Good Sports

Queens, athletes, and errors of omission

Carnival Queen

My friend Phil Chase '50 asked me to sit down and read the cartoon ["Skating on Thin Ice,"March] from beginning to end. I can't begin to tell you the thrill it was, after all these years, to read my name in a Dartmouth publication!

Since that memorable weekend 51 years ago, I graduated from Columbia University with a degree in philosophy, worked in New York for a short time, married, and raised four children. I hope my eight grandchildren will be duly impressed to find that their grandmother has finally made the "funny papers"!

WHISPERING PINES, NORTH CAROLINA

Gwendolyn Latour as mentioned by comicwriter Paul S. Newman '45 in our Marchissue was the 1947 Winter CarnivalQueen. Ed.

More Pitches

I feel that space should have been found to mention a truly remarkable pitching feat by my classmate, Frank Logan '52. Frank pitched all 15 innings of a 2-1 victory over Holy Cross in 1952. This was the first, and perhaps only, regular season loss for Holy Cross, which went on to win the NCAA Championship that spring.

WOODSTOCK, VERMONT

I'd like to mention Myron Witham '04. Quarterback and captain of the 1903 team, he was named to Walter Camp's second All-merica team. Against Harvard at the dedication of the Harvard stadium, he led the Dartmouth squad to an 11-0 victory. TheBoston Herald wrote, "Outclassed by Dartmouth, at least Harvard has a new stadium." Witham was later head coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado, where his undefeated 1922 and 1923 teams were known as the "Wonder Teams of the Rockies."

BETHESDA, MARYLAND

How can Robert "Red" Rolfe '31, a main-stay of Dartmouth's baseball team and an all-star New York Yankee third baseman in the 19305, be given nothing but passing mention in the Class Notes of your recent sports issue? Did I miss something?

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Protest

I was amazed and offended that there was not recognition [in "Vox Clamantis in Protest," November 1997] for the African and African American Society's (AAM) protest to the Rodney King's verdict. So much controversy arose from the verdict and the riots that derived from it, that even Dartmouth's mainstream community organized seminars and guest speakers to address the issue. My anger exists because I felt the Alumni Magazine had the audacity to give ink to a ridiculous penny collection for a weight room, but somehow managed to forget the verdict of one of the country's most outrageous and controversial issues in our generation.

BRONX, NEW YORK

Rule of the Road

Professor Perrin's concern about the politeness of pedestrians ["Curmudgeon," October 1997] is certainly understandable given his North Country surroundings. He has perhaps overlooked, however, that many students in the diverse Dartmouth community come from urban environments. As a participant therein, I can assure him that there is a well-established rale of conduct for both pedestrians and drivers. This simple rule is: Don't let the other driver/pedestrian know that you see him or her. If you succeed in this evasion, you win. Ifyou make eye contact, you lose.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Help

Louise Erdrich ["On the Hill," January] got it right: Treat depression like a virus. It's not shameful, it's a disease. Get help. Avoid isolation. I add: Intervene if someone shows signs of depression: that person has difficulty in seeking help. You may save a life, or the quality of one.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Heart of Dartmouth

In President Freedman's column on the role of Dartmouth's libraries ["Libraries Unbound, "January] he writes, "The College placed Baker Library at the physical heart of the campus so that future generations of scholars would never question that the library and the organization of knowledge were central to the educational process." An interesting footnote to this, gleaned from Professor Jere Daniell '55's colonial American history class years back, is what the College displaced to make room for Baker. As on so many New England greens, Hanover's Congregational Church once held forth at the town's focal point. Before construction began on Baker, the church was removed from the Green and hauled to its present location. Thus, in the College's twentieth-century architecture and design, the ascendancy of knowledge and secular education is clear for all to see.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK