1915

Here we go into that month of tang in the air, football weekends, and Thanksgiving on the horizon! May everything jell as we like it!

Am glad to report that Art Nichols looks fit as a fiddle after his South American cruise with Charity during the late summer, taking them into ports in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. On the way down, they got acquainted with the Chief Engineer who, it seems, had worked with Leon Tuck in the late '30's. And on the way back, they met a construction superintendent who had worked for Carl Swenson in South America for ten years. At the O'Higgins (helluva name for a Spaniard!) Hotel in Vina del Mar, Art says Charity like to froze his gizzard when she turned on the wrong faucet for his bath - she passed up the "C" (for caliente) and pulled the "F" (for frio)! Tch-Tch! Art is now engrossed with a construction job up in the Bronx which will rival Disneyland (the one Mr. K. didn't get to see!).

Our deep sympathy is extended to Mrs.Ben Tobin and family in the passing of her husband, a loyal Dartmouth man and classmate.

I presume it will be confirmed in due course — that Hal Claflin has retired to Brewster, Mass., down on the Cape. This is being written bttp (before the T-Party)!

When I asked Dick Clarke why we had two addresses for him, I got the succinct answer: "One is old, the other new — moved, that's all"!

Does anyone know why Doc O'Hara registered at the wrong hotel for the Boston Tea Party?

A clipping from St. Louis paper says Sumner F. Dennett, headmaster of the Nelson Road school - Columbus Academy - for the past fifteen years will retire in September 1960. How about it, "Stub"?

The interim directory gotten out by Jack Ferguson with his September FRONTIERSMAN certainly brings us up to date on where we all are!

Stu and Peg Hill stopped at Owego, N. Y., on their way East for a visit with their daughter and her three boys and then on to Deer Isle, Me., for the summer where Stu says they helped reduce the lobster population. They expected to move into their new place in Exeter, N. H., about October 1 and said '15ers would find their front door open. Line forms on the right, fellers!

George Ingalls counters with a card on my birthday — it seems we are twins! Thanks, George.

Comment by a chemistry student, as a glamorous co-ed walked by: "There, my friends, is a superb arrangement of molecules!" And speaking of co-eds, Silly Suzy says she doesn't know whether to go to a co-educational college or an educational one!

Buster Sawyer says summer is his busiest time and quotes a Latin (I think) phrase to prove it. Buster, president-elect of the New Hampshire Medical Society, was kinda put on the spot recently when he, along with a number of other top doctors attending the American Medical Association's regional conference on aging, was quizzed on what the doctor should do when his patient is doomed and all hope is gone — a question as old as the practice of medicine. The press can certainly ask disturbing questions at times! Anyway, Buster got his picture in the paper!

Congratulations and best wishes to Bob Fitts on his marriage to Mrs. Harry Clark Barrett. Bob retired in 1957 as a director and vice president of Continental Can Co. and has, I believe, bought a place down on Cape Cod near Osterville.

Maude Lafferty and Madelaine Bowler agreed, in the presence of witnesses, that they were perfectly happy in having their husbands go off on fishing jaunts, leaving them free to do exactly as they pleased. OK, Roy and Jack, now you have it in writing!

We hear via the grapevine that Helen Rose's grandson, Bob Murphy, was weaned away from ideas of Princeton and has applied for admission to Dartmouth - come next year. It is understood a certain '15 alumnus up in Vermont had a finger in the pie. Hope the boy makes it - a grandson of Kell Rose would be a welcome addition to the College.

Doc O'Hara's place at Lyme, N. H., has ample facilities for all the family, including a horse for riding purposes and a very attractive Beagle puppy.

Stan Llewellyn says a mutual friend of ours from early Hanover days dropped by about the same time a birthday card rolled in and they reminisced all over the place.

Eben Clough says George Simpson has taken up all kinds of culture, mostly flori, but he, himself, being just a plain dirt farmer, wouldn't know much about that! Eben says also that Sid Crawford, the old planter from Kennebunk, got permission from the church deacon, because of so much rain, to go right out planting after church - which accounts for Sid being caught in overalls on a Sunday.

Chuck Ingram says he hasn't found out yet what to do about birthdays coming around so fast! Let us know when you do, Chuck.

Carl and Helen Gish's daughter Helen, known familiarly as "B," showed such rugged determination in six years of studying Russian that she became one of the outstanding guides at the Moscow Fair. Recently returned, she says she most enjoyed the way people chose the American guides for the closer foreign touch, rather than the Russian guides. Quite an experience! Their son, "Mike," painting and studying the Old Masters, was an instructor at Salzburg before continuing for further studies in Spain. He was due back late in September. It can be understood why Carl was doubtful about making the Boston T-Party!

String and Grace Downing report an easy-going summer, working around home, with an occasional visit with their two "kids," both married. Muriel has two boys, two-and-a-half years and eight weeks; and George, a boy eleven months. The latter lives in Ipswich, so they drop in on Eben and Margie Clough every now and then. On a ride up into Maine, they tried to tie in with the Sid Crawfords in Kennebunk, but Sid was down at the beach "giving the mermaids a thrill." String says he gave Sid the "hard sell" on the Boston T-Party with proper results (I hope).

Leon Aronowitz says he hopes to be seeing some of us at one of the football games this fall. "Another name known to fame," says Norvie Milmore — of the clipping about Buster Sawyer. A nice note from Phil Hoffmann expresses real appreciation for the birthday remembrance. He was a tough man to stop on a line plunge - freshman year!

I wish I had a crystal ball. At this writing, Holy Cross has just larruped us in football; "Grade" has just hit South Carolina; the World Series is about to start. I repeat - I wish I had a crystal ball! Anyway - Happy Turkey Day!

Changes of address: Arthur G. Boggs, 8735 S.W. Barnes Road, Portland 25, Ore.; Ralph N. Clark, c/o Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co., Springfield 3, Mass.; Robert G. Clarke, 151 E. Palisade Ave., Apt. F-1, Englewood, N. J.

Secretary, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.

Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.