1911

With the arrival of the Pea-Green freshmen in Hanover the foliage starts to turn red, the fall is here and another college year is under way. Familiar alumni faces appear as they introduce their sons to Dartmouth. Others come back with the football season starting and the desire to see how the team looks and get a view of Velvet Rocks in its myriad of colors. Both were a disappointment this year. Holy Cross was too rugged an opponent and the foliage had barely started to turn. Most of the Eleveners were waiting for the Brown and Cornell games. However the Fred Harrises, Chub Sterlings, Clyde Lockes and Bill Goodings were there to root for the home team, in addition to the local representatives of the class. Clyde and Madge were visiting his old home state of Vermont after returning from the west coast where they had been touring following his retirement last spring. They are continuing their home in Buffalo. Fred looks and acts fit in spite of, or because of, his strenuous life, skiing in the winter and sailing in the summer. Chub still ranks as one of the most active men in the class, although he claims he is retiring bit by bit. Katherine has made a fine recovery from her hospital trip that kept them from Whitefield last June.

A short trip last month allowed us to stop at Lyme Armes' '12 old family homestead in Northwood, N. H. This charming old house is now the headquarters of the 1912 Bill Board of which Lyme is the able editor. He should have been in one class earlier. Then it was on to call on two classmates who have built themselves delightful new homes where they are enjoying what life has to give them. There is Bill Gooding who sold his home in Hanover and built just the kind of a house he wanted in Rye, N. H., where he already operates like an old resident. In fact he is jokingly accused of burning the old church so he can help design and build another, and that is just what he is doing. His daughter, Mary, is making a very satisfactory recovery from the serious operation that she underwent a few months ago. Bill has an established ritual. He goes to get a look at the ocean each day, having missed only three times when he has been at home.

The next victim to be visited was ClintElwell in his handsome new home in Exeter, N. H. He is confined to his home with a serious form of asthma and says he probably will be unable to get back to Our First Fiftieth. It is our editorial opinion that he would be pleased to have you drop in on him or send him a card. His address is 5 Bayberry Lane.

Bill Maynard and wife are in Paris where they plan to make their home. Their address is c/o Guaranty Trust Co., Place de la Concorde.

From Josh Clark comes this information about Al Wheeler, with the latter's permission to print. "Al returned from the hospital September 4 from a two weeks' rest cure after a ride in the police ambulance at 5 A.M. He is looking very much rested. He now lives on the first floor, no stairs, two ounces of spirits per diem, can walk across the street, no salt — guess you can make the diagnosis." A later report says he is coming along nicely.

Probably the last you knew of Paul Briggs he was a butter and eggs merchant. Now he is a builder of attractive homes and even lives in one of them himself. He is a neat lad, himself, but with Vera to inspire him their home and grounds are described as "immaculate." It is one of twenty-one that he built, all nice and different on lots of some 15,000 feet. As a side-line he is busy appraising and adjusting fire losses.

Larry Odlin and Dorothy are settling down again back in Pasadena, Calif., at 1125 Hillcrest Avenue.

A lot of classmates have written in with enthusiastic comments about Bendy's fine appeal to get ready for our reunion in June 1961. One man sent in his dues for part of the present six-year period and was saving the balance to make sure that he could get back for the reunion. We do not advocate non-payment of dues but if one does not feel able to do both, there is probably no better reason than this.

John Coggins keeps well abreast of Nashua happenings. He writes "The Nashua fire got George French's office and maybe McQuesten's, George Thurber's bank is safe 1000 yards away." He adds "One more Labor Day before the Fiftieth. I shall use it as a trial run to pep up Pickering, Thurber, French and McQuesten." Now there is a pepper upper for you, Jack Russell!

Here is news of three more retired gents. Al Hormel quietly slips into his new home in West Yarmouth, Mass., P.O. address: Box 852; street address: 9 Thomas Path.

From the Weymouth, Mass., Gazette and Transcript of June 25 comes "A twenty-year career of service to Weymouth which reflects the basic growth problems of the town is being climaxed tonight at the testimonial banquet honoring Sydney C. Beane, retiring superintendent of the Water Division. Still concerned with service to the community, one of his last official acts will be the submission of a progress and recommendation report to the Board of Public Works. A native of Weymouth, he was born in the gray house at 271 North Street where at least three generations of his family made their home. He was named to head the water division in 1939 and having reached the age of seventy he had to retire under the law." However that did not prevent him from joining forces with Weston and Sampson, consulting engineers, who are experts on water systems. Syd's daughter Marjorie Fall lives in Braintree and son Robert is an industrial engineer with IBM in Red Hook, N. Y.

Bob Barstow explains his own retirementas follows:

As of June 30, under the rules of the organization, I am being retired from the staff of the National Council of Churches, which I have served since its organization in 1950. Thus I round out 45 full and rich years in the Christian ministry, the first fifteen in missionary and pastoral service, then fifteen years as President of the Hartford Seminary Foundation, and finally fifteen years in ecumenical activity in this country and around the world, with Church World Service in post war relief work, and latterly as Director of the Department of Overseas Union Churches.

While I cannot match the late Mr. Dulles' travels, I have been abroad eighteen times and have friends in almost every country of the globe, former students or colleagues. I shall continue to live in Stamford and expect to keep busy. Already I have preaching appointments and other special assignments as far ahead as I want to plan.

Bob has written for many publications and is the author of several volumes of his own, has been a frequent radio speaker and for some months the Protestant commentator on the Dumont TV Program "The Week in Religion."

Of interest will be a quote from Bob Hage '35, Director of Financial Aid, at Dartmouth, in a letter to Miss Helen Cleaves, BuddScheil's granddaughter.

I have just had my first meeting with Paul T. Howell who is to be the first recipient of the Schell Memorial Scholarship and I want to write you about him. He is a very nice young man who graduated in the top few of his class at the English High School and who was quite active in various affairs at the school and outside of school. He is a fine violinist, worked for the school paper and the yearbook, and was president of his church's youth fellowship group. He is planning to be a doctor. This scholarship will be continued throughout Mr. Howell's four years at Dartmouth as long as his record remains satisfactory. We are very grateful for this wonderful scholarship which your grandfather provided. It meets an important need in our scholarship program and we shall do our very best to administer the fund wisely.

This is standard procedure for Bob and it should be gratifying to know how interested he is in keeping interested parties informed.

A Dartmouth reunion on the high seas, off Casablanca, Morocco, was held aboard the "SS Independence" September 11 when "Captain" Lily Linscott (Mrs. Rolliston W. '12) instigated a gathering. Present were (l to r) Richard I. Rhodes, father of Richard B. Rhodes '62; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Young '18; Mrs. Linscott; Katharine and Clif Sugatt '12; and Ellen R. Hague, sister-in-law of R. W. Linscott '12 and aunt of Tom Redstone '43.

Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.