1930

Great news from the Transplant Department: Ted Wolf says Betty is doing "famously with her updated hip replacement." She's able to go upstairs, drive the car, and cook. "We're both delighted." Which means, as I write this in mid-March, that Ted is probably able to make the C.O.W. and pre-C.O.W. A letter from Ted is often a travelogue, written on stationery squirreled away during his days of worldwide consulting and lecturing. This one was from Volta Aluminum Co. Ltd. of Ghana.

I'm able, thanks to Ed Weinstein, to announce a great literary event: WinStone, possibly the most literate of our many literate classmates, is donating to the College his thousand-volume library, including a unique collection of books about the eighteenth-century London stage, on which he is a recognized authority. Also works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, George Eliot, and "others beloved in the halls of academe."

I'm always delighted to receive a rare note from Carl Haffenreffer, rare not only because of frequency but because of Carl's always delightful prose. He enclosed an archeological treasure received from a friend's grandmother, who unearthed it in her attic. It's a photocopy of an item from the June 1, 1930, New Bedford Sunday Standard, with photos of Pete Lillard,Frank Ryder, and Carl, who, it says, are among the Dartmouth men from this vicinity receiving diplomas at the June 15-17 Commencement. Further, it says, Mr. Haffenreffer will return to Dartmouth to complete his studies at Tuck for a master's in finance and business administration. "He will spend the summer in research work in Europe"—probably in Germany, developing the formula for that Old Creamy Narragansett Ale. Also mentioned, without photos, are Wilbur Crane and Art Griffin. The pictures, though easily recognizable, would not stand further reproduction for the magazine. Carl adds: "All goes according to somebody's plan here. After a miserable 1995, Carolyn and I are still more or less vertical."

Two weeks from now I'll be flying to Barbados, there to board the Renaissance IV for Martinique, Madeira, Casablanca, Tangier, Malaga, and Barcelona: then homeward on Lufthansa via Munich and Chicago, two weeks before the C.O.W.

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1931 65 DARTMOUTH KEEPING YOUNG WITH THIRTY-ONE

Win Stone isdonating hiscollection ofLooks on the18th-centuryLondon stage tothe College. ROBERT M. MARR '30