1919
A correction is in order in the listing of sons of '19ers at Hanover. It escaped the notice of your secretary that Jack Reilly has two sons in the College, John F. Jr. '54 and Philip S. '55, and is the only classmate with this honor. An account of the Father and Son dinner on March 8 will probably not make this issue, but will surely appear in May.
Through the kindness of Bill Knight, class notes editor of the grand young Class of '08, we have the following,—"Lefty Farrar is not my candidate for Vice President of the United States, or what have you, although he could do the job in excellent shape, and I have not taken any commission to plug him for national recognition of any kind. However, X am enclosing another clipping in regard to him, having to do with his election as President of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, a 68-yearold organization, which is one of the outstanding outfits of its kind in the country. He has just finished serving as treasurer for ten years or so." The clipping from the Chicago Tribune contained a picture of Lefty and his wife, taken at a board meeting. Bill continues, "My wife happens to be a member of this board so I know something about it and know of the grand job which Lefty has done through the years as treasurer and trustee." Thanks, Bill and congratulations to Lefty for his fine work in a most worthy cause. Dr. Holden K. Farrar Jr. is now serving in England with the Air Force and is to be married shortly. Bill sent your Secretary details of this event, but they were lost, as reported in the March issue.
A nice note arrived from Rowland Pollard, of Proctorsville, Vt., acknowledging his annual greetings from the Class,—"lt is getting to be so that the cards come around altogether too often—each one faster than the one before it. One has to check the calendar. I have completed a full year of retirement and must say I approve the idea. Have a daughter in Bennington and two more children coming along towards their college years so that it appears to be a bit previous to be retired but once the plunge is taken, the water turns out to be fine!!"
Henry Holley of Monson, Mass., was recently elected vice-president of the Massachusetts Association of Secondary School Principals at their annual meeting held in Boston.
From Great Falls, Mont., Ax Warden, author of the classic telegram to the gang convened at Woodstock last fall, and publisher of the Great Falls Tribune, says of the birthday card,—"Thanks, even though it is an unfortunate reminder that it is later than we think." Ax also sent in a clipping announcing the marriage of the Warden's son Scott to Miss Jean Frances Gehlert in New York City on January 18. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Humphrey of Fort Collins, Colo. She attended Colorado University and the City College of New York and has been on the staff of the World Telegram and Sun and Puck, the comic weekly. Scott, a graduate of Great Falls High School, is a studio supervisor in the television department of the National Broadcasting Cos. He attended Montana State College a short time before enlisting in the Air Force in 1942. Going overseas in March, 1944, as a ball turret gunner on a 817 bomber, Scott completed 30 missions over Europe. After the war he attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1949 with a degree in music, and has been with NBC Television since in New York.
Bill McMahon writes, "I so want to say a very sincere 'Thank you' for the remembrance and good wishes on my 40th (???—the question marks are the See's) and I know the older members of the class like Fiske, Dudensing, Mullen, Clements, Jackson, Stedman, Colwell, as well as yourself, get a big bang out of the fact that the younger members have birthdays t00....!!"
The Boston Alumni Association staged their annual dinner on February 26 and it was, as usual, a most successful affair, 'lgers present were Win Batchelder and San Treat from New York, and localites Morris Freedberg, SpiderMartin, Phil Bird, Herb Fleming, Ray Hinds,Jack Clark, John Shelburne, Nock Wallis, BillCunningham and Rock Hayes. The report is that Bill did a masterful job in introducing the principal speaker of the evening, Myles Lane '2B, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Among Bill's many and varied activities, was his election as president of the New England Association of Left Handed Golfers for the 14th time. This occurred at their annual dinner honoring Francis Ouimet, famous amateur golfer.
Jim and Mary Davis and Aft and Mad Havlin left in February on a two-to-three-week airplane trip to the Virgin Islands with plans to make their headquarters in and around St. Thomas. Spider and Bea Martin are planning to leave for a Florida vacation early in March.
1919 was represented at the mid-year meeting of the Alumni Council in Cleveland on February 1 by Nick Sandoe, Bob Stecher and Bill McCarter.
A little nostalgia—from the Daily Dartmouth, September 25, 1915 (courtesy of HowieWebster's complete collection), comes the following —"l9l9 Squad busy—Redfield gives freshmen stiff workout yesterday. Although freshman football practice has been restricted to the afternoons for the last few days, Coach Redfield has managed to give the candidates some hard practice and the first team is beginning to assume the form in which it will meet Exeter next Saturday. The material is exceptionally promising with a large number of good men in each department, but with the game with Exeter, which is always a hard contest, only a week away, prospects are not too bright. At present, the most promising candidates for the backfield are Henderson,Greeley, Shelburne and Whelan; Cunningham and Potter are competing for the position at center, Connell seems to be working well at quarter, and Austin, Cogswell and Freedberg, with a number of other men, are trying out for the ends. The line is well supplied with heavy material, among whom are Bevtxn, DickPeddie, Hutchinson, Kubin and Neely." Whew!! that was a long time ago.
Are you going to be among the "early bird' givers to the Alumni Fund this year? Your Sec. is going to repeat his suggestion of last year—send in your pledge at once for the full amount you expect to give, along with a check for half or part of it. Then get the balance in by June 30. Somehow it makes it easier this way. And try and give generously and realistically.
BEFORE THE SNOW FLEW: A luncheon get-together of the C ass of 19 in Hanover at the outing club House. Among those who attended were (I to r): Bill White, Spider Martin, Chet Gale, Chet DeMond, Win Batchelder, Herb Fleming, Art Havlin, Phil Bird, Bob Lewis, and Harriet Batchelder.
Secretary, 1273 North Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 37 Lansing Rd., West Newton, Mass.
