1917

Memorial Fund Chairman, GILBERT N. SWETT 77 Harrison St., Verona, N. J.

Probably you have wondered about the beautiful and perfect prose which made up the last Class Notes. As a matter of fact you must give all credit to my "ghost writer, Helen "the angel" Brooks. Helen took over when I was temporarily laid up and out of circulation.

Word comes that Barbara Anne Weeks, daughter of the Harold J. Weeks of Exeter, N. H., announced her engagement to Charles Richard Murton of West Orange, N. J.

Gil Sxvett sent in some news of a "long-time-no-see" classmate, none other than farmer Hennie Wacker of Newfane, Vt. Gil reports a swell letter from Hennie:

"One of the few guys in the class who always (even in college) had the courage to resist the pressures towards conformity to which most of us have bent our necks. Married in 1930, Hennie abandoned the law business in 1936 and brought his bride Rita to a 350-acre old farm in the Vermont hills. In 1944, Hennie belatedly rang the bell, with the help of Doc Angus Black of Brattleboro, a son, Davy, who I suspect, is the youngest Junior Seventeener. At this writing, Hennie and Rita and Davy are wintering in Daytona, where Hennie is combining pleasure with profit by contributing his efforts to Florida's busy building boom. His address, 817 South Atlantic Avenue. Any of you Florida junketeers down that way this winter, look him up."

Don Richmond from Norwell on old Cape Cod writes in that Win Scudder has also recently bought a home in Norwell. Don had nothing much to report except he looks forward to seeing Boston more frequently and some of his classmates.

The Boston Sunday Herald of October 15 reports Arnold Adams Blackmur, son of the Maurice A. Blackmurs of Cohasset, was married to Miss Jean McDonald Wheeler.

Bob Paine, treasurer of the New England Hospital and greatly interested in their problems, states he has been very busy lately but still has sufficient time to play indoor tennis —what a man. Bob has a married daughter, married son and the second boy graduated from St. Paul's last June and is now in college. We note also that Bob is blessed with four grandchildren.

Dr. Walt Walters, president of the Interstate Post Graduate Medical Association of North America, along with many other honors, attended a surgeon's meeting in Boston prior to the Dartmouth-Harvard game. A report comes down from Boston that Walt and Phoebe staged a very lovely cocktail party together with the Howard Stockwells.

Pete Olds reports that Sam MacKillop is building a new home in New London, N. H., so we have another country squire along with Ralph Sanborn and Gene Towler. Pete also notes his most recent grandchild is Catherine Allen Olds, seven months old.

Bill Sewell took in the Harvard game together with Bill F.nton. Bill Sewell reports his second grandson, Sidney John Baker, born August 5.

Walt and Ruth Sisson visited Ann Arbor for the Dartmouth-Michigan game. State they were proud of the Dartmouth team even though they lost. Walt and Ruth also visited Hanover early in October and saw Mary andArch Gile, Adele and Barney Thielscher,Charlotte and Sumner Emerson, Bill Eaton, the Derry Trenholms, and the Karl Stillmans.

Anita and Bob Scott held their usual cocktail party after the Yale-Dartmouth game. We expect to have more news on this in a later issue.

Ralph and Ethel Sanborn visited the LenReades in Red Bank, N. J., over the YaleDartmouth week-end. Ralph reports as follows: "We are stopping off at New Haven to see a football game which will doubtless resemble a contest between the Green Bay Packers (in blue jerseys) against the East Etna High School (in green jersey). If you're to be there, here's hoping we see you."

The Newport-Balboa (Calif.) Press of September 28 carries this heading " 'Oldport' is locale of new book by Lido Isle Author JamesRub el." Jim also sends in a fine letter which we quote in part.

"Life goes along out in this neck of the woods at about the same tempo. My health has been above reproach except for a few minor ailments which seem to come along with old age. My golf deteriorates at the same speed and I am now reduced to playing in the 'Old Men's' foursomes. I am still banging the old typewriter, turning out some four to six novels a year, which my English public seem to like, and Fawcett recently published my new whodunit, No Business for a Lady, which the classmates can obtain at any magazine stand for the sum of 25 cents (Commercial). My son Jim Jr. graduated from California last year and is now studying law at U.S.C. My daughter Jane, after two years at Arizona, transferred her affections to UCLA where she is majoring in art. The help-spend is still holding up her end, and between the three of them I find it necessary to work harder than ever to keep Uncle Sam and the creditors from breathing down my neck."

From Earle 'Robbie' Robinson, Johnstown, Pa.:

"Am still engaged in accounting work for a clientele of small business firms. Am pretty much up to my neck in civic work as a director in the Johnstown Y.M.C.A. and in an embryonic set-up in the local Civilian- Defense. Mildred, my wife, is carrying on an extensive correspondence with our only child, Barry, aged 19, who is a Seaman Ist Class in the Navy and stationed at Norfolk, Va. I see Fred Hager every now and then and he is taking on a robust appearance."

