1924
The Fall Reunion, which is now assuming a very healthy aspect with a good group all set for a real good party at Bonnie Oaks up on Lake Morey September 30 and October 1, fast approaches (as I write on Labor Day at my office on campus). Latest mail gives Bevo and Quecha Beers, who landed in Miami on August 27 by plane from their plantation home in Santa Marta, Colombia, some real competition. Because of no final decision yet I can only say there is a good possibility one west-coast classmate may join us. Bevo writes that he planned to stay with his daughter in Miami for "a week or two," then drive north in a devious route through Atlanta, Nashville, and way stations, including a stop-off with his son Richard (first of their three children) and thence through Boston and adjacent areas. Late applications will find room this time, as would never be the case were we still trying to get motel accommodations for you. Next month I'll report, but NOW is the time to sign up for next year for the Fall Reunion; no obligation but the early birds get first choice of accommodations, all of which are very good. Ask me for details.
Local items: Ives Atherton, our hard-working postmaster, gets compliments for his high level of mail service and from the local merchants this is praise indeed; Doris, his attractive wife, was in an intersections car-accident and unfortunately sustained a fracture of the pelvis. So we are ambivalent, with congratulations and sympathy. Gordon Bridge and I talk about playing a subdued set of tennis or two, not having done so for a year or two, and hope to really get at it before classes start the 26th. DickMorin had a couple of his excellent pictures in an exhibition in Manchester, Vermont. When you come to Hanover again, you'll see a sign on a new building on Lebanon Street opposite the south end of the Hopkins Center, reading "The Robert C. Strong Memorial Crafts Building" — in which crafts group both he and Dot were very active from the start. Robin Robinson is hard at work getting the machinery greased for registration, and probably wishing he and Ellen were back on Deer Island, Maine, where Margaret and I saw them this summer. The Registrar's job, plus many committees, is demanding and the new 1.8.M. equipment only makes life easier after the planning and first-use headaches are behind one. For myself, the summer has been pleasant, with Margaret and I vacillating between Maine (where we saw the Robinsons and also visited with Butts and Harriet Lamson, at Ogunquit) and South Duxbury (where we enjoyed seeing Pete and Alma Wheatley). Got down on the Cape, and there saw Kay and AdAdams before they moved to Florida for his new job. Another year, I'll plan a trip on the Cape to see some of the many who summer there. Chitticks had other plans, but we went back to Harwichport just the same to again eat some lobster out on the Clam Bar wharf.
I know I missed several classmates this summer by being out of town, and especially sorry to have missed Ed Jones. Ford Bowman called up but on a fast track. We spent some very pleasant hours at the summer home of Don and Virginia Wilbur, up in the hills near Peterborough, N. H., and looking across the valley to Mt. Monadnock, and sort of around the corner from the Ford Bowmans and the Tuppers.
One of our pressing problems is maintaining contact with classmates and also knowing the wishes of their widows when they have died. A special effort, to supplement our continuing effort with you through the Newsletter and the birthday cards, is being addressed to these widows. You may be surprised to know that there are currently 59 such ladies. I hope we may say and do the right thing in this effort, which is being made by all classes. We ask your help, each of you, in urging any who may be your personal friends to reply to the letter being sent out.
Brief notes department: Elwood Dickinson's Pine Ridge Road house in Waban. Mass., recently sold. New address, please?? Addresses needed for Gerritt Tenßroek exSt. Louis. Also Bryson Reynolds, moved from St. Joseph, Michigan, at least three years ago. Any help? Janet and Curt Bird may spend Christmas in London with the grandchild as the chief reason. Roberta Craig, lovely daughter of the Doug Craigs, will be at Mount Holyoke as a freshman, after spending the summer with the Ridgewood branch of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Woodie Chittick, returning as a junior at Dartmouth, was a life guard on Nantucket this summer while parents were in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Nancy Virginia, daughter of the Ford Bowmans, was engaged this summer - to a Princeton graduate. Len Foote still going strong in the Peterborough schools, where he is Superintendent. One son is teaching English at Georgia Tech, and with a wife and two children; the other is recently married and in the insurance business locally. Alex Gibson continues to go strong at Andover where he is now Assistant Director as well as Director of the Bureau of Self-Help and instructor in French. He was recently elected chairman of the Andover delegation to the Mass. Republican State Convention, and also Regional Representative for New England to his professional group. The other Gibson, Roland, went to Russia this summer to study the Soviet economic situation; he has written on this topic recently as well as on the British economic situation which he planned to study before going to Russia. He is currently teaching at Washington College, in Chestertown, Md. Pete and Alma Wheatley attended the Republican convention in Chicago - as witness two pictures that came to my attention where he is shown with such other luminaries as Senator Saltonstall, George Olsson (Plymouth County ex-court clerk), etc. Finally, a news release tells of Ted Lamb's plans to set up a plant in Brazil to manufacture sugarcane equipment as he foresees the swing from Cuba to Brazil for much of our sugar.
The obituary this month for Art Watson is written with sadness for his passing at the peak of his career and much too young, and with much thanks to the friends of his who sent me clippings last May. We also have to report the deaths of George Stevens and Gil Thornton.
The N. H. Motor Inn in Concord was the scene of a meeting between the Honorable FrancisLegge (l), cousin of the fourth Earl of Dartmouth, and President Emeritus Ernest MartinHopkins. The meeting took place as Mr. Legge returned to Boston from Hanover after seeingthe College for the first time. He was accompanied by Sam Home (2nd from right) and ChetBixby (r), both members of the Class of 1923.
Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 29 Woodside Rd., Winchester, Mass.
