1917
The rain came down, the score went up, and the Thielschers (Karl and Dave) beat the Spears, Captain Bob of Yale (son of Fats). Undoubtedly the happiest father in the Yale Bowl was none other than our own Barney, football star in his own right in our day. Probably a record in Ivy League footballtwo sons on the same outstanding varsity team, at the same time. Congratulations, and orchids to Adele.
This Yale weekend was a grand one even, though it rained steadily all Friday and Saturday. Elsie & I enjoyed every minute with Cricket Lane's Gene and Lucille Towler, son, Tom and daughter Jane, Bob and Anita Scott put on their regular after-game party, a beautiful cocktail and buffet. The lucky ones, to be their were: the Art Stouts, Tom andEllen Cotton, Gil and Marie Swett, Gene andLucile Towler, Bunny and Millie Holden and Deering and Helen Smith (Deering with a. broken wrist). Butch Sherman phoned, but couldn't find his way. Mott and FrancesBrown sent a telegram saying they were sorry they couldn't make the game. Thanks again, Bob and Anita. You guys and gals who miss these football get-togethers, miss a lot.
Many interesting letters this month. This,from Charles B. Janes, who spent Novembera in Hanover:
"It snowed all day yesterday, leaving a four-inch cover on the ground, and the pines have a colorful sprinkling of white. It is truly beautiful, although the going has been terrific; the roads are clear now, however.
"It is the first time in 34 years that we have been able to spend a full week in Hanover. Previously, we have had a few days, but always stayed1 at Kedron Valley, about 18 miles away.
"Mildred and I spent our honeymoon here in Hanover at our Commencement and love every corner of Hanover. It is like a second honeymoon, except that on our first, it was during the lovely month of June—we were young then; but now our hair is white as the snow on yonder hills.
"Every hour is like a 'cup of nut brown ale,' and we are quaffing every golden drop.
"We have three children, Phyllis, Donald and Nancy. They are all married and have two wonderful youngsters each. We spend most of our spare time with them, and our chief avocation is babysitting, which we love. It is most interesting; watching the six grandchildren grow and develop,, both mentally, physically and spiritually. The oldest will be ten in December, and the youngest will be three in April."
From Jack Hill:
"I have your letter of October 9, and unfortunately have no news of classmates. They probably enjoy the Maine Coast, as you did, and then scorch through Portland without giving me a call. My office is in Portland, I have a telephone, and you and other '17ers are invited to avail yourself of those facilities.
"We live on a farm in Gorham, about 11 miles out of Portland. Our livestock has now dwindled down to one French poodle dog, and we didn't even have a vegetable garden this year, because we returned from a European trip, France, Italy and Sicily, too late to plant. Our domestic life is tranquil, all the children grown-up, and one granddaughter of five years, but none of them live with us."
Fred Husk, who apparently enjoys fishing as much as I do, contributes the following:
"Thanks for your letter inquiring about myself and family. There is not much change since I last saw you. No additions except a little weight for the both of us which we do not need'.
"I note that you had a hunting and fishing trip in Canada recently. We had a 4,000 mile trip this summer. We went around the Gaspe Peninsula and spent a week at Lake Madeleine in the Bush. We had to go in a government jeep and were fly fishing for truit rouge, speckled trout to you. We then went all around Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. Cape Breton Island I recommend to anybody. It has the most beautiful scenery I have ever encountered. You can get any kind of fishing you want there from brook trout to giant tuna.
"On the way back we stopped in Boston and New York and after calling half a dozen classmates I quit. Everybody seemed to be out of town."
Congratulations, Fred, can you meet my record of catching 41 15-inch and up trout in one hour?
Ed McGowan of Wyandotte Worsted Company in Maine sends in one of his rare bits of information.
"Nothing ever happens to me of any interest or importance, so I cannot write you a newsy, breezy letter. I find I am not as energetic as I used to be and that I have had to slow up quite a bit. Businesswise, our civilian woolen business is stagnant, but we have been able to keep the wolf away from the door by making some low bids on government woolens and getting in thereby."
Thanks, Ed.From Walter Kipp:
"The only way to improve the interest in our Class Notes is to bring in more names and items. Long paragraphs about the same old people be- come tiresome year after year, no matter if they are the salt of the earth; meaning the persons. (A good idea to follow through on, K.W.K.). So here is my bit.
