1929

"When we were young anddoing fineWe hailed the class oftwenty-nineWhoever thought we'd makeit throughTo palindromic ninety-two!"

I J We have all received a large packet of information about our reunion June 11-13, and I hope all the necessary papers have long ago been filled out and returned to the Commencement & Reunion Office. As I am writing this (in March) we are having an old-fashioned snowstorm, and it feels great to think ahead to a beautiful, warm, and sunny June weekend!

After my confession of being computer illiterate, a letter arrived from Harrison Condon '30 sharing my thoughts and enclosing the following quote by Dee Hardie, "Letters today, alas, do not flow as they did a generation ago. Letters are becoming remembrances of things past; it is so easy to pick up the phone. But calls are just not the same. A letter says so much more, often more deeply, more gracefully, more from the heart."

Several months ago the magazine editor asked secretaries to submit old college Class Of 1 929 photos and 70TH CLASS REUNION June 11-13, 1999 rummaging through family albums to find one suitable. The '29 photo is from fraternity pledge day in the fall of 1926 (see page 74). What good fun it must have been!

This time we start and end with Rip: "When I lie warm and cozy in my bed My spirits soar ecstatic, without bounds But then I stir my creaking bones; instead

Of soaring, face my daily rounds. When I meet morning with diminished powers,

I face my mirror bravely and beseech My gods that I accept what strength is ours

And do that bit that lies within my reach."

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Closets were ransacked in preparation of a fraternity pledge day in 1926.