1924
September opens cool, and football practice under way. Final arrangements for motel space for the Penn game. Now that's history, as you read this, let me have your reservations for 1959. It will be the Brown game, October 10. I'll try to reserve two motels; Coach An' Four again and one other. I'll predict in advance that this 1958 Fall Reunion was the best ever. Now we plan for our 35th Reunion in June, 1959. Doug Craig will repeat his sterling performance as chairman. You'll hear plenty more about this.
Lee "Ramsdell's advertising business, golf, and disposition all have suffered since 'way back in May when a leg injury caught up with him. We're sorry to lose his son John to Denison where he starts as a freshman; #2 son, James, is at Northwood, Lake Placid. The family managed to spend July on Nantucket, where they had some of the same fog Margaret and I found there in June.
Bevo Beers invades the U. S. He left Colombia by air and ship on August 28. His older son, Richard, was married in Troy, N. Y. No details. The younger son, Albert, enters Mt. Hermon prep on September 10. Daughter, Carolyn, is a hostess for PanAmerican on the Latin-America run out of New York, having left a secretarial job at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Spud's son, Line Spaulding, was home briefly and then back to Kingsville, Tex., and 100-120° heat and a constant 90% humidity where he has a two-year hitch instructing in jets.
Hank and Pauline Hartshorn, retreating for some fishing at True's Camps, at Rangeley, met Harry Wolf and his attractive bride soon after Margaret and I enjoyed a brief visit here in Hanover with them. We hope they'll join us in coming events. Hank reports that Ed Hawley was nearby, also.
Vaughn Berry celebrated Memorial Day with an emergency appendectomy which gave him more than usual trouble to his spirit, person, and pocketbook. He gives a somewhat negative opinion on the get-them-up-quickly procedures and the long recuperation after mid-June.
Bob Benjamin, as reported elsewhere, has a new interest and job: as business manager for the St. Albans School, which is the National Cathedral School for boys, in Washington, D. C. They live nearby, in The Berkshire, for any who are in that vicinity.
Josh Goldman's wife is the new president of the Connecticut Valley Mental Health Association; - a very important group these days. They are now living in Hadlyme. We'd like more information about you and yours, Josh.
Lloyd Parker celebrated his 32nd wedding anniversary (about par for our course) with his father whose 58th was on the same day. Lloyd operates the Larking Lumber Company, which has been a family business for several generations. He takes great interest in community work in Hudson, Mass., where his father has been very active in business and as town clerk for 25 years.
Wedding bells: Larry Kugelman's daughter, Janet Ann, was married on July 19, to Philip Conrad Hugo Jr., at their home in Chappaqua, N. Y. And John Coyle, Hanover's well-known ophthalmologist, was married on August 6 to Mrs. Helen Bretnall, of Hanover; they were attended by John's brother and wife, and by John's two sons, Jonathan and Peter. They reside on Elm Street, Norwich, Vt. Pete Wheatley's daughter, Mrs. Betsy Harrington, was married on August 19 to Robert F. Woolf, and now lives in Swampscott.
From Florida: Mike Branch, president of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, in Lake Worth, writes of his work there, and asks for Freddie Broad's address - which is 4329 22nd Street, N.W., Canton, Ohio. (And here is a request for others who have moved or changed status in any way. No class has good enough records, but we try. Won't you help?) Lew Erckert is director of the Department of Adult and Veteran's Education, at West Palm Beach. He reports that there is a Dartmouth luncheon every third Thursday, with honors for 1924 recently earned by attendance of Mike Branch,Ed Jones, Ed Obert, and himself. It is good to hear that Ed Obert, now retired, will teach for Lew this fall and that his wife will also help the project. Fred Longhurst, who is organist at the Bethesda-by-the-sea Episcopal Church, in Palm Beach, and whom we remember as organist in the Chapel when we were there, attends some of the luncheons.
Alex Gibson, who appears in Hanover now and again from nearby Andover, where he teaches French and directs the Bureau of Self-help, goes to France in November, after visiting (wife, sister, son Alex Jr., and Alex Sr.) in Scotland, England, Switzerland, etc. They'll be back in May 1959, ripe for relaxing at the 35th Reunion.
As I write, details of academic pursuits of 1924 sons and daughters are not available. My son, Jonathan, has had a very good year studying Math at Magdalen College, Cambridge University, and followed this with a summer seeing western Europe before returning to enter M.I.T. to complete his graduate work for the doctorate in Electric Engineering. The list is not yet available for sons at Dartmouth this fall, but I assume we'll have these: Bartlett, Campbell, Collins, Gray, Kugelman, Patten, Watson, and Tremaine. And others to be reported next month.
Art Little '23 and his four Dartmouth sons photographed in Hanover during commencement weekend in June. L to r: Lester K. Little 2nd '57, Stevan B. Little '55, who received his degree, Peter K. Little '51, Mr. Little, and Arthur F. Little Jr. '53.
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