1919

Holiday greetings are hereby gratefully acknowledged. What with one thing or the other, your Sec. doesn't seem to find time to send out Christmas cards. The following thoughtfully remembered the old Sec. — if any who sent cards are missing from the list, my apologies: - Harriet and Lou Munro,Paula and Jim Stone (Never did hear, Jim, what happened that you didn't show at Woodstock), Dick Kelley of Lebanon, N. H., who also notes anent the birthday card: "Having been in the printing business for many years, I know it took a lot of planning on your part and that of others. In fact, it is so good I am going to have it framed." No, Dick, the Sec. had nothing whatsoever to do with it - it was all done and planned by LewGarrison.

Others sending greetings were Chuck Eaton, well-known broker of Cohasset, Mass.; Sanand Jane Treat (San being one of your See's most diligent correspondents - many thanks, San); Hal Parsons; Florence and Sewall Sawyer of Bay Village, Ohio; Chet Demond, partner in the well known accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse; Alice and Stan Mauk; Adele and Bri Greeley; Rock and Alice EarleHayes; Pat Leonhard; Bob and Anne Lewis; Fran and Lew Garrison; Elisabeth and NormSterling, of Ponte Vedra, Fla.; Harry andLilian Colwell; Jane and Lou Cody; Edna and Bill McMahon; Marj and Ken Huntington; Ruth and Norm Jeavons; Paul and Catherine Halloran; Fat and Hon Jackson; Tomand Claire Bresnahan; Constance and Will ILevy; Mary and Sam Ewart; Marie Drane; and Phil and Helen Bird with the annual Bird poem:

"'Twouldn't be like Christmas without warm greetings, that we send to you at these once;a-year meetings. This time it's our boxer who carries the word. He's new to you folks - he's Sir Lancelot Bird. So with Mai in the Navy for three or so years, Phil, Helen and Fabia handle the Cheers. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year."

Also cards from Jean and Lou Stone; Gert and Fred Daley, our able Class Agent who will be on your trail come April for more and larger gifts to Dartmouth; Dorothy and MainSandoe (the name of Main's law firm has recently been changed to Emery, Whittemore, Sandoe & Dix with big Congrats to Main, although he has been a partner in the firm for years); Adele and Paul Clements; Red Murphy; John and Hester McCrillis; HenryShields, of Houston, Texas, who notes:

"Thanks again for the birthday card, George - I always appreciate getting them but they came around too fast. Started my own real estate office this year. It's rather rough but I am enjoying it very much. Hope to get back to Hanover before too many more years roll by. Helen has never been in Hanover so am anxious for her to see that part of the world."

Also, messages from Leonora and RalphWelsh, K.C. and Tony Bevan and last, but far from least, Charlie Warner of Chicago, who says:

"I have three grandchildren now, my son Charles in St. Louis has an infant daughter; my son Bob has a little daughter, and on December 6, Bob s second child was born, a son. I surely appreciate the birthday card every year. Thanks."

Cliff Hayes, retired V.P. of Pacific Mills, was recently elected a director of that corporation, a subsidiary of Burlington Industries. George A. (Al to us) Raynor, of West Hartford, Conn., treasurer of his class (1915) at Technical High School was recently engaged in raising money for a gift to the school on the occasion of its 40th reunion. Kaby Johnson, the champion class traveler, checks in again with news of Alan Jones and the traveling Johnsons:

"Sunday afternoon, spanned the 31 miles to Fort Atkinson, Wis. Not many people would drive quite that far just for some breakfast sausage. Neither did we. We had already had breakfast. Anyhow, the trip was almost - I was about to say sausageless, because how could anyone say fruitless when that wasn't what we went for. The main grinder — as far as the class of 1919 would be concerned — of the Jones Sausage Company wasn't at home at his home on Jones St. (432, where a good hefty heave could just about throw a stone through one of the plant windows, that is, if anyone was a good hefty heaver). Deep-set, wide lawns shaded with trees, it was just the sort of place one would retire to if one wasn't already living there. The Squire wasn't at home, he was out duckhunting his wife said, as she invited two strangers (my wife and me) in, but he was likely to be home any minute, perhaps. The minutes kept adding on through some very pleasant conversing while some bourbon got spilled into some water, but finally the sun made a soft clunk down behind the horizon and we were at the door for our departure, when a slight sound in the kitchen disclosed that the master of the manor had arrived. Well, all he had been able to get were six ducks for 400 miles of round-trip driving up to Lake Winona and back (see map, if you have one), even though eight was all you could have hanging around your neck at any one time unless you wanted to get on the short end of a nasty squabble with some game warden. Al and I did have just about time enough for some quick scanning of long, long ago years when his pinfeathers didn't get to sprout at Key West's USNRF air station - and then we took up the front-door handle where we had left off when he arrived. And here you have some boiler-plate for your column whenever you need it."

Jack Reilly, of the Courier Citizen, Lowell,Mass., comes through with news of his finefamily:

"Thanks for the unique birthday card. Don't know who designed the card but it must have been a lot of work - it's very attractive. My gang is fine. Jack Jr. got through at Hanover in '54, volunteered in the draft that fall, married lovely neighbor, Elaine Ganeue, in August '55. Just returned from a ten-day visit with them in Puerto Rico, where he's stationed - part of a unit teaching English to Puerto Rican draftees. Phil graduated Dartmouth '55 and is attending B. U. Medical School. Younger fry Tom and Dave in high school, Tom shooting at Dartmouth for the fall of '56 Dave, hopefully, later. That's our story."

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