1919
Your Secretary had a chance to check over a few statistics on the class as we approach our 40th reunion in 1959. As of late January we have 170 living graduates and 259 living non-graduates. These figures do not include 38 men who entered with the class in 1915 but dropped out, went to other colleges or are not interested in Dartmouth. Of the total 329, 256 have paid the class dues of five bucks, according to Ray Adams, our efficient treasurer. It seems to the Secretary that more of you should support the class in this respect - the ALUMNI MAGAZINE alone is worth five dollars, and you are also providing for a fine memorial book to be placed in the Baker library in honor of deceased classmates. The wives and families of our classmates who have passed on really appreciate this: when in Hanover, go to the library to see the books. Ray states further: "Saw Bob Lewis on the street in White River Junction the other day and he said they were off to South Carolina for a few weeks - (Note - the North Country is really having a winter with over twenty inches of snow in Hanover and more outside.). Was quite astonished to walk into an office in Boston the other day and find John Chipman busily engaged in selling some frozen foods. He told me quite a yarn, of some years ago, about a friend who made himself a violin, and obtained some most unusual wax from Rowland Pollard, then in Burma, for the finishing thereof. While in Boston, had lunch with my daughter, who had just been elected Assistant Personnel Officer of the First National Bank of Boston - how they do grow up!"
Birthday greetings (number 60) for the old Secretary, hereby joining the bulk of the class, are gratefully acknowledged to Hal Parsons, Jack and Hester McCrillis, Larry Eastman, Norm and Ruth Jeavons, Elmer Phelps, Dick and Spike Dudensing, Dick and Edna Werfelman, Bob and Hattie Paisley, Nock Wallis, Shirley and Teto Webster and Ernie Earley, sterling secretary of '18. The Harry Colwells had a surprise birthday party for the 60th and it was a fine affair for all. Present were Hon and Fat Jackson, Stu and Dot Russell, down from Holyoke for the occasion, Edna and Bill McMahon, Harriet and Win Batchelder, Helen and Clarence Buttenweiser, Marie Drane, Harriet and Lou Munro, Adele and Bri Greeley, Fran Little, Catherine and Paul Halloran, Marj and Ken Huntington and Clare Bresnahan. Dick Werfelman noted on his card: "So sorry that we did not make Woodstock last fall; we got as far as Manchester, Vt., where I was overtaken with some sort of a flu bug and had to turn back. It was a great disappointment."
CLASS DAUGHTER
Admiral Paul J. Halloran U.S.N, ret'd, and Mrs. Halloran of Yorktown Township, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Joan Halloran, to Lieut, (j.g.) Sheridan Bruce Ensley, of Great Falls, Mont. Miss Halloran graduated from Briarcliff College in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. She is the granddaughter of Brig. General Michael J. Lenihan U.S.A. ret'd, of Philadelphia. Lieutenant Ensley graduated last year from Yale. He is serving aboard a destroyer.
One of our world travelers, Bob Paisley, recently returned from a trip to Africa, and, quoting: "Will bring the lion and elephant I brought back up to Woodstock next fall. With this help, I think I can put Jackson and Martin in their proper places."
Harry E. Colwell, 330 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, N. Y., requests that any of you that have interesting pictures, 8 x 10, old or new, send them to him at the above address. He will photograph them and return them to you. He would like to add to his large collection which will be shown either at our next Woodstock gathering or at our next reunion or both. This particularly applies to those of you in the Middle West, Far West and South. As Dan Featherston said in a Smoke Signal, "Doesn't anything ever happen to '19ers west of Philadelphia???" For the umphteenth time, your attention is called to the fact that what Dan and your Secretary don't know about, they cannot write about.
Sam Ewart of Pittsburgh sends in a note on his card: "I'll be 60 in January - more of me (front) and only a top of snow-white hair. Jos. Home & Co.'s branch store which I manage (or which manages me) is coming along fine. Our son Bob is a junior at The Citadel in Charleston, S. C. (was in Korea three years)."
Larry Eastman (w.k. insurance man of Portland, Me.) is another traveler, but in the U.S.A. Quoting:
We finally took off on the cross-country tour - my Emma and I - via Mohawk Valley to Schenectady, thence Corning, N. Y., Erie, Chicago. Route 30 via Des Moines, Omaha and to southern Wyoming; then north through Grand Tetons and Yellowstone to Grand Coulee, Spokane, Seattle and Portland, Ore. There a few days visiting a niece, then down the coast to San Francisco - the gem of the U. S. - and on to Yosemite, King's Canyon and Sequoia Parks to Los Angeles and thence to La Jolla. Next, Grand Canyon rained to beat all -, Petrified Forest, just missing a tornado, and thence east to Memphis and more of E's family. Up to St. Louis and Indianapolis. Missed Louis Haerle. On to Cincinnati, the Shenandoah, Washington, Philadelphia - Fred Balch missed here, thence to New York and so Home. 10,280 miles and six and one-half weeks. Glory but it is a vast country - especially by car.
Casey Bevan, manufacturing vice president of the Tyre Rubber Co. in Andover, Mass., checks in:
Thank you very much for sending me the birthday card which I received, very much so, on the proper date. Unlike some of the others in the class I. find that I am now getting at the age where being reminded of my birthday does not matter and I am glad to receive reminders from friends. I am sorry that I will not be able to be at the dinner honoring President Emeritus Hopkins. I would very much like to be there but the trip down to New York and back in the same evening in the middle of the week is somewhat more than I can take.
Nock Wallis, in his birthday greeting to the Secretary said: "The news from here is scarce. I attended a service Saturday in the Caswell place of business in Worcester, Mass., and was quite startled to see Chet appear - looking practically the same as years ago except for gray hair — which, if anything, added to his dignity and good looks. I don't believe I've seen him in a dozen years. Didn't have a chance to talk to him, the occasion being what it was." In case you have forgotten, Chet is the leading mortician of Worcester and one of its most prominent and highly respected citizens.
Jack Reilly, of Lowell, Mass., notes: "You never miss. Thanks again for the birthday card. Our old Injun friend looks as if he might have belonged to our class. The years sure do go by."
Recent changes of address include the following: Willard W. S. Alderman, 175 Stockton St., c/o Walker Wholesale Hardware Co., Jacksonville 4, Fla.; Frederick M. Daley, Box 815H, Route 1, Venice, Fla.; Avedis Miridjanian, 118 Post Ave., New York 34, N. Y.; Frederic S. Balch, 311 Quarry Lane, Haverford, Pa.; John H. Clark, 5 Otis Place, Boston 8, Mass.; John F. Stokes, 1543-17th, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Col. Francis Valentine, 2437 Menakin Drive, Alexandria, Va.; William D. Washburn, Sunset Colony, 2400 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
It looks as though more and more classmates are heading for the south — is that bad?????? These notes are being put together late in January to meet the February fifth deadline for the March issue, so a full report on the Hopkins Dinner on the above date will appear later, either in the Smoke Signal or the April issue of the MAGAZINE. At the moment, 76 '19ers, including wives, will be on hand to honor Dr. Hopkins in his 80th year, and we expect 80 people by dinner time. With around 2000 people coming, and it should reach 2300 at least, this dinner will truly be the "largest Dartmouth gathering ever held outside of Hanover."
Secretary, 1273 North Avenue New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
Bequest Chairman,
