1920
Charlie Crathern makes the honor roll this month with a nice newsy letter which you will all be glad to read:
Heaven knows I've thought of you often and realized that I didn't have a great deal of news to help you fill out the 1920 column that is always so interesting, but now I have a bit that may be of interest.
It was wonderful to see all the gang back in Hanover this spring, wasn't it, and what a swell time we had! One of the best yet and Paul deserves a big hand. Shortly after returning home Elsa and I took off for Texas to visit her son who is flying B-58s for the.Air Force at Carswell Field in Fort Worth." We traveled leisurely down through the Blue Ridge,- the Smokies, across "ole Miss" and on to Texas in an easy-going manner, sightseeing and enjoying the countryside with no tight schedule to have to follow.
Spending the better part of three weeks with Bill we saw a good deal of that section of the big state as well as having a chance to renew contact with Air Force procedure. The "crates" they fly now make the old wartime planes look mighty old-fashioned. One of the most interesting things was spending a couple of days at the Convair factory going down the production line of the B-58 that they make there in Fort Worth, as well as some missile work. It is almost unbelievable and I only wish that more of us Americans could see it than the very few who do.
Bill has a motorboat, as so many do out there, and we spent hours on the lakes and rivers that abound in that area, taking the kids - there are six of them - swimming and camping.
From there Elsa and I went on to San Antonio and Laredo. Having got that far it seemed foolish not to go on to Mexico City. We did and are we glad! It was delightful and once we got off the cactus flatlands and into the mountains we were very comfortable - Mexico is 7,000 ft. up in the air as you probably know. Part of the time we spent sightseeing - a guide driving our Buick - so that we saw a great deal and went where we wanted when we wished. The rest of the time we went "native" - long siestas, tall planters punches, lots of delightful swimming in the true manana spirit.
Stopping a few days at Fort Worth on the way home, we followed a more northerly course at a comfortable pace. It was a great trip and a very nice summer.
Since getting back in late August we have been to Reading, Penna., to say hello to my daughter and had my sister Alice, who has just returned from six months abroad after retiring from over thirty years in the Detroit schools, visit us.
This may be the best reason why you are getting this detailed review of the Cratherns' doings. I am writing this from the Monadnock Region Hospital in Peterborough where I have been confined to bed for a week. Foot infection - how or what no one knows - hit the ankle like a football. All under control now and release expected in a few days but not till after the New Hampshire game in Hanover on the 24th. Hope to make the Penn game and. will make Holy Cross on the 15th. Will hope to see you there, too. Regards to any and all the boys - and the girls, God bless 'em, too. If you can't decipher this scrawl use a match - writing in bed was never meant to be!
P.S. Forgot to say, Charlie, that just before I came here I spent the night with Sam and Marion Center in Woodstock. Had a wonderful visit and a review of reunion memories.
Sure hope your foot is okay now, Charlie, and thanks a million for your very welcome letter.
The Baron and Baroness Bowen summered in Europe and I am awaiting with bated breath an official report on their travels.
Sherry and Elizabeth Baketel are back home from the Olympic Games and the nightspots of Paris. At one time or another Sheridan and his ever-charming spouse were seen at Maxim's, the Lido, Folies Bergere and other plush joints. I understand that in passing they waved a hand at the Louvre.
Frank Morey called from Albany the other day but I had the misfortune to miss his call.
I made a trip to Hanover for the New Hampshire game and I don't think I'll ever go to an opening game again. There are too many agonizing slips so early in the season. It was a squeaker as you probably know with Dartmouth coming out on the right side of a 7-6 score. In the stands were seen such notables as Bill Carter, Al Foley, Bud Weymouth, Paul Richter and sundry others of adjacent classes.
The Montreal Gazette carried a wonderful article outlining Tommy Thomson's entire background. The two-column photograph used with the article really does the old boy justice.
Warren Turner marked his fortieth anni- versary with the Bell Telephone system on September 6. He is director of telephone traffic studies at Bell Laboratories in New York City. After graduation Warren began his telephone career with New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., in Boston. In 1927 he transferred to A.T.&T. in New York and in 1951 joined Bell's technical staff. Throughout his career he has specialized in telephone traffic engineering and traffic studies. Warren and his wife Madge have made their home in Wayne, N. J., for the past four years.
The Chilcotts, the Merritts and the McGoughrans plan to be on hand for Dartmouth and the Holy Cross game. Dartmouth Night is always a very impressive occasion and one you shouldn't miss. Incidentally, Jim Chilcott reports catching a bushel basket full of trout in Canada recently... claims he ate all but the fins.
Hurricane Donna seems to have missed the Freddie Hamms at Vero Beach, Fla., completely, but did it ever rain at our farm in Connecticut! Fortunately we suffered nothing more serious than the loss of a few tree limbs.
I am now in the process of cleaning up my desk, getting ready to push off for a few weeks' vacation and am embarrassed at the scarcity of news this month, but you kids know what to do about that. Incidentally, if you have not already done so, obey that urge and send your five bucks for class dues to Albert Wesley Frey.
Three '19ers gathered at the Alex Hendersonhome last spring in Hillsboro Beach, Fla. Enjoying the Florida sunshine (l to r) areHarry Colwell, Henderson and George Rand.
Secretary, 350 East 57th St. New York 22, N. Y.
Treasurer, 35 School St., Hanover, N. H.
