1925
REUNION DATES NEXT JUNE 9-10-11 Madeleine "Eddie" Edwards has sent in this letter for our wives:
"It's not too soon for the '25 wives to be thinking about reunion in Hanover. Those of us lucky enough to have been guests at any one of 'Ginie and Pete Haffenreffers' annual '25 Pow-Wows for Braves and their Squaws' know what a wonderful time we all can have together. Don't think of letting your almost-as-good other half wrench himself painfully away from you and arrive in Hanover, in doleful, melancholy loneliness to wend his way through a celebration that will never, and never can, repeat itself. No! Thousands of times, No! Alone they must not come! So start planning now, all you alumni wives, to be in Hanover with your husbands next June for a bang-up 25 th. Our once-upon-a-time boys are getting together after a quarter of a century, and they no doubt imagine those 25 added years are just a bag of airy feathers. They may think they can gambol on the green like the frisky Braves they once were. They'll try to convince themselves, and, of course, their classmates, that they still can take it. Perhaps they can. However, if you Squaws are present, and if you keep your watchful and appraising eyes upon them, they will likely remember they are patres familias, and agree that it behooves them to act like the substantial members of the class and community that they are.
But please, don't feel that the only reason for coming is to keep your husbands in a serious frame of mind, far from it! In the first place, consider how proud your husbands will be to show you off to their classmates and make them envy those lucky men who had succeeded in acquiring _ such glamorous wives. What a grand occasion it will be for your husbands to revel in their self-esteem! Not only your husbands! You, too, will have an equally grand opportunity to present yourselves in all your glory! You will be able to prove that, quite as much as you are an honor to your husbands, you are certainly not less an honor to yourselves. Truly a wonderful time awaits you! Joy will be unconfined! Once more you will be girls and boys together a little mature, but merely a little. So by all and every means you, wives of the alumni, Come! And bring with you the gaiety, the sparkle, the charm, the zest that a successful reunion must have and which you, only you can give!"
From Toledo, Hens Jones writes the following: "I fully intend to be at the 25th Reunion and it will take something more than a coal strike to keep me away. I will be glad to contact any members of our class in this locality. Right now the only ones I can think of are Art Smith and Walker Vincent. Let me know if there are any others. Had hoped to get to Hanover for the weekend of the Cornell game but at this time do not see how I could possibly do it."
We suggest various get-togethers in various places, all the way from Miami to Dallas to Los Angeles of classmates and families to make next June a tremendous, unforgettable reunion. In connection with my investment business, we received a prospectus on a new issue of the Central Electric & Gas Co. common stock. Accompanying it was one of the finest brochures, explaining the company's business and aims, that we have seen in a long time. I suggest you write to our JudsonLarge, the Company's president, if you would like to see all this presentation. Jud was one of our Omaha delegation which included AxBurgess, Jay Hanlon and Ray Bach.
Social Note: Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Hexter are back in Miami, following their September honeymoon. She was Helen Hertz Leylan (daughter of Taxi Magnate John Hertz) and he's an ex-Clevelander, once vice-president of Arco. They were married in New York City in September. Paul has bought a business in Miami Beach, The Kinsman Landscape Company, and is living on Normandie Isle off Miami Beach.
Fred Dold has just been elected one of the five Executive Committeemen from the United States Golf Association.
From Park Merrow: "Stub Dwinnell spent part of the summer directing a group of boys from his school in helping to rebuild Brownfield, Me., that beautiful little town that was so badly treated by the '47 fires As is their custom, Line Davis and Park Merrow spent the Columbus Day period shooting the fall foliage in color around the Ossipee area. Line is sporting a fast wheeling Mercury and admits to just having peddled an invention."
Quotes from Buck Jones' letter: "The enclosed letter from Jim Martin and page 2 of the Webb Spinner should give you something for the Class Notes. I haven't seen Jim for a couple of years but I hope that he will be down this way soon.
