1911

This is a beautiful day in January as these notes are being written. There is just enough fresh snow for the kids to ski, but the college students have to take to their cars and find hills that have had more winter than we have. With Boston, New York and Florida having had rougher weather than Hanover, the cold north has lost some of its meaning. So why do the local 1911ers go south? To avoid Hanover in March, I guess. The Pearsons are rumored to be leaving for Arizona and the Burleighs are on their way to Clearwater. The Maynards have to stay as they are unable to get the occupants out of their apartment in Paris, and the Dunhams say there is no better view anywhere than from their house overlooking the Connecticut River.

The next thought will be of summer vacation, and immediately the Mountain View at Whitefield comes to mind. Several classmates have already declared themselves as going to be there. Mary has told us she hopes to welcome all who can make it. You will be kept informed of exact dates and any other details.

Bernard F. McCarthy died in a Boston hospital during last December. He had been ill and unemployed during recent years, and had spent much of his time in different veterans hospitals. His wife died several years ago in Chicago but there is a son living. Mac will be remembered as a member of the class and varsity basketball squads.

Although as reported in the "Eastern Underwriter" Ralph H. Blanchard "has retired to small town life in Plympton, Mass., it does not mean that he has gone into New England seclusion." He is still active as editor of the McGraw-Hill Insurance Series, a post he has ably filled for 33 years, and he continues to serve as a consultant on insurance matters to the Department of Defense, Washington, D. C. He lives in the comfortable old family homestead in Plympton where he was born.

"Windy" Batchelor is still a Management Consulting Executive in St. Louis. Ever since graduation he has been active in the field of management as practiced by Frederick W. Taylor and others. New techniques and terminologies have replaced the earlier "Scientific Management" which was the prevalent descriptive phrase of the new approach to business conduct. To-day the term "Operations Research" is being bandied about within industry without many managers grasping its significance and potentialities. There is a need for men like "Windy" who have been delving into the depths of this development. He has participated in symposiums on the subject of commercial application of linear programming and edited "Operations Research, A Preliminary Annotated Bibliography." This is the most inclusive and pithy summary of the written material on the subject that I have seen. It was issued by the Case Institute of Technology.

"Sticky" Pendleton is engaged in research on the subject of who invented the "Notre Dame Shift." It seems that credit for its invention is given to or claimed by many. Among these was Jack Marks who is said to have taken it from Dartmouth when he went to coach at Notre Dame. We look to you to settle this debate, "Sticky."

The Dartmouth Hall post cards have awakened a bit of nostalgia occasionally. For instance Art Gray writes "It reminds me of our freshman year in North Fayerweather. I believe 23 of us out of a total of 45. I remember the card sharps you played with, Chet Butts, Doc Bond and Demon Hawkridge, all gone now. Also I remember playing baseball with South Fayerweather for an illegal case of beer, of which I drank none - too virtuous in those days." An additional editorial note would be that the beer party was in the pine grove on Balch Hill.

Let's keep up to date on the health and activities of the good wives in our class who have no husbands to report for them.

Ruth Backus is staying on at their home in Webster, N. Y., for the present but hopes eventually to go to Burlington, Vt., where she will be near her daughter, Mrs. George W. Welsh '52. Ruth spent Christmas with them.

We are looking forward with Julia Dunning to better vision following an eye operation which she naturally has not been anticipating as being any fun. Her son Stephen is at Florida State University in Tallahassee finishing requirements for his Ph.D. We shall hope to see her there.

Ruth Hastings says all the Hastings clan is fine and she is full of business as usual. Ruth is a great Dartmouth fan as you all know. She is an avid reader of all the class news but was very unhappy about the Princeton game.

Mildred Rollins is enjoying her little apartment in Greenwich, but is looking forward to next summer at her cottage on Lake Champlain. She is going to take time out to join us at the Mountain View however.

Alice Stout continues to give her musical programs. She was in Florida during part of the winter, at Whitefield last fall, and is also planning on the latter next June.

Ruth Mathes has given up the New York apartment and spends the winter in Greenwich and summers in York Harbor where she is surrounded with her many grandchildren. This is the first year that the scholarship given by her and Jim has been awarded. The lucky boy is a freshman from Long Island.

Although Kate Keough has not been able to join us in person at our class gatherings we are indebted to her continued expressions of interest in us in other ways.

Some of you have known that Cora Taylor was a hospital visitor for altogether too long a time, so it is refreshing to have her say "I miss seeing all of you and will surprise you one day. My back is much stronger and I've hopped up from 96 to 120 pounds," and adds "I'm so sorry that I could have only a moment's time with Julia Dunning. She is so vibrant and gives forth so much gaiety."

Marjorie Swain and her attractive daughter Nancy were in Hanover for the Convocation last fall, but it was our misfortune to have only a fleeting glimpse of them and to learn only that Nancy was soon to be married and that they had but recently returned from a European trip.

For Helen Russell there is interest in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE as she learns what the '11ers are doing. Her family has been expanding. Evelyn is still unmarried but Roberta has been blessed with two sets of twins, a boy and a girl, three and a half years old, and two boys just over one year. Margaret and her husband are living in Cincinnati.

Here is a list of the scheduled alumni meetings in Florida. Coach Blackman will be in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area from February 24 to 28 but the time of meetings is not yet scheduled. He will be at the Orlando Dinner March 1 and Jacksonville, March 2. Sid Hayward '26 will speak at the St. Petersburg luncheon meeting March 1 and at Sarasota for the dinner meeting that same evening.

This note came from the April 1922 issue of this MAGAZINE. "Wee Kimball writes: 'We had about fifteen 'Leveners at Keen's the night of the Dartmouth-Columbia basketball game. Mrs. Ray Taylor and Mrs. Austin Keough acted as chaperones. Dartmouth had a special section reserved and there were fully 200 Dartmouth people on hand to see our team win a corking game. Just three years ago, there were just six of us at the same game.'"

All of us mourn the death of Warren Agry as a friend, a fellow class mate and loyal son of Dartmouth. He had been president of the class and class agent for the Alumni Fund and even at the time of his death, he was in the midst of correspondence with his class mates seeking bequests for the college. He had looked forward to spending his years of retirement in his scenic home in Old Hanover. We and the Pearsons were there with him and Marion the day before he was stricken. He was talking of the beautiful sunset over the distant hills only the evening before, and it thrilled him to be there. That is the way he remembered it.

Fred Harris '11, founder of the Outing Club,at the Dartmouth Carnival last month.

Secretary, 218 W. Rogers St., Clearwater, Fla.

Treasurer, R.F.D. #2, Saco, Me.