1919 Holds Its Thirtieth
OUR goTH REUNION will go down in class history as "One of the Best." With our delayed 25 th just behind us, let's compare notes. June 1946 was hot, Hot, HOT. Outside of a few hours of rainfall Saturday morning, June 19, our weather this year was good. Sunshine" Friday, Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday with a comfortable temperature, left little for anyone to grouse about. Hanover has never looked better and, we may add, that goes for the group of 150 men, women, sons and daughters of 1919. They added
Member Adams, F. Ray "Ray" Alderman, W. W. S. "Bill" Allen, William W. "Bill" Apteker, Louis "Louie" Batchelder, W. C. "Batch" Bevan, K. C. "K. C." Bingham, George H. Jr. "Bing" Bird, Philip H. "Phil" Bixby, Leland C. "Bix" Buttenweiser, Clarence "Doc" Capps, James G. "Jim" Clark, John H. "Jack" Cole, Donald P. "King" Collins, Clark W. "Bunny" Daley, Fred M. "Fred" Davis, James C. "Jim" DeMond, Chester W. "Chet" Dodd, Spencer S. "Spen" Eastman, Laurence E. "Larry" Fleming, Herbert P. "Herb" Gale, Chester O. "Chet" Garrison, Lewis F. "Lew" Havlin, Arthur C. "Art" Hayes, Roscoe A. "Rock" Hinds, Ray A. "Heinie" Huntington, K. Kenneth "Ken" Jeavons, W. Norman "Norm" Jenkins, Samuel F., M.D. "Sam" Dr. and Mrs. Jenkins have as their guest Miss Caroline B. Chapin Larmon, Russell R. "Cotty" Legg, E. Ray "Ray" Lewis, Robert M. "Bob" Mauk, Stanley M. "Stan" McCarter, Wm. H. "Bill" McCrillis, John W. "Jack" Merrill, C. D. "Jigger' Morse, Harold J. "Hal" Munro, Louis W. "Louis" Norton, Max A. "Max" Proctor, Robert "Bob" Raible, C. G. "Rabbi" Rand, Geo. W. "George" Ransom, Philip W. "Phil" Rayner, G. Alan "Al" Sears, Charles M. Jr. "Chug" Seward, R. E. "Eddie" Shelburne, John A. "John" Treat, Sanford M. "San" Wallis, Robert N. "Nock" Welsh, Ralph B. "Budd" White, Wm. A. Jr. M.D. "Bill" Williams, John R. "Jack" Wilson, James H. "Jim" Wright, J. Howard "Howie" Wylie, J. R., Jr. "Ben" List complete up to June 14th, 1948 Avery, Harold Halloran, Paul Caswell, Chester Ives, Adele
A twenty-minute movie was shown in the tent after the President's reception. Many of those who appeared in pictures of the 15th and 20th were on hand to cheer, jeer and wisecrack. Would that we had made a sound track record of appropriate remarks and Jeavon's Bronx specialty. Jack Clark pressed Chet DeMond to Dartmouth while the College formed a perfect setting and background for hundreds of feet of film used to portray activities, which we briefly describe. Russell Sage Hall provided headquarters for our class which overflowed into Butterfield as well. A tent out front housed meetings Friday evening, Saturday morning and Saturday night. Almost 100% of us were registered and wearing badges, green ties or green scarfs in time to attend the President's reception. Who was there? Here you are:
Wife Children Pearl Isabelle Harriet Elizabeth Helen Edith Beulah Alice Madeleine Gertrude Mary-Dorothy Emma Peter Sally Emily Frances Madeleine Alice Harriette Ray Jr. Marjorie Joyce Ruth Mabel Kitty Anne Alice Ruth Joanne and Billy Hester Sally and John Ernestine Lucile "Fuzzy" Harriet Helen Catherine Mildred Patricia Phil Jr. Helen Bill, Don and Connie Dorothy Constance Janet Jane Sandy Eleanor Leonora Marion Bill and Janet Adair Polly Jim, Barby and Nancy Marjorie Alice Hal Jr.
into service at the piano and song lifted the tent high enough to permit some of the youngsters of 'OB and 'lB to peek in on us.
Paul Halloran finally made himself heard and described the scenarios planned for Saturday and Sunday.
At a point when one or two thirsty souls were organizing a visit to Munro's Room, Phil Bird interrupted and pointed a finger at Spen Dodd who tried to hide behind a pile of large cartons containing gifts to the Class Raffle from various and sundry loyal sons of 1919- About then, meaning about 13:30 A.M., a young goat entered the arena and hid under the piano bench while Chet DeMond played soft music. Mary Davis encouraged the goat to sing but we were saved by Bird, who started crying because his shoe box was not large enough to hold all the raffle tickets sold during the informal cocktail hour before dinner and the reception.
Worthwhile gifts were sent to Hanover from many of our contemporaries, and ably handled by Phil with his aids SpenDodd, Max Norton and "Bix" Bixby. PhilRansom, Louie Munro and Eddie Seward were among the really lucky ticket holders. Kitty Larmon's prize drew the real applause until Helen Bird found out it was she who had won the young goat. Toys, hardware, electrical appliances, college prints, and miscellaneous merchandise were unwrapped by the lucky wives and classmates who bought the most tickets.
Our Class meeting Saturday morning brought out the following men to the tent: Jim Davis, DeMond, Halloran, Fred Daley, Ray Adams, Jack McCrillis, Raible, Batch, Budd Welsh, John Williams, Ray Hinds, King Cole, Sam Jenkins, Chug Sears, Jim Capps, George Rand, Herb Fleming, Stan Mauk, Al Rayner, Howie Wright, Max Norton, Ken Huntington, Bunny Collins, Norm Jeavons, Chet Gale, Jigger Merrill.
