1929

This was to be a dip into the riches of our 60th to share with you who couldn't make it. Instead, I too missed it. But the notes and calls from the record-breaking number of '29ers who made it to Charlie Dudley's triumph are heart-warmers. '29 Up will bring us names and doings of the players. Let's press for copies of Shep Stone's talk at the tribute to John Dickey and the Dickey Endowment.

Word of the death of Ed Kennard and his life moves me all the more to beg for stories from '29ers who've become almost lost from our fellowship. The chatter about the Indian symbol fades when I read of Ed's studies of languages of Hopi, Sioux, Navaho, Dakotas, and other tribes, while he worked for several government agencies and universities. I called him a year ago after 60 years and had a warm talk but didn't learn these important things. Modesty keeps us too quiet. You wives and families can tell us stories we're missing. Don't waste them.

The Dudleys, Dick Blacks, and LarryLougees went to a lovely memorial service at Burke Hollow, Vt., for Earl Fyler. Charlie says it was somehow full of the flavor of that fine friend.

Ruth and Pinky Flannery saw Pinky elected president of the Academy of Hospice Physicians in Colorado on June 8, made it to Hanover, then celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on the 20th!

We who can be in Hanover and know today's students, who can see the beginnings of the new Medical Center, we who can visit with George Munroe '43 and Jim Freedman and know their devotion to Dartmouth's promise to teach before research, are burning to tell you Dartmouth is well. This needn't stop us from fighting constructively to preserve the essence of "Men of Dartmouth" and the sense of humor that enjoys "Eleazar Wheelock."

I'm not too heavily impressed by folks who like to feel oppressed. Should we upset our lives and laws and so deprive them of their cause? We surely do them less than good by nixing words like brotherhood, Indulging those who rant and rail while love and old traditions fail.

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