1932

It was the worst of times. In some cities half of the workers became unemployed. Wages had fallen 60 percent in three years. A writer described "defeated, discouraged, hopeless men and women, cringing and bowing as they come to ask for public aid." A "Bonus Army" of 9,000 unemployed veterans were forcibly ejected from Washington by four troops of cavalry and four companies of infantry supported by tanks. Led by General Douglas Mac Arthur, the soldiers wielded sabers and threw tear gas. MacArthur said he was forced to use violence. But his aide, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, said it was a "pitiful scene" that never should have been allowed to happen. And at Dartmouth that year only 421 of the 622 who had matriculated four years earlier graduated, largely due to the depressed economy. The year, of course, was 1932.

And now news of grandchildren. Sean Alpert '01, grandson of Milt Alpert, won last year's Dickerson Freshman Essay Prize for his paper "A Travesty of Justice." Rhoda Clark's granddaughter, Elizabeth McGoldrick '98, manages the lodge at Mt. Moosilauke. Ed Marks' grandson, the son of Tom '65, won a prestigious scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.

At the mini of Oct. 16 and 17 were Ed Marks and Vera Barad, Dobbie and ArtAllen, Harry Rowe and Brynne Warsaw, Dottie and Howdy Pierpont, JohnWeisenfluh, Terry Nitschelm, Rhoda Clark, Ethel and Grey Freeman, Mary and Dick Olmsted. Dick's arrangements for meals and parking were great, the weather fine, Dartmouth beat Yale, and all had a good time.

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