Class of 1911
YE OLDE TYMER5 ALMENACT For the Month of June DOE REDE AND GIVE HEDE 1 1909—Band elections held; Art Pease elected leader, and Frank Robinson, assistant manager of the Band, s Married—l9o9—Clarence Young and Edith L. Mellen; 1915—Les Gibson and Marion L. Thorne. 3 1889—Louis Hall arrived. 4 1887—Dick Chase born; 1915—Ernest Morrill and Mabel Wilder married. 5 1908—Last of the ninth inning of the Pennsylvania game on Alumni Oval; score 3-2 in favor of Pennsylvania; two men on base; two out; two strikes on Chuck Emerson at bat, whereupon he cracks out a three-bagger, scoring two men and winning the game. 6 ig 16—Gene Gardner took as wife Mary D. Oughton. 7 igog—Ernest Fox Nichols elected president of Dartmouth College at meeting of trustees in Concord, N. H. 8 Born—Raymond Storrs Morgan, 1913; John H. Card Jr., 1921. 9 Married—l9l3—Leo Muhlfelder and Grace Barnet; 1914—Harold Dykeman and Madeline Austin. 10 1916—Double wedding: Ray Veitch and Maud A. Schouler; Herbert Clark and Alice Ament. 11 1888—Three twins born—Art Theriault, Jack Boynton, and Austin Keough. 12 Reunion begins by celebrating Art Jackson's birthday; afternoon devoted to this event, and evening to the Hopkins' reception. 13 More birthday celebrations! This time for Roy Dowley and Les Waldron. Everybody sobers up to attend Alumni Luncheon at noon and Cornell game in afternoon. Big 1911 banquet in evening for the men in Stell Hall; outdoor supper party for the ladies at Thea Burleigh's, followed by theatre party in Webster Hall. 14 All drink health to Bradley Patten— -47 years old today; followed by grand exodus to Whitefield for day's outing with Frank Dodge. 15 Class join with Art Shepherd, Ned Judd, Sid Beane, and Neal Hotaling in celebrating their birthdays. This should call for several rounds. Most of the class stay on for Post-Reunion at Frank's; the rest return to Hanover Commencement exercises and home, and thus end formal celebration of 191 I'S Silver Jubilee.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All members of class returning to Reunion by train desiring special rates for round trip tickets please notify Nat Burleigh, Hanover, N. H., at once, so convention certificates may be mailed to you. These give you a special round trip rate of 1 y3 fare. There is no red tape about this special plan. To get the lower rate a person needs only to present the certificate to any ticket office in this country or Canada. The Secretary will be delighted to help anyone save money, but remember the time is short, and you must allow time for the mailing of the certificate to you.
Everything is all pointed for a grand Reunion. Special advance information from the Weather Bureau promises good weather for the week-end. Don't forget this will be your last and only opportunity to attend your 25th Reunion; for that reason many are coming who have never before been back. Let's give the boys a hand!
Below is evidence that the old Dartmouth spirit still lives, and if men can travel from California and the Middle West even though they can't afford it, how can any man in New England or along the Atlantic Coast fail in this crisis?
"SPECIAL NEWS FLASH!
"Just contacted Coke Holdman and he is coming to Reunion.
"STATION JAKE "Naugatuck "Conn."
This means that good, persistent Jake Lovejoy has at last cornered old Coke Holdman and made him promise. This will be Coke's first return to Hanover since 1911, and it is a much longer hop from the northwestern corner of the United States to Hanover, N. H., than Coke ever made when he was a famous Dartmouth pole vaulter and track captain.
Another heart thriller from Floyd Tindall: "I am in the midst of trying tofigure out some plan whereby I can makeHanover for the 25th. I realize that it isone golden opportunity to see men I havenot seen since 1909 and that I'll not seeagain.
