1917
s o s - Our good friend, Charlotte Ford, Alumni Records office, Hanover, has been trying, without success, to locate Clarence Kentflaw ley and James K. Vinson. The last known address of the former was 37 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., and of the latter, 11 Hill St., Newark, N.J. If anyone reading these notes knows the present whereabouts of either of these men, please notify me promptly.
All '17ers who work in or live within commuting distance of New York are urged to attend a spring dinner at the Dartmouth Club, 37 East 39th St., on Wednesday, April 21 - the last of its kind in New York until next fall. Let's have a big turnout and make this a record gathering. We would particularly like to see some new faces - some of you who haven't attended a class dinner in a long time, if ever. A hearty welcome awaits you. Mark this date on your calendar now.
Sumner and Charlotte Emerson wound up 1953 in grand style, spending a week in North Carolina with their daughter, Liebe, and three grandchildren. They went on to Miami where they attended the Orange Bowl game with all of its pageantry, which Sumner reports was beyond description. Then followed an eight-day cruise through the Florida Keys which included two days of fishing and 24 hours stranded on a sand bar, from which they had to be pulled clear by the Coast Guard.
Florida seems to be getting quite a play from other '17ers, because my scouts have reported that the Hank Loudons headed South early in January. On the 14th of that month Vic andIrene Smith left cold weather behind to spend a couple of weeks at Riviera Beach. Elliottand Florence Mudgett have chosen Delray as their vacation spot for the entire month of February and Len and Sally Shea leave a bit later to spend part of March and early April at Lake Worth and Orlando.
As we write these notes a card arrives from Howie and Dot Stockwell. Peering dimly from the winter of our discontent we discern this message, "Beautiful villa, flowers in bloom, palm trees; go swimming in ocean every day; dance at Country Club evenings; play shuffleboard. Having a wonderful winter. Hank andPolly Loudon stopped by to visit us today, '17ers meet everywhere. Stay here until middle of April, then back to Maine for the summer." It all sounds very fine but we wonder if Howie hasn't got an ulterior motive. We. happen to know that he is a Simon Legree when he gets to Maine and makes Dot fell huge trees and then saw them up for firewood. She claims she likes it but I dunno. I couldn't get my wife to do it.
Somewhat belatedly we have learned that last fall Perc Streeter added another championship to his already impressive list with a two-and-one win over his opponent at the Riverside Golf and Country Club. The victory was particularly notable because Perc won it thirty years from the date of his first club championship at the same club. Only a week before Perc had won the Maritime Senior's championship at the Algonquin Golf Club in St. Andrews.
We learn from The Weekly Wheel of the Rotary Club of West Orange, N.J., that DonWalton, president of the Esperanto Association of New Jersey, recently gave the members of the Rotary Club what was described as "a fascinating explanation of a language designed to eliminate all barriers of oral and written communications" and "an insight into the manner in which Esperanto is contributing to a closer understanding particularly among the people of Europe and Asia - with a goal of making Esperanto a world interlanguage." If any other '17ers are interested in this subject, I suggest they contact Don, who, incidentally, is president of the Roof Coating Company of New Jersey.
During mid-January both Bill Eaton and Sumner Emerson were fortunate enough to have an excuse to visit Hanover, Bill to meet with other Class Agents for a discussion of the coming Alumni Fund campaign and Sumner to talk before the Finance Class of Tuck School.
It is with sincere regret that we report the passing, on January 17 at Corpus Christi, of Ruth Lane Fleming, wife of Douglas Fleming and sister of Stanley Lane.
We were sorry to learn from Mott Brown of the serious illness late last fall of Max Antrim and hope that he is off the invalid list by this time.
Phil Evans reports the birth of a third grandson, Jeffery Crawford DuComb, born to his daughter, Josephine, in Detroit, Mich. Phil calls our attention to a postoffice error that gave the Evans' permanent address at Harwichport, Mass. However, they still live at 71 Dover St., West Medford, Mass.
In a letter to Vic Smith, Hal Walker writes as follows;
When I completed the Army Ordnance research job at Lehigh University in 1950, I became Civil Defense director for my home town - a job that I undertook with the understanding that when the thing was organized I could quit. Then I came down here (Charleston, S.C.) in November 1951 as fire protection engineer for the Sixth Naval District - all six southeastern states. I m a stranger in a foreign land down here and when my time is up next spring I hope to get back home to New England and back to research work. One doesn't see many Dartmouth men in this vicinity and I miss the class and alumni get-togethers we had m the Boston area."
Hal's present address is Sergeant Jasper Apts 9-P, Charleston, S.C.
A good letter from Al Emmons tells of his two sons, Dave and Steve. Dave served in the Navy during the war but, on a technicality, his 28 months of service didn't count and he was drafted nearly two years ago, after having passed the Massachusetts and New Hampshire bar examinations and getting married. He is presently at Fort Knox, has his family with him and expects to get out of the service soon when he plans to return to Kennebunk and practice law with Al. Steve was drafted in August and has been at Fort Dix most of the time since. He has finished his basic and been assigned to leadership school. He thinks Maine is the only place to live and as of now, plans to return there and, among other things, continue the lobstering he has done for the past four summers. Al, as usual, is busy with his own law practice in addition to which he is Clerk of Courts of York County, an elective office for which he plans to run again this year.
Let's get some new names in this column! I can pick up the phone any day and with no trouble at all get a story from such men as Towler, Emerson, Koeniger, Cotton and Shea. But you don't want to read about these men all the time any more than they want to see their names in print so much. So, to start the ball rolling and to be specific, I urge the following men whose names have been picked at random and from whom we have not heard for a long time, if ever, to let me know something about themselves, their families, their activities, etc.: Bob Paine, Max Sherburne,Rudy Miller, Bowen Torrey, Porter Perrin,Charles Riley, Earl Woodward, Fred Houghton, Herbert Griffin, Ed Wiesman, PhilComey and Allen Locke. Better yet, don't wait for your name to be published. Write to me whenever you have anything of interest to report. Our mail man can carry a heap of mail.
Please note the following address changes: Col.Henry G. Fowler, 10 Mitchell PI., N.Y.C. 17; Emdon Fritz, 151 East 81st St., N.Y.C. 28; William Trott King, c/o S. Putnam, East Hyde Park St., Sarasota, Fla.; Lee F. Hill M.D., 3200 University Ave., Des Moines 11, Iowa; Richard Morenus, P.O. Box 264, Saugatuck, Mich.; Charles F. Peters, 2483 S.W. 24th St., Miami 45, Fla.; Gilbert N.Sivett, 77 Harrison St., Verona, N.J.; HowardStockwell. 10 Blossom Hill Rd., Winchester, Mass.
PRE-PRINCETON CHEER: A reunion trio, snapped in front of the Princeton Inn before the game last fall, were (l to r) '17ers Karl Koeniger, Howie Stockwell and Dan Harris.
Secretary, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N.J.
Treasurer, gls Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
