1914
Last night, February 4, eleven of us in Boston listened to John Dickey give his report on THE STATE OF THE COLLEGE. Have no worries! All's well. It was the usual, delightful Boston alumni dinner, with the latest Kodachrome movies of Hanover, songs by a local glee club, the usual introductions and President Dickey's speech. Gathered at the table were Aborn, Batchelder, Brown, Drake, Fletcher, Gregg, Kimball, Madelina, Newmark,Saltmarsh and Symonds. Herb Austin had left before dinner, with the week's issue hung on the presses while he reuned for a few moments of the early evening. Charlie Griffith '15 introduced Jack Little, son of our Lay, who with a banjo sang one of his own compositions, written on the battlefields of Europe.
"With the angels, with the angels, with the angels in heaven, Save me a seat with the angels above Save me a seat with the men I love Save me a seat on the Dartmouth side of heaven Oh Lord! That's all I ask."
A perfectly delightful evening ruined, with the following from Bob Hastings, headed Quebec Garrison Club "Trust you had a good time in Maine, as I well know you did. Have been up there fishing a few times, since Moosehead Lake, as well as the St. Johns and Allegash are not far from here. Flew in, early in September, to the headwaters of the Rupert for a week, after trout. Very satisfactory as my best lake trout was 21 pounds and my best speckled was just over six pounds. This province still has the best trout fishing in eastern America."
Since we are in the woods, a word from JohnPeppard could well be quoted. Peppard to Sisson: "Noted the herd of deer you brought down with that weapon you held. Aren't there any hunting laws in N. Y. State? My boy got a deer in Maine, this last season. He's going to Univ. of Maine .... sure will not be sorry to see this winter end so I can head for Vinal Haven again. There is more snow around my house than most of the big ski centers are reporting." Did you say snow, John? That's all we hear. Potter writes that it is level with his window sills and continuously at zero or lower. Lewy Littlefield reports that the view from his window looks like some he used to see out of Mass. Hall, except that the graveyard and the Beta House are missing.
Lewy recently received a letter from Webber and says, "Perhaps you remember he used to play a lot of tennis when we were in Hanover. He has kept it up for some extent although I wrote him that for one of his advancing years that game was a bit strenuous. He is now in Washington selling shoes to good Democrats or bad ones .... the New Jersey crowd that I used to know pretty well don't seem to be so hot at correspondence. I guess all these bank presidents are too busy foreclosing mortgages on the old farm, or something like that." Although Lewy's wife suffers greatly from arthritis he keeps his own health.
Good news from Page Junkins that his wife is recovering rapidly from her recent illness and operation. Page mentions the pleasure afforded him in December when Crust and Lucille Buck dropped in for a few hours on their way through Detroit and recently by a luncheon with Vogue Stiles who was attending a convention, their first get-together in fifteen years. Both were reported in good health and spirits and "it took us no more than split seconds to revert to those, happy Hanover days of long ago. You know how it is!"
]ack McCullough's family numbers five, and all but one are living at home. The oldest child, Virginia, has made him a grandfather three times in a row and all girls! The next oldest, Dorothea, is a teacher in thejNew Rochelle, N. Y., school system, besides working for her master's at Columbia, which she hopes to obtain in June. Incidentally, she is going to top off by immediately going after her Ph.D. The third child, Jack, is a sophomore at lona College where he is planning to be in pre-medical next year. Jack Sr. reports that he is still plugging the chemical field but has been forced to confine his activities strictly to consulting work the past year because of somewhat impaired health.
