1933

Bob "R.M." Cox has fallen hard for "our dear Dartmouth's new president, Jim Wright" and publicly avowed his attraction when, at an alumni gathering recently, as the only '33 present, he told our new leader that he was "the greatest thing to happen to Dartmouth College since Ernest Martin Hopkins." High praise indeed, even though some of us are finding difficulty in pinning down the details of the administration plan to deal firmly with the Greeks. After Bob's encomium, the assembled alumni "erupted with standing applause," he reports, and he was immediately "escorted to shake the hand of the president personally."

While, as he expected, classmates will sympathize with Bob's unstinting praise, they will wish that the new proposals had been vetted more fully before being sprung by Trustees and president upon an unsuspecting constituency, thus endangering possibly valuable reforms. At any rate, Wright has lived up in spades to our March prediction, based on his November performance here, that we would have a "fall-speed-ahead" engineer at the throttle of the Dartmouth train. At the same time, we were wrong in stating that he had there laid out in full his plans for the future.

We are writing this column in mid- March for a mid-May publication, so our information is not current, but at this point Bob McDonald has persuaded 21 classmates plus wives, at. al., to indicate an interest in the '33 mini-reunion planned for the weekend of October 8th and 9th and, with an assist from Ned Lord, has lined up a set of rooms at the Airport Economy Inn in West Lebanon. Prompt action is advised to tie down reservations in a tight market that features the foliage peak and the Lehigh football game. Class of' 33 up!

Sam Cunningham, in a recent communique, reveals that he and Monique alternate for Sunday services at her Catholic St. Michael's and his Episcopalian St, Boniface's, but with true Gallic discrimination, she finds the communion wine at the latter very strong. Sante, Monique, and vivela France!

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