1914

It has been almost six long years that you people have had to read my column of notes each month, and I can hear you give a sigh of relief that this is the last.

There have been many times that it has been very discouraging but mostly it has been a great deal of fun. Repeated letters that have gone unanswered have been more than offset by some of the wonderful replies that have told about your family, the kids, and the grandchildren, your hobbies and problems and pleasures. It has really been interesting. I know of nothing that can bring one closer to the class and the college than this job.

Remsen and Sisson and Conners have been swell; three of the grandest fellows with whom to work that ever grew, and it has been steady growth of friendships and loyalties. I want to thank each of them for their help and cooperation and friendship. It has been worth a great deal.

' hanks to all of you fellows who have so many times sent in clippings and reports, or called on the telephone with bits of news. Ernie Kimball has been a mainstay, as has John Piane. Hardly a month but what there has been something from Pen Abom, lots of help from Sig Larmon, Red Louden, EdLeech, String Howe, Jimmie Gregg, FredDavidson, Herb Austin and many others.

Since I started writing these notes, PaulHazelton, Ralph Kinney, Florence Sullivan, Albert Willey, Marshall Picken, HarryCooper, Joe Batchelder, Warren Carleton,Carleton Brownell, Paul Wilson, GorhamSargent, Arthur Thompson, John Harlowe,Holton Smith, Holt Buswell, Ralph Noe,Ralph Jenkins, Paul Howe, Herbert Bartlett,James "Bill" Taft, Dr. Ernest Saeger,Allan Tukey, Chester Walcott, BurrellWright, Burt Smith, Herman Davidson and Norman Davison have passed on, but are not forgotten by their classmates. There have been 93 deaths since we first entered college in the fall of 1910. But over the years, the friendship of these men has meant much to us.

To my successor, the best of wishes and the promise of any help that I can give. I can assure him that he will get more pleasure and enjoyment from the job than he can ever put into it.

A nice letter from Richard White in Lynn, last week, has one paragraph in particular which deserves a quote. "Last winter, when the advanced circulars for the Shrine Convention in Los Angeles came out, my wife and my sister-in-law thought it a good idea if my brother and I would sign up for the trip. Who would my brother and I be to not go along with their ideas after all these years, so in we sent our reservations. We have had them confirmed and now are set for the trip which will take us away for about four weeks, commencing the xoth of June. I seem to constantly find myself in the position of having conflicting dates, for on the same 10th of June, I am toastmaster at the Annual Reunion luncheon of the State Teachers' College Alumni Association at Salem, being President of that association, at noon. My train leaves Boston at 3:10, so you see I'll have to do a little rushing that day." Dick had previously sent in his regrets in his inability to attend reunion. We, too, are sorry but hope he has a swell trip. Under date of April 5, Sam Sheldon writes,

"Last Saturday night I drove into St. Paul for the annual Dartmouth dinner and had a fine visit with Red Louden at that time. He is feeling fine, looks better than I have ever seen him, and expects to be in Hanover in June When we moved to Red Wing from Minneapolis last summer and started to do things to our 1850 home, we discovered there is no end in sight of things to be done. I would like overhead garage doors, but they cost too damned much and now I am afraid if I stuck my head in under one of them, the cost would be prohibitive, because mine is soft and I would not bounce off the way you did."

Following that crack on the head, any mistake is excusable, even to writing to Charlie Faxon and calling him a bachelor lawyer,

"A lawyer I am not," says Charlie. "Briefly, after having made leather, been a chemist in a glue factory, fought the Germans, taken a Masters at Columbia and taught school, I am resting. My sister and I live up here in the country, which is healthy but rather uninteresting. However, we do manage to get away quite often.

Of late 1 have been to Hanover each summer, if only for lunch at The Inn. My connection with things Dartmouth has been chiefly through the Club we have in Glens Falls. Jim Shields and I are the only two 1914 men. I surely hope to be with you in Hanover in June and it is quite possible Jim and I can come over together."

It was swell to hear from Herb Babcock, who expects his business will be such that he can get away for reunion to which he is looking forward. Herb made the 20th and 25th but could not be with us four years ago.

Thanks to Ed Redman '06, for the following: Mr. and Mrs. James T. Heenehan have announced the engagement of their daughter Janet to Mr. Harry A. Kearney Jr., son of Mrs. Kearney of 10 N. Ridgewood Rd., South Orange, N. J., and the late Mr. Kearney. A fall wedding is planned.

Miss Heenehan is a graduate of The Ursuline School, New Rochelle, and Trinity College, Washington. She is a provisional member of the New Rochelle League for Service. Mr. Kearney is a graduate of Seton Hall School and Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. He served with the Army Air Forces overseas in the war.

Last fall we all expected Ralph Barke's boy Arthur to be in the Freshman Class. Ralph writes,

"He had applied for admission to Dartmouth and also had an appointment to Annapolis. There were just a few days between notices that he had passed the exams at Annapolis and had been accepted at Dartmouth. After a few days of hectic indecision, the lure of the Navy got him and he is now a plebe, well satisfied and doing well. My wife and I, with one of my daughters, are going down there to pick him up late in July, when he gets back from the cruise and are going to return by way of Hanover so he will see what he missed. We hope to spend a day or so with Chet Wescott at The Inn.

"I have two daughters, Barbara and Phyllis, both through college now. Barbara graduated from Chicago in '47 and got her Master's degree in '48. Phyllis graduated from Minnesota in '49. It does not seem possible to have children through college, but on checking the calendar and finding that I hit 60 on April 4, I guess it is not unusual. Still feel as young as ever, except I do not run upstairs as fast as.I used to."

Then in postscript Ralph adds that his wifehas just censored his letter and insists that he give credit where it is due and mentioned the fact that Barbara graduated from the University of Chicago cum laude and made Phi Beta Kappa. That is wonderful and we are all glad to hear it.

This morning's mail brought a professional card announcing the association of FletchColby, Howard I. Suby and Walter S. Kerr Jr., in the practice of Neurology at 262 Beacon Street, Boston. Fletcher has well earned for himself the reputation of being one of Boston's outstanding neurologists.

Leaving next week for the Alumni Officers' week-end in Hanover, and a month later, about the time that we are reading these notes, we'll all be packing, that is, all that can, for the reunion. Charlie Batchelder called up yesterday, and apparently everything is all set for the biggest and best yet. That picnic at the Wah-Hoo-Wah farm looks like something really big. You will be sorry if you miss it.

One last plug for the Alumni Fund! You fellows have done an increasingly swell job in the last four or five years, but let's not try to ride on the past. There are less of us, the college needs more and maybe we've all got to dig a little deeper, but in any case, GIVE. Give something as long as it's paper. Let's make our participation perfect. That's all. I'm done. It's been swell working with and for you.

ENDERS M. VOORHEES '14 (right), Chairman of the Finance Committee of United States Steel Corp., shown with Prof. Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, to whose Tuck School class he lectured last month.

Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass. Treasurer, 26 Garden Street, Potsdam, N. Y. Class Agent, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Cos. Providence, R. I.

DARTMOUTH POW-WOW Detroit, October 6-7 Reservations being made now!