1924
This is written a week before the Brown game, with the miniature reunion of classmates lined up for that event. The promise is for another very fine time, and for next year hopes for an even bigger and better get-together. For those half dozen who applied for reservations too late - there are about 100 "dates" who can't find rooms, much less nice motels-our regrets. I went up as far north as Orford to find vacancies without success, as much as a month in advance. For all of you, now is the time to plan. I have reserved the Coach n' Four Motel again for next year already. I'll get more room if you ask for it, for whatever game is comparable in 1958. Sign up now and be sure. No deposit necessary; you'll be asked to confirm it with a deposit next fall. I'm extremely regretful not to be able to help some of you this year.
Meanwhile, the foliage has done a sudden change. A week ago at the New Hampshire game it looked as if we'd have a very early and not very good show this year; then the first of the week it began to change and the weekend of the Penn game was simply gorgeous. Nothing nicer anywhere than the few miles between Hanover and Woodstock, Vt. Nothing much nicer than our own Balch Hill-or, for that matter, than the three maples on my side lawn.
Elsewhere, we record the passing of Gus Caldwell back last spring. It has taken all this time to get official confirmation. We regret this, of course. May I use this unhappy event to ask again some of you to keep in touch with us; let us know what is happening in your busy lives. Some of you accept my invitation when the birthday card arrives, but not enough of you.
The Convocation, as described in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for October, was a real show, far beyond the expectations of many. I don't know how many of you were here, but I did see Ted Goddard, Bob Wilkinson, and had a nice chat with Alex Gibson. Others who have been here, but not seen, were the Arthur Watsons, and Ed Yonkers. Sorry not to have seen you-all. Word reaches me that Red Maloney's son, Gerald, is home from Korea where he served with the Air Force; and also been in Texas. I'm truly sorry to have missed them when I was down in South Duxbury this summer. I hope this is remedied during the football season.
Howie Bissell, remembered by several of us for his ancient Hudson Super Six when we were on the campus, is a lawyer in Cleveland. One of his current interests is as a Trustee for Hiram College, a small denominational described in a Saturday Evening Post article as the "happiest campus in the land." Part of his job is to help find a new man to succeed the recently-retired president. I'm sure this is exciting and rewarding work.
Another exciting and rewarding kind of work is in public housing. Wonder whether Vaughn Berry got time to see the World's Series? He is associated with the management of Milwaukee's Housing Authority. He mentions seeing Harry Wolfe at the time when he lost his wife in March after several years of illness. Harry has left his former work as Market Research Director for Colgate-Palmolive Co. for fifteen years and is now working for himself as a consultant in research and advertising and selling and teaching part-time at Columbia University; also some writing.
One cancellation, with great regret, for the Brown gathering was from Jim andGladys Rutherford. They returned from a spring trip to India, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Japan, and sent pictures which look very natural. Missed Bob Macaulay in Tokyo, but did break bread with his wife. He had to break the date for the Brown game; a prior date to go fishing in North Carolina gave some one else their motel room. Hope to see you both next fall, Jim. He suggests that if some fancy percentage were to acknowledge the birthday card I send out very gladly - and hopefully I'd have a letter a day or so. Nothing would please me more. Each and everyone is hereby invited to try it; anything-just a hello or some bit of current events news would delight this ancient scribe. He also tells of the pleasant time the Charlie Frenches set up when DotStrong was visiting out there. The Rutherfords were in on the fun. Dot told me about it when she got home, and will be taking in the Brown game fun with her brother, BobMorgan, savings bank magnate in Boston.
Jerry Sutton, still with Warner Brothers in Johannesburg, South Africa, writes (and sends me some material for my pet charity of Stamps for the Wounded) that he was here last March but didn't get to Hanover. But his daughter, who lives in New York, did and reports the campus looked good to her. His son is a freshman at Oregon State College, planning on a career in forestry. Thanks, Jerry.
Jim Rutherford '24 (left) at the OrientalHotel, Bangkok, with Phya Donavanik '23,Chairman of the Port Authority in Bangkok,Thailand.
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