Class Note 1949
Issue
July-August 2022
In March Joel Berson and I had the pleasure of listening to Coach Buddy Teevens ’79 tell the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota, Florida, about his innovative tackling dummy program, which has minimized injuries during practice. His ideas are being widely adopted by other teams and even the NFL is observing. How lucky Dartmouth is to have Buddy as coach of the Ivy League co-champions!
The only other class news is that the Rev. Edward Harding MacBurney died on March 17 in Moline, Illinois, where he lived. Ed received his bachelor of sacred theology from Berkeley Divinity School in 1952 and then spent 20 years as a priest at St. Thomas Church in Hanover. “Seeking a stretch,” he became bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, Illinois (which included Davenport, Iowa, and Moline) until his retirement. Ed is survived by son James and daughter Page.
With space to fill, I’ll tell you about my book, which I published in June after 27 years of collecting information and about 11 years of writing: America’s Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast. As you may recall, Nast created the Republican elephant and the modern Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, popularized the Democratic donkey, brought down New York’s “Boss Tweed” and his ring of thieves, and influenced five presidential elections.
The 832-page book contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches, and paintings—800 of them from Harper’s Weekly and the balance from other, rare publications—as well as 100 cartoons by other artists on related topics. Each has its content and context explained and its characters identified. A manually prepared index (it took me a year) includes topics and people portrayed in the cartoons of more than a 30-year period, making it a unique pictorial reference book. People can buy it at my ThomasNast.com website (featuring about 150 Nast cartoons on the Civil War, Lincoln, Tweed, Christmas, and Shakespeare, among other topics) as well as at Amazon.com.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 344-1583, fax
The only other class news is that the Rev. Edward Harding MacBurney died on March 17 in Moline, Illinois, where he lived. Ed received his bachelor of sacred theology from Berkeley Divinity School in 1952 and then spent 20 years as a priest at St. Thomas Church in Hanover. “Seeking a stretch,” he became bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, Illinois (which included Davenport, Iowa, and Moline) until his retirement. Ed is survived by son James and daughter Page.
With space to fill, I’ll tell you about my book, which I published in June after 27 years of collecting information and about 11 years of writing: America’s Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast. As you may recall, Nast created the Republican elephant and the modern Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, popularized the Democratic donkey, brought down New York’s “Boss Tweed” and his ring of thieves, and influenced five presidential elections.
The 832-page book contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches, and paintings—800 of them from Harper’s Weekly and the balance from other, rare publications—as well as 100 cartoons by other artists on related topics. Each has its content and context explained and its characters identified. A manually prepared index (it took me a year) includes topics and people portrayed in the cartoons of more than a 30-year period, making it a unique pictorial reference book. People can buy it at my ThomasNast.com website (featuring about 150 Nast cartoons on the Civil War, Lincoln, Tweed, Christmas, and Shakespeare, among other topics) as well as at Amazon.com.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 344-1583, fax