"You know my practice is limited to obstetrics and June begins a hectic summerwith cases due all through the month.However, if the breaks are with me I'llleave here Thursday, arrive in HanoverFriday evening, and leave Sunday P.M. Iam figuring that the breaks will be withme."
In the same taail came two more fine news items. Bert Wheeler is sure-fire coming back. He is planning to drive; bring friend wife with him. Bert says business is better with him, and by and large better business reports should make for a very successful Reunion. The other item: A 1 Wheeler, formerly of Wellesley and later of Santa Monica, Calif., has returned to Boston, making his home at 751 Boston Post Road, Weston, and has already started repacking for the trip to Hanover.
Stan Eaton is in somewhat of a quandary. Stan has a boy who will graduate next year, and is therefore looking forward to his a6th Reunion instead of his 25th. He has another boy who will enter Dartmouth next year and whom he is planning to take to a camp in Colorado this summer. Yet he is going to try to make Hanover in June. In his business hours Stan is supervisor of real estate investments for the Equitable Life Insurance Company for the states of Wisconsin and Illinois.
From St. Paul, Minn.: "Well, it's beginning to look as if I might make it. In factI am now quite sure I can, and I am doingall I can to convince my good wife, Julia,that she should accompany me. I refer ofcourse to the 25th.
"I am glad to tell you that my family isall well, and I hope you and yours are. Iam looking forward with great pleasure Iassure you to seeing you all again.
"DUKE DUNNING."
It would really be too much to expect Sam Richardson to get back from the Belgian Congo, and you probably will agree with him that there would not be one chance in a thousand to get to Reunion. Yet, you will be interested to know that although in the heart of Africa he was able to get the broadcast of the Dartmouth-Yale game very clearly over the radio and celebrated the momentous event that same evening with all other Dartmouth men.
Sam Pickering writes: "Yes, I am planning to attend and bring the wife with meif arrangements can be made for the children. Trust the response is getting betteras the zero hour approaches and that whenwe all get together the class of 1911 willbe among the 'top notchers.'"
Deac Trask yields reluctantly to the decision that he cannot make Reunion, but parts of his letter will interest you. "It is:out of the question this year. We have bothbeen so pressed—l with work toward asabbatical and Marion with winding upthis year's preliminary work at Buck Hill.If the sabbatical goes through, we shallbe making Sears-Roebuck tracks for theRio Grande at the earliest possible moment. And as school ends June 1 thatmeans pronto. In any case I have writingthat I must get at this summer immediatelyand can't afford to take time out, to getready for, and then to recuperate from, aReunion.
"Marion joins me in best wishes to youall, and I hope the Powwow turns out tobe a WOW!"
He adds that Walt and Tib Reilly's new son, Henry Trask IV Aloysius Reilly, is some beby!
FROM SOME OF THE BOYS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA
Paul Ayer and Dutch Whitman both expect to be at Reunion Archie Winship hopes to be here, and will be if it is at all possible Jim Cuddy wants to be here. He is a little uncertain, because June is his busy month and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Jim, you know, is in the trucking business, and maybe he can find a load of goods coming to Hanover that day. Perhaps he might even fill a truck with tgiiers No question about Fred Sprague. Of course he will be at Reunion. He will leave immediately afterwards to attend his Dental School reunion, thereby killing two reunions with one bottle Chub Snow says he is coming to Hanover anyway with his wife and daughter. By the way, Chub is now special sales agent for Gulf Oil Company —the iron works and oil burner business having gone to pot, but he is going great guns in his new field! .... The Boston boys are working on Les Gibson, which means he undoubtedly will be with us. . . . . Hugh Kenworthy has promised to bring Ralph Sprague, since they live not far apart in Pennsylvania Promises to return have also been received from Art Bush,. Jim Cuddy, and John Mullen.
The Secretary saw Austin Keough in New York recently, who said of course he was coming to Reunion, that everybody knew that and it wasn't necessary to even say so. He was right. Of course we knew he was coming; so his name was put on the list anyhow.
