1911

Memorial Fund Chairman, JOHN C. STERLING

This Week, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.

As of Thanksgiving, your traveling secretary had completed his western hegira, was deep in the heart of you know where, and was passported and inoculated for a jaunt to Mexico City before heading for Florida.

He reports, in unprofessorial language, a "swell" evening with Rollie and Ruth Hastings, both in fine fettle and Rollie enjoying his work with the Food Machinery Cos. Rayand Cora Taylor, passage to reunion already booked, turned Palo Alto inside out for the Burleighs. Ray has become a high-powered fruitologist, if that's the proper term for anyone growing apricots, prunes, figs, olives and pomegranates in his back yard. Ray, too, is a mighty hunter; not alone a rifleman but a bowyer and fletcher, making his own versions of the late Robin Hood's favorite weapons.

In southern Cal Nat saw the entire 1911 delegation Walt Gibson, Larry Odlin, GeorgeLeach and, for the first time in many, many years, Neal Hotaling and Gerry Barnes. All of them are interested in Reunion, and most of them will come East, which goes for their wives as well. In La Jolla they lunched with Tex Morris, '12.

Back in Hanover, the Columbia game saw the Amos Crooks and the Ken Clarks sitting on one side of us, the Sterlings and Agrys on the other. The local contingent Goodings,Dunhams, Maynards at aldoubtless were on hand but not within sight. Warren and Marion moved into their new house in Etna the Friday before the Princeton game, arriving for cocktails at the Pearsons' somewhat bushed, after a day spent in toting goods and chattels.

Lib by Butts was Thanksgiving-holidaying at the Inn. Jack Ingersoll was reported in town but was as invisible as Harvey. BobBarstow headed up the Department of Church World Service at the national convention of the Churches of Christ, which had the misfortune of timing their meeting during the days when Cleveland was snow-bound.

Your acting scribe spent a rewarding evening at Nat's browsing through his bound volumes of The Dartmouth published during our first three years. It's rich material if anyone wants to dope out a quiz show on who we were, what we did and maybe why we did it, in our derby hat and high collar days.

Watch your Reunion dates! Through some annoying, but unavoidable, mishaps the dates that appeared at the head of this column the last two or three months were considerably snafued. This is the McCoy. We Reune in Hanover June 22 and 23. We go to Whitefield before coming to Hanover. If we went to the Mountain View after Hanover, when the hotel is beginning to fill with pre-Fourth of July guests, we'd necessarily have less opportunity to be by ourselves. Where would the Duke of Duluth, for instance, find an empty corridor to house his audience for another airing of his Scandahovian epics? Going early makes considerable sense, doesn't it?

Acting Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Cos., Bridgeport 2, Conn

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