1931

October 19 was a great day, first at the Yale Bowl and then at the home of Anne and George Conklin, where festivities were enjoyed by Roz and Barney Ash, Barbara and Baxter Ball, Harriett and Jim Lyall, Dorothy and Joe Merriam, Chuck O'Neill, Emmy and Wally Thorsen, Bill Wendell, and the hostess and host. I called—and so did Art Ecker—during the party, and was told by not a few that the game was the most exciting they had ever seen.

Jean Ewing reported that she was looking forward to the return to Florida of June and Ori Hobbs. She had a visit from Dorothy and Dick Henry who both looked "superb." It was at the Henrys' 50th wedding anniversary celebration that Jean had her second date with Don.

From the Alumni office came a clipping from the Helena, Mont., Independent Record of August 18, reporting that Jack Ewers had returned to Montana that summer under a Bradley Fellowship grant from the Montana Historical Society to study white settlers' depictions of Native Americans in the late 1800s. Equipped with his A.B. in sociology from Dartmouth and anM.A. in anthropology from Yale, he had first visited Montana, as Jack puts it, "as part of the New Deal," just before WW II, to begin what is now the Museum of the Plains Indians near Browning in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. 50 years later, when asked by a reporter if he missed the old days, this distinguished ethnologist emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution showed the questioner an editorial from a September 1883 Montana newspaper lamenting that the old days were gone, and "now it's just railroads and cattle drives." Things haven't changed.

From Hal Ripley '29 came a copy of a poem, "The 22nd Day of June," written around 1967 by Gayle Freeman, whom Rip knew back in Wayne, 111. I had read some of Gayle's poetry previously, but this work, in my view, is the best of it. Rip's thoughtfulness in letting the class know about Gayle's work is much appreciated.

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