1916
The person who invented the slogan "Happy New Year" must have been blissfully ignorant of the customary method of celebrating New Year's Eve.
According to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE the tentative—I say, tentative—Reunion dates for 1916's Thirtieth are July 12th and 13th. And in Hanover on those days we will have with us our friends of the classes of 1913, 1914. and 1915. It will be just like freshman year except for our wind. For my own amusement, and without official sanction of any kind, I would like to receive suggestions for a slogan for this affair, as, for example, the Thunderous Thirtieth. However, let it be distinctly understood that, unlike Jack Benny, I am not offering $10,000, nor, for that matter, any part thereof.
Jim Kiley, son of our late classmate Ed Kiley, is pictured in this issue. Jim, who is almost fifteen, hopes to go to Dartmouth as his father did before him. His mother, Mrs. Eva H. Kiley, shares this hope. Jim is almost six feet tall and is a freshman at DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, N. Y., where his Latin teacher, whom Jim recommends with fervor, is a Dartmouth man named H. Proctor Martin. Mrs. Kiley attended Teachers' College at Lock Haven, a town made famous recently because one of its sons, named John Sloan Dickey, became President Dickey of Dartmouth College.
Judy Bean, none other than the daughter of the Cliff Beans, has resigned from the WACs as a first lieutenant after more than three years of service. After a vacation (Is there such a word?) she will enroll at Jackson College, Medford, Mass.
Porter Blaney and his wife are reported to be in good health and living in a delightful home in West Laurelhurst on the Lake, in or near Seattle, Washington. They were visited recently by Ruth and Gran Fuller and were hungry for class news, since they have not been in Hanover for many years and have seen but few sixteeners, among whom were Bill Hale and Dan Lindsley. The Blaneys and Bill Osborns plan to motor to Hanover together for the Thirtieth. Bill has been in Denver until recently.
Jib Dingwall has set to music four songs from the book of poems, When We WereVery Young, by A. A. Milne. Now all we need is a few good singers and some more grandchildren.
Sixteeners who are au courant know that Handsome Dan Dinsmoor is vice president of the Monsanto Chemical Co. and general manager of the Merrimac Division of the company. A recent clipping from Boston Business shows Dan holding one end of a large Accident Prevention flag at a presentation of "the coveted Safety Flag" to the Merrimac (Dinsmoor) Division. Play safe with Dinsmoor! Maybe this is the slogan for that thirtieth.
Sprague Drenan, professor of English at Keene Teachers' College, who was director of the Old Homestead play in Swanzey, characterized by a neutral gentleman as "a recognized event" given annually before the war, and now resumed, spoke before the Hopkins Parent Teacher Association in North Swanzey recently, and suggested that parents gain all the education they can through life and be examples to their children—eminently sound advice.
A letter from Ralph Mendall states that Ralph and his wife, Marjorie, have five children, who have kept them "very much on the jump." They range in age from 26 to 13. Marguerite, the oldest, is a graduate of Bates College and is now clerical supervisor of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. office in Portland, Maine. Ralph Jr. attended Massachusetts State College for three years before enlisting in the Signal Corps. He is stationed in Paris with a signal service battalion. Trafton was drafted after two years at Bates College and became an infantry sergeant in the Yankee Division, commanded by Stew Paul. Trafton was wounded and is now in the hospital expecting his discharge soon. Jeanne, 19, is in college in Boston, specializing in music, radio, and ' dramatics. Anita, a thirteen-year-old, likes to ride horseback. Ralph's wife is an accomplished musician and dramatics coach, and Ralph himself, to use his own words, is "still plodding along" as traveling salesman for the George E. Keith Company of Campello, Brockton, Mass., manufacturers of Walk-Over shoes. He covers territory in New York, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New England. We'll hope to see Marjorie and those five children next summer in Hanover, to say nothing of the head of the family.
Gran Fuller has resigned from his government position and has returned to his own business, G. Fuller and Son Lumber Co., Brighton, Mass. He and Ruth took a five weeks' trip to the West Coast,—business, let me hasten to add! Gran estimates that during the war years he saw 72 Sixteeners, 37 outside his home state.
Bones Joy is reputed to be connected with the Decca Recording Co., and to be living in Los Angeles at 5505 Melrose Ave.
Ev and Clare Parker entertained Ruth and Gran Fuller in Denver, where Ev is a sort of hydraheaded business man, engaging in both the brokerage and real estate business. A very nice Christmas card showed three young Parkers, two girls and a boy, and bore the promising legend, "See you at the Thirtieth!"
And may I take this opportunity to thank all of you who so kindly sent me Christmas cards.
I am in receipt of an announcement of the marriage of Ted Walker's daughter Kathryn to Mr. James Campbell Munro. Congratulations! Thus do the fledglings leave the nest and start new homes and new families, and we of 1916 grow from parenthood to grandparenthood. Which reminds me, I must go up and "change" my granddaughter!
A DARTMOUTH CANDIDATE, Jim Kiley, cadet son of the late Edward Kiley '16, is now almost fifteen and a freshman at the DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, New York.
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