1915
The two daughters of Nut Norwood, Ann and Jane, were married in September. Ann married Kenneth Sears of Pride's Crossing, who is attending Boston College. Jane married Douglas Stantial, and they are living in Burlington, Vt., where he is a student at the University of Vermont.
So far as I have been able to learn, our 1915 representatives at the Penn game were Jack Mason, Carl Gish, and Pete Pray. At the weekly dinner in New York, Kel Rose, Leo Folan, Jim Killeen and Turk Turner (all the way from Troy) were present.
Turning to the Brown game, we learned that the following were present: Ray Russell, Russ Chase, Russ Rice and his two sons, Jack Mason, who flew down from Hanover, Cloughie and Miss Drew, Kike and Pearl Richardson, Chan Foster and wife with their friends, the Trasks. The last four couples had dinner at the Parker House afterwards, but only the Trasks (Brown) could really enjoy it. Jack Mason had all his overseers as his guests at the game, among whom was Dick Wilson '42 and wife. Quite a guy to work for if you ask me.
The Columbia game in Hanover attracted the following: Hal Davison and son Bob, Walt Meader, Al Cleveland, Fred Lowe, Willis Putney, Kike Richardson, Beardsley Ruml (attending the Trustees meeting), Jack and Kay Mason, Doris and your Secretary, together with the regular Hanoverians, Low, Porter, Bowler, Montsie and Sargent. Fred Lowe claims he has the secret of luring fish, bragging that he had just returned from catching 150 by using his secret formula.
The Wednesday Luncheon at Patten's in Boston, Oct. 23rd, drew the usual reliables: Foster*, Huntress, Simpson, Clough, Barker, Bull, Slade, and Howie Wing. Howie is now located in Lowell.
Ed Dewing, our noted District Attorney, was a guest speaker on Dartmouth Night at the 1916 gathering in Hotel Puritan, Boston. Ed has three sons, Andrew at St. John's College, Annapolis Edward attending Boston University and Jerome, who expects to enter Dartmouth in 1948, now attending Staunton Military Academy. George Simpson has discovered how Bill Huntress keeps his waistline down. Bill is again bowling in the Church League and has enlisted Sid Bull's services. Sid is a grand competitor and should help make Bill's team a winner. Bill's daughter, Louise, is attending Colby Junior College, and his son, William Jr., is at Vermont Academy. The Melrose Leader carried a picture of George the other day, evidently laying down the law to his Republican Finance Committee. From the result of the election, George can afford to stick his chest out a little more.
At the North Shore Alumni Dinner last month, 1915 was represented by Nut Norwood, String Downing, Greg Lyons and Walt Maeder. The featured speaker of the evening was Dave Morey, who, if I'm not mistaken, played a pretty fair game of football in our day.
The Worcester Telegram of Oct. 22nd carried a notice of a meeting of the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents, and our own Russ Chase was elected a Regional Vice-president for that organization.
Another clipping has come into my hands from the Washington Times Herald concerning our eminent physicist and classmate, Dr. Ralph A. Sawyer. In somewhat condensed form, it records the highlights in his career to date, especially the Bikini atom bomb tests. Ralph was the appointed leader of 500 scientists in this fantastic experiment. Another 1915'er who has made good in a big way.
If you have been reading the papers closely, you probably saw where Walt Wanger and his charming wife, Joan Bennett, sailed for England last month to participate in the Command performance before the King and Queen. Judging by the after reports, the occasion must have been very exciting, with the London mob overriding the police, etc. But I'll wager it must have seemed tame to Walt (a veteran of freshman football rush at Dartmouth) and that he didn't even get his hair mussed.
The Yale game brought out a delegation of fifteeners, Jack Mason flying down from Hanover, Kike Richardson with his brother Guy 'l6 and son, Tom '47, Cloughie, Foster, Gish and Ed Dewing and his wife. The less said about that game the better.
Browsing through. The Dartmouth I perceive where my hopeful, Bruce '49, is managing the freshman A and B football teams this fall. Leon Aronowitz's son, Lewis '47, is playing quarterback on the J. V. football team, and Ray Perry's son, Lawrence '50, is playing end on the freshman B team. On Oct. 25th, President Dickey announced that among those receiving the Charles R. Brooker Fund scholarships, amounting to $600 apiece, was John S. Waugh '49, our own Danny's nephew.
The biggest news this month, and important enough to be carried on the front page of TheDartmouth, was the big get-together and dinner Oct. 29th for the sons and nephews of 1915'ers now attending Dartmouth. The whole project was conceived and carried out in the fertile brain of Jack Mason, and if anyone deserves a big WAH-HOO-WAH, it's Jack. The affair was held in the Ski Hut, back of the Inn, and the boys sat down to a real steak dinner. The purpose of this gathering was two-fold: First, to have the boys meet and get better acquainted among themselves; Second, so that their friendships at Dartmouth might be strengthened by the knowledge that their fathers were comrades and classmates in 1915. From my own son's enthusiastic letter I judge that all the boys had a grand evening, and the class owes a debt of gratitude and a pat on the back to Jack for planning it. Accompanying this column is a picture taken of the momentous event (an event that other classes might do well to emulate) with a key to those who were present. Among the absentees, who because of previous commitments or for other reasons could not attend were: Granville S. Austin '50, Murray's son; Robert W. Castle '49 and Richard B. Castle '45, Les' son and nephew; Anthony Frothingham '44, Bob's son; Lewis A. Aronowitz '46, Leon's son: Charles E. Ingram '49, Chuck's son; and Murray Austin '15, Warren Montsie '15, and Jack Bowler '15.
A FAMILY GATHERING of sons and nephews of 1915 men now at Dartmouth was held last month. Left, to right, kneeling, Gardner D. Blodgett '50, George E. Dyke Jr. '44, Frederick G. Loomis '48, Bruce B. Crawford '49 and William M. Norwood '49; seated, Sherman Hickox '50, Boynton Merrill Jr. '50, Russell D. Chase Jr. '50, Leroy G. Porter '15, Prof. Fletcher Low '15, Prof. Charles W. Sargent '15, John R. Mason '15 and Richard S. Russell '50; standing, Ira H. Pearce '48, Arthur L. Livermore '46, Charles P. Sargent '47, David I. Hitchcock Jr. '50, John C. Tower '47, Richard K. Putney '50, Robert L. Dunn '43, Robert W. Bull '45, Gary S. Johnson '50, James B. Eckman '48, Daniel C. Wing '50, John S. Waugh '49, Howard W. Wing Jr. '50, John W. Sargent '49, George L. Day '50, Raymond S. B. Perry '46 and Lawrence B. Perry '50.
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