1915
The smell of football is in the air with these crisp, fall days in the East, but somehow it doesn't seem quite the same as usual, and football teams this year are so scrambled that you wonder just what team you are watching.
However, Dartmouth, because of its connection with the Navy which welcomes football competition, is still on the gridiron map and at this writing, two games have been played, both of which were wins, and at least a faithful handful of '15ers have taken in both contests.
The top one was the Holy Cross game in Worcester on Sunday, Sept. 26 (does that sound funny—on Sunday), and with one minute and forty seconds to go, a goal from the field did the job when Donovan (late of Manhattan College) tipped it over the cross-bar. At this game was Sid Crawford who lives in Worcester, and travelers Eben Clough, Speed Henderson, and Kike Richardson, as well as your secretary. And after the game, Mr. and Mrs. Sid were hosts to the little group in their beautiful home, and we all enjoyed the get-together, small as it was. Kike brought along his pal and partner Sam Woolcott, a good old Dartmouth rooter, and Brownie '14, and we reminisced far into the evening.
The following week, Eben, Kike, at al, journeyed to Hanover to see the Coast Guard Academy slaughtered—but the ole place don't look the same, sez Eb. En route home, the same crew stopped in to see me, and we had a swell evening, with Eb at his best on the story-telling end of the entertainment.
This issue will be in your hands early in November, and in plenty of time for notification that the Cornell game in Boston on November 13 will be the big Boston Mecca in lieu of no Harvard game this year. So put it down for the night before, you New Englanders, and be ready for the call which will come from the Boston committee. Must keep up the old tradition of the night-before, and the Cornell game in Boston ought to be at least a good substitute for a Harvard game under present conditions.
Chan Foster has been up-country in Vermont for a couple of weeks resting, but is back home and says that he is rested and strong and well enough to take in some class dues.
Johnnie Johnson, by the way, was in Hanover last Saturday, but the boys only saw him for the shortest minute, and he apparently had some personal commitments and couldn't be with the boys.
A note from the college office tells me that Walt Wanger is the author of an article which appears in the Saturday Reviewof Literature for September 4, entitled, "Mickey Icarus 1943"—fusing ideas with the art of the animated cartoon. Well, Walt ought to know his stuff, for he is one of Hollywood's headliners.
String Downing, who tops the toppers in war work at General Electric in Lynn, is so busy that Grace wrote a letter for him with the news. His son is in Kimball Union Academy, which is one of the stepping stones to Hanover—so a new String will be there someday.
Had a good note from Bob Bigelow, who tells of seeing Hal Corwin, Bob Guest, and Bud Doe in his rounds.
Guess we never recorded the fact (as we didn't know it) that Harry Burnett of Southbridge is a colonel in the Massachusetts State Guard—and that's quite a job for the emergency, as the Massachusetts boys are doing a fine job of training for defense on the home front.
The intrepid musician, Casey Jones, is at it again and has again wowed the natives of Bangor with another of his compositions written between servings of fish in his big fish market. He didn't mention the name of it, but I know it's good—it's a march. Casey's daughter Priscilla is supervisor of music in Bar Harbor High School, so the Jones talent is to be perpetuated, for his son Bobby is in the Army in California—and of course is in the band. So there you have it.
Jack Mason attends meetings of the War Labor Board regularly, and with his own business can't seem to get up here. He was all set for the Holy Cross game, and then a day or two before phoned me from New York telling me it was all off. We sure missed having Jack and Kay here after expecting them, for they just seem to be a part of a football game, and we wish they could be with us oftener.
Changes of address this month: Commander Robert H. Griffin, USN, Room 2613, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C.; Capt. H. Thompson Rich, Hdq ATS, Army Base, H.R.P.E., Norfolk, Va.; Arthur E. Sheldon, 65 Park Slope, Holyoke, Mass.; Fred Lowe, 7 Cliff St., Burlington, Vt.; Walter F. Wanger, Universal Studio, Universal City, Calif.; Perry Hayes, 621 Alcazar Ave., Coral Gables, Fla.; Malcolm R. Macdonald, 120 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, partner in Preston M. Nolan & Co.
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