1916
To open with a gala note, we record the marriage of Miss Catherine Magill, daughter of Ros and Mrs. Magill, to William Prescott Holden, July 16. The bride graduated from Vassar in 1946, and did graduate work in history at Yale. Her husband is an alumnus of Williams, and is an instructor in English at Yale. Belated but sincere good wishes from your father's Class, Catherine. Incidentally, thanks to Col. John Ames, who sent me the clipping from the N. Y. Times.
"Kike" Davis complains from Antwerp that I put him and his business in Paris, another European town, instead of in Antwerp. By October I hope to think up a brilliant bon mot on this error, Kike, but meantime, apologies. Antwerp's loss would have been Paris' gain. Bill McKenzie thought Kike was due to visit these shores this summer, but was in error.
Bill's daughter Jean, the same one who had the whole Class worried when she disappeared (at least in my newsletter) last May, showed her independence this summer by getting herself a job as waitress at Centerville on the Cape, incidentally getting plenty of time to spend on that there beach. That's the old fight, Jean, and we'll be looking for you to be playing centerfield for the Red Sox any year now. At this writing, the McKenzies were expecting to be seen in the Boston-Hanover ambient in October, probably at some football games.
John Ames, returning from a vacation in Maine, ran into Ken Stowell on the train at Portland. A mix-up in cars prevented anything more than a brief conversation, but these encounters are always pleasant to experience.
Tony Garcia, that mysterious figure who flits through life without ever coming back to help us celebrate at reunions, was in Hanover at the Inn in July. When are you going to really get started on your reunion program, Tony?
Rog Evans takes off on what he calls his "Oriental Odyssey", for Japan, Korea, China, Formosa, Philippines and Java, on September 8, long before you get this issue, and expects to be back for Christmas. Right here X must give you some philosophical ruminatings from Rog which I found right interesting:
"As I drive up next week for ten days at Murray Bay, you can think of me dropping off some of young Roger's things at Hanoverfinding it hard to believe, after 36 years, that it's not I myself, but my boy in his own right, that's entering Dartmouth. E. B. White describes that feeling of dual existence in his essay in One Man's Meat, when he writes of going back with his boy once more to the lake, where he himself fished as a boy. 'I looked at the boy who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held the rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod X was at the end of.' So it is perhaps just as well that I'm going away and letting the boy start at Dartmouth on his own, from the first f°S§y morning from which the sun will emerge in all the splendor of an Indian summer day, just as it did for me in September 1912. It still is something to share his joy and hope as he looks forward to Hanover, as we did." A genuine bit of Rogevansese.
Dan Dinstnoor, analyzing the increased cost of operating the Class, including the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, says: "There is danger, of course, that an increase in dues will cause some decrease in dues-payers, but I would think that there would be no serious dropping off if the situation is explained." Alec has given you that explanation; your common sense will tell you he is right, and I predict this will not dent the ironclad loyalty of the majority of '16ers.
I have already told you that Bill Brown was elected president of the Glens Falls, N. Y. Rotary Club this summer. About the same time "Crissy", Bill's younger daughter, was elected president of the Class of 1949 at Pembroke College, Providence, R. I. Bill's other daughter, Ruth Ann, (now Mrs. Shepard) who used to edit these notes in Hanover, sent in this item, vindicating again my faith in the reporting ability of the ladies, all of whom are invited to contribute to this column. Thanks, Ruthie.
Discussion of a 1916 Class Directory is in the air again. If you want one you can have it, says Alec, but you will have to cooperate in sending in the necessary data on yourself.
Alec wrote an interesting letter about the Clambake of the Dartmouth Club of Boston at Nahant in July. Sam, Lou and Betsy Cutler were there, of course, also Ted, Alice and AnnWalker, Ollie and Marion Barr, their son James with his wife Jean, and Buddy with his fiancee, Betty Bird. Says Alec: "Grand clambake Jack Ingersoll provided a couple of television sets for the ballgame, there were 400 there, with only 300 expected. My daughter, Marion McGregor, accompanied me while Estelle stayed home and did some baby sitting with Marion's son Sandy." Alec's daughter, Janet Jardine Traub, had a son born in California July 26.
Gran Fuller sold his house (now too big for him) on Hundred Circle in Wellesley Hills, and has moved into Hancock Village. He will build again in Wellesley in the near future. What, with lumber prices so high, Gran?
Fletch Andrews was appointed Dean of the School of Law of Western Reserve University. Voice of Reserve, the University magazine which announced the appointment to his important post, listed Fletch's membership in many organizations, but omitted mention of his incumbency of the post of ex-Master of Ceremonies, Class of 1916. The Class wishes you a great career in the Dean's chair, Fletch.
Ed Kirkland, professor of history at Bowdoin, was a visiting researcher at Baker Library this past summer. July Fortune favorably reviewed Ed's "Men, Cities and Transportation." .... Mr. and Mrs. John B. Butler and family were visitors at the Inn during the summer. Earl Cranston was on the committee to arrange a Workshop Conference on Student Counseling at Colby College in August Eric Barbour phoned my house, but I missed him. He is a barbershop quartet follower and was rooting for Buffalo entry at Oklahoma, the Buffalo Bills." They were good, I remember. Dr. Red Tucker has retired from active practice and is living in Yucaipa, California. .... John Steams' daughter, Mary Cornelia, was married to William Albert Mac Donald on July 10, at Hanover Phil Davis and wife Verda, took a trip to California and spent a weekend with Hi McLellan in Houston. Same old Hiram, says Phil Bob Brown's son David is serving with the Air Force, in charge of the medical set-up at the Cleveland Airport and expects his captain's bars soon. Daughter Janet and family are at Bob's place in Wolfe boro. .... Pete Cleaves' sister Olive was seriously ill during the summer, and Pete missed his usual vacation in Bar Harbor Alec wrote me of the '16 fishing party August 11, off Plum Island. They caught goo or 400 mackerel and nobody got seasick. Present: Bean, George, Havward, Fuller, Barr, Steinert, Eigner, Cutler, Parker, Coffin, Bobst, Jardine and Bud Barr, who won the pool for catching the first fish. Cutler organized seagull flights and Alec says' the action was better than in the Louis-Walcott fight. They ended up at Wolfe's Tavern in Newburyport for drinks, steaks and lobster, singing, reminiscing Phil Stackpole writes he is in perfect health, but weighs 264 lbs. Bobbie (remember him from Lake Morey?) enters Amherst this fall. Phil is still a judge in Germany, and I judge will be glad to get home again Nat Harris was in Washington a day this summer but I missed him, much to my regret. Mrs. Harris is a grad from L.S.U.; 16-year old Charles, a junior at Gulfcoast Military Academy, has led his class for three straight years; 7-year old Nat Jr. led his first grade class with 95.3 Ev Kiley is still in Niagara Falls.
1916 FATHERS AND STUDENT SONS AT THEIR MAY DINNER AT THE D.O.C. HOUSE
Secretary, 2721 Blaine Drive, Chevy Chase 15, Md Treasurer, 11 Copeland Ave., Reading, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, H. CLIFFORD BEAN7 Hampton, N. H.
