1954

December 1953: DartmouthQuarterly finally publishes with articles by Sinclair H.Hitchings, Rich Rogan,Don Austermann, GeorgeHume, Tony Lukeman, and Al Pitzner; BillWalls and John Bergesen attend fifth Student Affairs Conference of U.S. Affairs at West Point; Milt Kramer wins Rhodes scholarship; President Dickey creates commission to study campus social life (44 years later "campus social life" is still being "studied"); Robert Frost reads poetry in Webster Hall; involved in Thanksgiving vacation accidents: Walt Hartnet (fatal), Shelly Wolfe, and Peter Davis; West Dingman's "Goddess of North" is one of six finalists for Winter Carnival statue; Walt Anderson wins "Manners Makyth Man" award; Dave McLaughlin led Ivy League with 31 catches for 592 yards and six touchdowns; Rick Hartman in letter to D calls junior year abroad in France a "once in a lifetime."

More on 1954 holiday luncheons: December 9 in Boston at Schroeders and December 10 in New York City at the Yale Club. Join your classmates. Contact JohnGillespie.

I spoke to Pete Barker, who does a great job on our newsletter, and pointed out to him that only if news appears in this column is it preserved for posterity, so we'd better write about Pete. His acting career is expanding. He is presently doing a PBS film playing a Maine farmer with pages of dialogue. (He tried to get tutored by Dick Lewis but found Dick's accent unacceptable.) Pete is also in a film in which he is killed in the woods in Kingston, N.Y. (This cuts short his lines.) He is also part of a group trying to capitalize a movie production company to do ten films in five years.

Dick Barker has finally retired from the Wakefield, Mass., school system. The Barkers' year-round residence will be on Cape Cod.

Several classmates have not communicated with the College for more than ten years. If you have communicated with or have knowledge of these classmates, please let us know: Phil Anderson, James O. Berry, Richard Chira, Lee Clegg, Bob Delaney, Charles Dickerson, John W. Fisher, Guy Gay, Hsung-Cheng Hsieh, Harry Hughes, Yngvar Hvistendahl, Peter Kirby, Lee Kvalnes, James Newcombe, William Pepin Jr., Sheldon White.

Have a joyous holiday season.

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