1916

Speaking of coincidences, and we should be in these times, I was reading a letter from Leigh Rogers who it seemed had a birthday, and he referred me to a reprint of an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine, relating his experiences when he visited Russia on a technical mission for Bell Aircraft. Leigh had written that he found the Intourist Bureau very efficient, and they had his air transportation ready for him before he got there and so asked him: "Where have you been?"—well, the Russians took the words out of my mouth because I was going to ask you the same thing, not having heard of or about you for so many years, Leigh. The pleasure is all the greater for this delay, and I hope by the time this appears in print you will have dropped into Washington

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown of Nashaway were at the Inn in September, but my news concerning the excursion ends with that. Send us something, Bob, if only a rehash of that story about the WPA swimming pool. And another Brown, Bill, who is principal of Glens Falls High School, gave a talk over Station WGLN in his town late in September, summarizing the recommendations of the Compton Commission on Universal Military Training. The address, reprinted in full in the Glens FallsPost-Star, was a masterful analysis of the report and of the world-wide situation as it affects the USA Dorland Cremer, whom you remember as John D., now Red Cross director for Cleveland, was heard from briefly, but nobody can accuse J.D. of verbosity in his letters Marty Linihan got a birthday greeting intended for Denis Linihan, but anyway I made Marty a year younger. Marty, in calling my attention to the error, says he doesn't see many of the old gang but runs into Dave Shumway now and then, also OlinSmith

Ignatz Eigner has a son, Richard, entering Dartmouth this fall. I don't know just how many 1916 sons there are in Hanover just now, but the number must be large Had a letter from Lee Stowell, who is president of the Arlington Chemical Co. of Yonkers, saying he "had a most delightful vacation, part of which I spent in Nova Scotia and part at my summer home in Connecticut." In speaking of the "Miss Washington" episode, Lee says "It must be fun having a celebrity in the family, but I bet it is pretty trying and tiring on the old folks. I hope you all were able to get a good rest at Atlantic City." Well, the first part of that is right, but Betty lost six pounds in A.C. and the only reason I didn't was because two days was all I could take of it Dave Shumway wrote me an interesting screed: "Among the Sixteeners I occasionally see around Buffalo are Ernie Frey, OlinSmith and Edgar Spring Winters. Ernie has gained no weight but has added considerably to his wit and sarcasm. Olin lives here in East Aurora and I see him a lot. He sold his business a short time ago, and we all look on him as a retired millionaire. Incidentally, his daughter and two sons played in the tournament mentioned in the newspaper clipping enclosed. Winters and I attended a luncheon for the undergraduates last Christmas. He is in the engineering department of the Town of Tonawanda. Lymie Perkins lives in Buffalo but I haven't seen him for five years or more. Hap Ward used to live in Buffalo and he livened things up quite a bit but he moved back to Olean and no one goes there if they can avoid it." Olean Chamber of Commerce please note that crack. The clipping Dave mentions lists him and Roderick Morgan '43, as winners in the men's doubles in the big Labor Day tournament at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Getting back to Bill Brown for a minute, he wrote an interesting letter I hope to give you in a newsletter before this reaches vou. One bit of news was that his daughter, Ruth Ann, a graduate of the School of English, Simmons College, is now on the staff of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and she will be editing these notes. Go easy on 'em, Ruth Ann. Well, as Bill says, if you have no sons, send your daughter to Dartmouth.

Hank Blaney, writing from Seattle, in the land of the tall pines and the Jap station porters, remarks that few members of our class ever penetrate to that region. "Since Dan Lindsley and his family moved to Los Angeles, I have seen only two of our classmates, Bill Hale and his family on the way home from China at the start of the late way, and Gran and Ruth Fuller a couple of years ago. Those were red-letter occasions and I certainly wish that they occurred more frequentlv. I enjoy reading of the activities of the old gang and I regret that I have little to contribute to the news. We have been located in the same spot for the last twenty-one years and have traveled hardly at all. My hobbies are gardening and golf, with the former continually gaining more of my time." .... Well, you couldn't have a better one, Hank. It's good for old lumbago

The Secretary is in a confused state of mind (more than usual) about the Class Newsletter (Balmacaan A.C. Letter) and these notes in the MAGAZINE. Of course the newsletters are longer, more timely and thanks to the College, are processed and mailed quickly after being sent in to Hanover. On the other hand, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Notes permit adjacent classes to keep up with their old cronies in other classes. To handle both jobs is some what of a strain, but the Secretary will be glad to keep both going provided he gets something to print. But he can't use fiction, and so has to depend upon letters from you and your families. Some guys write briefly but steadily, like our traveling correspondent Rog Evans. Others write interesting notes which they fondly imagine to be boring to others but which I know our class members eat up. If nothing is happening in your life (and of course I don't ask you to go out and get hit by a beer truck just to make news), get your children or grandchildren to send in something. And how about something more from Hap Ward, the sunshine philosopher?

THIS MONTH'S PICTURE shows Chester McNutt Woolworth '16, who is president of the Animal Trap Co. of America in Lititz, Pa., and also secretary of Property and Supplies in the cabinet of the Governor of Pennsylvania. He still finds time to direct business ventures and educational institutions.

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