1929

Recently Fran and CharlieDudley entertained us for dinner at Kendal along with Sally McKean Young and her husband (daughter of the late George H. McKean). The Youngs were in town for the Dartmouth-Lafayette game. George graduated from Lafayette after spending a year as a '29er. The family is still very loyal to Dartmouth. Sally and her sister Margaret were campers at the Dudleys' Interlaken Camp. The class has lost one member and a friend, MoeHeath and Ted Baehr '28, who used the stage name of Robert "Tex" Allen. Ted appeared in over 40 movies and on stage from the early thirties and later on TV as well. Moe had a long career in the legal profession.

Others, too, may find the following of some interest. I came across it in a history of the class of 1888. Freshman year the class numbered 20 men with average height 5'10", shoe size 7, hat 7-1/8, weight 154 lbs., collar 15-1/4. Nine had no idea of their intentions after college. Three intended to become CE's, two to study law, and of the rest one minister, one chemist, one sinner, one merchant, one expected to go to the Devil, one to make money, and one to become a bartender. As for their religions, nine were Congregationalists, two Moralists, two Agnostics, two Catholics, one Episcopalian, one Unitarian, one Methodist, one Atheist, one Mormon, and one Heathen. Politically there were 13 Republicans, six Democrats, one Belva Lockwood disciple, and one Mugwump. I had to look up the latter two in the encyclopedia and was quite fascinated to read about both especially Lockwood, a woman lawyer running for president twice in the late 1800s. Which leads to the old adage, "There is nothing new under the sun," to which Rip adds: My ways metabolic would give some folks colic, For, mostly, I eat what I choose. I try to keep quiet about my strange diet and what I may do about booze. As pleasures go fleeting the joy of good eating Seems sometimes most all that remains, So here's to the pills that take care of my ills, I hope I find one for my brain.

And to all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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