Ted Stafford and George Morris are driving up from Washington together, and both promised to arrive in a sober condition.
Pug Sanborn advises that he also is driving from Washington either with wife or other friends. In any case he'll be among those present.
Carl Bowker in a letter seemed a bit doubtful, but Eleanor Curtis, Bill Curtis' attractive daughter, said that her father is coming and is going to bring Carl along with him.
From Boli Sherwin: "I expect to returnfor the Reunion, but do not know how longI can stay. My son Robert is graduatingfrom Tilton School at about the sametime, and I would like to attend bothfunctions, He has applied for entrance tothe freshman class at Dartmouth next fall,and I expect to get a lot of pleasure out ofliving with him his four years at Hanover,even though 'it is of course only the mistypart for me."
There is <a slight doubt in Art Ganley's mind. He says: "I'm still uncertain aboutreturning to Hanover. Our present planscall for <i trip to Europe this summer unless those fellows over there get down toreal fighting and make travel too difficult.Like the old whiskered boys you say weare, I would like to add to the above 'withreservations,' which means I may sneak upfor a day or two anyway."
Ned Judd is planning to be here with his wife, but can't yet say for how long, since the dates conflict with Ned's school's closing date. Incidentally, Ned has just taken his M.A. degree at Columbia.
This pleasing letter below is from Bertha Seaver, wife of the fellow known as Hen.
"After reading and thoroughly enjoying the fine letter by Ruth Backus, I hasten to tell you that our daughter Marjorie and I will also be with you for the 19x1 reunion. We did mention it to father, but we find him a bit absentminded at times.
"Twenty-five years ago, when we were very young, we traveled up to Hanover for Commencement. We fell in love with the quaint old town and with Dartmouth. Each reunion is a home-coming, and do tell Ruth Backus that there is no such thing as being 'only a Dartmouth wife.'
"Once having been to the college, you are of it and for it, forever.
"The years do bring compensations, and perhaps, because of the knowledge gained through them, added happiness.
"It will be wonderful to have our daughter with us at Hanover, for the first time. Perhaps you will recall that she was almost the first baby."
Cap Hedges writes as follows: "Coleen, David, and I are planning to attend the 25 th year reunion o£ my class. Possibly Horace Jr. may accompany us, as he has never been East and we want him to see the College and New England.
"Coleen and I expect to leave here-June 6. Drive to New York, pick up David, who hopes to have his vacation at that time, and proceed from New York to Hanover. After Reunion in Hanover, I understand there is to be a Post-Reunion at Whitefield. If such is the case, we will take that in also.
"Coleen is a province vice-president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The sorority is holding its national Convention at Montebello, Quebec, which is between Montreal and Ottawa. We expect to drive to Montebello and leave Coleen, as the convention lasts a full week beginning June 21. She will come home by train. David and I will proceed by motor back to lowa.
"These are our plans, if all goes well." Here are a few men from whom no definite answer has been received, although a few on the list have said they hope to come. Surely most of them will be here, but if any of you fellows happen to know any of these chaps or have even ever heard of them before, don't hesitate to let them know about the Reunion and that we are counting on them.
Jack Boynton, Clint Elwell, Hal Halstead, Ted Harvey, Bob Hatch, Mike Hill, Mahl Hill, Dutch Erwin, Clyde Locke, Phil McQuesten, Hub Pierce, Francis Qua, Walt Reilly, Steve Rossiter, Bob Sault, Art Shepherd, Guy Steeves, Biff Thompson, Charlie Warren, Cap Weston.
This is the last official information you will receive with regard to the Silver Jubilee. It is up to you from now on. If there has been hesitation up to date, let there be no longer. Come! ALL ABOARD!
Two Wild Mexicans Hal and Swede
Secretary, Hanover, N. H
Boy I HOPS THIS ? WE CAN ALWAYS CRATEo HOLOS wALK!! TOGETHER'TLL HANOVER WE GFT THERE
