1919
Well, here we go again in your aging secretary's seventh annual attempt to keep you posted on what is going on with '19ers. In this connection, the summer's grist of news has been very light so this column will be shorter than usual, probably much to the delight of Charlie Widmayer, the most able editor of the MAGAZINE, who has trouble squeezing in the news from all the classes in the October issue. Your sec and Rock andAlice Earle Hayes had a very pleasant visit with Phil and Helen Bird early in the summer at their new home in Hingham, Mass. Phil has made a nice recovery from his serious illness of last year and is, as usual, full of ideas, and has organized Pee Bee Associates, consisting of himself and Helen, to market the Niagara Home Massage Chair, in the Boston area, and also a new orange drink. For anyone who is supposed to be semi-retired, Phil is a very active guy.
Nock Wallis reports that Charlie Biddle is now living in Spain — he has a villa in Majorca. Apparently Charlie can stay in the States about so long, and then has to take off. Eddie Edwards is back in Chicago as sales office manager for Eversharp (Lou Stone is V.P. and director). Howie Cole, partner in the well-known Boston law firm of Brickley, Sears and Cole, writes,
"It is always a pleasure to receive the birthday .greetings from the Class. At the moment, I am not so much burdened by my own accumulating years as by the serious illness of relatives and friends. The third generation of our families brings bright compensations to these middle years. Doris and I enjoy four fine grandchildren, all of whom live nearby, and we are enjoying the experience tremendously."
Pat Leonhard, president of the Paterson Parchment Paper Company of Bristol, Pa., notes, "Well, another year has. rolled around and they seem to be coming faster all the time. Thank you very much for the class card which is quite a unique one (thanks to Lou Garrison). By the way, I now have eight grandchildren. Does anyone in the class have any more than that?" As your Sec wrote Pat, Si Stein of Muscatine, lowa, seems to be the champion grand-pop of the class with twelve, - can anyone challenge this? European travellers not previously recorded include Georgeand Elisa Bingham, who, with daughter, were in Europe in August.
Class sons - Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wood Miller, of Alhambra, Calif., announce the engagement of their daughter, Margery Ellen, to James Renwick Wylie III, son of Mr. andMrs. James Renwick (Ben to us) Wylie Jr. of Wilkinsburg, Pa. Miss Miller is a graduate of the University of Redlands and Mr. Wylie was graduated from Dartmouth. He is a geologist with the Western Gulf Oil Co., Bakersfield, Calif. The eminent Mose Forrest of Evanston, Ill., checks in with his annual report: "Here we go again and the verb is used advisedly. For the nonce, at least, the muse is not upon me, whether sardonic, saturnine or simply satirical. Lo, perhaps it is simply the marching of time or perhaps the times. I have seen nobody and done nothing of note, albeit I have kept sufficiently occupied. In fact there is naught to report other than that I am a grandfather three times - one male and two of the other kind. I claim no credit. My thanks for the somewhat premature obit (I trust) and my very best perennial greetings to you, sir."
On a recent visit to Hanover, your Sec met Kitty Larmon on the main stem, and she reports that Cotty will be back in Hanover soon, after a year in the Washington hassle, and doubtless very glad to be back to his professorial duties.
The Alumni Records office has a change of address for Clarke Ingraham, - Madras Vice Consul, Department of State, Washington, D. C. How about some news of Madras, Clarkie? It sounds like a shirting to me. PaulClements and Adelaide have been in Nantucket during the summer, busy with their duties at the Country Store, and probably due to go back to Sarasota soon, '19ers in politics: From Windsor, Vt., comes a news item that former Speaker of the House, J. Harold Stacey, who campaigned unsuccessfully for governor in 1950, has announced his candidacy for State Senator from Windsor county. Hal was Speaker of the House in 1949 and is the fourth candidate seeking one of Windsor county's three seats in the upper chamber. He has served four terms in the House. Somehow your Sec had failed to mention that WinBatchelder, president of the National Credit Office, former president of the Dartmouth Club of N. Y., is now also president of the New England Society in the City of New York, a signal honor to another '19er.
Quoting in part from a nice letter from AlRayner, of West Hartford, Conn:
"I always notice with great interest the way various men express to you their appreciation of the 1919 birthday card and wish that I could do it as well. The one that recently came my way was indeed greatly enjoyed and appreciated by the whole family, or what there is left of it at the old homestead. My oldest son Bill is located in New Orleans as special agent for the Factory Insurance Association of Hartford. He was married in February 1953, at Raleigh, N. C., to Phyllis Cooper of that city and they now have a daughter, Eugenie Rounds Rayner, born at New Orleans January 19. Donald, my other son, lives near us in Hartford and is a head agent for American Airlines at Bradley Field. He was married in 1949 to Norma Irish of West Hartford and they have two children, Nancy — 4 years old and Bill, now 1½. We still have Connie with us at home, but she has just graduated from high school and will enter Ohio Wesleyan University in September. Her departure will leave Helen and me alone here but there may be some recompense in our being able to get away to the October 1919 weekend. As for me, I am still head of the Time Study Department of the Whitlock Mfg. Go. We have been fortunate since the end of the war work to have had a tremendous amount of work in engineered heat exchangers for quite a number of large companies, which has been very interesting and kept us at a good high productivity level."
Last call for the Woodstock-Hanover weekend of October 15-17. All of you have received the Smoke Signal of August 25. Come at the last minute or at least come to the luncheon at the Ski Hut adjoining the Hanover Inn, before the Colgate game on October 16.
A '19 TOAST, drunk by (l to r), Rock Hayes,class president, Alice Earle Hayes, Phil Bird,former Class Agent, Helen Bird and GeorgeRand, '19 Secretary.
Secretary, 1273 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
Bequest Chairman,
