1924
What with a barrage of Alumni Fund Bulletins, Reunion Ferments, and a 24Hour Notice, material for this column can not be said to be excessive. By the time you get around to cast an eye herein, you will have read most of it and be prepared for firsthand information two weeks away in Hanover.
Reunion "intendants" are touching 100 as this is written six weeks in advance. Don't fail to let this column know or tell Pinky Booth, same town, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, if you expect to be in Hanover. We can fix you up with a costume, \but you have to sing out pronto.
Charlie Wood who just at present hotfoots about Schroon Lake, N. Y., to prepare a summer hotel for the season under New York State Conservation management, tries but misses most of the Glen Falls alumni activities. Charlie knows the North Creek district by heart from concentrated skiing there this past winter. Charlie has three young "barrel stavers" —Catherine 8, Peter 6, and Susan 11/2. Yes, sir—Charlie will be in Hanover the sixteenth.
Ernie Barvoets last fall assumed the presidency of the J. B. Lyon Company of Albany, N. Y.—the largest printing shop east of Chicago, with about 1,000 employees. Ernie will take on everything from a post card to an encyclopedia, and by the way of proof prints all the McGrawHill publications. He occasionally gets to New York and heads for the Dartmouth Club, but never yet in time to catch a classmate. Brooks 12, Ernest Jr. 11, and Donald 7 keep the Barvoets household on the jump. Again, sir, Ernie will be in Hanover, June 16 after a ten-year absence.
It was a pleasure to play musical adviser to a member of the Barbary Coast Orchestra—vintage '24. Win Sturtevant wanted to get the Reunion low-down on his contemporaries—Wally Lord, Gordy Richards, Doc Morgan '23, and One Flat Tucker. Since this quartet is all set, the request was simple to answer. Now we have a seven-piece band with piano duoSturtevant banjo and guitar, Christopher violin, and Red Holbrook ivory picker number two.
This past winter we had a fest with Ted Goddard in this fair city, where he visits his brother. Ted runs Old Bennington, Vt., tries to collect back taxes if there ever will be any (none yet), raises a swell grade of potatoes, serves on the rural school board, and covers the North Country with enviable regularity. Drops in on Ives Atherton in Hanover occasionally, and is henceforth ready and able to find and change any child's pajamas should exigencies demand, in the absence of the parents. Ted was an eyewitness to Carnival but an honest reporter. Found himself licked and conversation pass 6 with a couple of young things. Yuh, another Reunioner.
Morey Ahlquist crashed through with the '24 Song which Jeff Adams wanted so much. It was published in '22 in a 24Hour Notice, which must have been Vol. I No. I. No mention of the music, but here are the words by Royce Sloane:
Always we'll love our Dartmouth. Her honor we'll e'er uphold, Grateful for the blessings She gives to all her fold, We'll strive for all she stands for, Our spirit ne'er will wane. Our mother ne'er will call in vain On D-A-R-T-M-O-U-T-H '24. Times come when each man's courage Is roused by song and cheer To strive with brain and muscle For all that he holds dear. So let's give a cheer for Dartmouth, Strive onward without fear. "One for all and all for one," D-A-R-T-M-O-U-T-H '24.
When college days are over, And pleasant days pass by, We'll go forth to battle With calm and steady eye. Together we'll fight for Dartmouth Whether far or near. "One for all and all for one," D-A-R-T-M-O-U-T-H '24.
ROYCE I. SLOANE.
Better learn them in case Jeff has the piece all lined up in June. Morey comes East in June. He hopes to meet Marion (Mrs. A.), who returns from Germany about that time. Note to Traver: Morey wants to know how with so many bankers and brokers we have money in the treasury.
Lest you think no reunion material is left to work on, Charlie Altman got off a card to George the last of March, from Haifa, Palestine, to say he wouldn't quite make it. Charlie serves Chicago University, as architect on its Near East excavations and restorations, this time the Megiddo Expedition.
Then Art Sprague, on an Illinois General Assembly letterhead, pleads that the summer session will keep the representative from the Seventh Senatorial District in Springfield, 111.
Pilly Hill, making the twenty-four migration from Chicago, writes that he, Doc, and Katherine Starkweather returned from a swell trip to Sun Valley, Idaho. "Haven't had so much exercise in years. Everyone goes to classes from 10 to 12 and again from 2 to 4, and is ready for bed after dinner."
The variety of notes here and elsewhere the past four months goes to the credit of captains and lieutenants who sure crashed through for ye old (and will for ye new) editor.
Charlie French, one of the "crashersthrough," hit San Francisco for one day, March 9, the date of the annual Northern California dinner, paid his respects and took in the Treasure Island show with wife.
FOR THE FURIOUS FIFTEENTH THIS JUNE
Secretary, 18 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
