1919
When our class President, Bob Stecher, made a vacation visit to Bonnie Oaks, scene of our Reunion Picnic in June, he immediately started thinking about Harvard's invasion of Hanover on November ninth. Why is it that most men of '19 would rather see Harvard licked in a football battle by Dartmouth's stalwarts than receive a present of a case of Scotch? (or would they?). Bob talked at length with Bill McCarter who was noncommittal as to the quality of football expected in Hanover this fall. He also talked with Adele Ives, who is sure that those of us who want to see the Harvard Game must make immediate reservations, but will, no doubt, find the Inn booked long ago. Max Norton and Bob then worked out a deal and have reserved the Dartmouth Outing Club for a PreGame Luncheon (with Pre-Game Refreshments included) at about $3 per person from 11:30 A.M. to game time, members of our class and their friends may find time to visit together and check up on under-graduate sons' activities. Bob conveyed to me, your secretary, the results of his calls in Hanover and then said, "It's up to you to get those reservations for lunch at the Outing Club." So please send yours along at once and tell the secretary how many will be with you.
Because Hanover is so near Orford where the last two weeks of August and the first week of September found us busy on the farm, doing nothing, Dartmouth '19 news seems more scarce than ever. We saw Adele Ives for a few minutes. Tom and Claire Bresnahan stopped off with their son, Dana, on the way to Hanover, Maine, where Tom has some acreage and a summer home. Max Norton was on vacation when we visited Hanover. Bob Stecher and his charming wife dropped in for a cocktail at the farm. Second day of football practice looked like second days always do, and weather in September was perfect.
Ralph Loring '19, who is head of the Physics Department at the University of Louisville, Ky., stopped in to visit with Max Norton for a while in August.
Max has made up a financial statement which proves that Reunions costs can be kept at a reasonable level and still leave a surplus of about $300 in the class treasury.
Ray Legg, now with Jack & Heintz of Cleveland and often found at his farm, Glen Echo in Ludlow, Vt. (near Plymouth), has commented, in a recent letter, on the good time he had while in Hanover for Reunion.
Bob Proctor has anounced the formation of a partnership for the general practice of law in Washington, D. C., to be known as Douglas and Proctor. Bob will continue as a partner in the firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston, Mass.
Robert Butler who started his college career with us in the Class of 1919 and then transferred to University of Minnesota where he played football, has recently been made the first Ambassador to Canberra, Australia, when both this country and Australia raised their legations to embassies, in line with the added importance of the Pacific Area in the eyes of both governments. Bob is now president of the Walter Butler Co., Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., and the Builders Trust Co. of St. Paul. His appointment is his first diplomatic assignment.
Charlie Kubin, Palm Beach, Fla., real estate operator, expected to come north for Reunion last June. We missed you, Charlie.
Don Leigh, Webster, Mass., with Clapp Instrument Co., can well be proud of three boys: Don Jr., Middlebury College, was AAF Ist Lt., bombadier, with 48 missions in a B-26 Martin Marauder, Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Medal, with seven Oak Leaf Clusters, four battle stars and more besides; Tom, Boston University, was a sergeant in the Eighth Air Force and is still in England; Charlie, PFC in the Marines, saw action in Bougainville, North Solomons, Pelelieu and Okinawa; and now entering Nichols Junior College; Mary, age 18, is in Colby Junior College, New London, N. H.
Karl Baldwin, with Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co., San Francisco, has two sons, Karl, age 24, Lt. (jg) USNR and College of the Pacific; and Warren 8., Corp., U. S. Army Air Force, same college.
Elmer K. Pilsbury, Newtonville, Mass., reports his Bob commissioned as a lieutenant in the Infantry at the ripe old age of 18 years; a daughter, Sally, 16 years of age, attends Newton High. Bob Lewis, who heads the Williams Laundry Co., of White River Junction, Vt., had the problem of housing those of us who visited Hanover in June. With his committee, John Williams and Lelarid Bixby, we found comfortable quarters in Streeter and Giles Dormitories.
Secretary,103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
