1924

This issue will be in the nature of a news round-up. First we'll hear from Ken Davis in Manchester with a report on the program arranged by the Reunion Committee. Come in Manchester

HERE'S OUR 25TH REUNION PROGRAM Friday, June 10

Registration at Reunion Headquarters, Ripley, Woodward and Smith dorms 4.00 p.m. Conducted Tour of Campus, Town and Vicinity for Sons and Daughters *5.30 p.m. Cocktail Party and Coke-Bar *6.30 p.m. Hot Chicken-Pie Supper, Everybody 8.30 p.m. Reception, Home of President and Mrs. Dickey 10.00 p.m. Commencement Ball at Gym Saturday, June 11 *8 until 10: Breakfast served a la carte by caterer 9.45: 1924 movies, Senior year and Reunions, 105 Dartmouth 10.30: Meeting, All Class Members, 105 Dartmouth 11.30: Official Reunion Picture, Everybody (A glossy print will be mailed afterward to every classmate in the picture.) 12.15: Alumni Luncheon at Gym, Class members *12.15: Buffet Luncheon, Wives and Youngsters 2.00: Varsity Baseball vs. Penn (College Movies and Square Dances in case of rain.) 5.00: Barbecue Picnic with Ross McKenney for Sons and Daughters, back to Tent by 8.30 *5.30: Cocktail Party and Coke-Bar 7.00: Class Banquet and Memorial Gift Presentation, Colonial Room, Thayer Hall 7.00: Wives' Dinner at D.O.C. House 9.15: Players' Show, Webster or Robinson Sunday, June 12 *8 until 10: Breakfast served a la carte by caterer 10.15: Memorial Service, White Church 11.00: Commencement Parade and Graduation Ceremonies 2.00: Dinner at Crescent Beach Hotel, Everybody. 14 miles south of Hanover on Lake Mascoma. Softball, swimming and other recreations. Facilities reserved for us all day until departure. event at Class Tent on R-W-S dorms lawn.

Please send your "We'll be there" cards and deposit check and personal data sheets rightaway to Reunion Treasurer Gordon B. "Red" Winslow, 40 Broad St., Boston 9, Mass.

Thanks, Ken, for the interesting program you've arranged for every member of the family. This should be a great reunion and we look forward to seeing a big turnout. If you haven't made plans to be on hand start planning at once. See you in Hanover—2nd weekend in June.

And now we'll hear from our broadcaster in Hanover, Dick Morin. Come in, Dick and tell us what's doing in Hanover and especially the details of the first Father and Son Banquet

The first 1924 Father and Son Dinner is now history. Held in Hanover on March 5 at the DOC house, may it be but the first in an annual series. Arrangements were in the hands of Ed Winsor who, when he isn't doing things like this, practices law in Providence, R. I.

Twelve of the members of the class who turned up for the dinner have sons in college who accompanied them, as follows: Ives Atherton, Fred Briscoe, Bill Buettner, Ken Davis, Prenny Gallup, Si Geilich, Frank Harrington, Alex Haskell, Kip Higley, Win Sturtevant, Rollie Taylor, Bob Wilkinson, and Ed Winsor. Four more classmates in attendance who if not in the reserved seat category at least had general admission standing by virtue of having produced sons even though they weren't actually yet ready for college, namely, Chinee Allen, Gordon Bridge, Robin Robinson, and Les Sycamore. The only guy who really crashed the gate was Dick Morin, his sole assets consisting of three daughters.

Chinee Allen brought with him Stafford Warwick Keegin '49, nephew of Duke Keegin, who died in 1946, and Les Sycamore had as his guest William D. Pardee '5l, son of BillPardee, who died in 1944. Gordon Bridge and Robin Robinson of Hanover brought their high school sons in anticipation.

Though their fathers could not attend, the sons of the following members of the class were welcomed at the dinner: Frank Austin, Shirley Austin, Rollie Barker, Ernie Barvoets, Otie Jackson, Bill Jones, Ev Lyon, Bill Patten, and Harr Ranney.

Random reflections on the occasion:

What is there about the passage of years that transforms a Phi Bete average into an object of profound respect and relegates the Gentleman's C to the role of a poor relation? To hear our classmates solemnly holding forth among their sons on the values of scholarship, a stranger might have thought himself among paragons. Apart from this somewhat dreamy tendency, those of '24 who were gathered in Hanover bore strong resemblances to their earlier selves—a bit larger around the middle perhaps, locks thinner or greyer or missing—but essentially the same men who flopped their galoshes over the duck-boards of the early nineteen-twenties. Some of the sons, too, looked so much like those earlier editions of their dads that one sometimes had a sense, facing them suddenly, that time had indeed been rolled back.

