1917*
"Before spring fever, daylight saving, the World's Fair, and the next war set in, let's have another eisteddfod at the Dartmouth Club," wrote Arch Earle to the New York gang, and nineteen men turned out the seventeenth of April to visit, dine, and wind up in song or a game of cards. Here's the list: Don Brooks, Ed Burns, Arch Earle, George Currier, Mike Donehue, Sumner Emerson, Fred Goodwin, Trott King, Fred Leighton, Dick Marschat, George Montgomery, Len Reade, Bud Robie, Sam Saline, Len Shea, Art Stout, Gil Swett, Gene Towler, and Charlie Wolff. The mellow harmonies of Roger Bird's University Quartet entertained us at dinner. The group sat around the big table quite a while, talking about Seventeeners in other cities, discussing class activities, and sharing the latest story. Treasurer Brooks estimated the number who have paid class dues in the fiscal year now ending has increased twenty per cent, thanks largely to the wider distribution of class news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Len Shea, organizing the New York Alumni Fund Campaign, sounded a call for more workers, and bigger and prompter checks, with Fund Chairman Emerson glowing all over at the thought of a bigger performance by Seventeen.
It was Ed Burns' first appearance in years, and he's the same ruddy stalwart with an added air of genial prosperity. Ed manages four Childs restaurants in the Newark area; his office is located at 158 Market St. He lives at 31 Burlington Road, Allwood, N. J., says he has two future Dartmouth men, one two years old and the other about nine weeks, and Ed can see the latter graduate when Juniors Stockwell and Trenholm and Dan Harris 3d (1940 Senior Fellow) are holding their Tremendous Twentieth Reunion like their daddies used to do It was Fred Goodwin's first New York reunion. He came to New York recently from Philadelphia, is selling photographic art works, and looks almost the same as he did in college, and there would be no difference if he put on that big black female wig again and rehearsed his stuff alongside Don Richmond in "The Witching Hour," on the boards at Webster, with Director Swett bawling him out from the balcony, and Judge Hill mumbling something about "delicate odor of mignonette" every time he relieved his bulging hip pocket Ev Robie was forced to admit blushingly that he could accommodate a few more Seventeeners' sons at Camp Sawosett, Lake Winnepesaukee, if sufficiently urged Fred Leighton's first meeting with the gang brought out his trips to the Southwest and Mexico, importing Indian and Mexican goods for New York department stores and his retail establishment at 129 Fifth Ave Dick Marschat is active in the comptroller's office at the World's Fair, but conducts the Knickerbocker Employment Agency at 116 Nassau St., as usual George Montgomery's law practice has taken him to England several months at a time since he joined us last time, a year ago. He lives at 555 Davis Ave., Staten Island, N. Y Charlie Wolff says he's still commuting between the American Bemberg office in New York and the mill and home at Elizabethton, Tenn. If we don't have a war he'll again tie any Seventeeners' record for attendance at football games next fall. (Notice of the big football parties will be in the next issue—October first!)
Gil Swett reports improvement in the sale of new homes around Maplewood, N. J., and he is flying regularly these days with the New Jersey National Guard.
George Currier is spending a lot of time in New York now, at the Belmont Plaza, East 49th St., and will have to give up the pleasure of rounding up the Boston gang for dinners, after years of excellent work and constant interest. Sam MacKillop has taken up the job where George left off, has shown one hundred per cent attendance for many years, and will set the Bostonians a merry pace. As this goes to press he is working on an outdoor party for some Saturday in June.
Professor Earle had lunch with Tom O'Neill at the N. Y. Dartmouth Club recently, enrolling Tom's daughter in Katharine Gibbs School.
Associated Press reports dated April 22, announced that Dr. William J. Mayo was reported in good condition after undergoing a major operation at Rochester, Minn., performed by Dr. Waltman Walters, clinic staff member and son-in-law of Dr. Mayo. Don and Lucy Litchard are enjoying life at their West Acton, Mass., farm and he has gone back to work on his tennis strokes in recent years. Anne is eleven, Joan ten, and Lydia four. Don has his own business in Boston, dealing largely in over-the counter securities.
