1929

Rusty Avers, Carl Burton, Ed Canby, Bob Kemp, and Sherm Weaver have all left us. Bless us all.

Rusty cherished and wrote at length of his Cherokee pride. "Having gone to only all-indian [sic] schools right up to matriculation in Dartmouth in 1925," said Rusty, he and his Friend Frell Owl '27 "chuckled at the gap between indian and white man thinking and language right up to that sealed-off psychological bias some of us call religion."

After their cherished Indian symbol was banned, Rusty agonized until the end to defend and restore our Indian traditions. His study of the Occom-Wheelock relationship revealed that the College's drawings of Occom-were almost a copy of the artist's drawings of other Americans. He dug up references to Occom's appearance and made fine drawings of the way he probably looked at the ages 19, 34, 46, and 65. The originals are in our library archives. For a small check to the Alumni Fund I'll send copies with his descriptive notes to anyone.

The Alan Finlays and John Laffeys and I heard faculty Dean Jim Wright give our Cape Cod club a clear and reassuring picture of today's Dartmouth. To us it was the official versus the superficial story. No one knows Dartmouth better than Jim.

Some of our dissident alums respond to the truth about the College by saying, as one of their leaders recently said to me, "Dartmouth lies!" I'm reminded of the grunt of the old man who refused compensation for his wrongs with, "I'd rather ha' ma' grievance!"

Marianna Hale included me at a lovely dinner for the Al Finlays and the Pinky Flannerys. Al is the vital chairman of the finance committee of Simmons College, and Pinky is the enthusiastic president of the American Hostel Association. He still practices part-time.

John and Elain Moxon sent a happy card from Turkey. Is anyone else traveling—or able to report?

God give us grace to understand And, so, to love our fellow man,

For many a martyr dies for some great Good

He'd seem as Evil if he'd understood.

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