1919

The Hopkins Dinner was, as most of you know, a tremendously successful affair and a great tribute to our beloved President-Emeritus. 1919 turned out in impressive numbers, a total of 82 men, wives and widows being in attendance. Dan Featherston, in a forthcoming issue of the Smoke Signal, will give you the entire list, so your Secretary will mention a few of those who came fromout-of-town especially for the occasion from Hanover, Bill McCarter, Cottie andKitty Larmon, and Adele Ives; from Boston,Rock and Alice Earle Hayes, Spider Martin,Bob Proctor, John Chipman and the MorrisFreedbergs; from Buffalo, Chet and EmilyGale and from Maryland, George Bingham;from Holyoke, Mass., Stu and Dot Russell;from West Hartford, Conn., the Al Rayners;from South Deerfield, Mass., Dr. Ken andCharlotte Rice; Greif Raible, the commuterfrom Puerto Rico; Earl Blaik from WestPoint; and Bill Allen from Brandon, Vt. Thewhole affair was a great credit to the Collegeand to Dr. Hopkins.

Toronto, Canada, checks in with a notefrom Oscar Lewis, the big Ethyl Corporation man:

Thank you for remembering me on January 19. The card with the relaxed happy warrior was greatly enjoyed by both Nan and myself. We have made another reservation at the Woodstock Inn for next October. In fact, we are hoping to live in that part of the country in a few years' time. While on our visit last fall, we made a deposit on a converted farm house on top of a hill at Thetford, about ten miles from Hanover. We should certainly like it if you could see the place next fall.

Bob Lewis writes in:

Thanks a lot for the Happy Birthday card even though it is a little late. I hate to admit I'm sixty but there are not many in the class now but have turned that milestone. My wife and I landed back in Lebanon, January 13, from a 4500-mile trip by car to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. While spending a few days in Southern Pines; N. C., saw Norris Hodgkins for a few minutes. Also called in at Warm Mineral Springs, just south of Venice, Fla., on the West coast where Fred Daley is putting in a real estate development with a motel right on the highway. However, Fred and Gertrude were gone to the ranch for the day so we missed them. As we know can happen in January, Florida weather was unkind to us; too cold on the West Coast, too stormy on the East Coast. We had to come back to North Carolina for some sunshine. At least good weather held until we reached home but since then winter has been plenty rugged with lots of snow. I am attaching a clipping from the Hanover Gazette to the top of this sheet, the issue of January 23 of this year. The appointment was almost a birthday present.

The clipping reads as follows: "The appointment of Robert M. Lewis of Lebanon by Governor Lane Dwinell for a three-year term on the State Personnel Commission was confirmed at the January 15 meeting of the Executive Council, the Governor's office announced today."

From Oak Park, Ill., Trace Kohl notes:

I have already written to Fred Daley to tell him that I no longer can be his agent here in this area. And the reason why may be some news for you, George. I have resigned the management of the Oak Park Arms Hotel. Edna and I are leaving here the first of March for at least a four months' vacation. They say in this business that you get your vacations between jobs and this looks like the opportunity for me. We are going to Arizona for about two weeks of visiting there and then driving on into Mexico by way of the West Coast highway to Guaymas, Mazatlan and then to Acapulco. From there we want to come back over to the Guadalajara area and find some of that inexpensive, delightful living that the magazines have been picturing. We are planning on about three months of that, which would bring me back into this area, or at least to terminate the so-called vacation, about the first of July. We expect to see Bill Eads on this trip into the Southwest and I am sorry to report that we are going to miss Ax Warden and Hebe by about two weeks in Arizona. I mean we will be about two weeks behind Ax's visit. You know, George, a lot of people, including the fellows in our age bracket, wait until they can afford it to take these trips. We decided to take it while we could enjoy it. So the next communication may .be from "South of the Border." When the new address is determined, I will see to it that you have it.

Secretary, 1273 North Avenue New Rochelle, N. Y.

Class Agent, Box 815 H, Route 1, Venice, Florida