1914
Spring is almost here, and with spring comes a wanderlust. Going abroad this spring is Ray Wilkinson, who is sailing April 9 on the SS Caronia, for a motor trip through France and Spain. Marquise Yolanda Gozani, Mr. Wilkinson's Austrian ward, is studying at Queen's College in England and living with dowager Viscountess Caldecote in London. After a visit with Lord and Lady Glasgow at Kelburn Castle in Scotland, Ray will return May 23 on the SS Mauretania.
John Hazen succeeds in finding some very necessary business in Havana and left with Marie for that city by way of Florida the early part of February, to be gone for several weeks. He did write to give his best to all of the boys at Sno-bird, which he regrets missing.
The Herb Austins have been on the move again, spending three weeks in November at Utopia College, Kans., where Herb was doing some lecturing. In early January Herb joined the ranks of the aged at St. Pete and Miami.
Rumor, at this moment unconfirmed, has it that Bill Stratton is in Florida with his daughter, at 1856 S.W. First St., Miami.
The winter so far has been rather cruel to a few of the class, especially in New England. Squint Herlihy is back on the job, at first parttime, after a period of illness, and your secretary is just getting out following an attack of influenza and an acute nephritis in January. In spite of it all, he did crawl out of bed to watch a TV program on January 20, which was of considerable interest to the world at large.
I want to express my personal sympathy, as well as that of the class, to John Peppard in the loss of his wife Mildred on January 13. The funeral was held at Storey Chapel, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
John Warren, too, had a long stretch of illness this fall and winter. John is back at work again and, at this writing, hopes to attend Snobird. From the details of his illness, I would assume that he had been very, very sick. John and Marion have three grandchildren in California, by their daughter. Their older son John is with the research department at Pratt & Whitney in Hartford. Albert, whom some of you will recently remember at Dartmouth, is now at Northeastern, where he is doing excellent work.
A nice long letter from Myron Files brought the surprising news that his son George E. is in his second year of residency at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, specializing in neurology. He and his wife, with two babies still in diapers, are living at Sachem Village. The doctor's wife took a bad spill on skiis New Year's Day, tearing a ligament in her knee, so that Mrs. Files made the trip to help out as nurse and baby sitter. Myron writes,
"I am living on egg sandwiches and tobacco and am finding a house deadly silent and lonely without the cheerful woman. Even the house seems to know she is away and does not like it. The rugs curl up at the corners, the soap refuses to make suds when I try to wash dishes, and even the chairs are out of their accustomed places. The spatula that I wanted to use in turning a fried egg hid somewhere under the pans and I can't find the damned thing. I even hear faint mutterings and shouldn't be surprised if the house things all go on strike, or something. Maybe I'll join them!"
There are three men in the class who will bear witness and fight, if necessary, to prove superior qualities of the state of Maine, except to those too ignorant to understand, Myron, Hod Potter and myself.
Only one new address this month: HaroldL. Dunbar, 157 Brook Street, Elgin, Ill. Harold is a designer and model maker of women's shoes, in which field he has excelled.
Now back to spring again, and spring means Alumni Fund, and Alumni Fund means sacrifice. Sacrifice, so that other boys may gain from Dartmouth the things that we have gotten over the years. Are you ready once more to meet that challenge? It won't be long now before you will have your chance, or should I say, your opportunity, because I believe it is an opportunity to pay back in a small way, what the College has done for us.
The enclosed picture taken at Sisson's hunting camp perhaps best explains why Reinsert got no deer this past fall. Enough said!
NEVER MISSES: Harv McClary (I) of Cedar Rapids, lowa, who has been present at every 1913 reunion, shown with classmate Bill Mason of Winchester, Mass.
DOCUMENTARY: This picture may explain why Mart (Killer) Remsen '14 didn't get his deer last fall, while on a hunting trip at Rufe Sisson's camp.
Secretary, 88 Sea St., N. Weymouth 91, Mass. Treasurer, 165 Marlboro St., Wollaston, Mass.
