1925

Thirty-eight '25ers and 33 wives reported at Pete Haffenreffer's annual Clambake, Dunking Party, Ball Game and Mountain Climb at Mount Hope, R. 1., on June 21. The party started at 10 a.m. at the swimming pool on the Haffenreffer place—a salt water pool on top of a lovely hill overlooking Narragansett Bay. Then cocktails were served—even though the sun was not yet over the yardairm. The ball game was a highly successful fiasco.... with practically no spectators (they all got into the game). There were about 25 players on each side and every lady batter made a home run.

The '25ers present were: Lloyd Brace, Wilson Gardner, Kenneth Hill, Bernard L. Levison, Kenneth Nugent, Bernerd Phillips, Laurence Richardson, Arthur Spring, Clinton Taylor, Eliot Warner, Charles Wilson, Foster Edwards, Robert Palmer, Walter Sawyer, George Chamberlain, John Garrod, Everett Learnard, George Newman, Edwin Pease, Robert Rhoades, William Sleigh, John Spring, Frank Wallis, Llewellyn White, Webster Collins, Norman Martin, Philip O'Connell, Lane Goss, William Griffin, Ralph Udall, E. J. Petrequin, Terry McGaughan, John Davis, Ellis Waring, Wilfred Clark, James Adams, and Louis Kimball. There was also a '25er there named Pete Haffenreffer—and his wife, Ginnie.

Here's a 22-year summary from ConnieKurtz of Buffalo, New York: "Notable events since the Last Breakfast at the Inn Coffee Shop in an alcoholic haze and/or daze in June 1925:

Family affairs—Married, still to the same wife whose legs startled Milt Emerson as they dangled over the end of my bed one evening in Hitchcock. She wasn't my wife then—and 1 was sitting at my desk. She is progressively getting younger and prettier and I'm getting to be a grey-haired old bustard. One childsex, female—name, Brenda—a hell-raiser. Now in prep school. A candidate for Carnival Queen if the boys continue to flock around. Some question as to her paternity as she also leads her class scholastically.

Business affairs—Aiter a brief exposure to U. S. Foreign Service, followed a rather prosaic insurance career for 15 years. Now in the tremendously exciting "fastest growing business in the country"—head of a firm of employee benefit plan consultants.

Civic affairs—Too damn much time spent working on and/or heading Community Fund, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Society for the Prevention of Bob-tailed Cats, etc. drives. Presently director of Buffalo Chapter, American Red Cross, and Buffalo Life Underwriters' Association.

Hobbies, Clubs, etc.—Figure skating and drinking in the winter. Sailing, tennis and drinking in the summer. Drinking in the fall. Getting sick in the spring. Member of Buffalo Club, Buffalo Athletic Club, Buffalo Skating Club (Director), North Shore Yacht Club, Thunder Bay Tennis Club, Gyro Club, etc."

Here's a 22-year summary on Hank Leffingwell—which was written by his wife, Marnie: "After graduating from Dartmouth in 1925, Hank was involved in the retail shoe business for twelve years; that included Lord and Taylor, and Stewart and Company in Baltimore. He met and married me, Marnie Tompkins Leffingwell, in Baltimore; married December 31, 1928, and apparently it's going to last. We have only one child, Joan, born in November 1933. She's in high school and quite gorgeous.

Hank bought a franchise from Automatic Canteen Company of America in December 1938. Lou and Nathaniel Leverone are president and chairman of the board, respectively; they are well-known Dartmouth men. Canteen operates all over the country, out of the national office in Chicago. It's rather like Coca Cola, I think, in that you own a franchise to do business in a given territory and no one else can use Canteens (automatic vendors of candy, gum and nuts to date). You use your own money and own your own merchandise, trucks, etc. It's a fascinating business, it moves so fast; during the war when we were operating in a Kaiser shipyard, the entire stock turned twice a day and they screamed for more—which we could not get to give them, alas.

The first franchise was a small one, in Western Maryland, centering in Hagerstown. Hank sold that to buy Salt Lake City, and sold that to buy Portland. Here we propose to stay: things GROW in Oregon, and we have a racing sloop (see cut) on the Columbia River, ten minutes from either the house or office.

Canteen has some interesting new equipment coming along, to sell hot dogs, hamburgers, hot rolls, coffee and ice cream automatically. Not only is the present interesting and remunerative, but the future is going to make this look like a mere beginning."

SAILING/ SAILING: Hank Leffingweli '25 hiding behind dark glasses while sailing his racing sloop, the Tilllcum 11, on the Columbia River this summer.

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