After learning from Max Norton that our position had improved from $365.64 on January 1, 1946, to $756.08 as of December 31, 1947, we immediately accepted the Treasurer's Report with thanks and reelected Max for a new term of five years.
Jim Davis reported for the nominating committee due to Spider Martin's absence in Washington and Philadelphia, and Rabbi Raible's late appearance at the meeting.
Jack McCrillis was elected president to succeed Bob Stecher; Chet DeMond, vicepresident to succeed Jack McCrillis, and George Rand, secretary, to take over the pleasurable duties about to be passed on to him by Ken Huntington.
Telegrams were read from Spider andBea Martin, Hal and Ethel Parsons, and a letter written on the letterhead of the International Congress on Rheumatic Dis- eases from retiring President, Bob Stecher:
"Dear Jack: "When you sit down to the 1919 Class Dinner with all of our classmates to have a boisterous time together in your snappy Thirtieth Reunion class uniforms, think of me sweating in a dinner coat presiding at. the annual banquet of the American Rheumatism Association. My heart bleeds with sorrow at missing your party with so many of my friends.
"My memory and my imagination have run riot this afternoon while I have attempted to reconstruct the scene as you and the bunch have lived it. A thousand pictures pass through my mind, some funny, a few serious, most of them pleasant, all of them significant as part of the class history. I wonder who it is who looks the most prosperous and best adjusted; who has the biggest family there; who has sons graduating in the current class; who gets tight; who falls in the bushes; who gets hurt? What corny jokes will McCarter tell; who will interrupt his speech; who will pass out at the banquet; what will the class gift be; who won the ballgame? What dorm do you have this year?
"Spider Martin is at the Republican National Convention. What other notable absences are there? It will all be reported in due time and the reading of the record will only serve to intensify my envy and my sadness. This is the first reunion I ever missed. May it be the last. My attendance record is pretty good for a class whose 25th was delayed and whose 30th is premature. Let's make the 35th double!
"As long as I can't be there I am happy to know that class affairs are in your capable hands and those of the willing committees you appointed to do the work. Let me thank you one and all who have assumed my obligations and carried out my duties so well.
"With best regards to all of the Glass of 1919, the men, the women, the children, the grandchildren. Need I go further?"
Jack McCrillis, who conducted the Class Meeting, appointed Ken Huntington,King Cole, Ray Adams and Jack Williams a committee with power to act on a Memorial Book Plan to make a permanent record in the Hanover Library of the names of classmates who have died. Clear weather peeking over the hill west of Hanover closed this short, but well-attended gathering. Best of luck goes to our class officers.
In passing we mention among those present and prominent:
Win Batchelder, recently elected President of the National Credit Office, 2 Park Avenue, New York City, arrived in Hanover early Friday the 18th in plenty of time to get a good room in Russell Sage.
Ralph B. Welsh of Morristown, New Jersey, is now President of the New Jersey Association of Savings Banks, having been chosen for that post of honor in May at the annual meeting in Montclair. Budd's latest has been the handling (financially, of course) of a large wedding for his daughter.
Saturday afternoon saw many of us in attendance at the Alumni Luncheon meeting in the gymnasium. Here were several hundred men of all Reunion classes in Hanover gathered to hear reports on the College from Sid Hay ward. President John S. Dickey and others whose interest in and loyalty to the College were clearly indicated. Then to the scene of Dormitory Doings, where Bevan, Jeavons, Rand, Munro, Davis, Raible and Buttenweiser made themselves immortal as great actors under the steely eye and leather whip of that great picture producer and director, Paul Halloran.
Helen Bird, Harriet Batchelder, Millie Rand, Marj Huntington, Helen Norton, Marion White, Sally Fleming, Madeline Collins and Alice Earle Hayes did some of the feminine parts. Those we have not mentioned will be identified when the great picture has been produced.
A class cocktail party with trimmings was put on by Cotty and Kitty Larmon and Adele Ives under sunlit skies on the lawn east of the Hanover Inn. The class picture made at that time will no doubt cause us all to want the clock turned back and us with it back in Hanover.
A class dinner in Thayer Hall followed where we enjoyed as our guest President-Emeritus Ernest M. Hopkins, who received a great hand and convincing hand shakes. Jack Clark was in there with more of the songs we love to sing.
On to the play in Webster Hall and back to the raffle at the tent and then with loot weighing them down into the Dormitory to crowd in Room 104 with the goat, a cheese won by Garrison, golf shoes too beautiful to wear snagged by Chet Gale and other prizes past describing. The party started to thin out before 3 A.M. and Sunday was upon us.
Lake Morey Inn on the south shore of that beautiful Inland Lake, surrounded by Green Hills, made the perfect spot for our class picnic, because Old Sol looked down from Blue Skies between white clouds and smiled upon some 120 of us who enjoyed the finest view, most delectable food and greatest Act 111 of any raffle anywhere. Norma's grandchild was white and clean and decorated with a green bow, a plucky, pleaSant but protesting Pig. Who won it? George Rand, who gave it to Millie, who refused to take it home to her New Rochelle apartment and who will receive a smoked ham in its stead in due course. Picture taking continued and good cheer prevailed. Mauk and Huntington went forth to play golf and held their own against DeMond and Capps. Saturday afternoon, Davis and Larmon defeated Gale and Hayes in a return match on Hanover Links. Jane Treat, Constance Seward, Ruth McCarter, "Fuzzy" Morse and many more expressed delight at the choice of our Picnic Grounds.
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