1917
These notes are being written September 22 as your scribe intends leaving on a fishing and hunting trip to northern Canada on the 24th, and won't be back until about the 10th of October. If any of you men want a carload of trout, bass, or a couple of hampers of duck or grouse, drop me a line and I will see that your order is taken care of. Due to this vacation of mine, these notes will necessarily be short and just include three letters from three helpful men. Certainly hope the day will come when more of you "young" men will send me some news as it is mighty interesting for all concerned; and unless you do write, getting out class notes is absolutely impossible.
The football season is here so hope many of you will plan to be at the various games so we can have some good old get-togethers. I expect to be at the Stockwells for the Harvard game together with the Brooks. The Princeton game is always a great event and, of course, Yale, and the following cocktail party at the Scntts is simply a must. Try and plan to be at some of these games but if you can't, drop me a line telling what you have been doing this past summer.
The following letters from Trennie, Mott, and Stocky you will find most interesting, so take a few minutes out and let the class know what you're doing.
From Trannie, "In my wanderings this summer, I was able to look in on a couple of our classmates who are notably shy on news—to wit, "Soft Shoe" Worthington and our old pal "Bimi" Goss of Warren, Ohio.
"Babe" Goss has moved his abode until now he resides much closer to the fairway of the Trumbull C6unty Golf Club course—l'd say about a 4 iron shot away. Babe has three new things since I saw him in July of '4O: 1) a daughter-in-law, 2) a Cocker Spaniel pup "Rusty" and 3) a leather brace for his backhe's suffering from a sacro-iliac condition—just old age creeping in on him. This does not, let me say here, interfere with his and Helen's hospitality which I've always found to be tophole.
"Champ" Worthington at Avery Brundage's Command, was one of the old Olympics to participate in the parade at the opening of the final tryouts in July at the Northwestern Stadium. Harry looks well, tanned, a mite corpulent, graying over the temples and says he couldn't broad jump 20 feet right now even down hill—this I doubt. Bess was not there and Harry was leaving the next day for Connecticut where his niece was being married. Also Bess and Harry are celebrating nuptials nearer home (Joliet) when their Betty marries J. Sullivan of Notre Dame, this month I believe.
"As for me, I was in Wisconsin on business most of the summer and saw the above two '17 operatives on my way home.
"Florence and I became grandparents for the third time on August 4th when David Green Trenholm was born at Lawton, Okla. (Congratulations, Trennie.)
"One game of football is so far in the offing for us. We're going over October 16 to sit in on the Colgate fracas. We hope to see some of the boys there. Attendance at the Tiger game depends on the condition of Florence's mother who is very sick at Forest Hills."
From Stocky, "We're getting out a Sentryabout the Alumni Fund and I don't feel itwould bear repetition in the Class Notes. Ithink the men prefer news about Classmatesanyway. Here's some:
1917 Class Dinner, Engineers Club, 96 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., 6:00 P.M.
Friday—the night before the Harvard Game—October 22.
All the Class Officers present. Karl Koeniger,chairman-Secretary, and Don Brooks, Treasurer, coming up from New Jersey specially forthe dinner. Howie Stockwell, class agent, outof the hospital, will also be there."
From Mott: "It is on the best of authority that I have it that Gene and Lucile Towler will celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on September 29. It is ditto that Don and HelenBrooks celebrate theirs on October 13. Of course, these occasions may be coming along too fast these days for you to make any attempt to note. On the other hand, you' might want just to give both a ring on the appropriate date. And, just in case you care to note these common occurrences in Class Notes, Fran and I celebrate ours on the same date as the Towlers. (Thanks for this news, Mott.)
"The news from the Cape Cod vacation area is on the sparse side this summer. In general, 'l7ers seemed to go elsewhere this year for their vacations. One high spot, however, was the warm hospitality of Phil and Jo Evans when they entertained the Brookses and the Browns for cocktails, all available '17ers and their wives. The Brookses of Bass River and Upper Montclair, N. J., had their daughter Betty, Duke '47, with them. Betty is now doing special work with Conde Nast Publishing Cos., in New York. Phil and Jo are old settlers on the Cape, and their summer home at Harwichport is the soul of hospitality.
"As to my own family, and just in case you need 'filler' for the notes, Eleanor, Wellesley '45, is in her fourth year at Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons. Barbara, Smith '48, is a resident at Ohio State University doing graduate work in Psychology. Kay transferred from Indiana University at the end of her second year, and entered Bennington College this fall as a junior. Fran is the correspondent-in-chief who keeps the scattered family a unit still, while I devote my efforts to seeing that the products of Huntington Laboratories, Inc. are properly distributed in the Middle West."
Sorry I have to rush along without any additional news, but please remember to send in some interesting bits, and also about the coming football games if at all possible.
1916 ON THE WEST COAST: Carleton Coffin's visit to the Red Cross convention there provided the occasion for the first 1916 luncheon in that area. Left to right: Cari Eskerline, Louie Bell, Dan Dinsmoor, Desperate Desmond, Dan Lindsley, Carleton Coffin, Dan Coakley, Sam Thieme, and Bones Joy.
Secretary, 408 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark 5, N. J.
Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 77 Harrison St., Verona, N. J.
