1916
It is somewhat of a task to furnish the Class with up-to-the-minute news items in the Balmacaan Athletic Club "Newsletter and still go to press regularly with this column on the fifth of every month, and I have never solved the difficulty and don't believe that many class secretaries have. Jack Childs, who edits the Dartmouth Diddings, newsletter of 1909, noting that I was going to miss the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for April (which after all I didn't miss), gave me a very helpful suggestion, for which I am grateful. Says Jack: "I am using the Diddings for the chit-chat that accumulates, plus some feature stuff to give it balance. In the MAGAZINE I am trying out the idea of a principal feature article, plus other material that may fit in to advantage." So I hope to do the same and I have asked Clint Greenwood to give me more details than I now have on his very interesting family and their scholarly achievements. I hope he is not too modest.
For the first time in some years I failed to greet Jack English on his birthday, by a strange coincidence, March 17. It wasn't that I forgot it far from it I just never got around to sending that greeting card. But I think of Jack not only on March 17, but practically every day, and on the days when I might not think of him he sends me a letter of news items, not failing to adjure me to watch my health, which advice I try to take.
Jack mentioned a visit from Livy Cole's and Lucille's boy Hugh Jr. "He is a splendid young man, and good company.... If he were here this weekend he would meet Carolyn and her Colbyettes, to lovely coeds who can sing to beat the band. You can't keep the Englishes from singing." Jack is bragging about his four grandchildren, including the one due in May, in 13 months. "Just wait until my sons get married. We'll populate the nation." How about that a nation of Englishes, singing on every block and leading a band on ever) other block, and spreading sunshine?
A feature of the Dittoscope for February 1953 has a picture showing Mr. Louis J. Hollenbach, representing Governor Weatherby of Kentucky, presenting a scroll to Ken Henderson, appointing him a "Kentucky colonel." Congratulations, Colonel!
A spring visitor to the Hanover Inn was Dr.Chuck Parsons, of Concord, N. H. Chuck has not appeared in our news items often enough and we should like to hear more about him. Probably he is one of those over-worked doctors who can't get away from his patients for more than a day at a time. Take a tip from Red Tucker, Chuck, and don't try to cure all the illness in the world by yourself. And speaking of Concord, I have a note that Hurley H. Chamberlin now has an address at P.O. Box 266, in that city. I don't recall Chamberlin, and would like to hear from him how long he stayed with us at Hanover, where he lived, etc. So many of these boys I didn't know well in College and who didn't finish, turn out to be such swell guys and such loyal sons of Dartmouth that I would like to get to know all of them. George Sanger Richardson is now living at 6 Park St., Danvers, Mass. I remember Sanger well, a boon companion of the late "Desperate" Desmond, and a very likeable fellow in his own right. Walter Morton has a new address at 15 Trafton Rd., Framingham Center, Mass.
I wish it were possible to share with the Class the very interesting newsletters which come to me from other classes. When you hesitate over that check you are writing for the Alumni Fund, recall all those hard-working guys who are giving up time from their own affairs to work for the cause of Dartmouth College. It certainly will be a pleasure to see them in Hanover in Maw
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