1913
Fifty-six members of the class have to date signified their intentions of attending the Fortunate Fortieth in June and will bring a total 48 wives, daughters, sons or sisters. There are several on the undecided seat just at present.
Ben Andrew will take the memorial service on Sunday morning, presumably at the Chapel where we met for the Service at our 35th.
Chet Vander Pyl's and his wife's trip is under way, first stop Hawaii, then the South Seas, Australia, Singapore, etc. We are hoping for word from them as to where the trip continues and how they return to the U.S.A.
Gerald Miller is the operator of the Sun Dial Court Apartments in Carmel, Calif. See him when you plan on retiring and living in California.... The West Coast is now represented by Hank Boody, Miller, Frank Scott,Harold Underwood, Chet Vander Pyl and Line Wilson, Joe Dolan, Len Marley, HowellByrnes, Andy Comstock, Bob Mungall, StanMiller, Al Urion and Gladstone Kellogg.
Line Wilson and Lucille are back home after their European trip, having visited Paris, Switzerland, Italy and the Riviera. They reached California in time for ParkerTrowbridge to talk with Lucille on the phone, when he was in San Francisco. Fat made a great hit with Lucille. The Wilsons, we hope, will come East for the Alumni Council meeting in June which comes at the time of our Reunion.
Kippy Tuck writes from Paris that with great regret he has to stay in Europe in June.
"The Stockholder's Meeting of the Suez Canal Company falls on about the reunion dates and I can't be absent then. I am sorry indeed, as I remember with joy my 35th, just after I resigned from the Foreign Service after 35 years, I read with deep sorrow of the death of Ray Bennett. I hadn't seen him since the hot June day of 1913 when we separated after four years. He was a good man and hadn't any evil thought in his mind about anyone or anything. 'De mondis nihil nisi homo' as the Latins say. We recently bought a home in Paris and will in the future spend our winters here, returning to Switzerland for the summer. Paris hasn't changed in many respects since I spent my five years in the Embassy here, 19331938, and it is nice to be back again."
We shall miss him.
Len Manley's two stepchildren can be found in the December issue of National Geographic on Page 776, Howard, 18, in red on the right, and Nancy, 6, in red sweater, on back of bench talking with the tennis pro of the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. Len says the doctor has forbidden his trip to Hanover in June.
Eddie Sides, since 1944 district manager of Moore Business Forms, Inc. in Worcester, Mass., has retired. He remains with the company as senior account representative for the district as he is preparing for his compulsory retirement in less than four years. Ed was one of five members of the Worcester Chapter, National Office Management Association, honored last year for continued interest in the Association. He earned membership in the Moore Hundred Point Club ten times since 1937.
Jack Macdonald will be at the Fortunate Fortieth, but probably Peg and children will remain in Germany. Jack is with the Con- struction Management & Engineering Asso- ciates, office address, Hotel Astoria, 1 rue de Presbourg, Paris (8c) France, but he is located at 22 Wilhelmstrasse, Wiesbaden, Germany, where he has been since October doing work for the Air Force. He is jumping all over Europe, so to reach him use the New York address to be forwarded.
"On Top of Etna, February 10 '53
"I'm settin here lookin up the road and the wind is blowin like all git out and the air is lull of fine snow and its 12° above zero and I git your letter about Reunion. Rite off I think of us havin a 'spot of tea' on the Terris (or a shot of Rum in the kitchen) mebbe a hot Tom and Jerry. A day like this we could really Reeyewn!
"Corse I know this wont last forever & first thing we know we'll be tappin the maples. Then we'll have the mud season & the buds on the trees acrost gorgeous gulch will start to swell, and they'll be all the shades of green you ever see, with some reds mixed in, and thev'll be changin every day. Then some roornin we'll look down in the gulch & it'll be jest full of yellow cowslips as fur as you kin see.
"Thats when we'll know its durn redy time fer the Commencers to Commence and the Old Timers to Reeyewn. Then we'll git out our glad rags and be waitin fer you folks. You try & git everbody thats fit to crawl; specially them as aint ben back before. You know I was alius too busy (or suthin) and I never got back till that special one fer all the classes in '46; and I had so much fun I ben here ever sents.
"Yours fer a full house in June fer them as was fortunate enuff to be at Dartmouth in the Class of 1913. Fred Hovey"
Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass.
Class Agent, The Choate School, Wallingford, Conn,
