Class of 1913
Have you sent the postal card to Wilkins advising that you expect to attend the Reunion?
Dessau, Meleney, Catterall, Stoddard, Stoughton, Runkle, Remsen, and Wells attended the April class dinner in New York at the new Dartmouth Club.
Ralph Stone has been elected vestryman in the St. Marks-on-the-Bouwerie Episcopal church.
Jay Runkle's son graduates from Dartmouth this June. Stubby Stoughton's son, class of 1939, plays in the Barbary Coast orchestra. Hank Merrill, son of Tubby, has just been elected director of competitions for the D.O.C. winter-sports council and one of the members of the 1939 carnival committee.
Jack Macdonald has been re-elected president of the Thayer Society of Engineers.
Send in your check to Jack Remsen, 635 E. 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. "1953 cannot fail in a Reunion Year."
Al Laird from his Mutual Benefit H. and A. Association office in Burlington, Vt., wrote Mose Linscott:
"I hope to live long enough to haveyou come up here and do a little fishing.
I don't mean the 'Doc' Willis kind either.You can tell 'Doc' that I don't think muchof his skill and you may get a little reaction.
"I live in hopes that both business andfishing will improve, but doubt if wewill notice it until 1940. Even the trouthave got so that they will not speak toanyone less than a college professor."Take a'little drink for me at the Reunion and remember that I will be envying you. Best of luck in every way."
"Pop" Warren writes from his Minute Tapioca Cos., Inc., desk:
"I am looking forward to the 25th. Itwill be here before we know it. I wantto see the old gang, swap experiences, andfind out ivhat the different ones are doing.
"The graduation of my older daughterfrom a preparatory school conflicts withthe 25th, so I shall have to shuttle betweenthe two events. I am planning to be therewith some of the family, and know weare going to have a grand time."
It is with the greatest regret we notify you in this column of the death of Kenneth F. Raitt on April 11, 1938, in West Hartford, Conn., at his home on Four Mile Road, from bronchial pneumonia. Notice was given in the Necrology last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The sympathy of the class goes to his widow Mary and his twin daughters Evelyn Mary and Marjorie Martha.
Edmund A. "Buck" Freeman wrote a fine letter about the Dartmouth dinner in Washington, and we hope the plans for his house guests in South Royalton, Vt., will work out so that Ernest Thomas and George and Helen Watts will be at the reunion with him. George and Helen say they will be in Hanover if they are not on the boat headed for Europe.
Send in your reunion information and above all else your reservation for room direct to Hanover.
1913 CAN'T FAIL IN A REUNION YEAR
Now's the chance, drop a line to Pierce Webster and tell him you are going to be in Hanover in June and want to see him.
Carl Shumway spent two weeks May 15-30 at Lakehurst, N. J., flying with the Navy.'
Mrs. Priscilla Phelan Johnson, widow of Art Johnson, and her three daughters have the sympathy of the entire class. Notice of Art's death will be found under Necrology in this issue of the MAGAZINE.
The rating activities of the New England Insurance Exchange in Boston were transferred to the New England Fire Insurance Rating Association as of April i, 1938. Warde Wilkins' official title was changed from assistant secretary to assistant manager.
Send your card to Wilkins, your room reservation to Hanover, your Fund check to Remsen, for "1913 can't fail in a Reunion Year."
Will every classmate who has published a book of any kind or has published magazine articles, please get in touch with the Secretary at once, so that copies may be exhibited in the Tower Room of the Library at Commencement.
After reading "Thirteen Up" Line Wilson sat down and sent:
"Certainly any letter I could write should not appear on the same page with those which you printed, because after all I am not a writer, just a steamship man. If I had written a letter it would have been very much like that of Hap Atwood. He expressed my sentiments exactly. I too would like to see the hair and girth of those skinny classmates of mine, many of whom I have not seen for 25 years.
"There are some reasons which Hap left out as far as I am concerned. I would like to hold forth in 6 Mass for a half day and see some of the usual habitues walk in—such as Larry Stoddard, Nat Rice, Fat Trowbridge, John Scarry, Norm Catterall, and yourself. I would also like to have a piano there, so Tubby Merrill could study his history and play piano at the same time. Usually he showed up just as I was about to put in my usual one hour a week of intensive study, and playing 'Sympathy' or something like it wasn't any help to me. No need of repeating the league meetings just before examination, because I still dream about examinations and graduation and wake up in a cold sweat because I have forgotten entirely to go to one class or another. Thank the Lord I graduated in 1913 and not in 1938, because I wouldn't be there now, and moreover I couldn't have graduated even if I had been admitted. Another thing I would like to do is play a bit of golf with all those classmates of whom I have been reading for the past ten years. Yick Nutt and Jack Alden always-seem to break the headlines on this kind of business. Another thing I would like to do is hire a team from Hank Howe's stable and drive to Lebanon over the top of the hill and not around it as you must go by automobile these days; time was when I walked there and back to a dance but this time a team would be bad enough. BUT if you really want to know what I would like to do it is this. Push back the calendar to September, 1909, and start all over again. That would be my idea of something to do.
"I don't think I can come in June; it is a bad month for the steamship business. What about that $10 tax? Do you want me to send you the tax or is it to be paid only by those who go? If it is a method to raise some money, let me know, because I still owe something to Dartmouth College and I want to do my part. What Ted Davis wrote about the bond was right; it has paid its interest each year, and long before this has been redeemed for far more than it cost me.
"I am sorry I live so far away. As you know I have been out here most of the time and have been to only one reunion, which I think was the 3d in 1916. Ray Bennett is my only neighbor, and he is a mere 4.76 miles to the south. I am looking forward to November with the football team coming out to play Stanford. I understand a special train is under way to come out here, and I hope they have two trains and that some of you fellows come along. You don't know how much I enjoyed our visit that afternoon in Boston and the two lunches I had in Boston."
Every day more cards are being received. These are additions to the list in "Thirteen Up." See you in Hanover in two weeks.
Frank Cushman, Ida, Gordon and Barbara; Bill Davis; Grover Fox, Elsie and Donald with a friend; Nate Lenfesty; George McClary and Nelson; Harvey C. McClary; Wallace McCoy; Raeburn McMahon; Stephen K. Perry; Bill Pierce and Ruth; Chuck S. Riley and Barbara; Chip Semmes; Russ Shepler, Mary and Annabelle; Babe Smith and Helen; Stub Stoughton, Grace, Howard Jr., Lincoln, Richard, and Nancy; Ike Tuck, Ethel and Charles; George Watts, Helen and Betty.
Bob Mungall says that Mildred and Janet will be in Hanover with him as "Janet graduates in June from Green Mt. Junior College."
John Noble and his wife with Philip Cushing, Edwin Austin, and Ann Leffingwell Noble "will be in Burlington aboutthe time of the reunion, so will be able toattend for one full day at least."
George Davidson is back from Florida, and he and his wife will be in Hanover.
Wish there was more time before going to press, for every mail brings in a few more cards with hat sizes.
Secretary, 40 Broad St., Boston
