1926
The letter from the class to Mr. and Mrs. Waggener, thanking them for their most generous addition to the Memorial Fund for Les, was prepared at Reunion in the form of a plaque, signed by some 100 members of the class who were present and forwarded in behalf of the class by Sid Hayward. (A small reproduction of the plaque was printed in the October issue of the MAGAZINE.) It is our privilege this month to publish an excerpt from the letter Sid received from Mr. Waggener upon receipt of the plaque:
It is now being framed with a glass covering for protection. It will be hung in our home where Leslie's mother and I shall see it each day. Upon our passing, it will be given to his brothers. They, too, will cherish it. This action on the part of Leslie's classmates, assembled in their Twentieth Reunion, is the most thoughtful, appealing tribute which could have been paid to his memory. The fact that Dr; Hopkins, our distinguished President-emeritus, attended the class dinner and presented the gift, brought to the occasion an intimate association of by-gone years when Leslie was a happy boy at Dartmouth. Then, for Bob Cleary to receive the gift from Dr. Hopkins, and that evening deliver it to President John S. Dickey, in whose guidance of the destinies of the College in the years to come all Dartmouth men have the greatest confidence, brings to us a degree of satisfaction difficult of expression. The signing by each member of the class present of his name on the plaque carrying the beautifully worded message to "Leslie and Ann Waggener" makes it unique and brings to us the charm of personal touch with each one of the hundred signers.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. At a Dartmouth dinner in Montclair last September, Jake Jacobus, Les Talbot,'Art Wilcox, Al Metzger, Charlie Bishop, Jack Roberts, Bob Cleary and Sid Hayward sipped and supped together Roy Kelley has filled his fall weekends with bigtime refereeing, handling among others the Yale-Colgate and Princeton-Rutgers games; during the week he continues in charge of the intramural athletic program at the Everett, Mass., High School. Roy has a twenty-two-year-old son who was in the Army and is now studying surgical chiropody at Temple University Allen MacDuffie has become a partner in the Wall Street firm of McLanahan, Merritt & Ingraham following a distinguished legal career with the SEC in New York Paul Allen is now Chief, Acquisitions Section of the United Nations Library and has moved out to 309 Hillside Ave., Douglaston, L. I., N. Y Tom Colt has resumed his position as Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at Richmond Dick Husband has just been appointed Associate Professor of Psychology at lowa State College Dick Mann is now the Treasurer of Precision Products Co., Inc., at Walworth, Wise. (How about a letter, Dick, telling us all about it?) ....Roland Eaton is a hard man to keep up with; he is now reported at the Hotel Columbia, Columbia, S. C Ed Emerson, George Peirce, Mac McDavitt and Carl Schipper can corroborate our report that Bus Heydt does a nice job in "Happy Birthday" and that it's a show well worth seeing (it's in New York now). We all went backstage to see Bus, who was in the pink and happy about the whole thing except having to move from one Boston hotel to another every five days A report has recently come through of the award of the Legion of Merit to Col. Ed Raisbeck for his work on the General Staff Corps in Washington during the war. The citation reads in part:
Colonel Raisbeck played a major part in finding and securing proper use of the executive, administrative and professional skills critically needed by Army Service Forces throughout the war. His understanding of the requirements for able management of personnel, together with his resourcefulness in bringing such personnel to the War Department, was of material aid in the successful completion of one of Army Service Forces greatest administrative tasks.
Don Norstrand sends over a clipping from The Bulletin of the National Retail Dry Goods Association which quotes Gib Robinson at length on the wool situation. As Executive Vice President of Julius Forstmann Corp. Gib knows all there is to know on that subject
On November 2 Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church consecrated Wee McClintock's Church of the Messiah in Auburndale, Mass. The church was completely destroyed by fire three years ago and Wee has had a major part in the rebuilding of the handsome new edifice.
PEERADE DEPT. What a fine year we picked to follow the team! Anyway, the social activities have been fun.
BROWN AT PROVIDENCE: The weather was perfect and the McDavitt's new red Buick convertible is a honey. We heard that the Fishers and Marshalls were among the Dartmouth sympathizers but could not see them through our tears.
COLUMBIA AT HANOVER: My brother Rog and I took our sons up for this one. The Okey O'Connors were registered at the Inn and the Fishers were visiting the Drurys; we were so busy making like parents that we missed them, but did see Red and Emmy Merrill (Red was recently back from a sad and hurried trip to California because of the sudden death of his father). The town never looked better on a beautiful Sunday morning.
YALE AT NEW HAVEN: The weather was punk and you know the score, but a goodly crowd was there. Harry Fisher and his son Jerry were on hand as advertised to organize the class picnic; Al and Ellen Louer had Al's niece with them and Dick and Bunny Mandel brought friends. Brant and Thelma Wallace, Steve and Dot Mitchell, Snipe and Kay Es- querre, Les and Dot Talbot, Mac and Billie McDavitt, Bob and Pense Cleary, Ran and Ruth Cox, Hal and Marion Marshall, Bill Barclay, and Harriet, Ed and Little Eddy Dooley were either at the p.icnic, seen through the drizzle or reported present in the throng (which filled the Bowl up, but not for Eleazar). As this is written we look forward to the Harvard and Princeton games with stiff upper lips.
The approach of the holidays brings to mind the Christmas Carol party last year at the home of George and Grace Peirce and the good time so thoroughly enjoyed on that occasion by the Wee McClintocks, Ken Semples, Don Norstrands, Win Robinsons and Hal Trefethen," among many others. Grace's death later in the winter came as a severe and sudden blow to all of us. As another Christmas rolls around our thoughts turn to George and his three fine boys, Tim, Dougal and Greg, who have so courageously carried on without Grace. To them especially, in behalf of all of you, go this year's Christmas and New Year Greetings, and our wishes for all the best for them in 1947.
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