1924
Greetings to everyone, and here's hoping you all had a very pleasant summer. The Whites spent two weeks on Cape Cod and managed at this time to see the following members of the class. The entire Spaulding family who were at East Falmouth all summer, Ridgewoodites Doug Graham and his family who had a cottage at West Dennis, Doug Craig and his family who were at East Dennis for the month of August. We played golf at FrankSheehy's golf course at Bass River a number of times and saw the Mrs. and the youngster (wearing a Dartmouth 1964 T Shirt) at the beach. Roily Barker and his family were at the Cape as usual, but, because he was taking a course at Columbia summer school, he was not there himself as much as during previous summers. Roily is taking on an administrative job at the Montclair High School.
The following classmates have sons entering Dartmouth this fall in the Class of 1952: RoilyBarker, Ken Davis, Alex Haskell, Otis Jackson,Win Sturtevant, Roily Taylor and Mike Wat-kins. Here is brief information about these boys given to me by their fathers. Roily Barker Jr. is a pitcher on the baseball team like his father. He attended Montclair High School for four years and as he was quite young at graduation last year his father decided to send him to Vermont Academy. Roily was very pleased by the fine job done by Larry Leavitt at this prep school. Roily was also on the football teams at Montclair and Vermont. Ken Davis' son, Alan C. Davis, is another son who went to prep school after finishing high school. He attended Exeter Academy where he was on the football team and should be good material for the freshman team. In giving information about Otis Jackson's son, Andy, here is a quotation from his father's letter: "Andy attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, these last three years. Most of the time he has been an honor student. He has twice earned his letter in Cross Country (something like his old man). Having longer legs, he can cover more ground than I could, but I don't think he puts his feet down as fast. He has taken part in most of the school plays." Roily Taylor, in giving me information about his son, writes on the sta- tionery of a real estate firm in West Hartford, Conn. Paul attended the West Hartford High School and was interested in dramatics. He was editor-in-chief of the school magazine. After finishing at Dartmouth, he hopes to attend Law school. Alex Haskell Jr. attended Farmington High School in New Hampshire where he was very active in school affairseditor of the school paper, manager of the basketball team and class treasurer for three years. He was valedictorian of his class.
Sorry to have to report the death of one member of the class last summer. Don Morrison, sales representative of the Great Northern Paper Company, died in Greenwich Hospital on August 5. He had lived in Riverside, Conn, for thirteen years. Don is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son.
Ken Harvey is still with the War Assets Administration in Washington. He recently took a trip to Central America. He sees StubbyReed quite often at the Congressional Country Club. Leo Stone is a prominent doctor in New York City and has purchased a farm house about six miles outside of Hanover on the Vermont side. All the time he can take from his medical practice is spent at his new home. BillKnox's son graduated from Deerfield this year and was admitted at Princeton. Mrs. Knox wrote as follows: "I feel a bit guilty that he is not to go to Dartmouth, but it was a difficult situation. We live with my father, an ardent Princetonian, and my brother, who is another one, actually lives in Princeton. Bill has spent many a holiday with his cousins down thereand I guess you can see what happened!" Frank Karslake sent us a report of the very successful class dinner held in Chicago. Here's his account of the affair: "A number of the brethren of 1924 held a class dinner in Chicago at the University Club on Friday evening, May si. Most of us had not seen each other during the intervening years since Hanover, so after a couple of hours of preliminaries to recover from the shock, we gathered around the festive board, arranged by George Emrich Jr. who originated the idea of this gathering. VaughnBerry honored us with his presence by coming in from Milwaukee as did Herb Kaiser who came all the way up from Monti cello. The La Grange contingent came out en masse, JoeSammons, Art Sprague and Norm Rosie. JohnMcElwain came in from Hinsdale, Al Burke was among those present as were Frank Mandel, Frank Karslake, and George Emrich Jr., Johnny Townes and Harland Stockwell.
"We had some last-minute regrets and you guys missed a great party. Ed Mansure, out 'stumping for Stassen,' was down in Decatur. George Anderson, Frank Coffin, Bill Oatman and Ed Yonkers got tied up at the last minute and could not make it. There were a number from out of town who thought they might make it but could not. Among these were: Charlie French, Cleveland; John Dregge, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mike Watkins, Youngstown, Ohio; Ted Nilsen in Clinton, Michigan; and Ed Jones in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Sorry you couldn't be here, boys, maybe next time. The nearest we came to any serious business was when Frank Karslake read Charlie French's letter in which Charlie tells about the plan for the Class Gift. If those attending this dinner are any criteria, the entire. class will be in the reunion next year. You can put this group down right now for one hundred percent attendance. The true test of the dinner s success came when everyone suggested we should have another, say in late March or early April next year, at which time we could lay those final reunion plans."
Frank Harrington was elected president of the Worcester County Dartmouth Club. Frank was recently elected chairman of the executive committee of the Health & Accident Life Insurance Conference at a meeting held in San Francisco last May. This puts him in line for the presidency next year.
Start making plans NOW for that very important 25th Reunion next June.
Secretary, 101 Fifth Ave., New York 3, N. Y. Treasurer, Niles & Niles 165 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Memorial Fund Chairman, Box 1297, Tacoma, Wash.
