1904
Squid's letters during the '47 Fund campaign were interesting and amusing to the last drop. His method is subtle and his style evasively naive editorially, viz. his comment on a Beer-Party notice he saw in The Dartmouth: "In our day I have been told that it was necessary to have the barrel sent under an alias from the Frank Jones Brewery in Portsmouth to the local American Express Office and then to transport the same surreptitiously after dark by wheelbarrow to the Vale of Tempe in order to indulge " Squid, where do you get that "I have been told" stuff? Who sent for it anyway? Subtle, yes, but sufficiently convincing to establish the fact that the Lampee boy was no kibitzer in the interesting "eye-witness" stories of undergraduate life as he knew it parrot fancier, Montreal peerade enthusiast, financial wizard of the Band and Aegis, and bard of the sea.
In the recent Fund he blamed himself for securing only 98% of contributors and 95% of the quota.... well, did any of our professors succeed in getting such a class average? No, not even in Hygiene. Jack and Mrs. Sanderson \spent an hour with us as these notes were in the mill, and as we were discussing the question of average accomplishment Jack said, "you might add that our attendance records were way below the quota average." To make his point he recalled having a card from the Dean to come to the office .... on arrival Chuck said, "Well, Sanderson, I find that your attendance records for half the spring term average somewhat less than 50%. Can that be correct?" "Yes, I think the record is correct" said Jack, "but the last two weeks have been 100% in attendance, and if the rainy season continues another week it will be 50 plus."
It's our guess Squid gets a better combined mark for the fund than any individual showed in his courses during our undergraduate years. Let's support his 1948 campaign in the same high degree, exacting as a reward more of those delightfully well-seasoned letters in the fifth edition.
Many of his items are included briefly here for the permanent class record.
Ruth Brewer, who served with the Red Cross Motor Corps for six years and two and one half years in the U. S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, was elected President of the Junior League of Boston at the annual spring meeting Bill Slayton carries on his school work for the N. H. State Board of Education Jig Leverone made the National headlines by riding the May first United Air Lines flight inaugurating daily air service from San Francisco to Hawaii. It was a commercial "first flight composed of business leaders from all parts of the country." You will remember Jig was long ago admitted to membership in the exclusive "Million Mile Club." He's well on toward another million, having flown to most of the countries on the globe, many times on flights inaugurating service to various countries Charlie Davis in retirement doesn't find hours enough in the day for tasks that must be done, and JohnFletcher is so busy that he can't find time to retire George Scales takes poetic honors from many class aspirants Walter Magistrate Russell assesses five-figure fines from a Canadian Paper Manufacturing Company for unfair treatment of an employee returning from the war for his former job. The defendant appealed the decision by Magistrate Russell, who at last accounts was holding the
Paper Company's fine awaiting judgment from the Appeals Court of Ontario.
Fund results: no men (98%) contributed $3906.10 (95%) with eleven gifts made in memory of deceased class members and one anonymous gift.
Off-year reunions, so enjoyable before the War, were reestablished with the presence of these men in Hanover June 20-21-22: Austin, Davis, Edgerly, Hinman, Johnson, Lampee, Mangurian, Maynard, Mower, Robinson, Rollins, Slayton, Webster, Willard, and Woods. Beck's version of the reunion:
' Charlie' Davis and I arrived Friday P.M. in the rain and were comfortably fixed up in South Mass with Sid, Squid, Pen field, Carl, Robbie, Col. Hinman, Edge, and Dr. Mangurian, and a very long cocktail hour was enjoyed. Then to dinner at Thayer Hall. After dinner, calls on various class groups, and about ten, a bridge game was in session. This game of Contract Bridge—about which we have been hearing so much in class lettersand the supposedly top-notch players—are not so HOT—even a player like myself who never played a dozen games of Contract in his life—came out a net winner at the expense of men like Rollins, Hinman, at al, and when it comes to stud poker—they just added up the pot—for some of the suckersto grow fat on. Perhaps by 1949 their game will have improved. A good breakfast at nine, and then the golf foursome showed their stuff—it was awful—Robinson, Woods, Rollins, and Davis were the players. Their average was 8 on each hole with one or two exceptions. Davis on the 17th hole did a real good job. We came back for luncheon to Thayer Hall. The College acting as host—with a free dinner and a good one.
"Then we attended an outdoor Alumni Meeting at which President Dickey laid the cards on the line on admissions and a few other points. We came away glad that the requirements in our day were less exacting—else many of us would never be back to reunion. We attended 1942-1937 ballgame on Campus and then the girls of 1942 and 1937 put on a good ball game too. It was a corker.
"Now the cocktail hour—Sid, Squid, and Robbie, having been sipping surreptitiously, were in fine form and many a good story was told and many a song sung. At 7 P.M. Saturday Sid had arranged a dinner at the Inn, to which we all went, joined by Ike Maynard and Bill Slayton who had arrived. We had a grand feed and then Squid brought with him the movies which Bill Kneeland had taken of the 1939 reunion and we all went to McNutt Hall to see the pictures. Then bridge again—Johnson had to fill in as Hinman had left, with Rollins,Edge and Pen field. When midnight came the traditional trip to Eleazar's tomb was in order.
"Sunday was a fine morning. We had at least two sessions of story telling and final bottoms up—and then pictures—and dinner together before we left for home at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, after planning another event for June '48."
Address changes: Guy E. Woodward, Friday Harbor, Washington. Retired since he had a stroke while at work, Nov. 28, 1945, from the soil conservation service. Henry K."Bemis" Pierce is again in his Italy home Via del Plebiscito 107, Rome, Italy. Bascom B.Bray ton, 276 East 14th Street, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Hope the Idaho potato has a good yield this fall, Brate.
As these notes go to press, Bob Kimball '30, formerly at St. Mark's School, takes over as headmaster of the Cardigan Mountain School. It has been a satisfying privilege for the Austins to welcome Bob, Mrs. Kimball and Debbie to the school's second year in the Lodge, now school property, where we have spent seven pleasant years.
There will be a renewal of Harvard Night's class get-together in Boston, Friday evening, Oct. 9. Place and time will reach you by a separate mailing in early October. Let's make the quota 97% of all '04 men within 100 miles of Boston.
Secretary, Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan, N. H Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.
