1914
Don't be alarmed by the Wild Man from Borneo accompanying these lines. He really is not as dangerous as he looks. The Smoki Snake Dance Ceremonials are held each year in Prescott, Arizona, and the aborigine shown is none other than our own Gail Gardner, postmaster of Prescott, in his Indian paint and makeup. It was his 27th year of participation. The Smoki are a group of local business and professional men who, once a year, get together for an accurate reproduction of ancient Southwestern Indian ceremonies and dances. "The snake is a bull snake, and is very much alive, the dancer has a bit of extra weight around the middle, but a lot less than, he had when practice for the dances started."
October was a grand and glorious month, in spite of the terrible fires raging in this section. I can't report on the Penn game, but the Brown week-end was perfect, although the finish was enough to contract the coronaries of we old-timers. Dick Barlow greeted us as we mounted the steps to the Inn, and later in the evening, Rocky Flanders appeared for a few mpments. He and Mary had driven up to see John Piane, who was confined to the Mary Hitchcock with pneumonia, with visitors restricted. John is now definitely on the mend, so don't worry about that particular misfortune. Saturday, Ted Main and Marion, Mau-rice Harvey, Stubby Johnson, Dick and Mrs.Pritchard, and Narry Narramore, were seen about the Inn or at the game. Snatch Wilkinson acted as official greeter on the Inn steps as we came back from the field, and later, Loring Nichols and Warner Bentley put in an appearance.
Incidentally, Loring Nichols had just come up from Kimball Union Academy, where his son Bill, who starred for Winchester High last year, is continuing his good work at right tackle on the K.U.A. team.
A week later came the Harvard game, with the usual night-before dinner at The University Club. Larry Kingman and Bill Roland came up from Brockton, with Dud Wheatley from Abington. These three new faces were joyfully received, as were Myron Files, Jack Harris, and Branny Pooler, who had not been with us for a long time. Others present were, Art Woo dies, Ben Aborn, Ernie Kimball, Bill Fletcher, and another new face in ElmerRobinson. John Warren came up from Wrentham, and the writer picked up Charlie Batchelder on the way, while Bino Knight came in late but refused to eat with us. Of course, Herb Austin looked down on the heads of all of us, as might be expected. Sherm Saltmarsh, Ev Barnard, John Peppard and Harold Brown completed the local delegation. The big surprise of the evening was to see Walt Daley, who had just flown in from New York.
A letter the other day from Herb Austin, reports having seen Johnnie Hazen, JimMargeson, Stubby Johnson and String Howe, at the Yale game. Herb has the usual complaint about the athletic council, in that it seems to have done, as usual, an excellent job in scattering the class all over the stand. Herb proudly boasts that he became a grandmother, on October 29, when son Bob and his wife June produced a daughter. Judy Austin, his daughter, "is seeking a Master's Degree in Religious Education at Yale Divinity School, and if she can keep her mind on the subject as one of a handful of girls in a masculine town, she may come out a Y.W.C.A. secretary, someday."
Dan and Jane Chase were recent guests of the Kingsleys while wending their way back to Washington from a vacation on the Cape.
A nice letter from Page Junkins was largely covered in a News Letter, but one can appreciate how Page feels, with the following quotation. "It has been one of the regrets of my life that so much of it has been spent away from native New England, where I would like to be. It would be worth a good deal to be in on the good times and group meetings which you mention, to say nothing—you didn't—of being where one could occasionally gratify his gustatory longings for steamed clams, real New England clam chowder—instead of the vegetable soup with tomatoes in it, through which a couple of clams have been dragged, served in most other parts of the country—lobsters, and other kindred delicacies, many of which can be had elsewhere, but without the flavor that comes from the 'know-how' in preparing them. They are a good deal like good apple pie—indigenous to New England and the maritime provinces of Canada."
Casper Blackburn, working in Plainfield, N. J., left Dartmouth in the middle of his sophomore year and later graduated from the Naval Academy. He writes that somehow he feels very close to the class and to the college. His son entered Oberlin this fall. It would be nice if Casper, who had not been in Hanover since 1919, would only try to get back to some of our parties.
John Warren has a small tool business in North Attleboro, which he may sell in the near future Jack Field, having recently visited his daughter here in Weymouth, wants to get back to New England. Know anybody who needs a purchasing agent? Had an enjoyable hour with Jack a week ago, and appreciated his Bourbon. He had just left HowardPotter in Augusta Potter has been very busy in his capacity as engineer in charge of water supplies with the utilities commission. The long drought, together with recent fires,, has enormously increased his work. .... ChetWestcott has our deepest sympathy in the loss of his hotel, The Malvern, with its cottages, in. the recent Bar Harbor conflagration. We understand that it was a complete loss BinoKnight is struggling with the attempt to raise "a wallop of a big 1947 budget and get comitments for the 1948 which is twice as big." .... Fred Fraser is much improved. Hisdaughter is married and living in West Lebanon, where he spent a week with her this summer, utilizing the time to good advantage by attempting to indoctrinate his 15-year-old soni with the Dartmouth tradition.
Treasurer's Report—l 946-47
Balance on hand July 1, 1946 $1446.96 Dues collected, current and prepaid 564.55 Profit, 1946 class reunion 146.00 Winter meeting, Hanover 1947 189.75 2347.26. Bills paid Gift—J. Conners' secretary 162.25, Daily Dartmouth 14.00 Alumni Magazine 484.00 Stationery 88.52 Hanover Inn (winter meeting) 245.55 Flowers 10.00. 1914 Memorial Library Plan 110.00 Total 1114.32 Balance August 1, 1947 $1232.94
Coming events to remember are Snow-bird party in February; 1914 Class dinner in New York, date to be announced; New York Alumni dinner, date to be announced; and Boston Alumni dinner, late in January.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you, and my sincere wish that the New Year will bring you all health, and happiness, as well as at least one trip to Hanover.
NO WILD MAN FROM BORNEO, this is none other than Gail Gardner '14, postmaster of Prescott, Ariz., disguised in Indian paint and make-up. The occasion is the Smoki Snake Dance Ceremonies, held each year for the past 27 years in Prescott by a local group.
Secretary, DR. 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass. Treasurer, 26 Garden Street, Potsdam, N. Y.