"Found the place of my dreams in 1950, a ranch type house overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee. Three acres surrounded by a stone wall, with all fruits, a garden and plenty of flowers. It is just on the edge of the village, an easy walk if necessary. Partridges feed on the barberries in front of my windows all winter, despite my two cockers. "My son Douglas '43 has just begun the practice of dentistry in nearby Wolfeboro. So I am enjoying the quiet country life and find it good.
Quote from letter received from Col. HenryG. Fowler, USA, Retired, dated October 28:
"Mrs. Fowler (Helen) and I have accepted an invitation to lecture on the United Nations throughout New Zealand. In Christchurch, N. Z., Helen will head the American Delegation to the international conference of the Pan-Pacific "Women s Association, January 12-25, 1952. On the way, or after, we shall visit Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia (Sydney Melbourne and Canberra), Indonesia, Singapore, India (Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta), Pakistan and Lahore), Ceylon, Rangoon and Manila, P. I."
Barring further delays due to the longshoremen's strike, they expect to leave on November is and be in southern Asia and the Antipodes until about June 15, 1952The following from Harold Holt:
"This summer we went abroad. My two sisters travelled with us and we had a memorable time. We left New York on the Gripsholm June 8, landed ten days later in Gothenburg, Sweden. We were fortunate in having two perfect nights for the midnight sun at Abisko in Swedish Lappland with a side-trip to Narvik, Norway. Stockholm and the island of Gotland were the places in Sweden on which we concentrated. After a week in Denmark and a few days in Belgium and the Netherlands, we went to Switzerland via the Black rorest for a month. I did not climb the Jungfrau or the Matterhorn, but I did considerable walking and climbing of the lower slopes around Zermatt. We covered Switzerland quite thoroughly, taking in Lucerne, Interlaken, Berne, St. Moritz, Vevey, Geneva and Zermatt. Visits to Biarritz and Carcassonne in the south of France, with a day at San Sebastian, Spain, were followed by an excursion through the chateau country of the Loire, Cher and Indre, and of course we wound up the summer with a week in Paris. We came back on the Mauretania."
Quote from Fred Leighton.
"I might tell you that I spent a very interesting time in the British West Indies last spring, doing a survey of native handicrafts for the Governments of Jamaica, Trinidad and the Windward Islands. "At this writing I am about to depart for a short month's trip to my old stamping ground, Mexico.
"As to extra-curriculum, I am at present a vice president of the National Council of American Importers and of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Also on an advisory committee on imports for the Department of Commerce in Washington, etc.
"My oldest daughter Mary Jane has been married for two years and is now living in New York; my second daughter Cecilia is in high school in Detroit; and my stepson Chris is in school in the Adirondacks, dividing his time between a passion for classical music on the piano and football.
Quote from Will Fitch:
"I don't notice any lack of news in the Class Notes and I think you are doing a great job. It must be a difficult one, too, if the other classmates are as unresponsive as this one. But you see I am just a government employee and not a wealthy in- dustrialist who can saunter along the New England beaches for weeks and then return in time to take off for a fishing trip in Canada.
"My accomplishments as a 'small wheel in the office of Secretary of Defense are not newsworthy and I haven't any glamorous vacation tours such as yours to report. As a matter of fact, this summer we just stayed in Washington and spent a lazy time enjoying the advantages of our country club which includes a pretty fair 27-hole golf course, nine excellent tennis courts, three swimming pools and outdoor dancing roof. This winter we are planning to spend our vacation in Bermuda.
"I do miss old friends from Hanover associations and I spent a few days last week in Boston and Hanover to make up a part of that deficiency. The foliage in New Hampshire, possibly because I hadn't seen it for so long, was simply gorgeous and the view across the campus from my room in the Inn gave me a terrific dose of nostalgia.
"The football game with Syracuse was not a classic, but the end result was satisfactory. Between the halves I ran into Bunny and MillieHolden and Bud Robie. I understand that MelPal in was there too, but I didn't see him. KarlThielscher could have been very proud of his two boys. They both played very well.
"The previous Saturday the Washington group was invited to watch the first color-televised football game in the local studio of CBS. That was the Army-Dartmouth affair that turned out so pleasantly. Neither there, nor at the weekly luncheons that I attend as frequently as possible, do I see any other'17ers, I am sorry to report
"Why don't you write to my old friend, JimmyRubel? He is a big time author and even if he isn't doing anything of interest, it will sound interesting the way he tells it."
