1910
Our joint dinner with 1911 Night-Before-Notre Dame Game brought out a fine bunch —not the least of whom was Marshall Comstock attending for first time in many yearsthe others were Johnnie Shambow, Jim MacPherson, Ted Hill, Slip Powers, George Underwood, Walter Norton, Charlie Bardwell, Beezle Parker, Clarke Tobin, Art Lord, Else Jenness, Ed Shattuck, Charlie Fay, Bones Jones, Jess Wilson, Cliff Lyons, Tom Foster, Art Allen, Earle Pierce.
These joint gatherings are very successful and are in line with a letter just received from Charlie Fay in which he and Bones Jones suggest a dinner and evening attended by such classes as '09, '10, '11, '12 and '13. The suggestion is too good to be deferred—so we have written Charlie with copies to the executive committee, asking the Boston group to proceed with the plans for such an affair.
Now about our Thirty-fifth next June—I have refrained from saying much about this until we got a clearer picture of the war situation and the resulting official action at Hanover on reunions. The Alumni Council considered a change at its Boston meeting and although no go-ahead signal has been given, it is quite possible that the older classes who have missed reunions during the war and those of similar vintage who are due to reune this year, may be permitted to gather in Hanover over a June weekend—Navy release of two dormitories plus ability to handle the meals puts the College in a position to allow some of the older classes back. And of course the younger groups cannot hold normal reunions until thousands of their members are discharged from the Service—at which time there is a Grand Dartmouth Homecoming for everyone in the cards even if cots have to be erected on the Campus.
As soon as Sid Hayward gives official approval to the older classes whose Grandfather Clocks are ticking relentlessly on, we'll issue further word to 1910 .... and in the interim you can plan on a better than fiftyfifty chance of getting back to Hanover next June.
EDDIE SICKMAN is with Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft at Bridgeport Massa- chusetts Commissioner of Education Julius Warren lives at 5 Shaw Rd., Wellesley Hills, labors at 200 Newbury St. Warren Shaw is professor of History at Blackburn College, Carlinville, Ill... Al Salmon was hospitalized in October Pineo Jackson shot South Dakota ducks same month, announced his plans for "reunion in June with Germany beaten." .... George Chamberlin lives at 1311 Flat Rock Rd., Penn Valley, Philadelphia Heinie Reed writes from Stoneham that he finds ALUMNI MAGAZINE of increasing interest Fletch Rogers with Hastings Pavement in New York, lives at 21 W. 58th St., N.Y.C Prof. Mike Elliott of University of Minn., a transplanted Yank deprived of his summer trips to New England, vacationed at a place in the Black Hills run by Troy Parker '11.
In Detroit recently we picked up a paper and were surprised to run across the following item in a column run by E. V. Durling: "Am asked who was the smallest player in the history of major college football. I think it was Pishon, Dartmouth quarterback who weighed 125 pounds. Pishon was killed in World War I."
Reading the item started a whole chain of tender memories that centered about Spuddy and the supreme price he paid .... for something that vanished into thin air.
OFFSPRING .... Malcolm Bissell Jr. is with the Army in France Lt. Ray Unangst is an instructor in navigation and meteorology in Louisiana. .... Capt. Chuck Williams.is in France, his brother Bud, an ensign, is stationed at Philadelphia Their sister Ann works at The Old Corner Bookstore in Boston Paul Albert's oldest son is with Patton's Army Young Art Allen enlisted in Naval Aviation, was hurt and discharged, later got into Coast Guard, injury recurred, now is at home for keeps .... unless he can talk his way in again.
CONGRATULATIONS to (a) Art Allen on his marriage to Marion Brennan, widow of a well-known Norwood doctor.... (b) Capt. Winsor and Mrs. Wilkinson on little Louisa born September 21!
VIA SurER-TREAS. FLETCH BURTON comes this note from Lefty West, 1910's Famous Sou' Paw, who now runs the Erie, "I hope to get to Hanover some time in the future and see the crowd again. You fellows who live nearby can get there often, and are better off than you think. My wife and daughter and I are about the same as usual. My wife and I are getting old. My daughter is, too, but she doesn't show it very much. She is a senior at Ohio Wesleyan and I am so doggoned proud of her that I can scarcely keep buttons on my shirt. She is that rare combination of brains and good looks. Going to be a school marm, too, unless some young chap talks her into getting married."
Cappie Holt, who has always done calisthenics and kept himself fit, nevertheless strained his leg lifting a bag and he says it hurts.
Henderson paid a visit to Boston recently.
In the heart of Boston on Federal and Congress streets are several acres of demolished buildings. Those who had the advantage of sitting at Stubby Wells' feet may be able to guess why.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, Turks Head Bldg. Box 1254, Providence 1, R. I.
