1919
Another opportunity has come our way, and most of you who read these notes have already respondedvto the appeal made to you direct by the College as well that of Spider Martin. Spider tells us our quota for this year's Dartmouth Alumni Fund Drive is $9,150. Do we make it? The usual answer "Yes" sums it up and this reminder is for the few who have yet to send a check and for one or two who may have missed the boat in years past and want to make it this year.
At the Roscoe Hayes', March 29, 1947, Jimand Mary Davis were lamenting how only two weeks sheds the Nassau tan; and Jim was relived that two weeks at $35-40 food, board, plus extras per day was successfully passed. Rabbi Raible was in from Cleveland with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allport. The Rabbi compares Florida tan with Jim's Nassau brown. Competitively they discussed stories of how the ladies submit to the application of sun tan oil. Nassau won by "a hand." Mary modestly declined to enter the discussion or to admit that her sun tan rays were abated by man-applied oils.
All this took place at Rock and Alice Earl's lovely colonial brick home in West Newton, nearby the Braeburn Country Club. Incidentally, Eliza and George Bingham put in an appearance and especially enjoyed meeting the younger Hayes'—most attractive Adelia and the boys, Randolph and Boogie-Woogie piano playing Rolph.
The Dartmouth Glee Club, under able direction of Donald Cobleigh '23 pleased a Westchester County audience more than a little when they gave a concert in New Rochelle Saturday evening, March 29. Ort Hicks, whose son is a member of the Club, was present. Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Jackson had no difficulty whatever in persuading a group of 'lgers and wives to stop in at their beautiful home in Pelham Manor after the concert. Harriet and Win Batchelder, Bea and Spider Martin, Millie and George Rand, Marie and Mai Drane, Lil and Red Colwell and Marg and Ken Huntington enjoyed hospitality provided by May and Fat Jackson. Jackson, Drane and Rand, the 1919 Westchester Deke triumvirate, looked well in dinner clothes.
Hal Davidson and family were seen at the concert from afar.
With sorrow and regret we report that ("Stub") Eliot F. Stoughton died February 22 in Raleigh, N. C. Stub had been ill for about six months, following an attack of paratyphoid. Details appear in the In Memoriam section of this publication.
Batch handed the secretary a clipping from the Boston Globe of March 18, entitled "Elementary Kindness' which seems to reflect a spirit known to us in undergraduate days, which still lives and grows stronger.
"It happened at Dartmouth College, but it is to be hoped that something very like it might occur at any one of our institutions of higher learning under similar conditions.
"There was a fire in one of the small government project houses inhabited by a G. 1., his wife and child. They were saved, but the building and its contents, all this new family possessed, went up in flame and smoke.
"Everyone knows that the allowance for a married student is not excessive. Strict economy is necessary if debt is to be avoided. But this disaster made an immediate appeal to other students. Immediately the sum of $lOOO was gathered. Some of the students contributed from their own possessions. Several of the local tradesmen told the young man to come in for what he needed, without charge.
"This may sound like the kindliness to be found a century or more ago. But it is absolutely up-to-date. Time has not withered human decency."
Jim Davis found the following in the Boston Herald of recent date. "Holyoke Man Elected N. E. 'Chests' President."
"Stuart A. Russell of Holyoke, Mass., was elected president of the New England Association of Community Chests and Councils here today in a feature of the windup of the threeday session. Some 250 community organization leaders from all sections of New England attended the conference."
Jim Wilson who heads the Salem Tool Company of Salem, Ohio, has but lately returned from three weeks in Florida and Cuba. Jim and Polly found Florida cold at times but claims sunshine and, good bathing for two thirds of their stay. He adds that Havana was good fun and worth the time and money. Says Jim "a real change of atmosphere."
Barbara Wilson, Jim's daughter, is a classmate of Batch's daughter at Emma Willard in Troy where Stu Russell's daughter is now a freshman.
Batch's son played with the hockey team this winter at Kimball Union.
"Fred" S. Balch has moved recently from 119 West Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, Penna. to Quarry Road & Laurel Lane, Haverford, Pa.
The Dartmouth Plan of Reunions as developed by Professor Robinson '24, after receiving many suggestions and ideas submitted from dozens of classes, has much to recommend it. For example, our class would join with 1918 in 1948 and celebrate our 30th, one year before its time. The only disadvantage would be the six-year interval between 1948 and 1954 when our 35th Reunion would be held with the classes of '17 and '18. Comments to guide your class officers in arriving at the best plan for Reunions when said officers meet in Hanover, May 16 and 17, will be welcome.
Bob Stecher has been busy making Dartmouth mean more each day out Cleveland way. His efforts on behalf of the College are known to a few but Bob does not tell us of his various deeds because of his well known modesty.
Max Norton, the busy Bursar, whose duties keep him in Hanover is now qualified as an expert in the field of veterans housing having had most of the detail in connection with planning and construction of Sachem Village, and converting one or more dormitories into apartments for married students. Some of us might well seek advice and instruction from Max on veterans' housing problems.
Secretary, 103 Aviemore Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
