1919
Win Batchelder, better known as "Batch," apparently couldn't take retirement and the former president of the National Credit Office will join the Wellman Operating Corporation as head of its business brokerage department. Batch' is well known in New York credit circles having been with NCO for 35 years. In his home town of Darien, Conn., he has served as a member of the Welfare Commission, the Board of Education and was elected a charter member when the town adopted a Representative Town Meeting form of government. The Wellman Operating Corporation operates primarily in real estate, business brokerage, textiles and textile engineering.
1919's annual "Woodstock-Hanover fiesta was, according to all, a great success, with an attendance somewhat lower than previous years, due probably to the June reunion. In Woodstock and/or Hanover during the weekend were Rock and Alice Earle Hayes; Harriet and Lou Munro; Ruth and Norm Jeavons; Marge and Ken Huntington; Ray Adams, our most efficient treasurer, to whom goes a vote of thanks from the class on his fine financial report recently received; Nan and Oscar Lewis; George Bingham; Cotty and Kitty Larmon, to whom likewise goes a vote of thanks for their hospitality extended to the class after the game; Emily and Chet Gale; Hester and Jack McCrillis; Paul Halloran; Hon. and Fat Jackson; Hattie and Bob Paisley (Hattie and Norm Jeavons devastated the assembly Saturday evening with an exhibition tango); Florence and Mose Robinson; Teto and Shirley Webster, the latter two couples attending their first fall gathering and enjoying themselves to the fullest; Anne and Bob Lewis, another of our retired classmates; Sally and Herb Fleming; Dot and Stu Russell; Nick and Dot Sandoe, with Mary and Nick Jr. (the senior Sandoes are currently on a trip around the world in 39 days which will include a visit in Manila with son, Bob); Bob Proctor; Gertrude and Fred Daley; Ethel and Hal Parsons; Tinney and Ed Warnke; Lil and Harry Colwell; Claire and Tom Bresnahan; Marie Drane; Bob Bard, up north on a business trip; Mary and Jim Davis; Elisabeth and Norm Sterling, also up north on. their annual trip from Ponte Vedra; Mary and Al Googins; Spen Dodd: Toni and Casey Bevan (Case was delayed on account of strike trouble at his plant in Andover, Mass.); Adele Ives, recently joining the ranks of retired '19ers and living very happily in Hanover; Dot and Chug Sears, with charming daughter (Chug did a wonderful job on our reunion); Ray Legg, your Secretary's first assistant along with Stu Russell on keeping the finances of the luncheon reasonably straight; Florence and Hal Morse, of Lunenburg, Mass., who haven't been around in too long a time; the Munros' two swell boys, Allen and Blake; Mary Lou and Pete Grey, proprietors of the Sail Loft in Chatham, Mass.; and last but only because he arrived last, Helen and Jack Reilly. Guests included that indomitable '18er, Bill Christgau, who was checking on how 1919 operates; and old friends of the Westchester, N. Y., gang, Bob and Marion Quinn, Yale '17 (these notes are being typed after the wonderful victory over the Elis, when the Blackman boys, with our Westchester Bill Gundy, really showed the Yales how to play the game): and Brenda and Don Millar, Brown '19, an old (what am I saying?) friend of your Secretary's from the Yankee Division in World War I. Almost forgot that Victoria and Jigger Merrill, and Harriette and Ray Hinds were on hand, and there may have been a few that were missed.
Saturday, October 10, was a beautiful day in Hanover and while the Balch Hill foliage was not as brilliant as in past years, it was still a pretty sight (the Brown game was not). Next fall, we hope to repeat at whatever time the mid-October game comes around. We are welcome at the Woodstock Inn and hope to make suitable arrangements for luncheon at the Hanover Inn with genial Jim McFate, which event is always Number One on the weekend. Approaching the Christmas season, your secretary would like to take this opportunity, in lieu of cards which he somehow can't find time to send out, to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and the best of everything for 1960 — and don't forget that whatever appears in this column or in Dan Featherston's Smoke Signal depends on you. Classmates we would like to hear from - Jake Wetherby, Ab Wylde, Louis Apteker, Jim Bradley, Dutch Brummer, Ted Townsend, Alex Warden, John Stokes, Jack Moriarty, Walter Lilienfield, T. Kingsbury, Alan Jones, Gene Gluek, Nels Browne and many, many more of you - how about it?
A late report from Dot and Nick Sandoe from Beirut: "We have been going so fast that we are ahead of our postcards. Have had a marvelous trip so far - Paris, two days; Rome, two days; two days here and thirteen-and-a-half hours in the air so far. seems unbelievable. Called John Fornacca in Rome but found that he was in the States. Leave here at midnight for Bombay, then to New Delhi." The travelling Sandoes are really covering a lot of ground.
On Sunday, October 18, "The Massing of the Colors" took place at the St. Thomas Church in New York and the memory of Colonel Will I. Levy, our eminent classmate, was honored from the pulpit at the church services.
Once again, make a i960 resolution to keep Dan Featherston and your secretary posted on what goes with you and your family.
There were nineteen '19ers at the wedding of Paul Halloran's daughter, Joan, early in the summer. Kneeling are: (1 to r) Webster, Robinson, Daley, Rand; (standing) Dudensing, Mc- Mahon, Fiske, Jackson, Bevan, the Maid of Honor, Batchelder, Hayes, Greeley, the bride and her father, Huntington, Sandoe, Buttenweiser, McCreery, and Col well.
Secretary, 1273 North Avenue New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
