1911
Surely the event of greatest interest to all 1911ers as well as all other Alumni is the resignation of President Hopkins and the election of President Dickey. Although Presidents Tucker and Nichols were administering the college while we were here, I am sure we all feel that Hop was our President too. He took office the year we had our Fifth Reunion and he has been with us for a part of each reunion ever since. We have seen him on our trips to Hanover and his trips to the various alumni centers. A number of us have had the privilege of working under him here on the campus or associated with him in alumni activities. To all of us at all times he has been an inspiration. He has become so much a part of the college that it is difficult to think of his no longer being actively connected with it, but we sincerely hope that his inactive support and advice will be available for many years to come. May he enjoy to the utmost his well deserved rest from the great responsibilities of
To his successor, President Dickey, go our hearty congratulations and the pledge of our loyal support in his endeavors to carry on those duties so ably administered by Mr. Hopkins.
Yes, there will be a reunion—our Thirty-Fifth next spring. There may not be any Commencement, but a 1911 REUNION there will be. That is all that can be officially stated now. Even the date is not yet determined, but it may not be a bad guess to count on early in June. Those other classes that would regularly reune this next year are equally fortunate. We were the last classes to reune before the War and the first to return for a regular reunion after the end of the War.
As soon as there is official notice from the College your executive committee will go into a huddle and eventually will emerge with a well laid plan. However, that should hardly be necessary, for our class has formed such a habit of reuning during the past thirty-five years, that it is just second nature now to load ihe wife (and maybe the family) into the car every five years and start for Hanover.
There will be more definite news next month probably. Maybe this will be just the kind of reunion we have always wanted. No Commencement with all the regularly scheduled events from daybreak till long after dark —but just opportunity for everyone to do just what he chooses and when he chooses. Meanwhile, any suggestions that you care to send in will be helpful to tie Committee when it gets into that huddle so let them come along. REMEMBER JUNE 1946 THIRTY FIFTH REUNION.
If you read the article on "Class Memorial Funds" in the last issue of the MAGAZINE, you would have noticed that 1911 is listed as having turned over .$1933 to the College last year. This is the result of Chub Sterling's efforts and he will explain it all to you in due time in fact sooner than that if any individual wants to know how to get onto the list of contributors to the Special Fund.
In July George Morris called a meeting in New York of alumni representatives of the fraternities now represented in the College with the view to fostering alumni interest in developing "the contribution of the fraternities to the educational processes and programs of the College." As a result of this meeting a permanent Fraternity Alumni Advisory Board was organized, and George was chosen as its first president, and the Board is about to swing into action to assist in reopening the fraternities as soon as it is feasible.
It was a great pleasure to see Glen McConnell recently having dinner with his wife and daughter and granddaughter at the Hanover Inn. It was his first appearance in Hanover since our 10th Reunion. Except for his gray hair and mustache he looked just as natural as he did then. His four sons and son-in-law are all still in active service and scattered from one corner of the globe to another.
Other Hanover visitors recently were Josh Clark,, first with Polly and his oldest son and then with his youngest. Hugh Kenworthy with son, Hugh Jr., (a lieutenant in the Navy) spent a few days celebrating Hugh Jr's. return from over a year and a half in the Pacific. Dick Backus, Sid's boy, struck town on his way back to headquarters in Missouri from ferrying a plane to India. Dick is a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and has an interesting story of internment in Switzerland when the Liberator of which he was navigator was forced down, and his subsequent escape into France where he rejoined the American forces. He has been assigned to a Ferry Command with headquarters at .St. Joe, Missouri. Les Hawkridge gets into town as a result of business trips to near-by factories. Warren Agry shows up every so often also, his excuse being "cow" trouble. You will recall that he has a farm in Etna so he has to come up to look over his herd of beef cattle. Paul Briggs and Veras with their attractive coterie of children accompanied his father to his 60th Reunion. Also Doc Clute was seen crossing Main Street one bright summer morning. Windy Winship and Asunta took advantage of the lifting of the gas ban and beat it for Hanover, but of course in the interest of his vocation. Incidentally, Art is doing a swell job as administrator of the Minimum Wage Law in the state of Vermont. To these of course must be added those members of the Alumni Council who always find it possible to get here for the Council Meetings. Well, so much for local gossip.
Major Paul J. Hurley, our Pat's son, was awarded the D.F.C. as follows: While piloting a P-47 type aircraft on the Ninth Air Force in an important mission in direct support of ground troops on the Brest Peninsula, Major Hurley "demonstrated excepticfrial skill and courage in executing a series of crippling blows upon enemy convoys and material." The citation also pointed out that "despite extremely poor flying conditions and heavy fire from ground installations he vigorously pressed home his attacks upon the enemy columns and contributed in large measure to the disruption of the enemy forces in the area." Major Hurley graduated from West Point in 1943.
Col. Russ Patterson sends greetings. He is attached to the Headquarters of the 15th Army and is apparently working with Major General Willard Paul '15 who is G-1 in that theatre. His address is Headquarters 15th Army, A.P.O. 408, c/o Postmaster, New York city
The following has just come in from Jack Coggins: "This month it will be: John T. Cogoins, Esq., 205 E. Front St., Plainfield, N. J. The' 277 Broadway address will extend itself on from 33 years upwards and onward from October 12. The Dartmouth Yale game and the 35th Reunion will be upon us before I can earn the Class Tax. Weigh enough to play football this fall; but would have to eat at the Training Table."
Two sons of 1911ers entered in the freshman class in the July term: David Kimball, Wee's son, and Dick Hoar, whose father, Carl, is a professor at Williams.
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