1927

Mish Cleaves acknowledges the passage of another year at his home in Concord, Mass. He admits we are living on borrowed time and offers this quip: Ronald Reagan recently said, "At my age, I no longer buy green fruit!"

Merritt Joslyn spent his birthday in the hospital in July. He underwent surgery to repair a gastric ulcer. This has kept him off the golf course temporarily. On the subject of golf, your secretary was fortunate to attend the U.S. Open at Baltusrol in New Jersey in June and the U.S. Senior Open at Cherry Creek in Denver in July. We had snow at Vail, Colo., on the Fourth of July!

With women at 46 percent of the student body at Dartmouth, some traditions have changed. Ceramic mugs have replaced the traditional clay pipes that are smashed on the stump of the Old Pine at Commencement and rumor hath it that the Wheelock Murals in the basement of Thayer Hall will be uncovered. This should please many graduates of our era.

From Chuck Baker's Class Notes in the May 1977 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, under the head "Fifty Years Ago": "Fire demolished a barn at Villa Clara farm during our senior class barbecue. Only by the praise- worthy efforts of the senior class was the house kept from destruction," said the Hanover fire chief. The 1928 College Catalogue estimated the average expenses of a student at Dartmouth would be 51,650. That would be a bargain at today's costs.

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