1915
More signs of spring - "Breathes there a man with soul so dead. Who never lifts his weary head, To see the beauty of the sky, Or watch a pretty girl go by?"
And a sprightly gang was there! '15ers from the New York area broke loose from home ties for a congenial evening at the Dartmouth Club on February 3 and got quite a thrill out of viewing the three-dimensional color slides of the Interim at Hanover last fall. Dale Barker surprised us by dropping over from Boston and added his usual lustre to the gathering. Another pleasant surprise was our first glimpse in years of Art Hornblow who is now making his headquarters in the Big Town. Art was in rare form and it didn't take him long to get reacquainted and enter into the spirit of the occasion. It was the consensus of the group that "it's a long-time to 1961" and that another "midterm Interim was in order - preferably built around the Harvard game in Boston next fall. Bostonians are hereby pre-warned to start the ball rolling! Those who sipped and supped included Dale Barker, Gus Braun, Fred Child, Charlie Comiskey, Bob Fredericks, Speed Granger, Bob Griffin, Art Hornblow, Opie Horton, Roy Lafferty, Phil Murdock, Bill Nissen, Dutch Scharmann and Bags Wanamaker.
It is rumored that the Wanamakers and the Marv Fredericks are to team up on a foreign tour under auspices of the New York Riverside Church where they have been active for many years.
Dale Barker, whose flight was grounded by the weather for the return to Boston, claims that the old friend he ran into on the train was a male!
Irene (Mrs. Phil) Blodgett is very appreciative of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and says it helps keep in touch with a number of friends in several classes and to keep posted on the many interesting events in Hanover. She refers to the happy, carefree Hanover days of the early Carnival and the good old Junior Prom and sees quite a bit of Mollie and Howard Sawyer, who was a roommate of Phil's in college. Her son, Gardner, is of the class of '50 and her son-in-law, Moody Cook Dole of the class of '40. Says she enjoyed a delightful dinner with friends at the Hanover Inn in November. Good old Hanover!
We all are pleased and gratified at the large grant made to the College by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in honor of Al Bradley, lone-time associate of Mr. Sloan and former chairman of the board of General Motors. It is good to know that Al's efforts in behalf of "the College, including a substantial personal gift, will be perpetuated in the Albert Bradley Center for Mathematics.
Kent Smith makes the headlines again on two counts. First, he has just been elected a director of Midland-Ross Corp. industrial manufacturer of Cleveland. Second, as acting president of Case Institute of Technology and chairman of their special gifts committee of the building fund drive, he reported receipts which brought the drive over the $5,000,000 mark. At a luncheon in Wade Park Manor, he received some rather "special" gifts of another sort, including a medal reading "Champ" and three hats, one each for his role as college president, industrialist and banker.
Russ Rice complains that he and Isabel have been rattling around since two of their boys, with wives and children left after the Holidays.
Fred Lowe again spent the winter in his wife's old home town, Austin, Texas, which he first visited in 1915. He repeats a suggestion he made a year ago: "If you have things to do, people to see, don't put it off. When you get around to it, it may be too late!"
A note from Art Boggs says he and Gertrude expect to leave India for the last time in April and expect to settle in Oregon probably in or near Portland, but hopes to see some of the Boston crowd in May. Art is ending a long and what must be a most satisfying career in India in the medical field.
Greetings come from Lee Mac Hale from South Africa where he and his niece, Carol Crotty, have been on a sight-seeing tour. Says they are having a glorious time (November) and plan to be back in May, when he will return to his Westport, Conn., address.
Hooray — I got-a Valentine! Cecil Whitney says if he rates a birthday card, I certainly deserve a Valentine, so he embellishes a "Happy Ground Hog's Day!" card with happy memories of a wonderful Interim Reunion." (Start rooting for a Boston "Tea Party" next fall!)
It is reported that Dartmouth will become residual beneficiary of the Bill Williams' estate when it is settled.
Duze Lounsberry says that he and Helen, visiting with Stu and Peg Hill in Boulder, Colo., went out there for winter golf and stayed to shovel snow (I wish I could reproduce the droopy face he drew) - and to talk over plans for Maine in the summer. George Ingall's new ranch house is just a "whoop and a holler" from there and they've seen him every day or so. Says George is so "western" he's a steer beef expert at any big time restaurant thereabouts (on this one, he drew a smiling face!).
Hey - I got another Valentine - from Eben Clough! It's an Indian one - "I got-um You. You got-um Me" and a sign on the wigwam - "No disturbum!" Eben and Kike Richardson were on their way up into the North Country on their annual ice-fishing escapade. What a bunch of fish stories will emerge therefrom!
String Downing is reported feeling better and hopes to have some of the crowd down to his house to see the pictures he took on his trip out West last year. My roving reporter says the wrist Grace broke was the other one from the one she broke last year and she had the cast off last week (February) and she's exercising her hand cooking for String and in no time will be swinging at him "iffen he don't behave!"
Ash and Winifred St. Clair had a nice trip to the Pacific Coast last fall, visiting Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, B. C., as well as the Olympic Peninsula. They spent almost a month in Portland with their daughter Priscilla, her husband and three children, two of whom they had never seen before. Ash bemoans the fact they missed the Interim on that account, were in Maine over the Harvard weekend, and out of town the night of the Boston Alumni Dinner — so '15 contacts have been sparse lately. Hopes to make up for it from now on!
One of the "boys" has a cute new calling card: "RETIRED — No address — No phone — No business — No money" and in the center is a picture of a guy in a boat fishing!
A picture of Opie Horton and Doc Noyes, taken at the Interim Reunion, elicits the following from Doc:
Opie and I were inseparable. We were the first undergraduates to be accepted socially as honorary members of the Hanover Fire Dept. I can visualize now how we used to approach one of the remote farm houses and how the small children would come running out crying: "Here comes Doc and Opie," and there was always a bag of candy or more in our packs, and sometimes a gift for the mother or father. In exchange, we might borrow a dog to hunt rabbits, sleep in the barn, eat venison out of season, and sometimes drink hard cider. We had a lot of fun, and the picture brings back some of those memories.
Can any of you top that brand of memories? Doc adds that Priscilla and Ann were headed for Florida in February - "Big Deal - their first experience!"
Changes of Address: Frederick B. Ballou, retired, 142 Garth Road, Apt. 4-W, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Arthur Donahue, 207-13th St., N.E., c/o Mrs. E. George, Atlanta 9, Ga.; L. R. Mac Hale, 26 Long Lots Road, Westport, Conn.
Philip H. Pelletier '15 has retired after 39 years with the Stanley Works of New Britain, Connecticut. He has been head auditor for the company since 1941, and in 1955 he was elected assistant treasurer.
Secretary, Apt. 7-G, 245 Ave. C. New York 9, N. Y.
Class Agent, Federal Trust Bldg. 24 Commerce St., Newark 2, N. J.