Don O'Leary took in the Army-Michigan game. He writes, "My only item is that at the Army-Michigan game I was tapped on the shoulder by the youngest, healthiest, handsomest 54-year-older it has ever been my pleasure to encounter in some time and found it to be Gil Siuett."

Hanover reports the Pay Barbers, LenReades, Karl Stillmans and Donald Aldrichs visited Hanover during October.

We regret to report word has been received of the death of Alex Steenrod on August 9, Francis A. Grady on October 4, and Sam Haskell, September 16. The passing of these three classmates is a severe blow to 1917 and I am sure we all express sincere sympathy to their respective families.

1917 Fund Contributors

211 Gifts (Participation Index 81). Total gifts: $9,807.38 (98% of objective).

Adams, Robert E. Alarich, Donald B. Alger, Fred B. Allison, William H. Anderson, Arnold E.1 Antrim, Max B. Atwater, Irving T. Baker, Wallace B.2 Balliet, Charles N. Banton, T.eon G.2 Barber, Payson T. Bartlett. Howard S. Baxter, Raymond H.

Berry, Elmer W. Birtwell, William M., Jr. Black, Angus C. Blackmur, Maurice A. Blood, Philip W. Blum, Karl A.2 Bomgardner, Henry Bonnell, Willard E. Boynton, Robert C. Britton, Ralph R. Brooks, Donald Brown, Bvron C.2 Brown, Mardis A.2

Brown, Mott D. Browne, Kingsbury Burnham, Paul L. Burns, Walter G. Bushnell, Almon W. Buxton, Robert B. Carpenter, Ralph E. Carr, Houghton Carroll, Everest R. Chadbourne, Ralph P.2 Chase, Robert M. Cheney, Alfred M.2 Chesley, John G. Clark, George E. Clark, Robert W. Clark, Thomas R. Clarke, Harold V. Cocks, Ralph J. Cofran, Clarence W. Collerd, Raymond B.2 Cone, Leon J. Cornelius, Laurence Cotton, Thomas L. Cowles, Eugene R. Cunningham, Louis Currier, George C. Dandrow, George W. Davies, Joseph T.2 Davis, Aaron W. Davis, Bradley N. Davis, John W. Davison, C. Marshall2 Dewey, Edward R. Dibble, Tracy A. Donehue, Francis McG. Doty, Lawrence L. Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr.2 Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr.3 Dunning, Ralph A. Dupuis, Almanzor L. Durkee, James T. Dutton, Leon G. Earle, Edgar C. Eaton, William C. Edgerton, Alson B. Emerson, Sumner B. Emery, Forrest S. Emery, Joseph W.2 Emmons, Albert W. Etter, Leslie W.2 Evans, Philip G. Fales. Myron S. Fall, Herman2 Ferguson, John S.4 Ferguson, John S.2 Ferguson, Walter G.5 Ferguson, Walter G.2 Fisher, Russell S. Fitch, Willis S. Fleming, W. Douglas Foote, Paul R.2 Ford, Hobart Fox, James A. Friedrichs, Hugo A.2 Gale, Burton L.. Jr. Gates. Frederic W. Gee, Fred W 2 Gerrish, Bernard O. Gile, Archie B. Gilman, Charles H.2

Gilmore, Charles M.5 Gilmore, Charles M.2 Goss, Alfred E. Goudie, Clark A.1 Gould, Paul L. Grady, Francis A. Green, Irving I. Hager, Fred A. Hahn, Edmund F.6 Hahn, Edmund F.2 Hallett, Joseph G.2 Halloran, Roy D.2 Halloran, Roy D.5 Hamilton, Harley A.2 Hammond, Kendall Hammond, Morris G. Hardy, C. James7 Hardy, C. James2 Hartshorn, George E. Hickmott, Allerton C. Hill, John W. Hill, Lee F. Holden, Kenneth W. Holt, Harold W. Howe, Luman B. Huntress, Frank C. Husk, Frederick R. Hutchins, Mosher S. Hutchinson, Perne R. Janes, Charles B. Jenks, Herbert C. Johnson, Roy L. Jones, James L. Jopson, Arthur B. Karnan, Parker R. Kent, Kenneth R.2 Kent, Kenneth R.5 King, W. Trott Kingsbury, Stanley M. Kipp, Walter D. Knowles, Winfield S.2 Knowlton, A. Heywood2 Koeniger, Karl W. Kuech, Julius F. Kuntz, Roy J.2 Lagay, Frank L. Landregan, Thomas A.2 Leighton, Frederic W. Litchard, Donald B. Locke, Allen W. Lockwood, Lawrence Lonnquest, Theodore C. Loudon, Henry A. Lowe, Gilbert R.2 Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph Maclntyre, Arthur P. MacKillop, Samuel R. MacNutt, Donald P.2 Marr, Russell W. Marschat, Richard A. Mason, Harold W.8 Maynard, Merle E.2 McCarthy, Earl R.9 McCarthy, Earl R.2 McCreary, Harrison B 2 McCulloch, Norman E. McEwen, Harvey A.10 McGowan, Edwin W. McGowan, James H.

