1919
"Out of the night which was fifty-below, into the din and the glare, stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks."
Not night, mid-afternoon; not fifty-below, seventy above; not stumbled, just mumbled, about his drive on the 18th; not a miner, a 'i9er. As to the creeks, yes, he just lost two balls in the one on the 16th. The din and the glare? Why not? The whole crowd of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey members of 1919 class will be there. Where? The Bonnie Briar Country Club in Larchmont, the most beautiful spot in Westchester, just forty minutes by train from Grand Central. Every 'iger and wife, from anywhere, is invited to be with us on June 16th. Jumping from past to future tense is a long jump, but a 25th Reunion is no mere step—so we reune where we can and the date is right upon us. What an opportunity for everyone of us. Let's go! 'l9 up! Join some gathering, whether it be near Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Washington, New York, or what have you.
Dartmouth Club president and immediate past class secretary, Batch Batchelder, is to be congratulated upon the very fine turnout of all the classes in and around New York, who heard President Hopkins on the nights of April 13 and 14. The Class of 'l9's representation at the Dartmouth Club of New York was among the top, with the twenty-three following present:
Tom Bresnahan, Ben Butterworth, Batch Batchelder, Walt Cooper, Red Colwell, Chet DeMond, Hal Davidson, Ed Fiske, Lew Garrison, Ken Huntington, Fat Jackson, Vaughn Little, Ray Legg, Jack Moriarty, Gin Mullin, Spider Martin, Art O'Neill, Russ Potter, Nick Sandoe, Denny Sullivan, Bill Stedman, Sam Treat, Francis Allen.
Ray Legg came in from Detroit and Francis Allen who has recently moved from Washington, D. C., was on hand. The evening ended with Fat Jackson and Ed Fiske discussing the relative merits and demerits of college fraternities as we knew them twenty-five years ago at Hanover.
Reunion Committee Chairman Harry (Red) Colwell reports thirty out of ninety-three possibilities who are planning to join in the one-day Reunion festivities at Bonnie Briar. By the time these notes go to press, we expect fully one hundred people including wives to gather for what we hope will prove a popular event that may set new precedent in class history.
Encouraging reports come from all quarters concerning the sectional reunion idea. Murray Hawkins, member of Young and Koenig, Inc., Economic and Investment Consultants, 609 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, reports seeing Eddie Seward who seems favorably inclined towards holding a small meeting in their section. They expect to include ROllie Foss and Ralph Kilpatrick.
Here are some quotations from a few letters: King Cole: "I recently transferred to the staff of the Treasury Department, with assignments to the Bureau of Internal Revenue as information officer. The work here is proving to be very interesting, with simplification a real challenge. So during my nearly eighteen months with the Government, I have been with three agencies, transferring each time with a promotion. The other groups were the War Department as Associate Editor Writer, and Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller's Group, as Information Publicist.
"Young King Cole is hard at work at Dartmouth Medical School, being a member of the '45 class. Unlike his dad, he was named a Rufus Choate Scholar last August, and received all A's last term. He's in the USNR.
"I have been unable to attend Dartmouth meetings recently because of graduate work at American University, and so have not seen any of the gang.
"There's not much else to report. Alice and I are living at 116 Arlington Village, Arlington, Va., phone Chestnut 7500, Apt. 116 (Washington Exchange). While at the office is Room 6403, Internal Revenue Bureau, 12th and Constitution, Washington, phone District 5050, Ext. 650."
Lowell McCutcheon: (April 22), "I met Tom Bresnahan in Philadelphia recently. He didn't recognize me but, fortunately, his appearance and mannerisms are enough like they were on campus in Hanover, so that I knew him immediately. We had only a few minutes together, but I enjoyed seeing Tom.
"I used to see Fat Jackson and San Treat every once in a while, but my trips East are not as frequent as they formerly were. It certainly brought back old times to read the names of the committee shown on the bulletin you enclosed with your letter. Of course, those of you who are still located in the East can get together occasionally. I hardly ever see anyone from our class in this section. Ten or twelve years ago when I was located in Chicago, I frequently saw some of the older Dartmouth group, but even there those from 'l9 were pretty few and far between.
April 29: "Seriously, Ken, it was quite a treat to have 'Red' Colwell come in and he is with me while I am dictating this memo to you. We have gone over a lot of the old times, including our 'lllicit' trip to Lake Morey. You probably remem- ber that trip as vividly as I do. It still holds lots of pleasant memories.
"Red' looks fine and has brought me up to date on a lot of the Dartmouth and the individual activities of lots of our old classmates.
"Every success to your Regional Reunion! As I said in my referred-to letter, if I get the break I may try to horn in for at least a couple of hours, so, let me know when the final date is set.
"I had a nice, long letter from Frank Strout recently. Among other things he told me that his boy was at Yale, having been rejected from the Service because of a back injury."
James C. Davis: (April 29) "I am working on the Boston Reunion idea and expect a committee to meet early next week."
Spider Martin: "Doc Hodgkins is now president of the Citizens Bank in Southern Pines, N. C. He is the father of three strapping boys, the oldest of whom is now a freshman at Duke.
"Johnnie Chipman has been assigned to duty at Norfolk, Va., and is attached to the staff of the Admiral. He offers to help on the reunion plans in June, if one is held in Washington. Maulsby Forrest was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. He is overseas."
A 1 Raynor: "Helen and I are very glad to hear that 1919 is going to reune in June, at least for a day. I have just sent in the card to Red Colwell that we will be there. We missed the '39 party on account of one of our boys being in the hospital after an accident.
"I am mighty glad to say that I now have a son at Dartmouth. Bill, after 8 months of V-12 training at Yale, was transferred on March 1 to Dartmouth for the 3rd and 4th terms. While he is there and likes it very much, it is not the same college as under normal conditions and I hope he can return there and graduate after the war. We are going up for a weekend next month. Ray Adams has been in New York a few days—staying at the Dartmouth Club. He and Batch had lunch together there one day."
Saturday, May 6, is the date on which Jim Pelletier writes from his home, 3 McDonald Road, Albany, New York, to state that he has been suffering from a long-drawn-out sickness which is keeping him very much confined. It was good to hear that he had kept contact with Bob French, Chuck Dearstyne, Frank Pedlow, and Ronald Lodge. He mentioned losing touch with Frank Gillespie. Let's hope that Jim will be up and around and able to enjoy his active life in his home city.... very soon.
Surely no one has any doubts about the efforts being made by your reunion committees to put on a one-day meeting that will stand out in the memory of all of us who attend for years to come. I have observed the New York group in their plans for golf, swimming, bridge, and have even seen the tentative program showing speakers to be invited, and including the showing of two reels of motion pictures made during the 15th and 20th Reunions in Hanover. While the program is not long, and is conservative because of wartime conditions, a good time is promised to everybody everywhere.
Secretary, 234 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