(Will, see notes November, 1950 issue). Merry Christmas to you all, and a Happy Prosperous, Healthy 1952.
1917 Fund Contributors
215 Gifts (Participation Index 85). Total gifts: $11,135.25 (93% of objective). Howard A. Stockwell, Class Agent.
Adams, Robert E. Aldrich, Donald B. Alger, Fred B. Allison, William H. Anderson, Arnold E.1 Antrim, Max B. Atwater, Irving T. Baker, Wallace B.1 Balliet, Charles N. Banton, Leon G.1 Barber, Payson T. Bathrick, John S. Baxter, Raymond H. Bean, Harold A. Berry, Elmer W. Bidwell, Harold F. Birtwell, William M., Jr. Black, Angus C. Blackmur, Maurice A. Blood, Philip W.1 Blum, Karl A.1 Bomgardner, Henry Bonnell, Willard E. Boynton, Robert C. Britton, Ralph R. Brooks, Donald Brown, Byron C.1 Brown, Mardis A.1 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.1 Chase, Robert M. Cheney, Alfred M.1 Chesley, John G. Clark, George E. Clark, Robert W. Clark, Thomas R. Clarke, Harold V. Cocks, Ralph J. Cofran, Clarence W. Collerd, Raymond B.1 Cone, Leon J. Cornelius, Laurence Cotton, Thomas L. Cowles, Eugene R. Cunningham, Louis Currier, George C. Dandrow, George W. Davies, Joseph T.1 Davis, Aaron W. Davis, Bradley N. Davison, C. Marshall1 Deferrari, Harry A.1 Dewey, Edward R. Dibble, Tracy A.
Donehue, Francis McG. Doty, Lawrence L. Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr.1 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 Emery, Joseph W.3 Emery, Joseph W.1 Emmons, Albert W. . Erb, William B. Etter, Leslie W.1 Evans, Philip G. Fales, Myron S. Fall, Herman3 Fall, HermannFerguson, John S.4 Ferguson, John S.1 Ferguson, Walter G.5 Ferguson, Walter G.1 Fisher, Russell S. Fitch, Willis S. Fleming, W. Douglas Foote, Paul R.1 Ford, Hobart Fowler, Henry G. Fox, James A. Friedrichs, Hugo A.1 Gale, Burton L., Jr. Gates, Frederic W. Gee, Fred W1 Gerrish, Bernard O. Gile, Archie B. Gilman, Charles H.1 Gilmore, Charles M.5 Gilmore, Charles M.1 Goodwin, Fred P. Goss, Alfred E. Goudie, Clark A.1 Gould, Paul L. Grady, Francis A.1 Gregory, George Hager, Fred A. Hahn, Edmund F.6 Hahn, Edmund F.1 Hallett, Joseph G.1 Halloran, Roy D.6 Halloran, Roy D.1 Hamilton, Harley A.1 Hammond, Kendall Hardy, C. James7 Harris, Daniel L. Hartshorn, George E. Haskell, Samuel B.1 Hawkes, Harry, Jr. 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. Johnson, Roy L. Jones, James L. Jopson, ArthurBBe.5 Jopson, Arthur B.8 Karnan, Parker R. Kent, Kenneth R.5 Kent, Kenneth R.1 King, W. Trott Kingsbury, Stanley M. Kipp, Walter D. Knowles, Winfield S 1 Knowlton, A. Heywood1 Koeniger, Karl W. Kuech, Julius F. Kuntz, Roy J.1 Lagay, Frank L. Landregan, Thomas A.1 Leighton, Frederic W. Litchard, Donald B. Lonnquest, Theodore C. Loudon, Henry A. Lowe, Gilbert R1 Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph McCarthy, Earl R.9 McCarthy, Earl R.1 McCreary, Harrison B.1 McCulloch, Norman E. McEwen, Harvey A.10 McEwen, Harvey A 1 McGowan, Edwin W. McGowan, James H. McGuire, Thomas B.8 Maclntyre, Arthur P. McKenney, Robert A.1 MacKillop, Samuel R. MacNutt, Donald P.1 Mcßeynolds, Frederick W Marschat, Richard A. Mason, Harold W.11 Mason, Harold W.1 Maynard, Merle E.1 Melvin, Parker L.3 Melvin, Parker L.1 Merrill, Howard E.12 Merrill, Roger Montgomery, James, Jr. Morton, E. Searles Mudgett, Elliott B. Murphy, Richard D.1 Murray, S. Clifford1 Myer, Joseph C.1 Myers, Cortland8 Myers, Cortland1 Nelb, Alfred W1 Norby, Charles W.1 Norton, Donald H.1 Nourse, Laurence G. Nuese, Robert E. Olds, Everett L. O'Leary, Donald J. O'Neill, Clifford R. Osborn, Paul G.13 Osborn, Paul G.1 Paine, Robert G. Palin, Milburn R. Palmer, Wayne F. Perkins, Thurston M.1 Perrin, Porter G. Peters, Charles F. Ponder, William T.1 Randall, Leon N. Reade, Leonard J. Reagan, Francis C. Reycroft, Wendell G. Rhoades, Morton W. Richardson, Guy L. Richmond, Donald Robie, Everett E. Robinson, Earle B. Robinson, Herman S 14 Robinson, Herman S.1 Rubel, James L. Ruggles, Harold L.1 Rutherford, Scott V. Saladine, John W. Salmonsen, Christian M.3 Sanborn, Martin G. Sanborn, Ralph Sault, Raymond G. Saviers, Henry C.1 Sawyer, Ralph H. Scott, Robert D. Scudder, Winthrop R.