Palmer and Helen Riser and daughters, Nancy (13), Phyllis (10), and Mary Joy (8), have moved to 222 Centre Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Palmer sells for Aetna Life Insurance Cos., 60 East 42d St Bob Scott sent his fifty-footer Bonita to Jacksonville in the late fall, he and Anita, with the two children of the same names, boarded her January 28, cruised gypsy fashion down the East Coast and tied up a month at Pass-a-guille in the Gulf. Bob says golf interfered with fishing constantly. The Scotts plan to cruise to New York for the Fair and look up all Seventeeners handy In April both Derrill Trenholms '17 and '40, attended the luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Western N. Y. at Buffalo's Hotel Touraine. Trennie reuned with "baldish Barney" Thielscher and Burt Gale. He also says the U. S. Army Recruiting News, April issue, carried an interesting article on Regimental Heraldry of the 104 th Infantry, Massachusetts National Guard, by none other than our own Captain Warner B. (Skinny) Sturtevant, Regimental Adjutant, residing as ever at Springfield.
PROVE IT, HANDSOME!
Howard crowded the eight Stockwells into one picture, and Wayne Palmer wrote he would send in a shot when he can round up all nine in one place at the same time. No one else can compete in this type of photography—but maybe you have some unusual recent picture of yourself, or will remember your scribe and catch some shots on your vacation. We need a pile of good snapshots, containing all the action and human interest possible, with a close-up of a Seventeener in each. We're working on a hot publicity idea, and we need glossy prints as fast as you can take pictures. Make a note of this now! And send news with your photos.
The aforesaid Palmer now turns up in Alabama with the following letter to our class agent: "Culminating the efforts of a number of months, I am now a member of the firm of Wilberding and Palmer, engineering and financial consultants, St. Michael and Royal Sts., Mobile, Ala When we completed the financing of a 14,000,000 vehicular tunnel to be built under the Mobile River in this city, we fixed upon this good town as our location. I will be for two years in charge of this one operation. We are spreading our activities, however, and I believe that this move to the South is as permanent as anything can be these hectic days. It has been a long trek from my original home in the South through New England to college, five years in the Navy, a dozen years back in New England, five years in Washington, and now back to the South again.
"It has occurred to me that many of the Seventeeners must find that their business brings them to this budding metropolis and I will join with Mrs. Palmer and the seven children in extending a royal welcome to any who will be kind enough to stop off to see me."
Motoring outside of Providence recently, we had a chance to visit with Sherm and Mrs. Smith in their attractive brick home looking over the quaint village of East Greenwich, R. 1., and the vast sweep of Narragansett Bay. Neither has changed a bit since many of us last saw them at Tenth Reunion. Sherm's flair for the printed word, demonstrated of old in the "Seventeen Sentry," has carried him. through years of advertising agency operation to his present position in c'.arge of sales promotion and advertising for Bostitch, Inc. He was hungry for gossip about a lot of classmates, hopes to make the New York World's Fair and see a lot of us then. He teaches psychology at Northeastern University, Providence, one night a week during the first semester. Natalie is now fifteen and Alan twelve, the latter headed for Dartmouth.
Before we set this issue aside—have we forgotten something? Class Agent A. P. Maclntyre (243 Marsh St., Belmont, Mass.) sends word that time is getting short. The Alumni Fund Campaign closes June 30 for checks at Hanover! Only forgetfulness and procrastination can stand in the way of a good performance by 1917. If all who contributed last year will
"stick," and a few new contributors will come in, we'll catch up with the percent of contributors for the alumni as a whole. If possible, make your check bigger this year. Can't many of us shoulder a little more of Dartmouth's expense, and put 1917's quota across?
MAIL YOUR CHECK TO HANOVERNOW!
Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
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