1917
LAST NOTICE OF OCTOBER GATHERINGS
PRINCETON GAME—Class dinner, Dartmouth Club, N. Y., Friday, October 7, beginning at five—no reservations necessary. Dinner and dance October 8. We gather at Princeton Inn after game and drive to Blue Hills Plantation, on highway —N. J. No. 29 at Dunellen. Dinner $3.00. Wire your Secretary reservations at once. .... HARVARD GAME—Class dinner, Boston University Club, Friday, October 21. Notify A. P. Maclntyre, 243 Marsh St., Belmont, Mass., or George Currier, Alcott Road, Box 64, Concord, Mass., you will attend. Directly after the game October 22 the Maclntyres invite us to bring our guests to their "open house." .... YALE GAME—October 29. Walk from Bowl to Bob and Anita Scott's "open house" and take your guests—7l Alston Ave., New Haven, Conn.
SINCE JUNE
What has happened since the class notes in the June MAGAZINE were written? We have reached maturity as alumni, whether we like it or not—2l years out.
Last May 14 the Dartmouth Secretaries Association, meeting at Hanover, heard the secretary of the Alumni Fund read off the ten classes having the worst standing on the campaign, at that date. 1917 led the list, number sixty out of sixty alumni classes! After the meeting a small wager was made and considerable satisfaction to 1917 should be found in a July letter from that grand guy, Al Dickerson: "As I remember the basis of our wager, it was that you bet that 1917 would end up in as high a position in the ranking on the percentage of contributors as last year, which was, needless to say, a sporting bet at a time when 1917 was reposing in the very cellar of the Alumni Fund ranking on this basis. I find that by dint of improving die percentage of contributors from 62% to 68%, good old '17 moves up from 43d in 1937 to 40th place in 1938, and I take real pleasure in sending to you the enclosed slightly shopworn picture of George Washington." Isn't that a nice compliment to you contributors, to Class Agent Maclntyre and his many helpers? The College average was 76% contributors. We're getting close and next spring Spique says— (Skip it, until next March).
New York's dinner in torrid weather, May 24, brought out Bill Birtwell, Don Brooks, Mike Donehue, Arch Earle, Kent Hawley, Dick Marschat, Ev Robie, Len Shea, and Gene Towler. Bill Birtwell is resident engineer for the P.W.A., supervising construction of the Bayonne, N. J., Port Terminal Earle was aiming at week-ends of sailing at Martha's Vineyard, between summer sessions at Katherine Gibbs School Sumner Emerson, starting a new term as a member of the Alumni Council, says he caught a 30-lb. salmon during his July trip to Eastern Canadian provinces Robie entertained Phil Evans at a concert and dance in Stamford early in the summer, then went east, caught Phil Blood painting his boys' playhouse in Swampscott, saw Bill Spearin and his two half-backs at Marblehead and says they're wonders Sam MacKillop turned in a picture of the Dartmouth golf team from the Boston Herald, showing that young Dick Harris is even more of a dead ringer for father Dan than he appeared at Twentieth Reunion Pa Holt writes from the College of Law, University of Illinois, Urbana, that he is building a Georgian Colonial home for his bride, looking out on mile after mile of prairie. Harold expected to head East for salt swims and sailing, as a change from his horseback riding around Urbana. His new home address is 308 Florida Ave., Urbana.
A tap on the shoulder on the dance deck of the Queen of Bermuda, June 6, developed the welcome presence of Peg and Slatz Allen, who joined us at Scarrington, Paget, for a week of grand recreation. Ray threatens to gather you Hartford men for a dinner or two next winter. You'll get short notice, for he's in Hartford today, Pittsburgh or Dallas tomorrow, as assistant to the vice president of casualty insurance at Travelers' headquarters, and he broke all the Bermuda records for train catching, also moonlight swimming, sailing, and dancing Roy Halloran attended the Child Guidance Conference at Washington in June, as New England representative. In August the Hallorans entertained Don and Helen Brooks for a week-end at Waltham. Howard and Dorothy Stockwell were present, and the party ended up in the latters' complete theatre where all the young Stockwells perform.
Ed and Irma McGowan's two thousandacre farm "Timber Top" at East Rindge, N. H., was the scene of a record-breaking week-end gathering late in July. Forrey Emery dropped over Friday night from his farm at Durham, N. H. Saturday the MacIntyres arrived. The McGowans have a lot of Hereford cattle, New Hampshire red pullets, pigs, barns, stone walls, lakes, mountains, and woods to keep young Terry and Tom in training, and the visiting firemen found hospitality abundant. Week-ends until cold weather always find Ed at the farm, central to the Wyandotte Worsted mills in four New. England states, which he superintends.
Congratulations to Arch Gile, police judge of Hanover .... to the Tobins on William Kilborn Tobin born March 8.. . . and to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Campbell on Anne Greeley Campbell, born at Hanover on March 26.
Sherman writes that he and Lee will be on hand at the Yale and Harvard games. Butch forwarded some copies of Ralph Sanborn's wonderful tenth reunion class book, and if you haven't a copy of this valuable volume, send Don Brooks one dollar with your order; first come first served, while they last Walt and Grace Ferguson looked fine in August,—were week-ending a lot at Cape Cod Charlie Wolff parked the family at a Manasquan, N. J., cottage all summer so he was in New York a lot Keyes Page is with Dufay Color, R.C.A. Building, New York, assisting the president on financial matters, and will be at the pre-Princeton dinner October 7 Don, Helen, Betty, and Billy Brooks put in a lot of strokes this summer at their Mountain Lakes, N. J., swimming club and were most generous to other Jerseymen Chuck Norby opened a new manufacturers' agency for building and heating supplies; office at 12a East 43d St., N. Y "Asty" Bartlett spent week-ends away from his Boston optical business in his swimming pool at his Acton, Me., farm, where he is all agog about experiments with chemical farming. .... Bones Torrey's new address is 36 Commercial St., Bath, Me Shorty Scott has seen Palin, Healey, and Tracy during the summer, but they were short of news. . . . .Aaron Davis' firm is Davis and Catterall, 40 Worth St., N. Y., and we're looking for him at all class dinners Frank Grady continues to be the successful, affable advertising agent at 570 Lexington Ave., N. Y., and Duhamel says he'll lasso him for a class party yet Charlie Stone expected to teach psychology all summer at University of Colorado, then tour the Pacific Coast before returning to Hanover. . . . .Bunny Holden jumped to Utah, August first, to care for a sick business associate, but has spent most week-ends at his summer camp Ralph and Ethel Sanborn ended August, fishing at D. Basil O'Connor's camp at Lake Memphremagog, Georgeville, Quebec. No report as to catch.
There are now 35a members of the class whose addresses we know. And it's always a thrill to receive news of some member who hasn't appeared in these columns recently. Won't you please try to remember to send the Secretary word whenever a Seventeener does anything interesting? And don't be bashful about your own affairs.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE HOLIDAYEd McGowan, Ruby Maclntyre, SpiqueMaclntyre, Irma McGowan and LucileTowler—at McGowan's "Timber Top"Farm,, East Rindge, N. H.
Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
