1909*

Bob Burns and I, with my young son, Stevie, went up to Hanover the Saturday before February 22 and had a beautiful time. With the Savilles and Mrs. Saville's son, Kenneth Mac Donald (who is an important executive figure in Outing Club activities and a very nice fellow), we watched some magnificent ski jumping in the afternoon. We also watched various events in the Hanover Children's Carnival. The way some of the 12-year-olds performed in the slalom, for example, would be highly creditable, from the point of form of skill and control at least, in any company. We had a very good dinner at Thayer, and then went to the Princeton basketball game. The honorable Burns, being an ex-basketball player of course, appreciated the clever team work and position plays of the varsity fully. But even to my untutored eye, it was a beautiful thing to watch. I found myself yelling with just as much enthusiasm as I had when I watched Ben Lang, Dutch Schildmiller, Mower, Phil Avery, Bob Burns, at al. The game certainly has lost the semifootball aspect that it had in our day, but it is at least twice as fast.

The rest of the time went much the same, except that Stevie and I did some skiing and played some squash, while we watched track, swimming, boxing, etc., and visited.

As a by-product, we also saw Max Norton and Gooding about reunion details. We are to have Hitchcock, where we were once before, much to our gratification and probably somewhat to the disappointment of 1914. While we are sorry for 1914 (which is only slightly inferior as a class), we appreciate our own good fortune. We are planning to have lawn umbrellas, chairs, and what not on the lawn out front and a tent in the vacant space between Hitchcock and Crosby. Probably breakfast will be served in the tent Satur- day and Sunday, if nothing more. Fur- ther details will be announced in our next issue, but your committees are working. We have had some nice letters. Some of the crowd are having difficulty making arrangements to be with us because their children are graduating from other in- stitutions at the same time. Bert French's daughter Eleanor, for example, is a senior at the Massachusetts School of Normal Art. Mrs. French is one of the incorpo- rators, one of the directors, and a teacher of the Cape Cod Institute of Music at East Brewster. Bert Jr. is a sophomore at Hanover. We expect the Frenchs will be there in spite of their other engagements.

While Bobbie, Stevie, and I were pretty busy, we got in touch with as many sons of classmates as we could locate. They are a nice crowd and all doing at least reasonably well.

Art O'Mara's boy has been doing well as a swimmer and also has a very good scholastic record.

The Worthen family were in Hanover visiting Tommie and Joe's brother's boy, Fred Worthen. Joe, Dot, and all the rest of the family did quite a lot of skiing, and they are all good. Personally, I have reached the point in my alleged skiing where hard, wind-swept slopes, dotted with patches of very slippery ice, have lost much of their appeal, but Joe and Dot, to say nothing of the children, tackle even such going at full speed and with first-class control.

As this is being written, the Tuttles are in Florida and Sam Bell has gone on his annual winter trip to visit his brother in California.

HANOVER HOLIDAY

Several families are considering staying in Hanover the week after reunion for the Hanover Holiday vacation. Those who stayed over last year, many of them from 1938, were very enthusiastic. Better give it a lot of thought. At about $3O each for a week, you get at least twice your money's worth, and it's difficult to conceive of any vacation for a Dartmouth group that could possibly be as much fun. For details, see the February issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Reunion, by the way, will begin Friday evening, June 16.

Fund, Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 101 (55% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,733 (53% of objective). HAROLD M. PRESCOTT, Class Agent.

1909

Adams, George R. Alvord, Russell O. Avery, Philip S. Bachelder, Everett E. Bankart, Henry R. Bates, Albert W. Beebe, John C. Bird, Francis H. Brett, Chester S. Brock, Fred S. Bruce, Robert M. Buchanan, Harry E. Burns, Robert A. Burpee, Benjamin P. Burroughs, Harry E. Buxton, Arthur L. Carroll, Frederick A. Catharin, Norman R. Chappelear, Edgar S. Clark, Harold S. Colley, Reginald H. Cummings, Clarence E. Dean, Lindley R. Dillingham, Herman L. Dole, C. Elbert Driscoll, James G. Dudley, Benjamin H. Dunbar, ClarenceE. Dwenger, George H. Erhard, Emile H. Farley, Leon B. Fleisher, Horace T. Follansbee, Merrill M. Ford, Edward C. Foreman, Harold E. French, Bertrand C. Gates, Stanley Goodrich, Ernest H. Graves, H. Wilbur Griffin, Trescott Hadden, Arthur A. Hammond, Karl R. Hawley, Jess B. Hazelton, Sidney C. Hinckley, George H. Hitchcock, James Holmes, Robert J. Holzer, William F. Hooker, Sanford B. Howard, Eliot R. Howland, Nathaniel J.

Johnson, Frederick C. Lane, Walter J. Leighton, Stanley W. Locke, Richard B. Loughlin, William A. McCurdy, Allan M. Martin, Edwin D. Mason, J. Karl Meleney, Henry E. Moffatt, Elbert M. Mower, Robinson H. Murchie, Harold H. Naylor, Emmett H. Parker, Thomas O. Parkinson, Taintor Patterson, William H. Perley, Rollin H. Perry, Chester N. Peterson, Howard B. Pettengill, Russell A. Prescott, Harold M. Reagan, Frank J. Root, Kenneth E. Ross, Wallace M. Saville, Clark Sheldon, Curtiss L. Sidley, Walter A. Simpson, C. Randolph Smith, Mark A. Sporborg, Arthur J. Stanley, Arthur B. Stark, Eugene M. Stone, Robert M. Storer, Perley N. Swenson, J. Arthur Thorn, Craig Tucker, Lynde W. Tuttle, James N. Ward, Harry A. Watson, Daniel E. Weinz, A. Gordon Wellsted, Thomas C. West, Vernon F. Whitcomb, Henry B. Whitmore, Harold C. Wight, Ralph M. Williams, Frank B. Wing, Richard L. Worthen, Joseph W. Wright, Louis F.

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