Variety makes interest and only the hardy souls are Sno-birds. We also have migrants, with Bob Hopkins leaving February 16, flying to the Caribbean, the Pomeroys taking off for Ft. Lauderdale, after spending Christmas in Richmond with the family, George Young heading for Florida, and Hal Castle feeling that he needs a Florida climate Jim Wulpi is still in India, where he will be for some time yet, making surveys in key cities for T.W.A. .... Fred Fraser fulfilling his hunting instinct, this winter, by catching perch through the ice and keeping warm with his Scottish blood boiling at the thoughts of being so rash as to pay class dues two years in advance.... a brief word from Nate Farwell with his dues. Some day we're going to get that bird back into circulation Enders Voorhees made director of the Commerce & Industries Association of New York, announced January 14. .... Bert Symonds to Sisson: "Am intrigued with your picture and you surely are an intrepid nymrod but where is the proof that you shot four bob-cats and a four-hundred pound bear?" He assures us that he is not a sissy and is not afraid of a trip to the wild north country Red Louden steadily im- proving but taking it easy Jack Dellinger is old and feeble, writes letter in December, around Christmas time, which daughter finds two weeks later, and mails, with apologies for the old man's loss of memory JohnHazen bemoans Paper Association Convention in New York at same time of Sno-bird party, but sends best regards to all in the class.
The following letter from Horace Borden is especially welcome and is relayed from Sisson: "Here we are in Stuttgart, Germany. Came here from Italy, the last part of October 1947. Will probably be overseas a year and a half more. Stuttgart has been terribly devastated but is relatively in good condition as German cities go. We have very comfortable and modern billets to live in. Since our children do not get to speak fluent German, they are unable to go to a German University. Larry is Asst. Mgr. of the PX here and Mary Margaret is studying at home with tutors. The hunting is wonderful in this area, for game is abundant—deer, wild boars, ducks, hares, partridges, pheasants, etc." (Ed. Lucky Sisson is at home.) .
Real courage is always inspiring. From Okey at intervals comes courage and perseverance to be admired. "My doctor, one of Rhode Island's leading neurologists, is letting me go about with a cane. That lets me go about daily and I can go a mile or so. However, I am feeling good, although my last upset put me in the Massachusetts General, for a while .... but I have much to be thankful for. My son is the Vice Consul in Mexico City, and my daughter, after studying for her Master's at Bryn Mawr and Chicago University, is now on the staff of the faculty at Smith." .
A brief line from Hal Bean regrets inability to attend the Sno-bird party. Harold is still suffering from effects of his service-connected disability and is on a very restricted routine.
Sherm Satltmarsh Jr. is captain of the Winchester, Mass., High School hockey team this year but father reports that he spends more time shovelling snow off the rink than skating. The kid is really good Drew Sleeper is at Kimball Union Academy with hopes of Dartmouth, while sister Phyllis represents the family at Wellesley Gordon has returned to Scarsdale, where his new address is 40 Crane Rd.
We would not embarrass Jesse Stillman for worlds, but we must let you in on this one. In a recent poll, conducted by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society, Jesse was named one of the ten ablest analytical chemists m the United States. A Wah Hoo Wah for Jess Stillman And, incidentally, from Connecticut comes word that he recently spoke to the Western Connecticut Section of the American Chemical Society, at Stamford, on the subject, "New Tools for the Analytical Chemist."
When Doc and Mrs. Cook appeared at the Snobird party, last year, we were all so pleased, that wg recorded the event for posterity. The picture, this month, was taken at Class Headquarters m Room 12. The glasses contain some chemical mixture which Doc, as a science teacher, at Trinity School, is testing.
Chet IVescott may be reached at 430 Vi Australian Ave., Palm Beach, Florida, and Bert Smtth offers a new address at 1912 H Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
This month seems to be overbalanced in favor of hunting and fishing, so perhaps the chairman of the Executive Committee may be forgiven for turning down the Sno-bird reunion for the Indoor Metropolitan Championship in which he will compete. Chuck Kingsley writes, "I haven't any chance of winning it, but I will be in there, slugging with the best rifle shots of the east, and although the winner will score a 500 possible, I should have between 495 and 500 for a place between 20th and 40th of the 150-man field. Even if I'm hundredth, it won't be a disgrace." Chuck ends his letter with the following," I disdain to send a picture of myself with five deer shot in New Brunswick, last November. I shot only one, but if Rufe shot more than one of his four, he is a dirty law-breaker."
Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass. Treasurer, 26 Garden Street, Potsdam, N. Y. Class Agent, The Stanley Works, Bridgeport, Conn.
