1911

As these notes go to press, the new college year has just opened on the three-semester basis. To the outsider everything seems normal, but a little casual inquiry finds some problems of adjustment ahead as was foreseen. We do not have the benefit of a Gallup Poll, but the plan seems to meet with general favor. On the part of the undergraduates the worst gripe apparently is compulsory class attendance on Saturday and the freshmen pick this up quickly. There is a real challenge to the faculty to make Saturday morning worthwhile to the students, as weighed against the advantage of an extra day's education at Colby, Smith, etc.

It is too early to report on the football weekends except that the Lafayette and Penn games which found at least the following in town even though the rain kept most of them away from the first game; the SargeEatons, Ken Clarks, Reillys and MildredRollins. With some repeats and additions at the Penn Game the list was expanded to include the Elwells, Fred Harrises, Frenches, and the localites, Dunhams and Pearsons. It is a great joy to us to live in the home port and be able to enjoy the visits of classmates and their friends, on these or any other occasions.

Mildred, having spent the summer at her cottage on Lake Champlain, has returned to her home in Greenwich. Another summer vacationer on the lake, Gabe Campbell has departed to winterize in Plainfield, N. J. Others who have transferred to home base, are Wee Kimball, back to Tuckahoe, N. Y., and Bones Tindall, who reports: "Reached home yesterday after a delightful and beneficial summer at Fish Creek. We returned via Philadelphia and visited our old hospital where we met as nurse and interne. Had our 40th in July."

From Shorty Mayo: "Muriel and I had a get-together with Gabe and Elsie Farrell, Johnand Dot Learoyd at Peters Pond Club at the Cape. Gabe is keeping his hand in by preaching at Lake George for a few weeks. We had a fine visit with Herb and Patsy (son and wife) and the five children. Just for the record, Muriel's bracelet has eleven."

Bill Pearse, still carrying on as principal of Beacon, N. Y., High School, makes this threat, "Some day I'll join you all." That will really be a happy day and I hope it will come soon.

Drake Island, Me., is a sort of 1911 center in the summer, as it houses such well known and highly respected citizens as Walt Reilly,Chuck Emerson and Francis Qua. Vacation plans of the younger generations kept Chuck and Emma from Whitefield, but they promise better family planning next year.

The Fullers and the Hortons were the long distance travellers on this continent during this past year. The former drove into the far North West, visiting on the way a nephew and a neice who have a ranch in Montana. We hope to see them in Florida this winter. Harry and Ruth Horton found a business trip necessary to the West coast, so then continued on to Alaska. They later registered in from Cape Cod. Don't know how he expected to sell lumber in either place!

Another "retiree" is about to start enjoying life at its fullest. Fred Long is ending sixteen years of service with the Colorado National Bank of Denver. He was manager of the Land Division. Fred has been very active in keeping Denver a great Dartmouth center. He has interviewed and enthused many a young man who decided to become a Dartmouth freshman.

Sam Aronowitz announces that with the settlement of the estate of Lindsley B. Schell the college has received the sum of $30,244.32 to establish a Memorial Fund for his mother the income from which is to go to a boy from Boston's English High School, which is described as the first high school in the United States.

Word from Larry Odlin is that they are giving up their apartment in Los Angeles and they are going to become gypsies once more, will head East sometime in November, spend Thanksgiving in the Boston area, go south in December for a visit with his sister in Jacksonville, and there his program stops for the present, unless he goes to Puerto Rico to attend the national convention of the Military Order of the World Wars. As regional Commander of California, Nevada and Hawaii he has been very active in this cause. His daughter, Mary Judith, is studying for a Master's Degree at Harvard.

Elt Norris, a bachelor all his life, is still contributing much to the pleasure of young boys. For years it has been his custom to take one or more for trips into the woods. For example a year ago, he and a young chap appeared in Hanover with a canoe strapped to the top of his car on their way to Maine. Occasionally, lacking a camping site, they use motels but usually not. They went to Plymouth, N. H., then Mt. Desert Island, back to Bath "out to sea," then the Adirondacks, via Stowe, Vt., and Mt. Mansfield. They finally got to fishing in Meacham Lake near Malone, N. Y., made famous by Jack Crooks. This last summer they went back to his old love, Canada, and camped for twelve days on a little island in Lac Kippawa, a hundred miles north east of North Bay, just over the Ottawa River.

You may recall that following the first war he adopted a Russian protege, Oleg, whom he brought back with him from France. He recently returned to Cornell, which he had not seen for 25 years to meet the teen-age daughter of Oleg. As a founder of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland, he along with Gene Gardner, was honored at their Christmas luncheon. That is pretty good for a graduate of Cornell and Case respectively.

News of Johnnie Norris is hard to come by, but Josh did learn along with his contribution that he and Anne were both well but he had had a tough winter trying to fight a virus that somehow got into his blood,, stream.

A letter from Eleanor Herron brings the sad news of Bill's death at their home on September 25. It was our pleasure to have a visit with Bill last winter, and listen to him reminisce of his rich and interesting life in Florida.

Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.

Bequest Chairman,