1917*
Seventeen Up? Coach Blaik has kindly consented to bring the men in green to town again so we can forget such trivial annoyances as business, war and elections, and get right down to fundamentals again. Uh, huh. Bob and Anita Scott have invited us to their home again directly after the Yale game, October 19th. 71 Allston Ave. is a five minute walk from the north end of the Bowl—about four blocks—and the Scotts send word there will be plenty of smelling salts to revive all members of our parties. No one who ever attended this party has passed it up again without a struggle.
October 25th, the night before the Harvard game, our cheering section will hold a stag dinner at the Boston University Club. It's the gala New England gathering. Notify Sam MacKillop—at Jackson and Curtis, 10 Post Office Square—to lay in an extra supply for you. November Bth, there will be a class dinner before the Princeton game, at the New York Dartmouth Club, 30 East 37 th St. Send your reservation to Elliot Mudgett, Bryan Elliot Cos., 420 Lexington Ave. And at all these games, remember to see a lot of the old guard behind the center of the stands, between the halves.
Since our June column was written, quite an inventory of class news has piled up. There was an electrifying Republican National Convention in the early days of Philadelphia's heat, and only one who attended it could judge for himself the huge task of setting the stage and handling the details which made that dramatic gathering go off so smoothly. Different phases of that job were handled by the Secretary of the National Committee, the Secretary of the Committee on Arrangements and the Secretary of the Convention. For the first time in history all three were the same person, enough work to slay three men, but it went off like clockwork. There was a moment when everyone on the dais from Joe Martin's gavel, back thirty feet to the last page boy, was straining forward to solve the commotion among the delegates on the floor below, just after Representative Halleck had nominated Willkie. One man got up on a chair just behind Martin to see better—and his noble brow was unconsciously the center of all the spotlights in the auditorium. It would have been the picture of the Year for these columns, if Sanborn had been there to catch it. And speaking of Mason all this time, congratulations, Hap, on your election to the board of directors of National Life Insurance Cos. of Montpelier.
Errol Thompson sends you a snapshot of himself, Linwood '41 and Errol Jr. '43, showing that Seven teen's freshman quarterback and varsity squad member turns 'em out bigger, and he says better, for Blaik. Lin played end on his freshman team, then a season and a half on Eddie Chamberlain's jayvee team, was promoted to the varsity end squad the latter part of last season, and was ordered to report for early practice this fall. Last spring he won the 165-pound inter-fraternity boxing championship, then the college championship. Errol Jr., was tackle on the freshman B team last year, and received his numerals on the freshman track team, winning the hammer throw in every meet. To perfect his Spanish and familiarize himself with Central and South American customs, he went to Panama last summer, will visit other countries during the next year, and return to Hanover in the fall of 1941
Tommy manufactures cork and rubber shoe products at Brockton, last year bought a small farm in West Bridgewater, Mass., and modernized the 150 year old home on the property.
Sam MacKillop sent word of a. regular old fashioned Boston tea party at the Boston University Club, May a Ist. "It developed into an old Hanover bullfest, discussing economic consequences of the war, with Bomber Bill Fitch in one corner, Fighting Sunny Sanborn in the other, the seconds being Curly Carr, Al Dupius, Roy Halloran, Bunny Holden, Spique Maclntyre, Don Richmond, Guy Richardson, Roger Stone, Pete Stockwell, Johnny Wheelock, with Sam sounding the gong Dupuis is progressing in wood carving and sculpture, and is now sculping a bust of President Hopkins.
Congratulations to Ken Holden on his appointment in charge of sales to worsted manufacturers for American Viscose Cos., Empire State Building, New York. Bunny was welcomed by New York Seventeeners in June Barney Thielscher, Graybar's Buffalo Manager, was in town for lunch early in the summer, and enthused over a spring vacation he and Mrs. T. had at Virginia Beach, including some good reunions with Larry and Mrs. Lockwood. Barney said Fat Spears was in Buffalo some months back, and Fat hasn't changed a bit. He kept Barney busy answering questions about a lot of you gents and predicted attendance at our next reunion.
Roy Halloran of Belmont, Mass., wrote July sth, "Talked with Slatz Baxter at Mass. Medical Society meeting at the Copley. Had an excuse to visit Hanover because of medical graduation festivities. June and I had a grand time in bivouac with the '30's and enjoyed an advanced touch of the atmosphere in store for us in '42. Still think 1917 can reunionate later, longer and lustier than any there this year.
.... Visible, audible or rumored, some with '17 coats, were Howie Stockwell, Dan Harris and Trennie, and wives, to see their sons graduate; Charlotte and Summy Emerson, Brad Davis and son from lowa, Will Fitch, and Don Aldrich—speaker at Craven Laycock's memorial exercises—also Ray and Peg Allen and Hanover's Hal Tobin and Arch Gile." Congratulations, Roy, on heading up the New England Psychiatrists and the Belmont Rotary Club, and ditto to Stockie on election as President of Cambridge Rotary. Your fellow townsman MacIntyre forwarded your blurbs from the press before he and Ruby went to Chatham, on Cape Cod, for vacation.
Tom Clark, who was with us freshman year, and is a loyal graduate of Knox, has come through with a letter indicating considerable interest in Dartmouth and 1917 after all these years. He is with Caterpillar Tractor Cos., lives at 3114 W. Calhoun Blvd., Minneapolis, and is selling tractors and Diesel truck engines from Minnesota to Montana. Mrs. Clark who draws over the name "Ellen," has done the illustrations for two of the Blanche Wheeler Party Books and her works have appeared at several Minneapolis exhibits. They have a fifteen-year-old son—a little fellow of six feet four. Tom sees Red Loudon '14, Carl Mills '18 and other Minneapolis alumni from time to time.
Treasurer Brooks 'phoned to say he has to have some dough from you, so he can keep some postage on hand this year, etc. says it won't be hard for you to find a bill for dues, inserted in this issue—and he would like to tell Hanover right now to keep your name on the subscription list for all ten issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
THOMPSON FOOTBALL TRIUMVIRATE Errol Jr. '43 (left), "Tommy" '17, andLinwood '41.
Secretary 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J. Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
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