1925
Ken Hill, the steadiest contributor to this column, reports that 28 of the '25ers attended the annual Dartmouth Dinner at the Copley Plaza in Boston. Ken writes:
The '25ers present were Nate Bugbee, Pete Blodgett, Ben Bowden, Bunny Levison, Don Hunt, Dick Holden, Ken Hill, Ken Nugent, Hal Mac Cread'y, Jake Penny, Ham Thayer, Lang Spring, Bill Sleigh, Hal Stevens, Bob Rhoades, Eddie Pease, Tippy Tower, Les King, Dr. Ralph Thompson, Ed Warner, Ralph Tucker, Lew White, Woody Wilson, Jim Wynn, Pete Haffenreffer, Eddie Griffin and Chet Eaton.
Frank Wallis gave a marvelous resume of his work as trial lawyer against the top Nazi officials at Nuremburg. When President Dickey got up to speak, he said of Frank's address, "That is the finest speech I have ever heard presented to a Dartmouth audience."
Pete Haffenreffer is planning a family affair of '2sers hereabouts with a good old Rhode Island clam bake some Saturday in June at his Mount Hope Farm, Bristol, R. I.
Jock Brace had to miss our dinner as he was called to Havana on business yesterday. The DickHoldens are expecting their first towards summer. Bill Sleigh, for quite some time one of the leading O.P.A. attorneys here, has re-entered private law practice with offices at 10 State Street (telephone Capital 4346).
Eddie Pease just returned from 10 days of skiing at Pico Peak Lodge near Rutland, Vt. The Lew Whites also just had two weeks of the same in N. H. and Vt. Have been corresponding with Ed Burns since I just bought some of his super Burns canned vegetables. Ed reports that he was in N. Y. City earlier this month and saw Harry Clark, Len Larrabee and Johnny Flynn.
Nineteen '2sers braved the Storm of the Year to show up for the class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York on February 21. Those present included: Bob Reynolds, HankBjorkman, Deak Blodgett, Cliff Hill, MartinHuberth, Jim Adams, Bill Griffin, Irwin Gutterman, Walt Vom Lehn, Fred Reed, JackDavis, Doug Archibald, Brice Disque, PaulJerman, Bill Farnsworth, Dick Nye, StanLitchfield, Curt Abel and Patch Tomkins.
Bob Misch, who organized the party with Cliff Hill, could not be present as he was attending the Conference on World Government at Asheville, N. C. Bob has worked hard for four years on this subject through Americans United, of which he is a director.
Cliff Hill did a very gracious job as host of the evening and introduced our guest, Ed Dooley '26, who told a number of amusing stories from his experience as a sports writer and radio announcer.
Deak Blodgett lugged a projector through the snow to show the finest class movies we've ever seen. They show our 21st Reunion in a way that is imaginative, humorous and technically excellent.
At the dinner Cliff Hill got the good news from his lawyer, Bill F<irnsworth, that he can soon move into the house he bought recently at 37 W. 10th St. in Greenwich Village.
More gossip about the group at the New York dinner next month. Meanwhile, tell us what you are doing!
The class of 1925 staged a very successful dinner in Chicago on February 21. Here is Sherm Barnett's report on the gathering:
Just for the fun of it, and with very little assistance, Tubby Washburn has proved that very few, if any, wives of the Chicago '25ers were born prior to 1915. He did it through the remarkably simple expedient of corralling and exhibiting a dozen or so of the 1925 wives in the Officers Ward Room of the Chicago Naval Armory on February 21. The exhibit spoke for itself the Glass of 1"925 (Chicago members, at least) picked 'em young and gorgeous.
The Mesdames—all picked at random and accompanied by their balding and belly-bulging husbands—were, in alphabetical order: Mrs. Sherm Barnett, Mrs. Ross Beatty, Mrs. Whit Campbell, Mrs. Carl Clifton, Mrs. Hort Conrad, Mrs. Charlie Dodd, Mrs. Mil Hart, Mrs. Tige Lyon, Mrs. Hi Russell, Mrs. Al Sparks, Mrs. Tubby Washburn and Mrs. Gair Tourtellot.
Four stags, accompanied by "neither wife nor girl friend," were Ike Burner, Gardie Howe, Ken Montgomery and Art Sawers.
The party, as we understand it, was the result of nothing more or less than Tubby and Flort Conrad having a noonday glass of beer and suddenly being seized with an uncontrollable urge to shout "25 UP!" After postcards were mailed, all that was needed was good food, mellow whiskey, a lady accordionist and a comfortable spot.
Washburn produced all three at an amazingly low per capita cost—and from six p.m. until the Coast Guard was called the party was a riotous success. No one was injured. There was but a modicum of property damage. There were no fist fights—not even intra-familia and,to the best of my knowledge, nobody even fell down. The Carl Cliftons knocked a street car off the track on the way home. The Tige Lyons, the Charlie Dodds and Ike Burner dropped in at the Bismark Hotel at midnight for what turned out to be three hours of nightcaps. Ken Montgomery was in peak condition as a raconteur. Well, heck! Everybody was in rare form and had a SWELL time.
Of course, we missed everybody else in the entire class of 1925, the names of whom it is neither fitting nor necessary to mention at this time, but we DO want to say that we received, with sorrow, the regrets of Boh Borwell (abed with a coldnow okay), Len Larson (just moved down eastdammit), Joe Murphy (illness at home sorry, Joe), and Stan Smith (inextricably enmeshed in Rockford social stuff—Stan has just barely regained his social standing lost when he invited the '2sers out there some five years ago. We're rarin' for another, Stan. How about the weekend of June 21 ? Room in your cabin for Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Indianapolis delegations?)
There's been some talk of having a similar affair every Friday night. The only opposition at present comes from approximately twenty-eight of those who attended who insist that fun is fun but NOBODY wants to feel that bad EVERY Saturday morning.
SIX SONS OF 1925 IN THE PRESENT FRESHMAN CLASS: Above, in the left hand picture are, left to right, Pete Hill '5O, son of Cliff Hill '25, Ray Smith '5O, son of Reynolds Smith '25, George Nugent '5O, son of Ken Nugent '25, and Bob Meyers '5O, sen of Bob Meyers '25. In the right hand picture, Ned Petre- quin '5O, left, son of Eduoard Petrequin '25, and Everett Chamberlain '5O, son of Stanley Chamberlain '25.
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