1924

Class Reunion - The 35thHanover, June 15, 16, 17

As this is written, the campus is awash- we've had two thaws and rains, then freezing makes icy roads and walks everywhere; school called off today because so many travel in cars and buses, but business as usual in the College. The Carnival committee is sweating it out, as in many years past, with the nostalgic statue in the center of campus looking pretty sad; sadder than we looked 25 years ago, as they hope to show.

Yesterday's mail brought Van's first edition of the "Reunion Revelations." Cheers; loud cheers In addition to Van's notes, I can add: that the dorms will be Russell Sage and Butterfield (on north side of Tuck Drive, opposite Hitchcock); that we already have advance "reservations" from these stout fellas, in order of dates received: Dutch Diehl, Ax Coffin and Frank Mandel, and Bill Patten; that all members of the Class of 1924 will receive reservations-request cards from the Colmittee has been named with Hank Hartshorn as Chairman, to whom you may send suggestions; that a member of the Class of 1924 will speak on the Hanover Holiday program.

Enough for now. It's going to be a very good party; a family party, so plan now with the lady of the house - and children, even grandchildren, too. The program will be excellent, in Doug Craig's excellent hands, with Dick Morin chief of local operations - and operators.

By the grapevine: Bob and Dora Gunnell are reported as leaving their New Jersey lakeside home for Florida and the West this winter; Bob spent years with the Bankers Trust Co., where his training in estate planning and conservation was built and which continues to be useful to many clients.... Lucille and Jim White are relaxing again in Florida; son Bill '54 carries the business in New York of publishing biographies of successful Americans. (1319 Whitfield Ave., in Sarasota, if any of you want to find them "at home.") Ed Owen, care General Delivery, Tavernier, Fla., is reported, but with no further information. (Formerly of Stonington, Conn.) From another source: the Albion Inn, Cortez, Fla., is recommended highly for 1924. It is on Sarasota Bay. Ivy League luncheons are reported in Sarasota every first and third Tuesdays, with a good Dartmouth crowd.

More Florida news in a nice letter from Ed Jones: C. Edward (not to be confused with Edward C. of farm sausage fame) writes an alluring story from Panorama Farms, West Palm Beach: Loaded with quail, wild turkeys, deer, otter, etc., on 18,000 acres, only 20 minutes from the bright lights but rarely seen. He rates himself, with reason, as one of the class's wanderers: trading in ivory in the Belgian Congo, sugar in the Philippines, stocks and bonds in Shanghai in the '30s; an Arizona cattle ranch; as Commander for Naval Intelligence during the War (which took him around the world three of his present five times); a tennis pro; retired since 1945 to this ranch, raising beef cattle. The informal Dartmouth luncheons in Palm Beach are on the third Thursdays, with 15-20 out each time, including our Ed Howe, Ed Obert, Lew Erckhart, Mike Branch and Ed Jones. His daughter is married to an Air Commander of a B-52, up in Maine, with two children. And he plans to be in Hanover for the June reunion. (In checking the above, I note a January change of address for Ed Howe: back in the frozen North at 195-A Schaeffer Street, Brooklyn 7, N. Y.)

At the January meeting of Class Agents: Fred Shanaman and Larry Kugelman seen at the Inn. Larry Jr. is taking the Graduate School entrance exams with me just before Carnival starts —with almost no snow, melting and clear skies.

Friends of Ev Baker, who died in 1950, will be interested in recent news of his family. Helen has re-married and as Mrs. Henry Bragden has made the shift from wife of a Unitarian minister to now the wife of a teacher at Exeter. David is married and has a daughter; he teaches at Milbrook School, N. Y. Sid is on a trip around the world on a research project with a Yale professor.

I have a clipping, unfortunately undated, announcing the marriage of Gretchen Luitweiler, daughter of S. C. Jr. and frau, to Dennis Doucette; both are from Winchester, Mass. The bride expects to graduate from Lawrence College (Appleton, Wisc.) in June; the groom was graduated from Williams last June and is now working there as an instructor and earning his Master's degree in Physics.

More vital statistics: Keith Drake will be glad to know that at last the record has been changed in my files to place his birthday in June and not in January. He tells of George Emrich catching and cooking his own salmon up in Alaska; and of Harland Stockwell's work with a Chicago Civic League, and standing up well under "Senate investigated racketeers" with real courage. More from the Mid-West: Bob Branson's daughter is a freshman at Smith; he hopes to be with us for the 35th. Ax Coffin, in insurance in Chicago, is as elsewhere stated planning on our reunion; but he is also to take part in an even older reunion: the 300 th anniversary of the Coffin family on Nantucket, of which I saw and heard much last summer when I was there briefly. Ax has been with the same firm since he graduated, and is now the Executive Vice-President. In a more personal sense, he'll have some news for his friends when you see him at reunion. Son John did not go to college; Sarah is to be a freshman next fall.

Bill Patten, whose son Dave graduates in June, sold his electrical business and now is raising a few sheep and nursery stock, in West Chester, Penna. He must be near tops for grandchildren: eight. His wife, Kitty, will be having her reunion at Smith this June. It's going to be a busy June for the Pattens.

Lost? Anyone know where to find Bob Gage, last known 9794 Newton Ave., Cleveland 6? Or Emilio A. Lanier, last from Nagoya, Japan?

Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 29 Woodside Rd.( Winchester, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,