1919
Summer weather forced many who witnessed Columbia's triumph over Dartmouth to shed their coats and remark about unseasonable days in late October. No remarks about the team came through from our scouts, but they were in Hanover to see the game. In fact, those present included:
Robert M. Lewis, Wm. A. White Jr.; Fred L. Laird, Sanford M. Treat, Maxwell C. Huntoon, Dr. Charles L. Clay, Robert Proctor, John J. Scammon, George H. Bingham Jr., Richard H. Kelley, Harold L. Greeley, John W. McCrillis, John E. Cavanaugh, Richard Dudensing, Donald W. Siebert, J. Harold Stacey, H. M. Allison, and Guy Cogswell.
It is fair to say that we have a lot of excellent individual football players in Hanover who are not yet working together as a real team.
Phil Bird writes that Boston will empty out for the Harvard Game. Al Crosby, official of the S. S. Pierce Company, is on leave of absence from the office, due to poor health.
Batch gives a good account of recent visits in New England and New York:
The second evening we were at Dorset, Vt., this fall, we visited the local library and as I casually picked up the October 7th issue of the New Republic, I found that one of the feature articles "was written by Richard L. Strout, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. The title was "Government With Its Hands Tied." The next day, while having lunch at the Hanover Inn, Phil appeared. He was with Tom Campbell '18 both are taking an active part in the reorganization of the Dartmouth Eye Institute.
Late in October, Rowland Pollard left for this last period of overseas service with Socony Vacuum. Rangoon, Burma, is his station point. His wife will be with him for the first year. The children are remaining in the states, attending school in Newton, Mass.
At Kimball Union Academy, we saw John and Hester McCrillis. Their son is on the Varsity football squad there this year. When we visited Emma Willard School to see our daughter, we discovered 3 other classmates are represented on the Parents' Roster Jim Davis, Stew Russell, Jim Wilson.
Present at the Dartmouth Night celebration in New York were: Bill Smith and son, Mike; George Rand; Louis Munro; Nick Sandoe and son, Nick Jr.; John Moriarity; Lew Garrison.
Jim Capps of Utica has just been elected 'President of the Empire State Association of Commerce, which is New York State's Chamber of Commerce.
Nock Wallis reports a 1919 golf foursome who found time to replace divots during a recent game in Framingham. None other than Davis, Hayes, Art Havlin and Jack Clark, a fairly new newcomer to that community. Jack's firm, General Motors, have been badly held up on completion of the plant under construction there. At least that accounts for Jack finding time for golf. Mary Davis, whose piano playing helped our June Reunion more than a little, is also a talented artist and recently, with three others, exhibited some of her portraits in the Bow Window Galleries of Framingham Center.
San Treat, Rotarian of Jackson Heights, received on October 13 the Silver Badge presented by Rotary for 25 years of active, loyal service. San is one of principals marketing "Dr. Swett's Root Beer."
Ed Fiske journeyed to Portsmouth, N. H., about September 15 and officially opened a new Marine Terminal for Socony Vacuum Oil Company on the Piscataqua River. While there, Ed stayed at the Rockingham Hotel and enjoyed the hospitality of Spider Wright who manages Portsmouth's leading hostelry.
Twenty-nine years ago, Fiske enlisted in Portsmouth Navy Yard, to become one of the saltiest skippers produced in that era. Ed is now Port Captain of Socony Vacuum with headquarters at 26 Broadway, New York.
Jack Cannell was one of those with whom Ed talked. Jack is Athletic Director of one of the schools nearby Bob Stecher writes that he could not make the Harvard Game after making all the plans to be in Hanover.
Dick Dudensing reports his presence at the Penn Game where he saw Bill McCarter and no one else in '19. Dick wants a golf outing in 1947 for our New York group and offers his club, Siwanoy Golf Club, Mount Vernon, as a place to meet. Sounds good. Dick wants to buy a farm near Hanover and retire. Someone find him one so we can visit him often Jack McCrillis made some movies of Reunion and will show them to us at some future gathering.
A letter from Paul Halloran who is now identified with the Public Works Department, Naval Station, Norfolk, Va., and who has returned to the post-war rank of captain, indicates that he may shortly take up his duties in the New York area. Paul has had twenty-six years of service in the Navy, half of which he spent south of the Mason-Dixon Line and eight years in the Tropics. I know the New York Alumni will welcome a truly loyal Dartmouth man when Paul takes up residence in the metropolitan area.
Harriet Paisley, Bob's companion in a long and happy matrimonial voyage, tells us that Bob is at the present time on his way back from a business tour which took him on September first to London, then on to Holland, back to London, and on to Calcutta, India. On November 17, Bob flew back, once again, to London and sailed, on the Queen Elizabeth, December 7, to be home for Christmas. Bob Jr. is a senior at Princeton, completing his course in Chemical Engineering.
Col. Bill Eddy and King Cole represented 1919 at the annual Dartmouth Night Dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D. C., in that city, October 25. Eddy, a Marine Corps veteran, is chief of the State Department's new intelligence unit. Cole, who was chairman of the dinner committee, was re-elected a member of the Club's executive committee. Incidentally, the dinner was voted the best ever held by the club, with 88 present. A Class Dinner held at the Dartmouth Club in New York, Friday evening, November i, before the Yale Game, found the following gathered together:
Tom Bresnahan, San Treat, Hal Davidson, Chet DeMond, Spider Martin, Mai Drane, Red Colwell, Fat Jackson, George Rand, Batch Batchelder, O. B. Lewis, Bri Greeley, Ken Huntington, Lew Garrison, Champ Clements, Dick Dudensing, Bill Picken, and Jack Moriarty.
