1929

Remember March in the good old days? Today's kids will never know the romance of running the duckboards that were stretched across the green when the snow went out. Nor know the experience of having one sink in a hole and splash icy mud all over us.

Think streakers are new? In 1926 Dud Orr bet Bill Magenau a box of ice cream he wouldn't run from Crosby to Reed clad only in sneakers. On his way Bill met Dean Laycock but never heard from it. John Moxon did one from Wheeler to Steele in sub-zero weather, then got locked out.

Julius Morris worked quietly toward his Phi Beta Kappa key all freshman year in Topliff. He blossomed at Delta Alpha with the new frosh and put on a hilarious tantrum while getting them to count off by twos. He wouldn't stand for "One, Two, One Two," and finally got them to go, "Two, four, six, eight..."

Dick Black's Katy beats all our recollections with a new book, Sim in the North, using her notes from their six-year assignment in the Argentine. You'll live their life with them, then get the first-hand experience of Peron and Evita's reign, more than I've learned from many books. She writes like a pro with the warmth of a '29er.

Now that Rusty Ayers is gone I can tell how John Dickey offered him an honorary A.B. in recognition of his contributions to his Cherokee people and to Dartmouth. Rusty hated special awards and gratefully declined.

Ellie Cavanaugh's son John '55, writing in Dartmouth Medicine, says that Ellie is recovering from a hip fracture he sustained a year ago and is making use of his senior cane. Philand Carolin Fitzpatrick had a good visit with them last fall.

Dave Cogan is closing his career at the National Institute of Health. See '29 Up for more word of Dave.

If you're upset by the Review's release "Have you no shame President Freedman?" a postcard to me will get you the facts that'll make you feel much better.

Some big buffoons who draw cartoons Are eloquent with ink.

Would they might balance their drawing talents With learning how to think.

Harold C.Ripley, P.O. Box 630, Monument Beach, MA 02553