1915
As you read this, the Alumni Fund drive is entering the home stretch. As I write it, the half-way mark has been reached and the results are most encouraging. In our group, the Green Derby looks like a real "hoss race" and I wish my crystal ball were a little clearer. In any event, let's all get in the race and give Roy Lafferty and his cohorts the support that has won so many Green Derbies. It's the stretch-run that pays off and we're in it right now. Participation is the answer, so - let your conscience be your guide and get aboard the Derby Express. Give - '15ers!
Your secretary is flying to Hanover for the Alumni Officers Meeting on May 4-5. These meetings are always stimulating, instructive and - I may add - filled with zest. "What is so rare as a day in - Hanover" in the spring of the year! Wish you all could be there.
Bags Wanamaker reports continued progress in whipping his U.S. Rubber project in shape down there in Venezuela. Selection and training of Venezuelan supervisors is a 2 to 3 year job. They are now at 80% capacity - the next 20% is coming the hard way. As an old hockey man, Bags is sympathetic for the boys in Hanover this past season but is sure the cycle will change and Jerry Jeremiah will be in the driver's seat again before long. Attaboy, Bags - we go along with that!
George and Charlotte Simpson flew down to Palm Beach in March. While there, they had dinner with the Marcys and learned that Henry has been active in the formation of a Dartmouth Club there. Glad to learn that Charlotte is out and around again.
Bud and Tex Doe invited the Crawfords, the Rices and the Barkers for a mid-March Saturday night supper. A fine time was had by all. The Does have built a new ranch type home in the midst of a new five-year-old orchard. The two Doe sons live nearby. The Does have seven grandchildren; the Barkers have one; the Rices have five and the Crawfords have three. Dale's boy has nearly finished his Army service and plans to return to college for his Master's degree.
Speaking of the Rices, Russ and Isabelle shoved off for a two-weeks' motor trip to New Orleans, back when March was still playing with ice and snow up New England way. Bet it was a real change!
The Rev. Boynton (Dick) Merrill, pastor of First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, again was the first in the series of visiting preachers at the united Lenten services at the First Methodist Church of Auburn, N. Y. Dr. Merrill is a "regular" on the Lenten program there, having preached in Auburn on several occasions.
An interesting letter comes from Mrs. Thomas F. Baird, the widow of Greg Lyon and recently remarried.
"Greg's children are pretty much grown up now and I have three grandchildren. Marjorie, the oldest, is living in Lansing, Mich., and has a daughter 2 years old. Barbara is in Littleton, N. H., and has two sons. Gregory Jr. is working for a railroad on the West Coast and Nat, who is 15, is a sophomore at Cushing Academy and has his eye on Dartmouth."
Tom and Mary Baird are opening "Hide-Away Lodge" in New London, N. H., American Plan, this June, having "fallen in love" with the place and purchased it last December. Mary says they moved up there from Marblehead last January and there was still plenty of snow there when she wrote (early April). Not being too far from Hanover, they were down for Winter Carnival, and are expecting considerable patronage at Commencement time as well as for football weekends. "We're about two miles from the center of New London, itself a beautiful town, and do the Dartmouth men ever beat a path to Colby Jr. College!" Sounds intriguing. (See their ad this issue.)
Am glad to report that Jiggs Donahue is recuperating from a successful, operation performed at Kingsbridge VA Hospital. He says he's heading back up to Camp MacGregor - to get in shape for that four-minute mile!
Speaking of families - large and small - I like the one about the youngster who said: "No, we ain't going to have any more kids - we ain't got any more holes in the toothbrush holder."
String and Grace Downing report a stop-off with the Henry Marcys at West Palm Beach and a later card shows them esconced in a hotel in Havana - right across the street from "Sloppy Joes." (Which recalls nostalgic memories of a send-off party given by Sloppy Joe himself to your scribe, following several months sojourn in Cuba - way back when the rhumba was "forbidden fruit" in the States - about the time of Lindbergh's historic flight.)
I see that Mamoru Mitsui of Tokyo, son of that illustrious '15er, Takanaga Mitsui, has been elected president of the Cosmopolitan Club of Tokyo.
Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D., Hum., was elected to membership in the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, at Fraunces Tavern in New York City on March 26, through descent from his Revolutionary War ancestor, Thomas Poor Jr.
Forty years ago, Earle N. (String) Downing joined General Electric as a chemist and rose to the position of manager of the famed Thomson Laboratory of G. E. Early in March, String was honored at a party given in his honor by many friends, associates and coworkers, with several gifts including a 40-year pin and a plaque signed by General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner and SAED General Manager Guy C. Shafer. Hats off to you, String!
April visitors at Hanover Inn included Al Bradley and Chan Foster. The Class extends its deep sympathy to Mrs. Doyle and family in the passing of Paul J.Doyle of Nashua, N. H.
At this writing, Sid Crawford was still doubtful they'd ever get any spring up there in Worcester (late April) - still snowing! Says he ran into Ray Maguire recently and swapped talk. Hey, Ray - how goes it?
The Dale Barkers and the Phil Murdocks staged a prearranged impromptu get-together (unravel that if you can) back in April. Dale kinda got his dates mixed and he and Bess cruised into town a week later than expected. The New Yorkers took it in stride and, after an innocuous beaker or two at 53rd and 2nd, we steered them to one of New York's famous dens of iniquity where bratworst and knackworst vie with kraut and red cabbage to properly blend in with the fortissimo strains of piano (or accordion) and violin accompaniment of somewhat ancient vintage - classical, sentimental, rock n' roll - whatever you want, they'll play it! Yeah - we had fun, and no casualties.
Time marches on! Who can remember way back to a year ago when we were all steaming towards the plains of Hanover for our unforgettable 40th? Or was it yesterday? And who can remember back to the famous battle of White River Junction when Lome Elwyn hurled his challenge at the Dartmouth "studes" to come down and break up his show? I can still see Bags Wanamaker and Ed Curtis standing back to back in the center of a fistthrowing mob! Anyone got any other visions of that memorable occasion? Send 'em in.
With this issue, this column folds its wings, tucks its head under one of them, and goes into its summer hibernation. So - until next fall - here are some words of wisdom to guide you on your way:
"Son " said the wise old man, "Don't ever bet on the other fellow's game. If some city slicker comes along and offers to bet you that he can squeeze tomatoe juice out of a golf ball, don't bet, for if you do, you're going to get an eyeful of tomatoe juice just as sure as shootin."
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