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Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
Dartmouth Night, March 9, was celebrated by Seventeeners in Boston with a dinner at the Yacht Club, and in spite of the storm eleven men appeared to enjoy Howie Stockwell's description of the trip to the Stanford Pow-wow, followed by his nine hundred feet of scenic color movies, and a reel taken by Sqique Maclntyre in the Northwest after the game. Several Bostonians complimented Spique to this correspondent for taking a number of the shots while standing on his head around Portland, Banff, and Lake Louise. Apparently those present at dinner emulated his acrobatics and viewed the pictures right side up, if you know what we mean. Andy Anderson, George Currier, Roy Halloran, Ken Holden, Sam MacKillop, Sunny Sanborn, Ray Sault, Roger Stone, and Errol Thompson made up the balance of the party.
Stockie's plant, the Barbour Stockwell Co., at Cambridge, is turning out special machinery for industrial plants all over the world, and Howard is responsible for the administrative, financial, and purchasing ends of the enterprise. At home he keeps his Silver Theatre busy for the Belmont De Molay boys, Boy Scouts, and visiting Seventeeners. And he has never missed a Belmont Town Meeting, of which he has been an elected member for several years. At this time of the year he and Dorothy are busy every minute improving and enjoying the cascade of terraces and beautiful rock gardens back of their home. Fred, Dick, Joan, and Martha are in school at home, Stuart is at Clark School, and Howard Junior is completing his third year at Hanover.
Lee and Butch Sherman came down from Brattleboro to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera season at Boston, March 16, and heard her brother, Lawrence Tibbett, in the Falstaff role. Spique Maclntyre joined them for the performance and the party given by Mr. and Mrs. Tibbett at the Copley Plaza after the performance.
While Arch Earle was providing the music for the Dartmouth Night party at the New York Dartmouth Club, a foursome of Seventeeners gathered at the banquet of the New Jersey Association at the Montclair Golf Club, voted "aye to the election of the absent Gil Swett as vice-president of this large alumni group, and produced a very rah-rah "Seventeen Up" as Sumner Emerson, chairman of the Alumni Fund, got up to sound his golden call. Karl Koeniger was beaming all evening, particularly while Mac Switzer, also a former president of the New Jersey Association, was trying to charge the rate of hair-fall to life at the Bankers Trust Cos. Mac had too much of a head start in college to get any listeners on that score.
The Rochester Evening News for January 19 carried a pen and ink feature on Mosher S. Hutchins with a grand portrait of our executive committeeman. The cartoonist, Jack Moranz, pictures Mose's educational background, army record, family life, and accomplishments in his advertising agency, as reported to the class over the past years, but adds this: "His hobby is tennis-past president Rochester Tennis Club, chairman of Umpires' Committee, Great Lakes Lawn Tennis Ass'n—Member of Genesee Valley, Sodus Bay Heights Golf, Dartmouth and Auto Clubs, Rochester Pilots' Ass'n, National Aeronautical Ass'n, and Chamber of Commerce."
ATTENDING THE WORLD'S FAIR?
When you come to the New York World's Fair be sure to 'phone Don Brooks, The Texas Corporation, Chrysler Bldg., or your Secretary, Look, Inc., 551 Fifth Ave. We want to see you and will give you the addresses of other New York and New Jersey Seven teeners. If you forget our addresses, go to the Dartmouth Club, 30 East 37th St., and consult their records.
At the Golden Gate Exposition, look up Naas Young, E. W. Axe Cos., 909 Ruse Bldg., San Francisco, Jack Baer, Apt. 8, 2130 Leavenworth St., and Ray Collerd, Spindler and Saupee, 86 Third St.
Ralph Britton wrote Don Brooks from his new home address, 2405 North sth St., Harrisburg, Pa.: "Still with P.W.A. and been pretty busy getting a big new program started here in Pennsylvania since about July 1. Batching it all week here then going back to Philadelphia, Saturday P.M. for a day only was not so good, and we pulled up stakes, November 1.
"Been working so hard that I haven't had much of a chance to look the town over. However there appear to be a few good golf courses around, and the country is interesting for hiking and camping. When spring -comes, Daddy along with Susanne 11, and Ralph Jr., 4, will be on the loose, Sat. P.M. and Sundays. With many good-looking trout streams near by and with the 'Trout Fisherman's Paradise' up near State College at Belfont you will be able to locate me out on a stream after April 15."
Curly and Ann Carr came to New York in March for their annual theatre spree and a visit to Washington Your reporter goes to Hanover May 12, looking for some fresh ideas at the annual meeting of class secretaries.
Isn't it great to hear from Al Cheney after all these years? Hope he has been able to toss away the cane since writing on January 25: "I have been located here now for almost twenty years, and unfortunately, when I get to the States, which is once every two or three years, my trips are a combination of business with very little time for pleasure. That is why I have been unable to get back to Hanover since '17.
"For the last ten years I have been in business for myself under the name B. A. Cheney & Son, Inc., and any mail addressed to me San Juan, Puerto Rico, will eventually get me.
"My family now consists of three, two boys and a girl. The oldest boy is a freshman at Georgia Tech., studying to be a chemical engineer. My daughter is expecting to be married this June, and my youngest boy, ten years old, has not the slightest idea what he wants to do. "For the last eight months I have been laid up with arthritis, in fact I was in bed for three months and could not move my hands or feet. I can now manage to get around by using a cane, and expect that in two or three months I will have completely recovered.
"I can't tell you anything about hurricanes now. However we had two major blows, one in 1928, and another in 1932 that nearly blew me and my business off the Island. Please pass the word on to all Seven teeners to be sure and look me up if they ever get this far off the beaten path."
From the nation's capital comes the first word from Ralph Wells in a long while, and we hope it is a harbinger of much class news to come from our eight men living there. Monk reports: "I have been here in Washington since the spring of 1921, so I guess by now I may be called a native of the city. My title with the Tariff Commission, and you asked for it, is Commodity Specialist, and the products which I handle are hides and skins, leather of all types, boots and shoes, and other leather manufactures.
"We live in Maryland about nine .miles from Washington, and just three minutes from the Argyle Country Club. My son David is only 13, so as yet he cannot beat the Old Man at golf, which is my favorite sport. Since moving pictures were shown at the last annual meeting at the golf club my nickname has been changed from 'Monk' to 'Wiggle Puss.' But I can still win my share of the 10-cent skins. Each Tuesday the Dartmouth alumni in Washington meet at the Annapolis Hotel for luncheon. Here I occasionally see an old '17er I will endeavor to get them all out for one of these Tuesday luncheons."
FOUR MORE ROSES PALIN'S AMBITION
Congratulations to Barbara and Milburn Palin on their third Youngster, Peter, born February 23. "Rusty" is five and Louise is three. At a conclave with the Holdens and your scribe one March evening in Providence, Mil was regretful that Peter was not quints, so after seven years of married life he could nose out Howie Stockwell, with six, and catch up to Wayne Palmer, with his seven. Rusty and Peter are both entered in Hanover. Mil and his sales force represent Frankfort Distillers in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Class Agent Maclntyre sends us the following:
DO YOU KNOW THAT-
THE ALUMNI FUND CAMPAIGN IS SEVERAL WEEKS ALONG? SUMMY EMERSON IS BIG CHIEF OF THE WHOLE JOB? WE WERE $400.00 SHORT OF OUR 1938. QUOTA? TO MAKE OUR 1939 QUOTA WE NEED MORE AND BIGGER CHECKS?
LET'S GET BEHIND SUMMY AND THE CLASSMAIL A CHECK (BIGGER IF POSSIBLE) TO HANOVER TODAY.
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