1939

In early November I had a note from Peggy Batchelder (joes widow) asking for help in obtaining photographs of the bicentennial plaque commemorating Dartmouth's founding and naming the second Earl of Dartmouth as an early benefactor. The plaque was presented to the College by the ninth Earl of Dartmouth at the bicentennial celebration in 1969 and is now mounted on the low brick wall around the northwest corner of Hopkins Center. Peggy noted the startling fact that she is a descendant of Colonel Legge, brother of the second earl of Dartmouth. She wanted to give pictures of the plaque to her grandchildren. With the great help of College archives, we were able to fulfill Peggy's wishes.

In October I had an e-mail from Armando Chardiet Jr., whose dad was our classmate. He is chief advancement officer at the University of Pennsylvania and had received my name from a colleague who had earlier been director of the Dartmouth program I had run. I told Armando Jr. that I had not known his dad in our college days, but we had been brought together about 1970 by mutual friend and classmate Bob Dickgiesser. Back then Armie visited Hanover quite frequently and invariably stayed with us. Evelyn and I came to know him well and were very fond of him. We last saw him at our 50th in 1989, just a few months before his death.

Also in October, I had an e-mail from Archie Mallon s daughter, Mary Macomber, of Lyndon, Vermont, reminiscing about many outings to Dartmouth with her dad, who had been headmaster of Lyndon Institute. Mary teaches school in Wheelock, Vermont, the town from which any resident student entering Dartmouth can attend tuition-free. Archie was one of my first 1939 friends. We both lived in the basement of North Mass in our freshman year.

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