1919

Class Reunion - The 40thHanover - June 15, 16, 17

Si Stein, of Muscatine, lowa, but currently at the Kenilworth in Miami Beach sends in his annual message, and says he hopes to be on hand June 15-18:

Another milestone and another well-selected birthday card from you. We don't include ourselves in the classification, but reports on members of the class, the aging ones, seem to have more and more Florida addresses. Can it be that the winters are getting colder up north? It seems so to me just as those old familiar hills are getting steeper. Imagine that rugged old campaigner, Rabbi Raible letting a little wave upset him. His horses are still running at Hialeah and I had been wondering why he did not barge in as usual. Seriously, I am quite satisfied to spend the winter here. In January, I spent some time with Dan Shea '18 — he will be back in March. Also Al Emerson '23 is here now. I found out today he is out of practice on his shuffleboard. There must be others around but we usually find out a few months later they were close by.

Marion White, widow of Bill whose sudden passing shocked us all, writes: "Your note and so many others from our '19 Dartmouth friends was comforting and deeply appreciated. Some day I hope to acknowledge each and every one. Meanwhile, will you please extend to Bill's classmates our thanks for their contribution to the Dartmouth College Library in his memory."

Louis Haerle, of Zionsville, Ind., notes to Ray Adams: "After cataract operations in both eyes within a year, I am driving a car again and all's well otherwise." Two doctors in the class took time from their busy lives to write in: Jack Moriarty of Hoboken, N. J., says: "Your reminder of the fast passing years arrived on the dot as usual, and it gives a fellow quite a glow to be remembered at this stage of the race. However, I guess part of the glow is the rosy blush of embarrassment at my failure to express my appreciation long before now. I don't get to see the gang as often as I would like to but expect to make up for lost time in Hanover in June."

Ken Rice of South Deerfield, Mass., notes: "Your birthday greetings arrived on time as usual along with your personal 'Hello Ken' and, as my roommate Budd Welsh says, it is a 'reminder of the passing of precious time.' Charlotte and I will see you in June and have a good talk."

Our 40th reunion is shaping up as the largest one we have ever had, and with ChugSears at the helm and Jim Davis doing the tub thumping, it is sure to be a big success. What your secretary hopes, and the reunion committee likewise, is that those of you who have not been back to Hanover in too many years will be on hand - make a special effort to be there. As most of you know, our honorary classmate Earl Blaik hit the headlines in the metropolitan newspapers with his resignation as head coach at West Point and his subsequent appointment as vice-president of the Avco Manufacturing Co. Earl has always had a soft spot in his heart for the College, as evidenced by his attendance at the Hopkins dinner last year, and his references to his days in Hanover in various talks.

Ed Warnke wants all '19ers and all Dartmouth men within riding distance of Long Island to know that on May 14, the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island will hold their annual awards dinner at the Salisbury Club at East Meadow, L. I. The recipients of the awards this year will be our own Bill Cunningham and Sid Hayward '26, secretary of the College. The Long Island alumni are a very active group and certainly rate the support for this affair of all Dartmouth men in the New York area. Wives and sweethearts are cordially invited. Speaking of Bill Cunningham, various tributes to him have appeared in New England papers during and after his serious illness, from which he is making a remarkable recovery. Your secretary is quoting one which seems to express simply the way a lot of Bostonians feel about Bill:

For some time now, long before Bill Cunningham's recent Gethsemane, I had thought to write a sort of Bostonian's tribute to "Our Bill Cunningham." Most everyone knows, or should know, that Bill is our man by adoption, so to speak. Not that we have adopted him, which we have, but that he has adopted us. Boston has greatly benefited by the fact that many years ago, Bill came to New England and made it his, shall we say, foster home. I can't imagine anyone who could leave a much beloved homeland, Texas, and migrate, as we heard, via the "rods" to New England and Dartmouth in particular, and yet be so loyal to all that New England stands for. He is truly an adopted son' and yet through all the years has been able without offense to maintain his natural loyalty to his "heimat."

When I first met him, and I am not presuming on acquaintance because he would not know me from a hole in the ground, he was a roistering, rollicking piano-playing hero from the little college in the hills of New Hampshire. All through the years since the early twenties, he has been loyal to his first friends, the Fays, the Bixbys, Mike Gulian and many others, and yet has gone from honor to honor with the same inherent loyalty and honesty both in his writing and his family life. He has always called the hand as he saw it without equivocation. This is probably rather a poor effort to try to explain that New England has been the beneficiary of an outstanding personality easily on a par with Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler and many other colorful characters that have graced our national life in recent years. More power to him and a long life to go with it.

Secretary, 1273 North Avenue New Rochelle, N. Y.

Class Agent, Route x, Box 815 H, Venice, Fla,