1919

Rock Hayes, with his customary thought fulness, sends in a report on the Boston dinner held on February 10: "The Class of '19 was well represented and among those present were: Hal Avery and Elizabeth, John Chipman, Jack Clark, Henry Clay and daughter, Maurice Hall and Priscilla, Art Havlin, Spider Martin, Elmer Pilsbury, John Shelburne, Bunny Burnett, Slim Huntoon and Elizabeth, Jim Stone, Casey Bevan and Rock Hayes. Bob Proctor paid for a ticket and planned to attend but apparently his plane was grounded in New York. For a while it looked as though we might win the attendance cup but that eventually went to the Class of 1926 who gathered to hear their classmate, George Champion, the principal speaker.

Classmates who are traveling and wintering in warmer climes seem to be a dime a dozen and are hard to follow. However, I just received a card from Jim Davis in which he states that he and Mary have an apartment in Lakeland, Fla. "Other items which come to mind - Art Havlin, a long-time resident of Weston, Mass., has sold his house preparatory to ultimate retirement to his home in Centerville on Cape Cod and Jim and Paula Stone are looking forward to the marriage of Allan to a gal in Dallas, Texas. There is one item which I think might be mentioned by either you or Dan and that is that Peg and Frank Holmes, our hosts at the Woodstock Inn, invited all the members of the Class of 1919 to cocktails and dinner at their home in Weston after the Dartmouth Harvard Game. Word to this effect was passed around insofar as was possible by phone and personal contact, and about six-teen were royally entertained."

Si Stein sends a card from Tampa, Fla.: "Your birthday card caught up with me here - Florida State Fair and fishing. Hope to write more when I get back to the Kenil worth at Miami Beach. Greif Raible was with me for a week before I left." Speaking of Greif, his very expensive horse, Royal Dragoon, is working out daily at Hialeah and is due for some racing in April. He had two good juveniles last year in Irish Lancer and Tufanhai.

Don (King) Cole, of Washington and Arlington, Va., a regular correspondent, comes through with some news of the Coles:

So the '19ers have forsaken you! And after such a grand time at reunion in June. Alice and I vacationed cationed in New England in September as usual, spending most of the time with son, Dr. Don '45 and family in Cape Elizabeth (Portland), Me. While there,-we were again guests of Larry Eastman at the Cumberland Club. Larry has been busy in many activities, including the United Fund. When we were in Cape Elizabeth again at Christmas time, I tried to contact Larry but found he and his wife were visiting their son and family in the old Bay State. I rarely see any of the '19 gang down this way except at the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club. Mighty thoughtful of you and the class to remember me on my birthday. Like the rest, I hate to recognize the day but there is little I can do about it now. Kindest regards to all. I am helping again this year with the work of interviewing prospective Dartmouth students. It is an assignment I wouldn't miss for anything.

Don Lovejoy, partner in Bache and Co., prominent New York brokers, and one of those who checked in at reunion after many years absence, writes: "Many thanks for your excellent birthday card. I .certainly am going to try to relax and enjoy this coming year. For that matter, I have just returned from Florida and expect to go back in ten days to have a little more fun, golf, and so forth. You were nice to remark about my going up to Dartmouth in June and I will do my best to try to attend the various affairs more often."

Larry McCutcheon, one of our many retired classmates, now holding forth at Pompano Beach, Fla., checks in:

Again let me say "thanks" for the birthday card. It reached me while we were in Connecticut last summer. Hate to think about it but it won't be long before I join the Social Security Club. In one of the recent issues of DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE you asked for information about Tee Kingsbury — he is fine. Mary and I visited him at Spofford last August. We had been fishing in Canada in June and July. Then visited in Chicago with one of our sons — next on to Connecticut to visit another. It was while there that we drove to Hanover. Incidentally, while there, tried to locate both you and Cotty Larmon — missed you both. We phoned the "Tee" from Hanover and joined him at SDofford. He hasn't lost an ounce of his old humor and I am delighted to pass the word that he looked grand. You may remember that he he was on the Tumbling Team at school — well, he has given up most of that type activity and now confines himself to golf and fishing. Right now, Florida is troubled with some Hanover weather. We had a low of 42 last night which I understand sets a record. It will be gone in a day or two and then we will again have 70 to 80. Better come down and learn for yourself — and when you do be sure to look us up. Kindest personal regards. Please say hello to all of the '19ers you see for me too.

Your secretary can announce that he is joining the ranks of the retired during March, and after a trip to Florida, will be back on the Hanover scene in late April or early May - and the whole idea sounds good after a thirty-year hassle with the textile business.

Casey Bevan, the big Tyre Rubber man, of Andover, Mass., writes: "Thanks for the birthday remembrance from the class and for your personal notation on it. There is nothing of much moment to report personally. Tony and I spent two weeks at Fort Lauderdale the last of November. I talked by phone to Norm Jeavons who was at the time in Clearwater; unfortunately, we did not get together. You may or may not have heard by this time of the sad passing of Tom Reilly in Lowell. You may remember that at the Halloran wedding we all signed a get-well card for him. I started to go to the wake Thursday evening, but when the rain started freezing on the windshield, I chickened out and turned around and came home."

A group of '20ers pictured at Spence Snedecor's Blue Point, Long Island, cottage: (left toright) Mary Snedecor, Spence Snedecor, MargePope, Carroll Swezey, Hilda Spalding, RogerPope, and Henrietta Swezey. Taking the picture was Ken Spalding.

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