1915
With a lot of us deep in the heart of winter and March winds just around the corner, it occurs to me our Florida brethren might like to know who's who in 'ls circles down in the citrus belt. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the following are living or sojourning in Florida: Dole Anderson, Coral Gables; Frank Collingwood, Tampa; Win Davis, Ft. Lauderdale; Leo Folan, Nokomis; John Healy, Kissimmee; John Heist, Lake Jem; Johnny Kimball, Passe-a-Grille Beach; Don Law, Jupiter; Russ Livermore, Miami; Henry Marcy, West Palm Beach; Marty Martin, Coral Gables; Hal Mattison, St. Petersburg; Justin McCarthy, Jacksonville; Charlie Shongood, Largo; and Dud Woolworth, Hialeah. There could be some others who sneaked away without checking out up here, but there you are — and let your conscience be your guide! (It is rumored, but not confirmed, the Phil Murdocks are ogling a bit of Florida real estate for future consideration!)
The Bags Wanamakers were scheduled for a two months Mediterranean cruise which should bring them back about the time this sees print. Bags said the hockey team looked pretty good to him when he saw the Williams game back in December.
A note from Catherine Bache-Wiig said she was wintering in Florida with son John and family. Another son, Carl, was flying down from Maine for the holidays. Catherine says Florida is nice, but give her the good old State o' Maine! What is there about Maine that seems to attract so many? (Chambers of Commerce - please note!)
The Christmas spirit enticed the gang at Pattens in Boston to send a bit o' cheer to the Stick Parnells up in New Hampshire - a neighborly gesture.
The Chan Fosters were slated for a trip South along in February and so were the Marty Martins. I don't know about Chan, but Marty has to go down every year to get the baseball training camps off on the right foot.
A blow-by-blow account of the memorial Hopkins Dinner in New York will have to await another issue, but at this sitting it's a sell-out, with overflow facilities being brought into play. Tux Rentals are at a premium!
Speaking of formal clothes, one of the boys says the last outer clothing he bought was two pairs of heavy white canvas overalls, with double knees and seat and a carpenter's bib for nails and a loop for a hammer. He says real poverty is when you have no more work clothes and have to wear your good ones. "Empty belly and dressed for a wedding" is what they call it out in west Texas after a three-year drought!
Eben Clough bemoans the loss of his new lawn - too much water and fast run-off from the heavy January weather. Now he's gotta start all over again come spring!
Norvie Milmore swings a mean gavel but was hard put to it at the annual reunion of Co. "C" of the 101st Engineers at the Y.D. Club in Boston held in January. "Is this a Donnybrook," pounded Norvie, "or do we get order?" — and they capitulated. How about the boys in the back room, Norvie?
A lot of interesting material for the archives of 1915 is piling up in various spots. Reunion pictures, books, drawings, literature, et cetera, - starting as far back as our famous (or infamous) 10th — have been collected by many '15ers. Dale Barker feels it would be a good idea, with which we'll all agree, to centralize these collections as much as possible and eventually make them available to the College archives. As an example, through the courtesy of Dwight O'Hara and his daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Bob Morse, Kay Mason has sent some of Jack's collection of reunion pictures and books. Dale will probably make this a part of the agenda for our interim reunion this fall.
Speaking of the interim Reunion, Marv Frederick, head of the committee, is in process of selecting other members to assist in arrangements for the festivities and we should have further details in due course.
Charlie Griffith has kindly agreed to fill in on the Class Executive Committee in place of Jack Mason and we are fortunate that he is willing and able to do this. Susan went down to Woodstock to see Kay Mason who is fine and Charlie, as a good neighbor, sent a clock repair man over to help Kay with her grandfather's clock. He further reports he is having some friends of his in the Orient roll out the red carpet for Kent and Thelma Smith and Chuck and Aida Ingram in some of the strange places Susan and he visited in the past. Both Chuck and Kent are going to look up Takanaga Mitsui while in Japan. The Griffiths are sailing with the Ken Hendersons '16 for Italy, France and England on March 3, returning about the middle of May. Dorothy Evans Alden and Charlie are to meet them in Paris in April to spend the last month in France and England. Charlie says he has never had a consecutive three weeks vacation and this looks like a golden opportunity. "Retirement is great," says Charlie, "but I still have the strange feeling that vacation is over and I have to pack my bags to go back to Morristown!" And here's one for the books — when they return from Europe, Charlie is going to start violin lessons again - says his technique is lousy and he needs a teacher to tell him how lousy!
Helen Turner, formerly Mrs. "Turk" Turner, was re-married in October and is now Mrs. Thomas Plumb, living in Troy, N. Y.
Pen Aborn '14 reports having lunch with the Patten Chowder gang in Boston, including Dale Barker, Doc O'Hara, Chan Foster, and Eben Clough, along with Saltmarsh '14, Wilkins '13 and Shumway '13. Pen says their bridge group was entertained back in January by Kay Leonard (Hap's widow) who is Dean of Residence at Pine Manor and likes it very much. The Aborns joined the Lounsberrys for a visit to Old Sturbridge late in January. The latter are scheduled for a trip abroad along about March 1.
In the January 13 issue of Cape Cod Standard-Times appears a fine likeness of Bob Frothingham officiating at a special school assembly of the Osterville Elementary School where, as chairman of the Library Building Fund, he is shown receiving a check from one of the school girls, representing the proceeds of the Christmas program produced by the pupils. Retired and now a resident of that community, Bob is running true to form interesting himself in worthwhile projects of his new environment.
Strictly via the grapevine, it is authentically reported that Gene and Zita Bissell were standing the 70-mile gale very nicely on the sands at Boynton Beach, Fla., along in January. Despite the pleasant time they were having, and the unattractive weather, Zita, as President of the Upper Valley Women's Republican Club, flew to Boston for ten days to attend a political gathering there.
Bob Bigelow writes in for Joe Comstock's address and takes the occasion to send greetings to all.
Dale Barker says: "The event that really made our holidays the 'most,' as the kids say now-a-days, was the arrival of grandson Thomas Guy on December 14 to son Richard and wife - perfect timing for all to be home three days before Christmas - a very nice present for the oldsters." Hi, Gramp! Which leads me to quote this one: "Did you see the stork that brought me, daddy?" "Only the bill, son, only the bill!" With that, let's go to press.
Changes of Address: Ralph W. Brown, North Brooklin, Me.; Norman Parrott, 388 Ocean St., South Portland, Me.; George E. Walker, 3725 Gunston Road, Alexandria, Va.; Ralph L. Burgess, 3975 South Colorado Blvd., Englewood, Colo.
Reginald F. Chutter '16, who in 1955 joined the International Cooperation Administrations mission to Lebanon as financial adviser, is back in this country and is now assigned to ICA headquarters in Washington.
Secretary,301 East 53rd St. New York 22, N. Y.
Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