Fat Jackson acted as an informal Toastmaster for the occasion and generated a considerable amount of high-pressure steam in starting a discussion of the College and many of its policies. Praise and criticism of certain phases of Dartmouth's athletic and non-athletic trends were forthcoming from one and all and the exchange of ideas would have made interesting food for thought in Hanover.
Saturday, November 2, turned out to be a cloudy day, including a little rainfall, but even this probably did little to the greatly dampened spirit of Dartmouth's loyal football fans who would have thought it a most dismal day, regardless of weather. The fact that the following were there supplied an opportunity to voice alibis to one another between halves but the end of the game left us speechless and disheartened. Just was not Our Day. To get back to those present:
Dr. J. M. Murphy, Richard Dudensing, Frank Pedlow, Nick M. Sandoe, R. L. Loring M.D., D. F. Featherston, Donald W. Siebert, Henry O. Holley, G. H. Ludlow, S. W. Murphy, John F. Moriarty, Louis W. Munro, H. C. Parsons, O. B. Lewis, S. A. Russell, W. M. Stedman, H. Brown, L. H. Davidson, R. H. Smith, J. E. Hitchcock, L. McCutcheon, Henry Siegbert, S. M. Treat, W. W. S. Alderman, J. J. Scammon, M. G. Drane, James Jewett, Paul Halloran, Red Colwell, Rock Hayes, Bill McCarter, Bill Cunningham, and Ken Huntington.
The secretary personally saw and talked with Rock Hayes, Hal Parsons, Jack Moriarty, Nick Sandoe, Bill McCarter and Bill Cunningham. The last two mentioned were ascending the wooden staircase outside the Bowl to enter that Sanctum Sanctorum, the Press Box, where they knew the roof didn't leak.
In the light of Penn's defeat at the hands of Princeton, our reasoning Nov. 7th tells us that Dartmouth should beat Cornell. So much for the Yale Game.
Between 60 and 70 members of '19, their wives and guests attended a luncheon at the Dartmouth Outing Club before the Harvard game. Cotty Larmon took over the details of arrangement and made all hands feel at home. With us was the Class of 1921 whose Hanover minded representative, Ort Hicks was very much in evidence. Wives were prominent in our midst. Miss Gill provided a very delicious luncheon.
Tom and Claire Bresenhan, Win and Harriet Batchelder, George and Milly Rand, Mai and Marie Drane, Phil and Helen Bird, Fred and Jane Balch, Herb and Sally Fleming, K. C. and Laura Bevans, Fat and May Jackson, Stewart and Dorothy Russell, Bill and Marion White, Rock and Alice Earle Hayes, Jack and Hester McCrillis, George and Mrs. Bingham, Nock and Mrs. Wallis, Louie and Harriet Munro, Bob Proctor, Cotty Larmon, Chugg Sears, Dick Dudensing, Jigger Merrill, Bill McCarter, Bunny Collins, Ken Rice, Max Huntoon, Henry Holley, Bob Levins, Spen Dodd, Hal Parsons and then add their wives and several guests including 6 Dekes, from all over who acted as a body guard for a Colgate Deke Brother of the secretary, and one found plenty of active pre-game conversation with food and drink of the best.
The game why go into that it was a well played tie after the first six minutes when Harvard scored 14 points through the special efforts of O'Donnell and Gannon.
A cocktail party following the game was arranged for 1918 at the Green Lantern Tea Room where Huntington and Bevan represented our class and found Stump Barr, Harvey Hood, Pete Colwell, Dick Holton, Al Gottschalt and several other well meaning 1918's going through that old Post Game argument of coaching versus material that must necessarily follow a Dartmouth defeat on top of an already dismal season.
Hanover was bulging at the seams and mild cloudy weather with rain just threatening kept 17,000 at Memorial Field first expectant, later still hopeful, and finally disappointed in the final outcome, 21 to 7 for Harvard.
The secretary takes this early opportunity to extend holiday greetings to those who take the time to read this far.
SONS OF TWENTY AND 1920 FACULTY MEMBERS gather for a get-to-gether in the Ski Hut recently. Kneeling, left to right, the Dewey twins, Charles '50 and Maurice '49, Robert B. Schnayerson '50, Donald W. Ayres '50, Robert B. Ayres '50, Francis P. Gross '50, James D. Vail III '50, Webster T. Gault '50, Edgar A. Nutt '50, Richard J. Arnold '50, Richard S. Loomis '50, Frank M. Hutchins '45, James F. Moulton '50 and Stephen L. Johnson '50; sitting, J. P. Amsden '20, Paul Sample '20, Prof. A. W. Frey '20, Dean Stearns Morse, Prof. A. R. Foley '20, Prof. J. L. McDonald '20, Prof. R. H. Goddard '20; standing, Richard O. Elliott '50, Robert H. Moore Jr. '47, William D. Carter '49, Donald H. C. McKay Jr. '45, H. W. Sampson '20, Robert T. Mortimer '47, Charles L. Youmans Jr. '45, Richard E. Welch Jr. '45, Dean S. Worth '49, Charles T. Glines '44, Richard N. Tillson '50, Robert H. Tillson '47, Wesley G. Carr ill '47, B. E. Weymouth '20, Alan G. Winslow '49, Paul M. Canada Jr. '50, Prof. W. A. Carter '20 and F. G. Moulton '20.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive New Rochelle, New York
Treasurer, Hanover, New Hampshire
