1920

It's Christmas Eve as I ready up these notes so it doesn't make much sense to send Christmas greetings that will reach you in February, but nonetheless I do just that and I hope each and all of you and your families will have enjoyed the best of everything at Christmas time and that you are all off to a good start in 1959.

In the Christmas mail came a striking color photograph of the spanking new home recently completed by Stan and Grace Newcomer at Monroe, Mich. The house itself is a thing of beauty and the setting, a large plot facing Lake Erie, is really something to see.

Our Florida correspondent, Dorothy Hamm, who receives this man's nomination for President of the Pen Pal Club, sends the cheering news that Freddie is somewhat better. The Rayner Hutchinsons stopped in on a recent Florida trip and that, of course, called for a get-together of the Dartmouth-Florida East Coast Clan.

I reported on Jim Robertson and his sonin-law, Kim Kimball, as having set up shop a few months ago at Cape Cod. In the mails recently there arrived a catalog setting forth the wares purveyed by the Country Store which they operate. If you didn't receive a copy I am sure Jim would be glad to mail one to you. His address is The Country Store at Centerville, Cape Cod, Mass. A very interesting color postcard of the Country Store bears out the fact that Jim is really in business. One of the joys of operating the store, according to Mary, is that their daughter and grandchildren live just next door. We certainly plan to stop in should our travels take us anywhere near Cape Cod.

With a heavy heart I record here the tragic passing of Frances 'Stone, Jerry's much loved wife. Frances had been in failing health for some time but her passing came with shocking suddenness. It was our good fortune to have known Frances all through the years and in her passing the Class has lost one of its loveliest and most charming ladies. Frances came from the deep south, Atlanta, in fact, and brought with her the radiance, vivacity and personal charm traditional in the old south. With all these gentle and graceful qualities she was endowed with a ready wit and sense of humor that endeared her to all who were privileged to enjoy the warmth of her personality. The services at the Scarsdale Congregational Church on December 18 were fittingly and touchingly beautiful. I know that I speak for all in the Class when I extend to Jerry sincere and heartfelt sympathy.

We also are sorry indeed to report the recent deaths of two members of our Class.... Elliott Ward Cheney on November 24, 1958, and William E. Tracy on December 19, 1958. To their respective families I take this opportunity to express the sincere sympathy of all members of our Class.

Spence Snedecor reports belatedly on his trip to Hanover for the Columbia game. Mary and he, with their son and his wife, made the trip and got together with RogPope, Ken Spalding, Wade Smith and FrankMoulton. I was sorry I had to miss that one! By the way, Spence, who is President of the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, recently presided at its Annual Meeting in Asbury Park, N. J. This boy Snedecor is quite a guy! You will recall that I mentioned some time ago that he and Mary spent two months early in 1958 in Africa where Spence worked in ten mission hospitals. One of these days we are going to get a look at his collection of color pictures of life in Africa including wild animals, Pygmies and all that sort of thing.

The old fire buff Cy Rounseville, checking in from South Swansea, Mass., recently took over as Executive Vice President of the Union Savings Bank, Fall River, Mass. A dangerous man with a firehose, this Rounseville! And the same goes for Bung Roland!

Al Palmer has joined the rapidly growing ranks of the retired and may now be reached at 726 South Center Street, Eustis, Fla. Take it easy, Al!

Jack Allenberg, who lived formerly in Des Moines, lowa, has pulled up stakes and moved to the West Coast where he may now be reached at 434 West 27 Avenue, Spokane 41, Wash.

John Beranek reports in from Seattle, Wash., that he is getting along all right despite a serious operation last April. Good luck, John.

Paul Johnson, now living in Sioux City, Iowa, promises to make the 40th reunion in 1960. Do so by all means, Paul. It will be good to see you.

Paul Richter registers a peeve concerning Dartmouth athletic public relations. He says that week after week he picks up the Sunday Boston Herald and finds no mention of Dartmouth or any other Ivy League football scores, but apparently the western and southern colleges are given the full treatment. When last heard from Paul was writing out a complaint to the editor of the Boston Herald.

All the way from the West Coast, where he is Professor of Modern Languages at California Institute of Technology, came PaulBowerman whom I last saw in 1920. He is still the dignified amiable guy whom we all knew as an undergraduate. When pressed for news of our classmates on the West Coast he reported seeing very few of them and then on rare occasions. He did say that he had seen Ralph Roberts quite some time ago which leads me to suggest to Ralph that he take pen in hand and let us know how he and Dorothy and the children are getting along in far-off California. Paul was in New York for a meeting of the Modern Language Association and stopped in for what proved to be a very pleasant and interesting visit.

Maury Dewey's daughter Judith will graduate at Smith College in June. That will give Maury the incentive to make the loop up to Hanover and have a look at the old stand.

Len Davis' boy Harry is ploughing a straight furrow at Tuck School. Howard Pullen's boy David is getting along fine in the sophomore class and his parents are hoping that he'll come under the benign influence of Al Frey in one of his classes.

By the time you read these notes the Twenties here in New York will have ganged up with the Classes of 1919 and 1921 for a stag dinner at the Dartmouth Club. The "piece de resistance" is the full length color movie of highlights of the 1958 Dartmouth football season that brought to Dartmouth the Ivy League title. The occasion promises to be quite an evening.

Secretary, 350 East 57th St. New York 22, N. Y.

Treasurer, Tuck School, Hanover, N. H.

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