CLASS OF 1914
The fall season opens with a burst of activity on the part of all good football fans and those interested in get-togethers at New Haven, Harvard, Hanover, etc. Ed Leech is as busy as the proverbial one-armed paper hanger as secretary of the Boston organization sponsoring arrangements for trains and meeting places and answering a thousand questions, mostly over the phone at a busy time.
Seated in his office the other day I heard him take an order for 125 dozen coffee cups which seemed to be a mere trifle for him but a bunch of china ware to me. Ed's house, Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, is putting out a corking house organ to the china and glass trade which quotes Ed and his pearls of wisdom from time to time.
"Hold the line a moment, Providence calling" says the sweet one on the board and Bill Slater's tenor voice comes over the line with welcome news on class doings. The campaign for a class subscription to the MAGAZINE has just started as these lines are being written and we hope for far better results than last year. If you have mislaid your notice, just send $3 to William R. Slater % Jackson & Curtis, Providence, and you will be covered by the class subscription in addition to having paid your dues for the year.
The eight-year-old Austin hopeful was passing apples from our lone apple tree around the neighborhood when he encountered a new family in our midst Conversation led to Dartmouth and a 1914 Aegis was produced with Daddy's picture. He came home much mystified but before this clue had grown cold an investigation showed that Herlihy, with one wife, two daughters and one dog had moved onto the street. For the first time in years he is wrestling with a lawn, heater, care of a house and all the other pleasing features not found in apartments. Between times he hangs his hat in the State Street Trust in Boston.
Red Loudon has been traveling the country on business and pleasure and has swung a circle in Canada on hockey matters. He claims to hold the bachelor's record, having recently been appointed guardian of sixteen-year-old orphan twins. Laugh that one off.
The Boston Herald some time since gave all good 14ers a good five minutes when a picture of Sherm Saltmarsh "Winchester Attorney" was shown holding another fish by the gills. He entered a 5 lb. 10 bass in the fish contest. According to the dope in the paper Sherm caught it at Winnepesaukee and he made his wife sign the affadavit as to weight, etc. Piscatorially speaking, Sherm is there.
Pen Aborn is secretary of the Undergraduate Employment Bureau of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you can say that in one breath why go to it. The job in simple language is to help Tech men find part time employment. There are about 600 such this year and Aborn can provide on short notice ushers, waiters, fourth hands at bridge, or what have you.
Larry Day turns in the information that Ralph Phelps erstwhile of Paris, France, is now near Paris, Maine. Phelps answers for himself % The Cumberland County Power & Light Co., Portland. Larry kept to his watery ways this summer by going on the August Cruise of the U.S.S., J. K. Paulding.
Dud Colby and Al Tukey reported 100% of the 14ers in Omaha alive and kicking. Dud says last year's summary reads: Births—none, Deaths—none, Finances—none, Excursionsone eastern trip returning via Montreal. Items 3 & 4 should be grouped. He extends sympathy to those who have to attend good football games this fall, saying that games in the middle west don't match up to the east. Al admits to selling enough insurance to keep a wife and two daughters in shoes.
Bob Hopkins takes time off from selling Orthosonic (afraid that isn't the right word) Victrolas to announce the birth of Sylvia on March 18th. The young lady resides with her parents in South Orange, N. J.
Listen to this alleged trip of one Margeson; Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Yosemite, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Banff, and Lake Louise. Accompanied by his wife and daughter Marge spent part of the summer thusly. The Simmons Hardware Company at St. Louis for which concern said trip was taken has arranged with Walt Humphrey to paint their 1928 calendar subject. Speaking of our artist, the Satevepost is opened eagerly each week in the hopes of seeing another cover signed Humphrey.
The more publicity given to Norway, Maine, the home of Mellie Dunham, Henry Ford's fiddler, the better Hod Potter likes it. He is the other noted individual in that town.
Chuck Kingsley in New York admits to having stopped giving advice. He now charges for it. Nevertheless he passed on a few items free of charge. Evidently he reads the Cape CodMagazine regularly for he calls attention to Dan Chase's contributions and says Squeak Files is reviewing books for them. Dan has a new book, Hardy Rye" coming out shortly. Files is teaching at Tufts College.
Ernie Learoyd has incorporated himself as an agency of the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Co. with offices in William St., New York. He has moved from his previous Brooklyn address and is hereby requested to supply another.
Ted Marriner has been assigned to the legation in Berne, Switzerland, as first secretary and to the Preparatory Commission on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments now in session at Geneva as secretary. He sailed on the Leviathan on October, 23rd via Hen Koelsch and Alec Tuck in London and other persons names unknown in Paris. Ted is becoming quite a diplomat and will doubtless be the best known 14er in Switzerland for some time to come. While in Geneva we hope he will look over this team that recently wiped Harvard out of the stadium.
As the time of the Cornell game draws near we can all think of Freemy Jones in Corning who has the best chance of any to see that fracas. Ed Leech and his cohorts find that a special train costs a lot of money and the Boston boys will have to take their results over the wire for the most part.
A bit of good news from Roger Rice announces the arrival of Dorothy Mabel on October 5th. This comes from Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Last we knew Roger was in Florida. Oh well, these real estaters do travel.
This column should not close without voicing the thoughts of the class on the death of William Jewett Tucker. Our class did not know him intimately but he was active in the community while we were in Hanover and his influence was still being felt. Dartmouth has lost one who served her nobly.
Assistant Austin, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
