Class Note 1929

May - June 2011

We had several lectures on climate change at Kendal during the winter, and it has been hard to imagine global warming. In our fourth (top) floor apartment we looked out at icicles reaching from the roof to beyond the floor below us. I would not have been able to put my arms around most of them. We had snowstorms every few days as did most of the rest of the country. 

For the first time in some years Dartmouth Winter Carnival had snow and ice available for all the races, snow sculptures and fun events, and the College did very well on home “turf.” Both men’s and women’s hockey teams had a super year, and the basketball teams are building. 

Now that I have three married granddaughters and three (soon to be four) great-grandchildren living in New Jersey, it was fun to receive a note from Chris Wiedenmayer ’63, son of Gus and Peggy. It brought back memories of the ’29 class parties Larry and I hosted while we were stationed on Governors Island in N.Y.C. harbor through the years. They were fun, popular and attracted classmates and wives from many states and gave us chances to visit in addition to reunions at Dartmouth. 

Rip is very much alive, and this month adds a verse he wrote for President Jim Freedman: 

“We have a thing on presidents 

We chose them with great pain, 

But when they are once in residence. 

It’s something else again, 

We blame them for the things we hate, 

And find their methods grievous, 

The good they do we deprecate, 

Then chide them when they leave us. 

So if you think you’d like the job, 

Have brilliance and acumen, 

Be ready to appease a mob, 