Thanks to Ed Winsor for arranging such a fine get-together.

In a recent journey through New England the writer was able to pick up news on the following members of the class. Stopped to see Mrs. Gene Tremaine on the Smith College campus where she is employed in the purchasing department of the college. She is living with her father in Florence, Mass., a few miles away, and her three children are away at school. The oldest daughter is at Middlebury College. The older boy is at Williston Academy and the younger at Vermont Academy. Enjoyed meeting Mrs. Tremaine and hearing about her family Missed Prenny Gallup in Holyoke as he was in Middlebury over the weekend visiting his son Bill. The oldest boy John is at Dartmouth and the third son Dave is at Kent. This leaves one of the boys at home, so you see the Gallups keep plenty busy with their fine family of boys Had a nice visit with the Win Sturtevants in Springfield and he reported that he was the only member of the class at the annual Springfield dinner. Win has a boy in Hanover and his second son is in the ninth grade and heading for Dartmouth in a few years Talked with JoeDoe in Wilbraham. He is treasurer of the Federal Land Bank in Springfield. He also has a boy in Hanover Saw Ted Learnard and his wife at the Deerfield hockey game. Sandy, a chip off the old block, is goalie and captain of the Deerfield team. They have a daughter at Briarcliff College Dave Solley reported that he and Roily Taylor attended the Hartford annual dinner. All these boys reported that they would be on hand for Reunion.

Earl Daurn writes from the .General Motors office in Melbourne, Australia, to Dick Henry with his dues and Alumni Fund check: "Things got a bit tough in Sweden with the shortage of both dollar and pound sterling exchange, with the result that we have reduced our organization there to a handful, and I was sent out here where there is quite a job of work to be done. We are actually building a car here in Australia. It is 90% by weight, and 95% by value, Australian content. It is a bit smaller than the Chevrolet, weighing 2250 lbs. as against about 3300, and is therefore not exactly like anything the Corporation builds domestically. We arrived here in October, having had only a few weeks in New York on our way from Sweden, so I was not able to get in touch with you."

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The Nominating Committee consists of Charles Amelung, 60 Melrose Place, Montclair, N. J.; Arnold D. Jenkins, 22 Chestnut Street, Dedham, Mass.; and Windsor Sturtevant, 25 Greenacre Ave., Longmeadow, Mass. Contact members of this committee if you have any ideas of candidates to fill the following slate of officers: chairman, secretary, treasurer and an eight-man executive committee. They will welcome suggestions.

Kip Higley was in New York at a bankers' convention early this year Vim and Dorothy Heegaard are enjoying the Florida sunshine. Vim had a slight heart-attack which forced him to take a rest. It is reported through the grapevine that he is coming along very nicely The Spaulding family visited the Holbrooks for a little skiing over the Washington Birthday weekend. Too bad you didn't have better skiing, Spud WaltBlanchfield has just been made Manager of the Boston Office of This Week magazine. His address is 420 Boylston Street, if any of you Boston boys want to stop in to say, "Welcome to New England!". ...Harry Holmlund's picture appeared in the Rochester paper with the announcement that he is chairman of the Community Chest's Commercial Division for the 1949 campaign The announcement has just been made of the marriage of Mrs. Anne Caroline Schley Webb, daughter of Mrs. Kenneth B. Schley of Far Hills, N. J. to EdgarArnold (Pilly) Hill of Oldwick, N. J. Pilly has been practicing architecture since his graduation from the Harvard School of Architecture. Hope the Hills will be on hand for our big Reunion, so we can give them our best wishes.

ALUMNI FUND

Don Coyle asked me to make a statement regarding the Alumni Fund this year. In view of the fact that we are having our 25th Reunion, we want to go over the top this year with our Alumni Fund. He reports that he has practically the same organization as last year and he hopes that everyone will make an early response so that we can go back to Hanover holding our heads high.

MEMORIAL FUND

At the same time we must remember that the Memorial Fund is our one-time large gift to Dartmouth and inasmuch as a great many members of the class have not yet contributed, we hope they will do so at once. As you know the Class of 1923 gave over $100,000 last year and the Class of '25 is now in the midst of a terrific drive and hopes to better that record. Let's get behind Freddie and put this drive over. Give as much as you can af ford—Now.

See you in Hanover June 10th-12th!

FOUR TIERS OF '24 FATHERS AND SONS WHO ATTENDED THE MARCH 5 DINNER AT THE DOC HOUSE.

Secretary, 101 Fifth Ave., New York 3, N. Y.

Treasurer, Niles & Niles 165 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

Class Agent, N. Y. Trust Cos. ioo Broadway, New York 15, N. Y.