1927
Christmas vacation was over at this time twenty years ago, and we were back in Hanover, knee-deep in snow with those crisp and frosty days that were so invigorating. We say "were" advisedly for although it may be an admission of increasing age we'd take Florida right now and love it. Nevertheless, one remembers those wintry days with a pleasant glow, and the nostalgia almost convinces one that he could still walk along those snowlined campus paths at 12 below zero with no hat, a light ski coat, and not lose both his ears.
Dartmouth finished second in the Winter Sports competition at Lake Placid. Sid Harris won points in Speed Skating and Bill North in Figure Skating. After a poor start the basketball team ended its Christmas trip, with victories over Stevens, Brooklyn Poly and St. Stephens. The hockey team finished a successful training trip at Lake Placid which included several victories over Williams by defeating a strong Princeton team by the score of 7-2 at Madison Square Garden.
The Outing Club announces program for Carnival starting with outdoor evening on Faculty Pond. Floyd Dell begins series of lectures conducted by the Arts. Montreal Theatre fire panic claims seventy-five lives. Coolidge acts to save property in Nicaragua. The Players are busy rehearsing "The Chocolate Soldier" for the Carnival show. M. Edouard Champion, famous French publisher, editor, and writer, lectures on subject of Anatole France. Dartmouth quintet defeats Columbia 30-28, Picken, Oliver, Ketz and Cohen contributing to the victory. The hockey team lost 4-2 in a close game with Harvard at the Boston Arena. Players applauded for production of Barrie's "Dear Brutus." Hillman predicts best track team since 1918. Professor Fred Parker Emery's sudden death brought great sorrow to the whole college.
The Dartmouth publishes the schedule of midyear exams as Dartmouth loses to Penn on the court. John Langdon-Davies, distinguished English scientist, lecturing in Dartmouth Hall, explodes Nordic Myth. The varsity swimmers sink Brown mermen while court team wins decisively from Princeton. Green and Eli sextettes tie 1-1 in overtime contest. Norma Shearer leads stars in popularity at Dartmouth. Richard Dix voted as first among male actors. And, as The Dartmouth suspends publication until Monday, Eebruary 7, examinations start and Carnival is in the offing. Them were the good old days.
Ding Heap phoned ns not long ago to report on Ed Johnson. Ed, you'll remember was badly smashed up in an accident in Washington, D. C., while serving in the Navy. He recovered from these injuries sufficiently to serve some time in Japan after the end of hostilities. He has since returned to this country for further medical treatment and was recently discharged from the Navy. Ed has now returned to Japan where, we understand, he will be employed by the government as a civilian in the field of education.
Nels O'Rourke of Daytona Beach, Fla., was reelected vice president of the Florida Security Dealers Association at its annual meeting held recently in St. Petersburg.
Red Griffin of Portland, Maine, has dropped in at our office a couple of times recently for a pleasant social visit. Red has left the Retail Credit Company and is working for O'Hanlon Reports, whose headquarters are in New York City. In his spare time, he and his wife are running a good sized chicken farm at their home about eight miles outside of Portland.
We spent a very delightful New Years' Eve with Josh and Jill Davis at the home of friends they were visiting in Foxboro, Mass. We also had the pleasure of meeting their four very attractive youngsters, Ann, Dorsey, Sue and Bill.
Charles Greeley is now living in Maiden, Mass., and is a radio technician Paul Hileman has moved from Cleveland out to Bell, Calif.
A very interesting and unique Christmas card from Cary Stiff includes numerous pictures of their new and most attractive country home, "Dogwood Farm," and with it a running comment of .their decision to move from Grand Rapids out into the country, and the tribulations and pleasures of converting to country life. Dave, their older boy, takes the bus to Lowell High in Grand Rapids, while Nona and Cary are two of the nine pupils in the Honey Creek School. Little Martha, being too young for school, stays home to help mother.
Had a nice note from Bob Hazelton who is busily engaged running New Hampshire Farm Tractor Company, with headquarters in Chester, N. H. Among other items he distributes Ford, Ferguson, Farm Operating Equipment.
Now that we are safely into 1947, let's start talking and thinking seriously about that Twentieth Reunion, come June. The war, with its many demands on our time, not to mention gasoline rationing and transportation problems prevented many of us from enjoying the Fifteenth. Let's make up for it this June with our biggest and best Reunion ever. A complete and entertaining program is being arranged by your committee, but the most important part and best fun is just being in Hanover and seeing all the guys. Reliving those swell days, renewing old friendships and making new and even stronger ones. How about writing a few letters to some of the guys you would like particularly to see there? Above all, circle the dates of June 20, 21 and 22 on your calendar, and plan to be there early. We'll be seeing you!
NEW EXECUTIVE of Franklin Spier, Inc., book publishers' advertising counsel, is Samuel H. McAloney '26, ex-Marine Corps Captain.
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass
Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman
Box 101, Westfield, N. J.
