1914
One year from next month is our fortieth reunion and it is not too early to start planning now. Martin J. Remsen, Esq., of Etna, N. H., has been appointed reunion chairman, and will immediately begin appointing his committees and laying preliminary plans. We know that you do not want to miss this one, but let us get busy now and lay our own foundation, so that we can all make it. Preliminary studies indicate that the overall cost will be exceedingly low. It could be a record in that respect.
At the February meeting, during Sno-bird reunion, Charlie Batchelder presented a very sound and healthy treasury report and surprised everybody by announcing that over $1000 had been donated by members of the class toward the Baker Library 1914 Memorial Book Fund. At the request of Mr. Rugg, it was voted to permit him to apply more than the usual ten dollars in the case of rare and expensive books. He often runs into books valued into the hundreds of dollars, and in such cases, the book will memorialize more than one man, roughly, the cost divided by ten. This is a distinct help to the library and has been done by other classes. There is now sufficient money so that every member of our class who has passed on, from freshman year to the present, will be represented. A rising vote of thanks was given to Batch for his very excellent job.
It was also called to the attention of the class, that no memorial or any form of recognition has ever been placed in the Alumni Gymnasium to Dr. Bowler, who, more than any one man, was responsible for the gymnasium. It was voted to authorize the secretary, subject to clearance through the College, to solicit donations from the classes covered by Dr. Bowler's regime, such donations to be used for such a memorial. This would not be a solicitation of funds in any way from individuals, but as appropriation of funds from class treasuries.
Now, two bits of bad news. First, after a delightful weekend at Hanover, Ernie Kimball was taken seriously ill, a few hours after arriving home. The latest reports from Louise were very encouraging, and by the time this appears in print Ernie should be well on the road to recovery. Second, from Warde Wilkins comes a letter written by Jack Ingersoll to the effect that Carl Buck had been similarly afflicted and was slowly improving. Any members of the class can reach these two classmates as follows: Ernest L. Kimball, 116 Beatrice Circle, Belmont, Mass.; and Dr. Carl E. Buck, 1402 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Eddie Boler was seriously hurt last winter on his way home from Hanover. We understand that he, too, is showing steady improvement. He may be reached as follows: Edmund W. Boler, 126 Northampton Road, Amherst, Mass.
Curley Kingsford, more commonly known as Doc, stole a week last fall in the Maritime Provinces. Just to have some goal (?) he decided to visit George Boggs, up in Wolfeville, Nova Scotia. Much to his surprise, he found the Provinces were much bigger than Wakefield, N. H., and never did get to Wolfeville, much to his sorrow and disappointment. Evidently the disappointment was so great that Doc developed ulcers, and as of last January had just finished a two months' bout with a sub-total gastrectomy. As if the secretary did not know that was, Doc wrote,
"Don't get excited, it's nothing but a Caesarean moved up into the Mezzanine... I finally got around to writing to Fernando Guarch down in Puerto Rico, and pushed him hard to show up at the fortieth. I do not know where Leigh Little and Clyde Buckley get off bragging about grand-chil-dren. I have eleven! Let us see anyone top that! Six boys and four girls. The eleventh one is still under wraps and will be either Dick or Dora. Has anybody seen John Burleigh for the last five years? I have had no news about him for at least that time. He is probably hibernating up in West Manchester, N. H. Incidentally, my nurse at Huggins Hospital claims to be Bob Hopkins' sister. Either Bobbie's father was a rare old trouper, or she is talking about another Bobbie, because she does not look over 30."
Three address changes:
Harold Dunbar, 157 Brook St., Elgin, III.; William A. Stratton, 110 S.W. 18th Court, Miami, Fla.; Dr. Arthur H. Wet hey Jr., Hotel San Pablo, 20th and San Pablo Ave., Oakland 12, Calif.
You will all be interested to know that on January 22 the College received from the estate of Emma P. Haskell the sum of $10,000 to establish a scholarship fund to be awarded annually to a student from Massachusetts. This is established in memory of her son Phillip Haskell '14, who died from the flu on September 29, 1918.
From the New York Times, we are pleased to learn that Sig Larmon, President of Young & Rubicam, a director of the Scarsdale Nat'l Bank and Trust Cos., and the Rumford Press, a Trustee of Dartmouth College and a member of the committee of the Council of United States Associates of the International Chamber of Commerce was appointed on January 26 by President Eisenhower to a nine-member board, to study the problem of unifying this country's psychological warfare, to give it a dynamic thrust in the "cold war."
In lace January Jesse Stillman attended the Analytical Chemistry Symposium at Louisiana State University for a week. He also had a visit with his daughter and her husband at Charlotte, N. C., as Jesse says, "both going and coming."
When this appears in print the class officers' meeting should be in full swing at Hanover. The writer hopes to attend, as these meetings are always very stimulating. It is really one of the highlights of the season, May 8 and 9. It is attended by secretaries, treasurers, class agents, memorial fund chairmen and club secretaries.
The mailman just this minute left a postcard from the Alumni Records Office, as follows: William A. Stratton, auditor, 1856 S. W. First Street, Miami.
The Alumni Fund is in full swing! Are you doing your part? Dartmouth has always been proud of leading the pack, when it comes to participation. Last year we were 65 percent. Princeton has just completed their drive and matched our sixty-five percent on the nose. Got to do better, boys! It is up to you.
As an afterthought, —if anyone is interested, I was reelected. I am starting my seventh, three-year term on the local school committee. At the end of that time, 21 years, I'll be old enough to vote and hope to be intelligent enough to vote NO.
Secretary, 88 Sea St., N. Weymouth 91, Mass. Class Agent, 152 Stuyvesant PL, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