McGuire, Thomas B.11 McGuire, Thomas B.2 McKenney, Robert A.2 Mcßeynolds, Frederick Wilson Melvin, Parker L.2 Merrill, Howard E.12 Merrill, Roger Montgomery, James, Jr. Morton, E. Searles Mudgett, Elliott B. Murphy, Richard D.2 Murray, S. Clifford Myer, Joseph C.2 Myers, Cortland2 Nelb, Alfred W.2 Norby, Charles W.2 Norton, Donald H. Nourse, Laurence G. Nuese, Robert E. Olds, Everett L. O'Leary, Donald J. O'Neill, Clifford R. Osborn, Paul G.13 Paine, Robert G. Palin, Milburn R. Palmer, Wayne F. Perkins, Thurston M.2 Perrin, Porter G. Peters, Charles F. Ponder, William T.2 Randall, Leon N. Reade, Leonard J. Reagan, Francis C. Reycroft, Wendell G. Richardson, Guy L. Richmond, Donald Robie, Everett E. Robinson, Earle B. Robinson, Herman S.14 Rubel, James L. Ruggles, Harold L.2 Rutherford, Scott V. Saladine, John W. Saline, Samuel Sanborn, Ralph Sault, Raymond G. Saviers, Henry C.2 Sawyer, Ralph H. Scott, Robert D. Scudder, Winthrop R. Searles, Herbert L. Sewall, William Shackford, Bartlett C. Shaffer, Howard M. Sharpe, Richard W.2 Shea, Leonard A. Sherburne, Maxwell G. Sherman, Laurence G. Shiels, Albert, Jr. Sisson, Walter C. Smith, Deering G. Smith, Hawley A.2 Smith, Maurice G.2 . Smith, Reginald Smith, Sherman L. Smith, Victor C. 3 Smith, Vincent K. Spaulding, Richard B 2 Spearin, Frederic W. Sperry, Irving L. Sprague, Isaac, Jr. Steiger, Chauncey A. ' Stevens, Leslie B. < Stewart, William H.2 Stickney, Robert C.2 Stillman, Harold D.15 ] Stillman, Karl G. ! Stockwell, Howard A. Stone, Charles L.

Stone, Roger P. Stout, Arthur D. Streeter. Percival Sturgess, Albert H. Sturtevant, Warner B Sweet, Carlyle W. Swett, Gilbert N. Switzer, James M. Sym, Harold A.2 Thielscher, Karl L. Thompson, Clifton B.3 Thompson, Errol M. Tobin, Harold J.18 Tobin, Harold J.2 Torrey, Bowen Towler, Eugene D. Tracy, Gordon S. Trenholm, Derrill deS. Valentine, Carroll E. Vaughan, Alden G. Wagner, Edgar R. Walker, Harold S. Walters, Waltman Walton, Donald F. Watkins, Maurice C. Welles, Thomas2 Wells, Ralph A. Wethey, Francis Van V.2 Wheeler, Afton E.2 Wheelock, John F. White, John W. Whiton, Sylvester G.2 Wiesman, Edward A. Willis, Russell L. Wilson, Walter T.2 Wolff, Charles 3rd Woodruff, T. Tyson2 Woodward, Lawrence W.2 Woodwell, Philip Mcl. Worthington, Harry T. Wright, Henry C. Wyeth, Willard H. Young, Naasson S. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 Robert D. Scott '17.2 Dartmouth Class of '17,3 Mrs. Duhamel.4 Cousin, Wayne F.Palmer '17.5 Eugene D. Towler '17.6 Mrs. Hahn.7 Brother, Robert C.Hardy '25.8 Son, George D. Mason'43.9 James T. Durkee '17.10 Sister, Mrs. Alwin Schaller.11 Henry C. Wright '17.12 Sumner B. Emerson ' 17.13 Brother, Albert D.Osborn '20.14 Mother, Mrs. Alice M.Robinson.15 Ralph Sanborn '17.16 Widow, Mrs. McDowell Hosley. MEN CARRYING INSURANCE WITH THE COLLEGE AS BENEFICIARY Carr, Houghton Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph Reade, Leonard J. Sturtevant, Warner B. Towler, Eugene D. White, John W.

CLASS AGENT HOWARD A. STOCKWELL 'l7

Secretary, 408 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark 5, N. J.

Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.

, Class Agent.