1934

The Dartmouth campus has a bundle of buildings and areas where you can walk around and see what's new from the past 60 years. Even the old buildings have changes inside, like Hitchcock Dormitory, where I stopped to see the apartment SamMcCray and I shared freshman year. Lo, it was split into two separate rooms, a fellow in one, a girl in the other, with bathrooms down the hallway.

And not all our old buildings are still around. My old Deke House, the oldest house in Hanover, has vanished. The area is now a garden across from Psi Upsilon.

Speaking of fraternities, 74 percent of our 503 graduates were members of one of the 26 fraternities. DKE had 28, Beta Theta Pi had 24, Phi Gamma Delta had 21, and there were 19 each in Alpha Delta Phi, Chi Phi, Pi Lamda Phi, and Zeta Psi.

Seeing the Alumni Magazine's listing of Dartmouth's "Gifts to the World," PaulEbbitt reminded me he wrote an article, "Drama for Slow Learners," published in November 1963 in The English Journal. He taught English for 35 years at Rogers High School in Newport, R.I. That was a fine gift, Paul.

Kathryn Belknap told me her late husband, Pret, had been very active in publishing four weeklies, and was lauded by the former governor of Vermont as a wonderful man. She says Pret would have said, "spare me the details."

Dr. Frank Lepreau still sees drug and alcohol patients regularly in a public facility in Fall River—even pregnant addicts are taken in, and he has helped "clean" many babies. Dr. Robert M. Smith is still active in Winchester, Mass., and grateful to be still around, the last of our four Bob Smiths.

Sam McCray came back for our 60th from Dayton with his dear wife, Marianna, whom I had known since first grade. She coped well with Reunion despite health problems, but she passed away in October. Our full sympathy to Sam.

Well, all of us still around have now reached our 80th landmark. Keep your engine running and the wheels moving, and let me know about any special changes.

Kendal Apt. 341, 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover, NH 03755