1916
Not meaning to sneak up on you, what do you think of undergrad Dartmouth as portrayed by The Dartmouth? You don't read it? The secretary does, through the courtesy of the class. It's baffling, no less. I get the issue of December 12 before I get December 7. One guy advertises that someone lost his pants and shoes while visiting him, and he will be glad to return them. The Hanover Police Chief says students rarely violate Hanover parking laws. There is a wrestling team (not co-ed). There is a column, sometimes called "From Eleazar's Quill," of rambling discursive thoughts, the meaning of which escapes me. The library advertises new books and collections. Movie reviews are written in a humorous (?) vein; and the fishy taste, due to algae, is back in the Hanover water. Not much change in thirty years, eh? A trifle dizzier, per- haps. Perhaps not Park Hayden and Mrs. went to Houston, Texas, where he read a paper at a medical convention. (Can you hear Fletch Andrews commenting?) .... Someday I'll work up a 1916 directory by States, so the next time Cap Carey drives through Wilmington, Del., he will stop and see Chuck Gammons .... Rog Evans sends me the Phi Beta Kappa "Key Reporter" which reports Gene Chase as elected to the Senate of that body, illustrated by a photo of Gene that shows him to have put on becoming weight since college days, and to be a very handsome senator The McAuliffe calls attention to the marriage of two "only child" daughters of classmates. Lymie Perkins' daughter, Nancy, was married in July. (Lymie wrote that was why he couldn't be at the 30th. Nancy married an ex-GI flier, now in medical school at Yale, and they live in a Quonsett hut. Tony Garcia's "only," Nan Doris, was married in November. No other details. Nan Doris, did your old man ever tell you of the famous ride from White River Junction to Williamstown and back, on freights, to see a football game? Get him to tell you..... Shorty Hitchcock, the only man who ever drove a car with his feet crossed, so as to get those long legs in the car, wrote from Altadena, Calif. Shorty was in there pitching at Okinawa, but claims he feels too old for combat duty and is glad to be a civilian again (since last September 1945). He is back on the old job of traveling Southern California as Special Agent for the Firemens Insurance of Newark. Quoting:
Luckily we had two small guest houses on our place here and when the two boys got out of the service there was a spot for each to light in with their families. Each boy has two children, and with three small grandsons and an 8-year-old granddaughter, it seems that every time we step out of doors after dark that there is a writhing mess of grandchildren underfoot. Lillian and I have acquired a piece of land on top of a knoll above Capistrano Beach, half way from L. A. to San Diego, and will build a house there for weekends and summers and possible later retirement. I look forward to sitting in a large easy chair, having a good pair of binoculars and watching the planes and the ships pass out on and over the blue Pacific. As well as doing considerable surf and deepsea fishing. Once in a while I see or have lunch with Dan Coakley in L. A. Dan is a successful insurance broker in L. A., and incidentally started me in the insurance business in 1925. Give my regards to any of the 19l6ers you may -see.
It's a pleasant picture, Shorty, but watch out for those swallows at Capistrano PaulGoward, Business Manager, School Arts Magazine, living in Shrewsbury, Mass., writes:
Golf is off my list again. May take it up when I get old enough. In place of golf I'm my own handy man and if I do say so I cut a "good lawn," and shovel a driveway full of snow on occasion. As is the case with 80% of our class I've done many little duties to help keep the community going, but I'd be a chump to list them. Thank goodness most of the class are really doing something for the world. I'm still going to school via my work with the School Arts Magazine, which is used by teachers of art in schools and colleges.
Sara Thieme writes he sees Dan Lindsley regularly at L.A. luncheons and once in a long time, Dan Coakley Ros Magill comments: "Life in the law is always interesting; you deal with a bottle manufacturer one day and a steel mill the next." Your secretary's limited law practice got him clients like a young girl who was nudged by an auto driven by a penniless drug clerk, while she was alighting from a streetcar. Fletch Andrews is Chairman of the Committee on Legal Education of the Cleveland Bar Assn. Fletch comes to that job loaded Jack Curtin writes, replying to Dan's quiz:
I have no children, but for the record I have 6 godchildren and 12 nephews and nieces. Before I was transferred to Fort Wayne I managed to get to Hanover at least once a year, plus New Haven and sometimes Cambridge. Now that those excursions are "out" I surely miss the unexpected and very pleasant reunions which are a happy by-product of college football.
