1919
As these notes are being penned the doleful reports from Franklin Field are at hand indicating that Tuss McLaughry and his able staff have a lot of work to do to bring the 1949 team up to the standard of last year's spectacular contingent. Harry Colwell saw the game and if there were other 19ers present, such as Freddie Balch and Dennie Sullivan, he failed to catch up with them.
A recent letter from Maulsby (Mose to you; Forrest in the inimitable Forrest style rates a full quote:
"Your request for a current communique from this front has compelled this department to take pen in hand and indite a brief autobiographica] sketch. Much water has seeped under many bridges since we were all last privileged to convene. Health satisfactory, morale excellent, morals exemplary. Possessed of a pair of progeny—a scientific performance of course—that is, one of each. The younger, Emily, is approaching her 19th milestone and has just completed her freshman year at Stanford where 10 and behold, as a pure coincidence, she discovered that she was rooming with the daughter of Bob Fish '18. That the girls vibrated is evidenced by the fact that they are going to do it again next year. Her coeducational career has been a great success socially as well as scholastically, in that she has emerged with a fiance as well as top grades. Really one of my better achievements.
Sonny boy, Alexander F., is all of 23 and is also committed to take unto his bed and board a bride just as soon as his economic circumstances permit. He graduated from the A.U.S. with the ambition of either putting Al Capp out of business, or of becoming a commercial artist. You may be assured if only from this script that these propensities were not a paternal hereditament.
Otherwise, I am prone to represent myself as being preponderantly retired but just what in the hell this means, I don't know either. I accept a few jobs from time to time on what the British would call an ad hoc basis, principally in the capacity of pseudo expert. There are also a few sinecures, trusteeships and the like, which help to keep the animals from growling too loudly. Whether or not I ever return to the thrombosis circuit is a good question; there are times when the old horse is bothered by the smoke. In conclusion, Sir, I have just sold the old family "farm" at the above address (Highland Park, Ill.) and am motoring my mother to California for keeps come the 15th inst. I SHALL RETURN to these environs via the first available air transport, doubtless to become some kind of a public charge. Until further notice, my best address will be c/o Riverbank Laboratories, Geneva, Ill." Thanks, Mose, for a most interesting letter of which your English prose teacher would be proud.
Also from the Chicago area comes news of Red Washburn. Red's son Robert S. is in the freshman class at Hanover and Red reports being there last spring with Mrs. Washburn. Quoting, "Today, June 15, my son Bob has just showed me a Certificate of Commendation —Phi Beta Kappa Association—given to him and to one other boy who tied for first highest ranking in the senior class of New Trier High School. Where that boy gets his brains is the miracle of our neighborhood. Certainly not a chip off the old block!!!"
Ernie Rautenberg is assistant general sales manager of the Celotex Corp., Chicago, and lives in Elmhurst, Ill., and reports doing a lot of travelling in connection with his business. Ernie has a nice family of three daughters, Peggy, Lois and Althea.
Also from the Windy City comes up to date information on Bob Roland. He became a proud grandfather of twins, being as well the father of Roberta, Thomas and Sidney. Bob continues his work as Executive Secretary, Society of American Florists, and originated "Say it with Flowers" and "is still trying to get more people to do it."
From far off Rangoon, Burma, RowlandPollard returns the questionnaire sent in the spring, noting that he has cut 4 strokes off his golf score and reduced his weight 27 pounds —a considerable accomplishment which most of us would like to do. Rowland is manager of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. in Rangoon and the father of three children, Pamela, Rowland P. Jr. and Priscilla.
From the Worcester, Mass., front, Donald P.(King) Cole writes that Caswell and Stan Fitts attended the annual Dartmouth dinner of the local Alumni Club. Bill Cunningham was the guest speaker and in his customary good form. King and Bill Carto represented the class at the spring banquet of the Washington, D. C., Alumni Club at which Bill Eddy, honorary '19, was also present. Chet Caswell was a speaker at the graduating exercises of the Worcester Junior College, an affiliation of the Y.M.C.A., of which Chet is president.
Lou and Harriet Munro with the three boys (children of 19ers seem to run in threes) spent their vacation in Hanover, Me., occupying one of Tom and Claire Bresnahan's houses there. Lou reports a visit to the New Hampshire Hanover, with the three young men being properly impressed with their father's Alma Mater. The Munros entertained the HarryColwells, Dick Dudensings, Ken Huntington and the Rands at a soiree during the summer at their Syosset, L. I., home, and a grand time was had by all. Dick and Kathleen were late, having come from Westchester via Montauk Point, due to a slight error in reading the map.
Lou Stone, as acting President of Eversharp, Chicago, was headlined in the news during May, when he and other directors were engaged in a proxy fight for the election of a new board and to limit the powers of Marty Straus (D.'18). At an adjourned meeting held in July, the management, headed by Lou, were sustained.
September visitors at the Inn included Howie and Mrs. Cole from Beverly, Mass., Billand Doris Cunningham, the Russ Potters from Woodbridge, Conn., Bill and Mrs. Smith from Larchmont, N. Y., and Ken Smith from Staten Island.
Chet and Emily Gale have just moved into their new home in Buffalo and are in the throes of getting settled. Chet thinks this latter process is going to interfere with his attendance at football games this fall. Son Dick caught a 16-1b. grey trout during their vacation time, which beat the old man's record by a considerable margin.
Chug Sears, from Providence, R. I., is president of the Short Line Co. providing bus transportation in R. I., Mass., Conn., and N. Y. He sees Newman Sleeper and Johnny Murphy occasionally.
The sincere sympathy of the Class goes out to Hal Avery on the loss of his wife, Helen Blake Avery, on July 3. Hal's daughter Jean recently graduated from a five-year nursing course at the University of Vermont and son Hal Jr., from Burlington, Vt., High School.
Any reports of 19ers attending the November football games will be duly appreciated.
LONG ISLAND PREXY Ed Warnke '19 (center), alumni club head, places a wreath on the grave of Zachariah Greene, Class of 1781, in the cemetery of Christ's Church, Hempstead, during the Historical Calvacade which opened the Nassau County Golden Jubilee, Sept. 10. Also shown are Wally Rushmore '32 (left), First Vice President of the Association, and Nassau County Judge Harry Collins '18.
AT 1919'S PRE-GAME LUNCHEON, OCTOBER 8: Preparing for the victory against Holy Cross at the Outing Club are (I to r) Max Norton, Mrs. Martin, Dave Halloran '53, Mrs. Halloran, Dick Halloran '51, Joan Halloran, Paul Halloran, George Rand, and "Spider" Martin.
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