentally, four of the Hardigg's seven kids are Dartmouths: twins" Jeanet '80 and James '80, Viva '84, and Lorli '92.I suspect that's a class record.

Sadly, the deaths of three '44 wives, all of cancer. Joe Hatch's wife, Marg, in 1984; Bob Tompa's wife, Rita, in 1985; and Hardwick Caldwell's wife, Harriet, this past January. Our sympathies. (More about Joe and Bob next month). Late word: Dick Roudeau died of a heart attack January 18 in Dallas.

That's it. Blessings.

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