1925*

Only about five months remain before our 15th. The Secretary hasn't been putting on any high-powered propaganda about the reunion—on the other hand we certainly don't expect to have any blackout as far as news of our 15th is concerned. We expect, and hope, that the committee soon will be giving you all the information necessary, and these columns are wide open for anything that can be printed. We personally feel that it shouldn't be necessary to urge, to plead, to threatento get 25'ers back to Hanover for anything at all. We know that most of the members of the Class are like ourselves-forever waiting for any opportunity to return to Dartmouth. This is one of those potent occasions that brooks no excuseand only,a powerful and unfortunate action of fate should keep any '25er away. The Class, as a unit, has definitely come of age—and, on the other hand, all of us, individually, are approaching that mystic age at which life begins! After attending seven reunions in a row, the secretary is firmly convinced that the 15th marks the real awakening of the class as far as truly enjoying both the reunion and a return to Hanover.

We had a swell long letter from Russ Fox who wrote about football games, the rampant Holy Cross spirit in Worcester, a week's vacation in Hanover, and his past ten years of business life, and who ended by sending his best regards to all 25'ers, and by saying he expected to be in Hanover in June Another swell letter from Deke Blodgett who wrote in part as follows: One of my girls at the Cafeteriais a Swiss. She knows all about Dartmouthand is always interested in anything pertaining to the College. We got home(from the Yale Game) Sunday morningand went over to the shop and Olga, allexcited said, "The game, Mr. Blodgett, did Dartmouth vin?" Yes, Olga, Dartmouth won, 33-0. "Ah," said Olga, "she vin all of it."... .Remember WarwoodMason, now with American Export Lineand captain of the S. S. EXCELLO. He was due in New York on the Saturday of the Yale Game but that nasty storm we had delayed him until Tuesday. When we got home that Sunday, a radiogram was on my desk—"Wah Hoo Wah from longitude 65"—Mase." He later called me and saidpractically the whole crew was in his cabinlistening to that game. I got a tremendouskick out of it, particularly knowing theboat and some of the crew. Thanks, Deke

Hubie Huberth writes that George Crooks is with the Glidden Buick Corporation at Broadway and 131st Street in New York, and lives in Pelham. Hubie is in favor of the new plan for holding reunions after Commencement and hopes that our 20th will be of that type. The idea is so recent that it is not possible for 1925 to consider it now, but it will be very interesting to watch its future development Last month we sent in part of a letter from Larry Leavitt but because of the large size of the MAGAZINE it was cut out. It was all about seeing Hank Bjork-man, Frank Hershey, Phil Coykendall, George Stevens, Bob McKennan, Jock Brace, Ralph Tucker, Homer Tilton and Frank Brick in Hanover for the Cornell game—and about hunting for wild boar; and Sunday night buffet suppers at the Inn. We are sorry it was cut out.

Twist Elmquist has given a fine word picture of the ten classmates in the twin cities. We think that it is a good thing to completely cover a town every once in a while, so instead of spreading the news over a half dozen issue we give you a 100% coverage of St. Paul and Minneapolis (in Twist's words). "At the present time in St. Paul and Minneapolis there are ten 25'ers. We will start with Don Lyman. Ever since graduation he has been working at Excelsior, Minnesota, with the Lyman Lumber and Coal Company. That company has a group of about seven lumber yards located in and around the Minnetonka Lake Beach. Since his father's death several years ago Don has been in active charge of the business. In the fall of the year I see Don quite a bit. We made it a habit of going hunting together over the last ten years and manage during the fall of the year to get together about twice a week to go out to our slough which is located just one hundred miles west of here. Don at the present time has three children, all daughters, the last being born sometime around the Ist of January last year. I know he did his "dammdest" to get himself a son to send to Dartmouth, but it just didn't work out that way.

Lyle McKown is with the Wirt Wilson Insurance Company of Minneapolis and has been with them for several years. He has two children now with the third coming up. Of course, you know that Lyle and I went through grade school, high school and college together and we still see a great deal of each other, that is, as often as either one of us gets enough energy to drive to St. Paul or Minneapolis. Lyle gets east quite often, and he tells me that on the last trip he ran across Chet Boles and Pete Haffenreffer and also went to the Navy Game with Bill Calvert who, he says, is a promising young doctor delivering lots of babies each year in Orange, New Jersey Harry Tinker, who was with us two years and then came back to Minnesota to take his dentistry course, is a very successful practicing dentist in Minneapolis. Harry at the present time has four children with a fifth on its way.

.1 do not know whether you remember Eddy Booth or not. All I know about Eddy is that he is working for the Regan's Bakery in Minneapolis. We used to see a very great deal of him, but in the past few years we have not run across him very much Paul Hommeyer, who used to live in Cincinnati, came to Minneapolis several years ago, where he is general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company. Paul attends all the Dartmouth functions, and we get together several times a year as well as on these occasions.

This finishes the Minneapolis group. The St. Paul group is composed of Wilder Patterson, Bud Stutz, Bill Haman and myself. The Pattersons and ourselves live about two blocks apart so I see Pat quite often. He has two boys and a girl and is a partner in the Dawson-Patterson Printing Company Bud Stutz was away from here for a number of years but a year or so ago came back and is now working for our local paper as a reporter Bill Haman for quite a while was the Sports Editor on the St. Paul Daily News. Since that paper was taken over by our other paper here in town, Bill has been leading a life of leisure. He has been very interested, however, in all civic sporting events and still has a great deal to do with such things as amateur skating races, hockey matches, etc. I have seen quite a bit of Bill during the last three years through our connection with the St. Paul Open Golf Tournament. He was general chairman two years before I was, and so for the last three years we have worked together on that tournament and have had a lot of fun doing it As for myself, there is not much to say. I still have been able to do nothing about producing a Dartmouth heir, and I guess now I will have to be content with my three blue-eyed, blond-haired daughters, who some day will at least be near Dartmouth for their college careers if within the next nine, eleven, and sixteen years, somebody drops some good fat legal fees in my lap Lyle, Don, Harry and I manage to get together quite often and always after we have had one or two, we talk over old times at school and remember a few of the old Dartmouth songs.

There is one other person I know about that I don't think has been mentioned in your bulletin for a quite a while. That is Ken Smith. Ken married a Minneapolis girl, and a day or so ago I ran into his brother-in-law. For the first few years of Ken's life after he got out of college he had a very varied career, being here in the Twin Cities for a while, then in Australia with General Motors, then back in Minnesota again, and he is now, I believe, in Maryland as an agent of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company and is doing very well At the present time Lyle, Don and myself and our respective wives are definitely planning on being inHanover next June and so we will see you then.". .. .Thanks for such a fine letter, .Twist; we hope it will prod a few other 25'ers into dropping us a line.

Are you going to be at the 15th? Drop us a penny post-card and we'll add your name to the list in the succeeding issue of the MAGAZINE.

Secretary-Chairman, 344 Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

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