Class of 1913
This issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is being sent to everyone in the class. Dues bills are being forwarded. Please send your check at once and certainly before October 25, so that you will be assured of all other issues for 1937-1938. Most of the reunion dope will appear in these columns. In addition to this information you'll have for a year, as usual I hope, one of, if not the finest publications in the collegiate world.
Under John Remsen's leadership the class in the Alumni Fund "went to town," as Jack put it. 100% of its quota and 90% of contributors. Those few of you who regularly send checks and forgot this time feel worse than we do, for your check would have put us over the 90% contributor mark. We climbed over 1911 in contributors but not in amount, but walloped 1912 in both, in spite of its 25th reunion year. 1914 is the nut for us to crack now-6% more contributors than we had and 5% more quota. "Wait until next year."
"Night before the game." October 23 Dartmouth plays Harvard, and on Friday night, the a 2d, the class will assemble for dinner at the University Club, 40 Trinity Place, Boston, at 6:30. Please advise Warde Wilkins if you can and will attend. Dinner $1.50, other refreshments as ordered. ■
Commencement at Hanover was successful as far as 1913's party was concerned. Don Cunningham, Parker Trowbridge, Jake Enright, Marc Wright, Jack Nelson, Paul Harmon, George Knight, Bart Shepard, Bill Towler, Ted Davis, A 1 Dessau, Bob Conant, Fred Page, Harry French, T. D. Jewett, Louis Ekstrom, Babe Smith with his two daughters, and Wilkins were on hand. Don Cunningham and Warde Wilkins attended the Alumni Council meeting, as new members elected to serve for three years.
Sid Akerstrom is on sea duty and writes: "As you have found out, I am performing my tour of sea duty—normally, two years—and have completed ten months. While attached to this ship, any mail addressed to me c/o Postmaster, .New York City, will reach me, although it is very infrequently that we ever get to New York. Mail for all East Coast ships is ordinarily sent that way, unless you happen to know definitely that a certain ship is in a port and likely to remain there for some time. For instance, the Wyoming is at present in the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., undergoing periodical overhaul, and will remain here until 24 May, when we run up to Annapolis. Then begins the midshipman summer cruise for three months. As the tentative itinerary stands now, we visit Kiel, Germany, Athens, Greece, and Leghorn, Italy. However, there is some opposition to this particular cruise in that it has a long haul in tropical waters during the summer months, and therefore may be altered before the sailing date of 4 June."
Leeds Gulick came East this summer to undergo an operation at Baker Memorial Hospital. He was "confined" for about a month and then went to camp at Fairlee, Vt. He is in fine shape now, the operation "having been most successful.
Dr. Ralph E. Badger, banker and investment counsel,—yes, Phenney—testified in Federal Court as an expert witness in the suit of five railroad companies for a permanent injunction restraining New Jersey from collecting the entire amount of taxes levied for 1934, 1935, and 1936. Phenney is a great believer in travel by air, owns his own ship and tours as he pleases.
JUDGE HUGUS IN NEWS
As a "Special to the Herald Tribune" the following tennis news is of interest:
"Huguses Entertain at Dinner.—Mr. and,Mrs. Wright Hugus gave a dinner in theColonnades at Greenbrier tonight for contestants in the current West Virginia stateopen tennis tournament at the Greenbriergolf and tennis club."
Jay R. Runkle has resigned as general merchandise manager of the manufacturing division of Marshall Field & Cos. His successor has not been chosen.
Ethelbert Talbot has returned to New York from Kansas City, where he was connected with the police department. He is now located at 15 Sheridan Square with his family, and attends the New York class dinners.
Jack Macdonald is chief engineer for the Walsh Construction Cos. of Davenport, lowa. The company has the contract to build the new $60,000,000 East River Vehicular Tunnel.
More news from the West includes S. A. Stavrum, who is with the Wisconsin Transfer Yard, wholesale lumber, at Oshkosh, Wis., and Carl Grothe of the Northwestern Public Service Cos. at Huron, S. D.
How many of you were in on the finals of the Old Gold contest? Two or three in the class have already admitted it, so follow the winners and you'll know who are having their reunion expenses next June well paid.
Line Morton pulled away from Wm. Filene's Sons in Boston, where he has been so many years, and is now with Houbegant Sales Corp., 539 West 45th St., New York City.
Allan C. Thurman died on June 19, 1937, in Raleigh, N. C., after a long illness. Death resulted from a complication of illnesses which included heart trouble. Mrs. Thurman is at 702 North Blount St., Raleigh, with one son and a daughter, while Allan Jr. is employed by the Maryland Casualty Cos. in Charlotte, N. C. All attending our fifteenth reunion will remember the Thurmans and young Allan particularly, who, with Vivian Nelson, led all parades and functions. The sympathy of all is extended to the Thurman family.
"T. D." Jewett and Bob have been touring Europe again,—Paris, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Holland, England. They called on "Kippy" Tuck at the embassy in Paris to learn he is planning on Hanover for the 25th. They returned in August on the Qiieen Mary.
The sympathy of the entire class goes to Larry Stoddard. His mother died in August of a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in the Bronx. She was in her eighty-second year. Her husband, Larry's father, was president of the Thayer Society of Civil Engineers.
'13 UP
Do you remember the first "13 Up" twenty-eight years ago as it sounded through the dorms around the campus. It was a familiar call for the next four years, and every five years since June, 1913, the call has been answered. Now "13 Up," for it's the 25th. Does it seem possible? Twentyfive years is a long time, yet for most of us it has passed quickly, and while for most all it has been filled with good times and hard times, war, business cares, marriage, children, football games, reunions, vacation, depression, cuts, and advances, it has been a swell life in general even before the advent of "the more abundant life."
Suggestions for the reunion news or anything of interest to the class should be sent to the Class Secretary. Remember there is a 25-year report as well as the reunion. It is your reunion, and any ideas you have will be most welcome.
The following have already signified their intention to be present and some have been drafted into special jobs.
"Hap" Atwood Bill Catterall Clif Clarke Bob Conant Don Cunningham Chet Dudley "Jake" Enright Harry French Paul Harmon Hal Knight "T. D." Jewett "Mose" Lincott
Bob More Line Morton Jack Nelson Fred Page Bill Pierce Emmett Pishon Jack Remsen "Stub" Stoughton Bill Towler Parker Trowbridge "Kippy" Tuck Warde Wilkins
Len Manley Harold McAllister "Tubby" Merrill
Line Wilson Marc Wright
Be sure to get your name on this list at once. If we can add 20 names a month until June we'll win the cup for attendance.
Secretary, 40 Broad St., Boston