"Since my last letter to you I have checked with the doctors re Neil Williams, and am glad to report that he has shown some progress. We seem to be starting to talk up our 25th, and I only wish that X were as close to Hanover as you are. But I am hoping to be able to arrange plans so as to be there. It s still too far away to be able to be definite." Buck's letter from Jim Martin:
"Not so long ago, I agreed to give you something to help fill up space in the 1925 Class Notes. As you can see, the glamour part ot our organization goes with owning a half interest in a ball park in the Bronx. Just how far down the ladder I am you can tell from the fact that, in spite of having a good sized job to look after in New Jersey, I had to spend the world series week shuttling back and forth between Phoenix and Oakland. Paraffine has a couple of projects planned for the Los Angeles area (Southgate to be exact) in the near future so I may get a chance to call you up and pay you back that lunch. One thing sure, I'm going to order back to that' New Jersey job come June."
Here the Webb Spinner on Jim's activities: "23 years a building estimator and engineer, Jim Martin is Job Chief of Operations at the Del E. Webb Construction Co.'s office in Oakland, Calif., which directs paraffine companies construction in widely-separated sections of the U. S. Born Feb. 21, 1905, in Ottawa, Canada, Jim is a grad of Dartmouth College's Engineering School and came to Arizona in 1945 for his family's health, joining Webb personnel July 16 of that year. A tennis player of sorts, Jim holds his own but few sets with his eldest son, Jim Jr., a student at Phoenix College, or another, Bill, a high schooler With a third son, Paul, 11, and his wife, Kathleen, he resides at 2012, North Richland. Once, for Army engineers, Jim directed erection of seven buildings needed in 17 days, winning acceptance of the job 12 hours before deadline despite midwinter temperatures in which work was carried on beside a forest-surrounded lake. By contrast, he gassed up his trusty car at the desert site of the Phoenix Treatment Plant during its construction, ran out of gas halfway to Scotsdale, and trudged miles to town in midsummer heat."
Among those (and please pardon omissions) at the Harvard game—From New York the Bob Hardys, Frank Kennedy and JackReeder—Connie Conrad from Chicago and from nearby, the Bob Rhoades, Pete Haffenreffers and daughters, Lou Kimballs, HerbTalbots, Mac Shepards, Ford Wheldens, FordAliens, Johnny Garrods, Whites, Joe Leavitts and daughter, Clint Taylors and daughter, Eddie Pease, Bob Palmer. Lane Goss missed as he was attending the A.B.A. convention in Frisco. He is still President of the Worcester County Institution for Savings.
The True Story of Two Bills—Yesterday, I dropped in at W. R. Carter, Inc., Wellesley Hills to visit with my old roommate, Bill, and this story came to light. Recently, he met Stan Chamberlain at a football game between Rivers School and Brown & Nichols. The opposing tackles were sons of the above. Each wore No. 33 (Like Capt. Herb Carey) each is named Bill and each father has three boys. The comparison ends here, because two of Stan's boys are already at Hanover. Bill Carter Jr., at 16, weighs 185 and is six feet tall. Bill Chamberlain weighs 155 and is but 5'11". We hope the next time they meet in football it will be playing side by side in Green togs. Incidentally, the Carter Aluminum combination screen and storm window is definitely a quality product handled by the best dealers only. (Adv.)
On the Dartmouth scarf, too much credit cannot be given to its originators and sponsors Jack Davis, Bill Griffin, Milt Cameron and Hank Bjorkman. They are going into their fourth thousand and it's only the beginning. The article is beautiful and a natural. Don Hunt, just returned from a six weeks' trip, taking him as far as Omaha, tells me that wife Dot has taken 100 and sold over 60 in a short time. She carries one with her and sells them to friends at teas, club meetings, etc.- the thought being to raise some money for Memorial Fund for the Hunts (if you take on some for resale you buy them less $1.00 per scarf).
From Bill Bunting in Toronto to Nate Bugbee "thanks for your note. If I don't get there (in June) it won't be my fault. Your note finds me in fine fettle, having accomplished two major objectives over the weekend. (1) arranging for my gift to the class and (2) seeing Dartmouth beat Yale—what a thrill!"
Send the family photograph to Ford Whelden, 201 Crosby Hall, Hanover. The deadline is nearing.
Secretary, Kenneth B. Hill & Cos., Rm. 1007 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Treasurer, Room 1062, 49 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Memorial Fund Chairman, Marsh & McLennan, 231 South La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
