Class of 1919
To fellow secretaries who are bewildered, as we have been these many years, as to how to get any news out of classmates, we wish to reveal a very successful method. Simply get sick and then have someone write and tell every one. It's simply amazing.
Spider reports of last Commencement period in June that if 'lgers continue to reune every year it will be necessary to have a dormitory assigned for their use. The following ' 1 gers were in Hanover: Bill McCarter, Stub Stoughton, Earl Blaik, Ray Adams, John McCrillis, Max Norton, Spider Martin, Bill Eddy, Red Murphy, Cottie Larmon, and Norm Jeavons. McCrillis and Adams were accompanied by their wives, and Norm Jeavons by his oldest boy Bill, who set the old man a terrific pace, particularly on the golf course, where he did an outlandish 75 while Norm was having difficulty just climbing the hills. Bill Eddy, who was shoving off to be president of Hobart, was at his which-is-saying- a-lot best in his valedictory speech.
Spider seemed to think that young Jeavons was to enter this fall, but Max, who hands out the room keys, says it ain't so. Maybe after seeing how the Dartmouth boys slowed up after a mere seventeen years out he decided to go to Ohio State or somewhere. This leaves, so far as we can find out, Bunny Burnett undisputedly the honor of being the first Proud Popper to have a son enter college. Young Sherwood entered this September, and the Proud Poppers Club is having a special medal struck off for Bunny.
From Southern Pines, N. C., where Doc Hodgkins is now banking, comes the sad news that his nine-year-old boy was run over by a truck last June. He was quite badly hurt, but when we heard was out of danger and recovering rapidly. Ray Hinds writes that Vic Goldiere and his wife stopped off with him a few days in June. Vic had been at Yale getting his Ph. D., and was on his way back to his teaching job at Davidson College in N. C.
Doctor Jock Murray has been resting up in Wolfboro, N. H., this summer. His letter in late August stated that he was getting braced to return to the job and would be in Hanover, where he acts as college psychiatrist, for the opening of college, and that he expected to be able, as was his custom, to find an hour or so each afternoon to look things over on Memorial Field. Now that is the kind of a job to have.
Jack Reilly, who adds his words of cheer, reports seeing Russ Potter in Hyannis, the Martins in New York, and Rock Hayes in Boston. He complains about wood shots that won't go straight. We regret that we can not take advantage of this situation, for we can still remember lying three right side "of the cup, silently counting the money, while Jack sunk a chip shot as long as his average brassie poke to half the match. We would like to erase that memory.
Louie Munro reports a word from the busy Bill Cunningham, who covered the Olympics for the Boston Post, in which he laments the fact that no 'igers manage prize-fighters or own baseball clubs, the which keep him so busy that he doesn't get to see his old classmates as often as he would like. We around Boston have felt bad about this too and regretted that some ham prize-fighters are always taking up Bill's time just when we have a get-to-gether, and of course the football newsgathering keeps him from our football parties. Full pages in press recently announced Bill as football commentator on a radio hook-up, Fridays at seven. And he is doing a good job at it too. This is only a small part of the golden harvest received, but we are hoarding the rest, for we know from experience that December will come again this year, and we can't go on being sick again and again just to get more news.
Secretary, 27 Coolidge Hill Rd., Cambridge, Mass.