Searles, Herbert L. Sewall, William Shackford, Bartlett C. Shaffer, Howard M. Sharpe, Richard W.1 Shea, Leonard A. Sherburne, Maxwell G. Sherman, Laurence G. Sisson, Walter C. Smith, Deering G. Smith, Hawley A.1 Smith, Maurice G.1 Smith, Reginald Smith, Sherman L. Smith, Victor C. Smith, Vincent K. Spaulding, Richard B.1 Spearin, Frederic W. Spears, Clarence W. Sperry, Irving L. Sprague, Isaac, Jr. Steele, Howard L. Steenrod, Alexander H.1 Steiger, Chauncey A. Stevens, Leslie B. Stewart, William H 1 Stickney, Robert C.3 Stickney, Robert C.1 Stiliman, Harold D.1 Stillman, Karl G. Stockwell, Howard A. Stone, Charles L. Stone, Roger P. Stout, Arthur D. Streeter, Percival Sturgess, Albert H. Sturtevant, Warner B. Swett, Gilbert N. Switzer, James M. Sym, Harold A 1 Tefft, Lionel V. Thielscher, Karl L. Thompson, Clifton B.1 Thompson, Errol M. Tobin, Harold J.15 Tobin, Harold J.1 Towler, Eugene D. Tracy, Gordon S. Trenholm, Derrill deS. Valentine, Carroll E. Vaughan, Alden G. Wagner, Edgar R. Walker, Harold S. Walters, Waltman Watkins, Maurice C. Weeks, Harold J. Welles, Thomas1 Wells, Ralph A. Wendell, Harold B. Wethey, Francis Van V.1 Wheeler, Afton E.1 Wheelock, John F. White, John W. Whiton, Sylvester G.1 Wiesman, Edward A. Willard, M. Stephen Willis, Russell L. Wilson, Walter T.1 Wolff, Charles, 3rd Woodruff, T. Tyson1 Woodward, Earl M. Woodward, Lawrence W.1 Woodwell, Philip Mcl. Wooster, William W. Worthington, Harry T. Wright, Henry C. Wyeth, Willard H. Young, John S. Young, Naasson S. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:1 Class of 1917.2 Derrill deS. Trenholm'l7.3 Walter C. Sisson 'l7.4 Cousin, Wayne F. Palmer'l7.5 Eugene Towler 'l7.6 Mrs. Hahn.7Brother, Robert C.Hardy '25.8 Henry C. Wright 'l7.9 James T. Durkee 'l7.10 Sister, Mrs. AI winSchaller.11 Son, George D. Mason'43.72 Sumner B. Emerson '17.13 Brother. Albert D. Osborn '20.14 Mother, Mrs. Alice M.Robinson.15 Widow, Mrs. McDowellH os ley.
CLASS AGENT HOWARD A. STOCKWELL '17
DOUBLE REASON for the special football interest of Barney Thielscher '17 (inset) this fall was two sons on the Big Green varsity: Dave '54 (left), end, and Karl '52, guard, both of whom starred aga.nst Yale.
Secretary, 408 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark 5, N. J. Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
