1916
A wire from Charlie Widmayer reminds me I am late with this column. Blame it on the wave of colds.
It is just as saddening to record the passing of the wife of a classmate as it is of one of the boys who were with us on the campus, and it is with that feeling that I record the death of Mary Ruth (Mrs. Willard S.) Paul, at her home in Oklawaha, Fla., February 4, after a long illness. Harry Anson Bates and your secretary represented the Class at the funeral service at Fort Myer, Va., and the interment in a beautiful spot in Arlington National Cemetery, overlooking the city where Ruth had so many friends. Having been an Army nurse before her marriage, she was given a military funeral with all honors. As the chaplain said of her: "A part of her beautiful character remains behind her in the influence she has had on the many lives she has touched." The sympathy of the classmates goes out to Stew and his son Dick, who is a major in the Army.
Activities of Sixteeners everywhere: RogEvans on a brief jaunt to the East Coast of Florida ... Bill McKenzie, our president, corresponding with classmates in various sections and giving the benefit of it to the secretary. Bill writes of our late Johnny Monahan: "A really stalwart character and a loyal classmate if there ever was one. He was chasing a long fly in a campus ball game one day and I hollered, - 'Monahan, bring up another hod of bricks' - the ball hit him in the chest and he kept right on running and chased me way down back of Scotty's where I lost him going over a fence."
Ev Parker is doing a fine job in Denver as a member of the alumni interviewing committee. Ev commented on the trip of George Colton to Denver in behalf of the proposed artifical ice installation for the Hanover hockey rink. Ev wants to see the Dartmouth hockey team back for the intercollegiate hockey championships which have been held in Colorado Springs for a number of years. Artifical ice is necessary for proper team conditioning at Hanover.
Mason Huse attended the raid-winter meeting of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., at Boston with two other members of his Ethan Allen Four, and I filled in as tenor for an afternoon of close harmony . .. Sam and Lucile Cutler touring the Caribbean on the Queen of Bermuda. Doubtless they came back loaded with sun-tan, Bermuda onions and perfume. Wish I could have been along. ... Gil Tapley writes Dan Lindsley is coming East in April. Dan's son, Dan Jr., having received his Ph.D. at California Tech, and the Thomas Hunt Morgan award for the outstanding student in the Biology Department, has a post-doctorate fellowship at Princeton from the National Research Council to do further research in genetics, where he is living with his wife, Jean, daughter Cathy (31/2) and son Dale (10 mos.).
Alec Jardine, Carl Eskeline and Dan Dinsmoor held a 1916 reunion in Death Valley and sent cards saying it was the lowest class reunion ever held, 270 feet below sea level. From the writing on the cards, it was also one of the highest... Young Ray DeVoe '50 was ordered from his aircraft carrier Kula Gulf to the Justice School at Newport for special training. ... Louie Bell is usually seen as master of ceremonies at all military parades in Santa Barbara Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Armistice Day, etc.... By this time Alec will have lined up his assistant class agents, having held out to them the inducement that they can use up a lot of their spare time, write a lot of letters, make a lot of phone calls, feel frustrated at the difficulty in making quotas, and get in the hair of classmates who are late with their Alumni Fund contributions, all for the sense of accomplishment that comes from doing a worthy deed for Dartmouth College. Meet them half way or better when the time comes.
Secretary, 8608 Broad Brook Drive, Bethesda 14, Md. Treasurer, 27 Concord St., Nashua, N. H.
