1916
Here we are with another month gone, and here in Washington April is coming in with the sun shining and everything beginning to bloom. By the time you read this it ought to be the same even where you are, and midsummer where Hap Ward is.
Jack English writes he and Kay plan (tentatively at this early date) to attend the In-Be-tweener at Lake Fairlee, and it will be like old times to have Jack up there leading a few songs Mil Streeter was planning another trip abroad in April which would keep him away. Remember when Mil first planned to go into chicken-farming in Connecticut? Who collects the eggs while Mil and his Mrs. are making these jaunts abroad? Alec Jardine, from the West Coast, was moaning that he would have to miss an April trip to Pinehurst, N. C., and a trip to Bermuda in the same month. Alec has made and is making a lot of personal sacrifices to shoulder the burdens of Class Agent. I hope you guys who haven't done your bit in the current Alumni Fund will visualize what he is doing and come through as soon as possible.
By the time you read this we hope Rod andAudrey Soule will definitely have signed up for the In-Betweener. His letter received in March expressed some doubts. Rod has always been a hard worker on reunion committees and we hope he makes it.
Jimmie Coffin is now a qualified "Curler." No, no, I don't mean he is working in a beauty salon. He slides big blocks of stone across the ice and tries to make them stop before they run off the field, a kind of North Pole shuffleboard. You've seen it in the movies even if you live in Florida. Jim was in the international contest in Quebec, and he says, "There is a sport you should take up in your declining years." Whose declining years?
In the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE I used some of the story about George Dock which appeared in the Northwestern Mutual Life house organ (the big insurance outfit which is the backdrop for the Herculean efforts of ErnieEarley '18) and which described George's work on the Company's Audubon calendars. George modestly disclaims having been with the Spad 12 in the French airforce during W.W. One. George was in French aviation for about twenty months, but was out with that famous Spad at the fighting front for about eight months before the Armistice and three months after it, which was still plenty of time, in my book. Let's don't quibble about a few months, George. George, incidentally, is horrified at the passing of "such great fellows as Hogsett, Red Loudon, Carl Buck (all 1914) and Johnnie Bache-Wiig '15." I wish I had space here to record some of the things written about Red Loudon in Minneapolis papers. I hope to give you a few excerpts in a Newsletter. Anyway, Red was too much of a man to belong to one class and I know 1914 will understand 1916's pride in having been in college with Red. Last time I saw him was in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1926, when he won a gold cup at a convention and asked me to ship it back home for him.
Just for the public record, the Wilsons got personal confirmation of the rumor started by Jack English that Livy Cole and his wife (Lucille Deneen Cole to you) had some talented children. We had a Sunday afternoon visit from Hugh Jr. and John and found them a handsome and interesting pair and with a sound appreciation of that growing phenomenon "barbershopping." And there are more at home, and unless the Newsletter editor clamps down on me too rigidly I shall give you some late dope on their activities. Mrs. Cole was good enough to compliment the secretary on saying nice things about '16ers. In that, the secretary is only doing what comes naturally when I contemplate our classmates.
Hobie Baker has moved to 6 Ledgewood Rd., Winchester, Mass.; Joe Larimer to 1140 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111.; and Harold S. Tuttle to 800 N. Broad St., Elizabeth, N. J.... Emory and Ruth LaPierre took their usual trip to Florida and wrote they didn't meet a single Dartmouth man, but found some congenial Michiganders At the meeting of the Alumni Council in January Ken Henderson got together with Ev Parker, DeWitt Stillmen, Hugo Gumbart. Ev was there from Denver, and the others are living in Chicago where the meeting was held. Ken Henderson, by the way, announced the marriage of his daughter Ann to Mr. York Bannard on December 5 last.... Johnnie Pelletier sends me a long clipping from the Cleveland PlainDealer giving in detail the story of the traditional dinner of the Order of the Double Cross, a legal fraternity in Cleveland which puts on skits probably patterned after the Gridiron dinners in Washington. John says Fletch Andrews, illustrious legal light of that city, was the most important actor in the clever skits and parodies presented. He's the guy who put such things across.
The library of the New England Genealogical Society of Boston now has copies of the two reports published by the Class of 1916. These reports were issued in 1917 and 1919. The movement to have reports of all Dartmouth classes in this library has been nurtured largely by the efforts of Mr. Ralph S. Bartlett, Secretary of the Class of 1889. Mr. Bartlett gives credit to the cooperation of the Archives Department of Baker Library.
I have plenty of material for some newsletters, and hope soon to have a chance to write it up for you. Right now I am organizing a breakfast for 1200 barbershoppers who will be in Washington in June. This is still March and the breakfast is almost a sell-out already. I'll see you in Balmacaan, and if you haven't sent me your name for the Lake Fairlee vacation, do it now.
Secretary,4808 Broad Brook Drive,Bethesda 14, Md.
Class Agent,Box 151, Sagamore, Mass.
