Class of 1924

Were it not for the weight and drag transferred to the feet, on skis for the second time this year, a camera in your scribe's hand might have done some justice to a description of the St. Patrick's Day pee-rade to Moosilauke. Especially helpful would the lens have been in settingdown the tiller-style descent of that skiing veteran Don Wilbur as he negotiated Hell's Highway. The new Boston & Maine Yankee Clipper streamliner carried 144 up to Warren, trucks toted passengers another five miles, and skis conveyed the experts, the halt, and the lame to the Ravine Camp. Bob and Mrs. Strong drove over from Hanover (only two hours away). Bob and Mrs! Morgan, Win Farnsworth, Red Winslow, and Hookie Hagenbuckle, all in the "nimble class," made the trip. Bob Morgan did some interesting reminiscing on losing his way freshman year around the Ravine and ending up in a logging camp several hours later. Aside from the thrills and beauties of the spot, any traveler that day can look back on some plain and fancy singing (three hours of it) well "tenored" by Hookie.

Before closing that episode it might be well to note that the French professor of Andover expects to return to France this summer with a group of undergraduates.

A word about Jim Newton's premature jump into space from the Bobsled Run at Lake Placid, mentioned in the last notes, brought a quick letter. "I am beginning torecover from publicity shock and newsprintburns as a result of the bobsled accident.Am now interested in getting a run builtsomewhere in New England so that I canpractice and bob my team into better thanfifth place in future Olympic trials. Thefirst four go to Europe next year. For work,I am publishing a small paper for theAdult Education Council of Greater Boston, legging for news, soliciting advertising, chasing copy, rendering bills, and trying to collect them."

Back from Atlantic City and the Convention of educational dignitaries via a Worcester publisher comes a card from Joe Moyes, still covering the East or parts thereof for Silver, Burdett & Co., of Boston, school book publishers.

Right about here belongs the picture of Ken and Mrs. Davis, how far from the home port of Manchester not disclosed. Ken and his father are general agents for Mass. Mutual Life.

And now for a political story. In bold face type, boxed and in a prominent spot of the Boston Herald, March 11, appears the following: "Abington Thomas H.Buckley, state auditor, received the votesof 752,264 Massachusetts citizens when hewas elected to his state office last fall, buthe couldn't find the 50-odd votes heneeded for re-election as moderator in hishome town today. Buckley, who has beenmoderator here for several years, was defeated by John R. Wheatley (Pete toyou), son of Dr. F. G. Wheatley, a predecessor of Buckley, who was moderator foryears. Wheatley's margin was 48 votes.The totals were: Buckley 1091; Wheatley1137."

Thanks for spotting this and sending it along to Red Winslow, who announces, to go back a moment, that the Moosilauke trip gave him a greater thrill than the one occasion he went off the ski jump in Hanover, nose first.

Another "front pager" rates not only a story but his picture in Time magazine, April 8 issue, page 75. The Architectural Forum conducted a contest for houses which offered the fullest physical intellectual and social developments of the American family. Two thousand forty architects submitted plans. Ted Lamb (blond) and his associate R. Paul Schweikher walked off with the grand prize of $2500 for a larger house best suited to a temperate climate with an arrangement allowing parents and each child separate garden or terrace for sun bathing or play.

Bill Fawcett has deserted the dental equipment field for the Investor's Syndicate Title Mortgage Co., with present territory in and around Hudson, N. Y. His letter from the General Worth Hotel didn't sound too cheery, with his family visiting in Tennessee and no Dartmouth alumni addresses to look up.

The Santa Barbara paper recently carried the following: Keith Johnston of San Ysidro announces the engagement of his sister Ruth to Wales Richardson Holbrook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wales Hoi brook of Holbrook, Mass. (Hobey gave up his school the first of the year and became headmaster of La Loma Feliz School of Santa Barbara, which he finds extra perfect right now. He's coming East this summer for the first time in several moons.)

Ken and Mrs. Davis '24 A day off from insurance in Manchester, N. H.

Secretary, . 12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.