1956

On June 19, as I was leaving Sarasota after a visit with my folks, I saw EgilStigum (or his double) just boarding a flight out. No time to chat. Was that really you, Egil?

Had a long talk with Charlie Morrissey about his recent doings and especially about an article on Robert Frost that he wrote for the April issue of the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin. In that article, Charlie convincingly argues that Frost was induced to matriculate at Dartmouth (rather than Harvard) by John Crockett Sanborn Jr., class of 1891 and a substitute teacher at Lawrence High School during Frost's senior year. Having done my M.A. thesis on Frost, I found Charlie's article fascinating reading.

Charlie continues to operate his oral history consulting business and is currently completing a project at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He noted that he usually spends his summers at a colony in the Greensboro, Vt., area, begun by Bliss Perry and frequented by writers, academics, etc. He commented, wryly, that , though Princetonians believe they founded the colony in the 1890s, Charlie's research shows that Dartmouth grads were there from the very beginning.

My old buddy, Bill Beard, whipped off a brief note congratulating your secretary on being elected to the board of the College English Association and then had the unmitigated audacity to ask, "What is the English Association?" What can I say? Sounds like another bunch of Anglophiles to me. Must be out to restore the Commonwealth!

Cube Conroy extracted an article from the Valley News in which President Freedman was quoted as saying that the College may have to grow in order to raise more money through tuition. The article was sent on to me by Bill Behrens, who was very disturbed by the article, noting that most experts in the field "now think that bigness is a vice." Bill is looking forward to the Town Meeting which Doug Keare is now planning for the fall and which may address such issues as this. At the spring meeting of the Alumni Council in Hanover, Doug distributed copies of a proposed agenda for the Town Meeting, which sounds exciting and well worth attending.

Also attending the spring meeting were our newly reelected Trustee, Bob Danziger and his wife, Sara, Jon and Sonja Strong,Bill Grigsby, and Don and Joanne Davidoff. It was great to see the class so well represented.

It was also great to be able to escape the heat and humidity of Charleston and spend July on Flint Ranney's home island, Nantucket. Love it as I do, I must say that Charleston is a fine place to be from in the summer, and the fall is a lovely time to return. Till next time.

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