Dick Coburn was headed for California, taking Helen along, a business trip with some vacation scheduled in connection with a visit to their son at Franklin, La Ed Lindman, mathematics head at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., opened his co-ed Lindman Summer School in 1946, enrollment exceeding all expectations. He will enlarge it in 1947, with junior and senior high and college prep courses offered Ed Knight is president or director of so many companies we can't list them all. And still has time for his hobby, dog fancier. Ed's son, Dartmouth '44 is attending Va. Univ. Law School Our classmate Lincoin Filene, has 5 grandchildren and 3 greatgrandchildren. Last news was Mr. Filene was well, but Mrs. Filene was ill, and we hope this issue of the Notes finds her greatly improved Parker Hayden has a son at Harvard, Heinie George one at N. H. Univ. Says Heinie "He crossed me up." Dan Lindsley has them at Texas and Arkansas U.'s
Karl Shedd, Spanish Professor at U. of Georgia, is enjoying his work, his fine colleagues, and took pleasure in watching Trippi play football last fall. College work has made it impossible for him to get to reunions, but he says they are "keeping the home fires burning." .... Charlie Everett's daughter Catherine Ann, will graduate from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart next June. Her sister, Constance Adele, of St. Joseph-in-the-Pines, Brentwood, L. I., is a junior, and contemplates either Vassar or Trinity Your secretary is busy recording children and grandchildren, and it is quite a job: there are millions of them. Among the grandfathers I catch the following partial list: Jardine, Morey, Nickerson, Olson, Paine, Jenison, Sherer, Ross, Hitchcock, Holmes, Green, Bobst and Ike Telfer, who describes his four as a whole backfield, all rugged, and himself as hale, hearty and happy If I have my photo schedule right, this month we show Comdr. Constantine Tripolitis, USNR, (inactive), who looks better in that uniform than Errol Flynn, Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy put together This secretary job is habit-forming; your Sec'y is now Secretary of the Foreign Trade Policy Committee of the Army and Navy Munitions Board. This job, as predicted by Bean, Andrews, English and others, is full of work, but there is a real kick in corresponding with and watching the careers of 1916ers. From where the Sec'y stands they look like a grand group of men, with a great record of achievement in professions, business, sports, real living and enough off spring to satisfy a Chinese, ancester Here the Sec'y must record that his 14-year-old Janet won two prizes in the Fort Myer horse- show, riding "Kermit."
Cliff Bean says that year-end contributions to the Class of 1916 Memorial Fund in the amount of $2100 have boosted the class total to $10,400.
Sam Cutler holds the distinction of being the most frequent visitor to Hanover. Apparently he goes back every two or three weeks. His son Sam Jr., graduates in February and his younger son, Dick, is an applicant for admission in the G.I. class starting next month.
Comes a note from Mrs. Joe Carleton: "My new book The Swan Sang Once comes out January 2. If it sings to good effect I hope to sail for Paris in April, as my son returned to Europe in August. I hope to see him occasionally and also pick up some fiction material. Liberty and American just bought stories; so even without Joe to snap a kindly whip, I still plug along. Best wishes to all the Class."
Nice going, Marjorie. And have a good time in Paris [Happy Birthday in February to Bartlett, Craver, Fiske, Friedman, Greenwood, Houle, Larimer, Linihan, Mitchell, McKenzie, McLellan, Paul, Piper, Ritchie, Ross, Sherer, Spelke, Stearns and White] These notes are written on New Year's Day, just after laying a wreath in deep snow on the grave of Gen. Clarence Edwards, W. W. I Commander of the Yankee Division, which job Stew Paul filled so ably in W. W. II Letter from Abe Lincoln writes of his happy family: Richard, 16, at Exeter, David, 13, at junior high in Fall River and Donald, 734, in grade school, Fall River. "These three keep Elizabeth and me busy, out of mischief and home nights and weekends." Glen Gould, associated with Roscoe Goodwin '16, selling for Atlas Products of Newark, writes from Rutland that his son, Glenn Jr. was married to Judith Bigelow of Lunenburg, Mass., last August 7, and they will join Glenn and his wife in St. Pete, Fla., in January at 3630 Foster Hill Drive. Look him up, he says Rog Evans was in Hanover for Xmas; said it was good to see the Cranstons, J. Gile and Mrs. Stearns (John being in bed with near-flu) and gives this bit of Rogevansian: "With Main Street an arcade of colored lights, gleaming Christmas trees in the Inn and mid-campus and carols by chimes and by radio, only snow is lacking to make this Xmas fairyland complete." And now we have the snow.
ENTRANT. Although he is now discharged, 1916 offers the above proof that they had the nattiest Naval officer in classmate Constantine Tripolitis.
Secretary, 2721 Blaine Drive, Chevy Chase 15, Md.
Treasurer, 11 Copeland Ave., Reading, Mass.
