1917
As I start to compile these notes I am depressed by the dearth of news of fellow '17ers that has come to my attention during the past month. You are all interested in reading about the achievements of your classmates whether that news relates to travels, honors received, authorship of published writings or family events. But I cannot dream up such news; someone has got to send it to me. So each of you is urged to send me timely items concerning yourself or your classmates that they can be published in our column for the edification of all. As Charlie Widmayer, Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, recently advised the Class Secretaries, "We beg to announce that on or before our closing date we will accept for publication in the next issue, class-notes copy that meets all the high standards of prose style, culture, wit, variety, information, interest and decency usually associated with our family journal." Send in the gleanings from the highways and the byways of 1917.
Mrs. Edward Thomas Towler, 86, of Cranford, N. J., announced on September 16 that she is the proud mother of a grandfather, namely Eugene Davis, who when last seen in my office, was able to take three solid meals a day. The wife of Lt. Tom Towler '49 had put him in this boasting position and he has finally achieved the rank of grandpappy along with such notables as Scott, Cotton, Smith,
Brown, Gile, at al. He says young Edward Thomas was born at Fort Lewis, Wash., where Gene and Lucile visited on their summer vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Between weekends, inspecting Lt. Tom Towler's job as Commander of the Infantry rifle company, the Towlers drove 3,000 miles visiting the snowcapped volcanoes, the Douglas fir forests and ridged irrigated valleys of Washington, Oregon and Vancouver Island. They flew out and back and, at Sea-Tac Airport on July 20, found Sam White awaiting their arrival, as he predicted at reunion. Later the Towlers visited the new Administration Building of Pan-American Airways where Sam is Northwest Division Manager and concerned principally with public relations there and in Alaska to which he flies frequently.
Sam and Lou White were hosts to the Towlers at luncheon in Seattle and chewed over all the Hanover reunion doings of the month before. The Whites have moved to a new home in Bellevue which is on the shores of Lake Washington, back of Seattle. Two weeks later, after doing Mount Hood, Trader Lake and the Oregon coast the Towlers visited the Culver River Gorges and ended up at the Washington Street office of H. BurleighWendell, one of three partners in an old, well-established general insurance agency in Portland. Red led them out to the Lambert Gardens, so Gene has one more color picture of a to add to his collection of sixty of you taken at reunion. After a delicious lunch at Dan & Louis Oyster Bar they dropped over to Red's home nearby before heading back to Fort Lewis and another visit to Mount Rainier. Later the Towlers took in the gardens around Victoria on Vancouver Island, took a jaunt to Mount Baker and then drove through the islands of Puget Sound for a few days and flew home and back to work.
Gene's motto now is "Don't go West, young man, go Pacific Northwest and stay there."
Under the heading Recent Best Books is the announcement of "Cooperative Advertising The Way To Make It Pay" by MosherStory Hutchins and published by the Ronald Press Co., New York.
From Sherm Smith a letter postmarked Pocasset, Mass., "Hal and Jo Weeks and daughter Barbara were our guests overnight at Tahanta, July 21. That same day Minister Takeuchi, of the Japanese Embassy, Washington, and Madame Takeuchi dropped in to visit our son Alan '50 who now has gone to Tokyo on a Fulbright scholarship. Alan was in Washington on the Embassy staff for two years."
Barney Thielscher writes that he and Adele spent a long weekend in Hanover, Gloucester and Lynn, of course, on September 26. They will be in Hanover again the weekend of the Colgate game as young Dave '54 is playing his last season for Dartmouth.
Vacation notes: From our Wyoming spotter Mike Donehue off on a pack trip after a stay at Valley Ranch. Hope he gets his antelope, if that's what his license calls for.
Howie and Dot Stockwell left October 12 for Minnesota to visit their son Dick. RedWendell, of Portland, Ore., and his wife Idabell recently made a flying trip to New York and we had expected to get a group of '17ers together for lunch. Due to a heavy schedule Red was unable to join u.s but has promised to save us some time on his next trip East.
Don't forget November 21—lunch at the Princeton Inn for all '17ers and their families and guests at 12 noon.
Watch for an announcement about a pre-Columbia game dinner at the Dartmouth Club on Friday evening, November 6. LenShea is making plans.
Guests at the Hanover Inn in September Eddie McGowan from Waterville, Maine, and Mr. and Mrs. John Saladine of West Hartford, Conn.
Kindly note the following address changes: Irving T. Atwater, president Nott-Atwater Co., 157 S. Monroe, Spokane 10, Wash., res. So. '3729 Manito Blvd., Spokane 36, Wash.; Robert C. Boynton, 308 Gryphon Bldg., Rutland. Vt.; Philip G.Evans, 17 Cottage Ave., Harwich Port, Mass.; Col.Henry G. Fowler, 233 W. Islip Rd., Babylon, N. Y.; Kendall Hammond, Box 421, Loveland, Colo.; Karl W. Koeniger, 408 Frelinghuysen Ave. Newark, N. J.; Frank L. Lagdy, 240 Mt. Vernon PI., Newark, N. J.; Arthur P. Maclntyre, 203 Concord Ave., Lexington 73, Mass.; Newton L. Smith, 13 Hoover Rd., Hingham, Mass.; John W. White Pan American World Airways, Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Seattle, Wash.
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