1915
Before this column is in print, the new college year will have begun and in a few short months we will all be back in Hanover for our 35th Reunion. The Reunion Committee has already begun to function and as their plans develop you will receive all the information. Better start making your plans now so you won't be disappointed later on.
Since the June issue of the MAGAZINE your Secretary has been busy compiling a list of classmates' activities. What a marvelous job Marvin Frederick and his assistants did in winning our 3rd Green Derby, and what pride 1915 must feel when they read how JackMason, Chairman of the Alumni Fund, directed the raising of the second largest Fund in Dartmouth history.
Russ Rice penned that he planned to spend a couple weeks in Bradford, N. H., deserting the salt air of West Harwich, where he has spent so many enjoyable summers in the past. He continues: "—After having had a grandson for three years, we now announce the arrival of Judith W. Rice, daughter to my son Dick, D' 44. This was quite an event, as in checking back we find that in my line they have all been boys, until we reach the dark ages of 1841, when my great grandfather was presented his second daughter. Don't bump into many Fifteeners except Ash St. Clair, who, except for his bridge game, seems much improved from a couple of seasons ago.'
Bob Bigelow writes that his sister's youngest \son, Seth Carpenter, has been accepted at Dartmouth for the 1953 Class, which evidently means another excuse to visit Hanover.
The May 10 issue of Look magazine carried a fine picture of Ralph Sawyer, Dean of Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan.
Kell Rose writes that he expects to spend his vacation in the familiar surroundings of Lake George during July and August. He says he runs into Jim Killeen and Red Folan very often at the New York Dartmouth Club. Also he encloses a one-column spread from the Newark Sunday News of May 29 concerning the Roy Laffertys of Verona. All you boys who pride yourselves on being connoisseurs of cooking (Kike Richardson take notice) should read the article. Roy has built a fireplace and grill in his back yard, and the savory and tasty menus that he prepares for his friends make one's mouth water. Might be a suggestion for the Reunion-Committee to make him give us a sample of his prowess on our Reunion next June in Hanover.
George and Charlotte Simpson attended the Rollins College, Fla. Commencement last June to see their son Parker graduate with honors from that institution.
Hal Pinkham, who claims to be the only "hobo" that 1915 produced, writes entertainingly as follows:
"It was a very pleasant visit I enjoyed at Dartmouth, three years ago, when I accompanied Dr.Howard Sawyer and John Kimball to my first reunion since I left the campus in '14. It was inspiring to meet Carl Gish, Charlie Griffith, Stan Llewellyn,Thornt Pray, Norvie Milmore, and scores more of Fifteeners whose faces proved familiar to me at once, after more than thirty years of separation. If I can come again and meet still more in '50, I shall be happy. In my lifetime, there have been very few meetings with '15 men. But I do recall occasions when our paths crossed. In 1919, just returned from overseas service, I hailed BarneyOwen on a Los Angeles street corner. He had been in a Texas oil venture, and wanted me to meet a man in Hollywood, but I was returning swiftly to Seattle. A casual, but meaningful encounter with a man I always liked very much. Briefly, in later years, I have talked with Dole Anderson in his Sioux City bank, George Hutchins at his Clinton, la. grain elevator, John Loomis in his Omaha law office. While teaching school in Cleveland, I met Lee Graham in front of a Euclid Ave. bookstore for an unexpected chat, and think of him with sympathy in these long years of illness. Upon two occasions, in the summers of 1926 and 1928, I labored months at Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., where Charlie Ingram managed Weyerhaeuser's large lumber enterprise. Once I addressed a group of Dartmouth alumni at the University Club in Chicago, with Milton Ghee the only classmate attending, and whom I failed to greet. It is not a very wide record of acquaintanceship since college days and therefore every new face at the 1946 reunion was a fond remembrance to me. My present life as postmaster of Milton is rather too confining to circulate freely with congenial classmates. Recently I was influenced to address one of these under very tragic circumstances. Ever since this man had broken under the strain of office, I had wanted to write him a friendly letter. (Letter to Jim Forrestal not mailed because of tragic death on that date.)
Music has always been a great love with me and a great regret that I do not play or sing. It reminds me of two more classmate meetings. I stayed overnight in Buffalo once with Russ Kelley, supervisor of track for N.Y.C. division. That evening he entertained with piano selections from Brahms. He preferred music as a career to that of railroading. So did I who tried both. Talking once with Fred Child in his office I learned the practical reasons why that gifted man did not choose singing above banking. The future was too uncertain. Still it is a source of satisfaction that my 9-year-old son, David, can face an audience and render beautifully "The Lord's Prayer", with or without accompaniment. It seems that he starts where I left off." Gabe Walker writes that he sees ShortyGray a lot in Washington and the couples get together to play bridge occasionally. Shorty is a Big Shot with the Army Civilian Personnel Branch and according to Gabe has built himself quite a fine reputation for good judgment and administrative ability. Gabe is still with the W.A.A. and spends a great deal of his time traveling about the country. He is an enthusiastic flyer and is a member of the Revenue Aero Club, the Cessna Flying Club, and the Washington Asso. of Flying Clubs, for which he does secretarial and organizational work. He also puts in a lot of his time toward the expansion and growth of the Chemical Engineers Club. In the February Oil if Gas Journal he had an article published entitled "Government Built Aviation Gasoline Plants," and is shortly to publish another called "Flying Clubs and Personal Flying."
From the Melrose Free Press, June 9:—William C. Huntress Jr. son of our Bill andMarion Huntress, graduated from Vermont Academy June 5. He was a member of the J.V. hockey team, tennis team, glee club, photography club, magazine staff, and production staff of the Academy Players. He plans to enter Grinnell College in September.
Russ Chase has been appointed General Chairman of the annual convention of the Mass. Assn. of Insurance Agents to be held at the Copley Plaza in Boston in October. He is now a regional Vice-President of the Agents association and has served on the executive committee since 1946.
Beardsley Ruml resigned as Chairman of the Board of R. H. Macy & Cos., July 30, and has been named a director of Robert Heller & Associates, Inc., a Cleveland engineering management firm. He will continue as a director of Macy's, with offices in New York.
The 1915 Class was honored by the appointment of its Secretary to the Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association.
The Class of 1915 has suffered another grievous loss in the death of Greg Lyon on Aug. 24.
Guests at the Hanover Inn during June were: Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mason, Mr. ifMrs. Beardsley Ruml, Mr. & Mrs. CharlesGriffith, Mr.& Mrs. Sidney C. Crawford.
Secretary, Paul Revere Rd., Westwood Hills, Worcester 5, Mass. Treasurer, Ames Bldg., 1 Court St., Boston 8, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 128 Essex Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J.
