Dance reference strikes chord
The winter issue of Ohio Today arrived this morning. My first attention is always directed to
the In Memoriam page for fear that our classmates may be included therein. My wife, Doris Whitney
Dalton, BSE '34, and I have reached the age where very few of our contemporaries appear anywhere
else.
However, it is always fascinating to learn of the vast expansion of our alma mater's size and influence on the world of education, culture and economics.
Of particular interest in this issue was the last paragraph of the article about Marie Bigham. The dancing lessons she mentioned were undoubtedly received at my father's dancing academy. For a number of years, the Dalton Academy of Dance introduced the rudiments of ballroom dancing to Ohio University students. Ralph A. Dalton was a student at Ohio University and a member of the 1898 varsity football team.
We do appreciate your acknowledgement of earlier alumni accomplishments and look forward to future articles of this nature.
William W. Dalton, AB '35
Kissimmee, Fla.
Author offers addendum
Many thanks for sharing news about my latest historical romance, "Firebrand Bride," in the winter
issue of Ohio Today.
I'm proud to be an alumna of the Ohio University creative writing program and to have my work highlighted in this very attractive issue of the magazine.
Please note that my fellow alumni and university records will not recognize the author, Janet Lynnford, because it is my pen name. My real name...
Janet Kiplinger Ciccione, BGS '73
Columbus
Memories of mural
It was a nice surprise to find the winter edition of Ohio Today in my mailbox here in Taipei. My
folks send me my mail while I work here in Taiwan.
I especially enjoyed seeing "An artful endeavor" on the back cover. I think all alumni remember seeing and enjoying the thought-provoking work of Professor Eldridge.
Let's hope that the university will help the professor get his scaffolding for "art's sake" and so future alumni and students will have memories of Professor Eldridge's fine work!
Keep up the good work.
Paul Vogt, BBA '93
Taipei, Taiwan
Kudos to President Alden
I am on the alumni mailing list and have been for years. In today's mail, I received the winter
2000 edition of Ohio Today. I'll treasure this one for a long time.
I was at Ohio University from 1939 through 1942. In my days there, I studied French with Dr. Mary T. Noss, and as a student I resided in her home off State Street.
During one of my visits with Dr. Noss about 1965, I got to spend some time with then-President Vernon Alden and his wife. I felt that his years of presidency at Ohio University were good years, and I was sorry to see him leave.
Si Mann
Pittsburgh
Lifelong bonds treasured
Previous comments in this column have expressed how I feel about Ohio Today magazine. I just want
to add that I await with great anticipation the news from the scene where I spent the best years of
my life. The lifelong friendships that were forged during my stay in Athens are a gift from heaven.
Not only do we get to read about alums who are making their mark in the world in all walks of life, but we also get a chance to see how our peers and classmates have been doing. I am so lucky to now live in an area where there are many Bobcats in the workforce. It's a fraternity and bond like no other.
Greg Gulas, ME '79
Youngstown, Ohio
Generations of ties
From a snapshot of my mother drying her hair on a little back porch on University Terrace - she was
19 and a summer school student - to my widowed grandmother's years as matron of Lindley Hall and a
friend of Dean Voigt, through the years when my sister and brother graduated from OU, I seem to have
ties to Athens.
I was a journalism major in the era of George Starr Lasher. He kept stacks of newspapers for our use; I recall one assignment where we were required to find and present clippings illustrating 20 occasions of dangling participles that we found in newspapers.
Miss Lash was my English teacher. She permitted no "it looks like" and no dashes in a sentence, and I realize how far I have fallen (see above)!
Memorial Auditorium was host to Robert Frost and we found him doddery - he must have been 60 - but forgave him for "Home Burial." In the summer, the players group presented "Private Lives" on the west portico and we listened on the lawn.
The teachers were energetic and in love with their subjects. I fell in love with history, too, when Dr. Jones sat in front of his class with one leg hooked across the arm of his chair and quoted Henry of Navarre saying, "Paris is well worth a mass" as if he had heard that phrase last night at a party.
I later realized, of course, that teachers have always used those "no new worlds to conquer" quotes to hook the indifferent student.
Charlotte Stone Austin, BSED '41
Dublin, Ohio
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