Class of 1914
The usual November mailing of the MAGAZINE has been sent to everyone on the list and Bill Slater arranged to have a letter and bill enclosed. Your $3 will pay class dues and cover a subscription to the MAGAZINE. We aim to have a lengthy column every issue and if you want to see it send your check to Bill promptly. Furthermore, the information that you send regarding your doings or the doings of others will be enjoyed by the rest of the boys.
This season the activity is largely football. The night before the Harvard game saw us at the University Club. We were in a large room with 1910 and not a dull moment occurred. The piano saw heavy action, and there were various stunts. Thirty turned out including the regulars, and a few unusuals. Walt Netsch was on from Chicago looking rather more husky than formerly. Roger Rice has moved to the Hub for the winter. Win Loveland has come to join the faculty at Boston University. Dr. Persons was an invited guest and looked no older than when we caused him a maximum of effort in the Tuck School to pound into us a minimum of business information.
If memory serves, the following were present: Aborn, Austin, Barnes (Bill and Ham), Barrett, Batchelder, Burleigh, Cavanaugh, Chandler, Drake, Fahey, Fletcher, Fuller, Gregg, Howes, Kimball, Leech, Lowell, Netsch, Loveland, Palmer (John and Phil), Pooler, Rice, Saltmarsh, Slater, Sullivan, and Von Lenz.
Next day at the Stadium we had the usual goal line seats, this time in section 1 next to the ground level. Perhaps before the half century mark we may get between the 30 yard lines but thus far we vibrate between sections one and ten.
Dick Barlow was on from Trenton and says this is his first taste of victory in the Stadium. Gum Sargent was here from Philly, Kale Niles from Leb, Johnny Palmer and Tony Rud from New York, and probably many more that should be mentioned.
Many of the same sat in section 30 at the Yale Bowl and in addition the regulars from Southern New England, New York and even further south were in evidence. Freddie Davidson was seen arguing with a minion of the law regarding parking, while Red Davidson was his usual cheerful self in the stands. Dick Cutler from Springfield, Hal Castle from upper New York State, Lize Wheelock from Willimantic, Sleeper, Rud, Lavin, Kingsley and a host of others from New York were a few noticed.
George Briggs is reported slightly under the weather although by the time this is in print he may be ready to whip Tunney. He didn't come to Boston and wasn't seen at the Bowl although he must have been there.
Maybe some day we will see a victory at New Haven and here's hoping we don't have to wait too many years.
Not so much crowd at Providence, but the locals were there, Slater, Snow, O'Connor, Elkins, Curtis, Jenkins, Ramage, Olson, Pomeroy, Wheelock and Austin. Wheelock was a flood victim and lost his tickets somewhere in the mail tie-up. A telegram with the seat numbers and a reasonably honest face brought him through the gate. The result of the contest was satisfactory.
Doc Bullis, last heard of at Atlanta, is now supposed to be at Red Creek, New York State, wherever that may be. It sounds like a suburb of Gail Gardner's ranch in New Mexico or Arizona.
Bob Dunbar has left Montreal for the dryer climate of Cincinnati, where he is with the same company, Dunbar Pattern Co. These are patterns for shoes rather than for dresses as we understand it.
Doc Kingsford is a chemist with the Amoskeag people at Manchester, N. H. That swells the residents of that place while the other boys previously hailing from that section travel the far places. Zut Therrien is still in Seattle selling some sort of metal product, one says piston rings and another machinery. Dick McAllister covers most if not all of upper New York State as distributor of Maytag Washers. Walt Netsch is in Chicago. Rocky Flanders and McLaughlin stay at home, one finishing folks off through medical means, and the other winding up their estates legally.
The November magazine mentions doings on the Pacific Coast with prominent reference to Dr. Bill Washburn and Moose Englehorn. Elmer Robinson also is in evidence and if he sees this will he please forward a current address.
Harold Brown has been made traffic manager of the new Postum combination grouped around the Walter Baker company in Milton, Mass. If Johnny Peppard wants to leave Plymouth, N. H., to visit Red Loudon in Minneapolis, going all the way by water, Brownie will dope out the route.
Squint Herlihy has moved from Wellesley to a young country estate at Wenham, having trees, grass, bugs, slow trains, and all the other joys of the wide open spaces.
Speaking of glories that have been thrust on illustrious sons of 1914, where shall we rate the membership in the Holyoke Whist League held by Red Howes? That connection takes him hither and thither in competition and we may yet hear his name mentioned over the radio in the Tuesday night bridge broadcasts.
In another column you will find a more detailed account of the death of Wilmot J. Hall at Rochester, New York. He was in Hanover only during a portion of the four years which accounts for the slight acquaintance many of us had with him.
September round-up of Class of 1914 at Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Assistant Secretary, Leighton Road, Wellesley, Mass.
