1911

These notes are being written on this beautiful Christmas Day, the sun and soft breeze combining to throw shadows on the shimmering green leaves and the right red poinsettias that grow like wild flowers among the shrubbery that surrounds the house. Bee and I have been enjoying so much looking at and reading the messages and sentiments on the greeting cards from so many kind classmates. May we take this opportunity to thank you all for remembering us. We hope to see you all in Hanover in June where we may express our thanks personally.

Our happiness, however, is marred by grief for Frances Elwell and "Curlie" Jackson and their families in the recent deaths of Clinton and Arthur. Clint was taken from a long confining illness and Art suddenly from an active life devoted to the end to his patients who were always his first thought. We shall miss them both but they will remain inscribed on our rolls as loyal sons of 1911 and Dartmouth.

You only have to be a sloppy proofreader to learn that a few classmates had looked at the new directory and discovered its short-comings. For instance Ken Ballou's address laston, Mass. It should be 64 S. Central Ave. Also somehow in the list of fathers and sons which was furnished by the Alumni Records Office, the name of Bob Bars tow Jr. '41 was omitted. This correction would make the Barstow Dartmouth Dynasty look like this:

Ezekiel Hale Barstow - 1839 John Barstow - 1883 Robbins Wolcott Barstow — 1911 Robbins Wolcott Barstow Jr. - 1941 David Robbins Barstow - 1968 (hopefully).

Bob (1911) has just completed an eight-month stretch as Interim Minister of the First Congregational Church in Danbury, Conn., and has accepted a similar assignment at the First Congregational Church in Waterbury, Conn. He says he will match anyone as to active retirement but that this is the way he prefers it. Besides various pastorates Bob's career has been a varied one. It includes a chaplain in World War I, President of the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Executive Director of the Department of Overseas Union Churches of the National Council when he traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. He was for several months the Protestant commentator on the television program "The Week in Religion." On the side, he is fleet captain of the Cruising Club of America.

Ray Carmichael, who will be in the White Mountains in Eastern Arizona about reunion time, writes:

The 50th Reunion of the 1911 class is an event as indescribable as the Grand Canyon. Frequently I have noticed at Dartmouth picnics in the Chicago area that all do not come in their own cars. Somewhat similar would be acceptance of such aid to classmates for this occasion. Now having definitely explained that I am in favor of the idea, I might recall that the only time I ever vagabonded a ride on public transportation was when you and I went by blind baggage to the Amherst Game. How well I remember that moonlight night.

Catharine Fuller from Pasadena, Calif., says

Gene and I left Chicago on December 1 and drove out here to avoid a long cold Chicago winter. We ran into snow and icy roads in Texas and New Mexico and for three days the going was pretty tough. We are at the Hunrington-Sheraton Hotel, one of our favorite places. By the way, we drove through Wappinger Falls in October and Gene called your classmate, Bill Pearse, Who came to call on us and we had a jolly visit together with him and his wife. On our return we spent a few hours with them in their home and Gene was so happy to see him again. He is a most delightful and charming man - his wife so delightful and cordial and it was an experience that gave us no end of pleasure.

We also look forward to seeing them in June.

It was pleasant to receive greetings from Marjorie and Arthur Witte who are spending the winter in Madrid, Spain, where Marjorie is a frequent visitor to the Prado Museum.

Troy and Janet Parker are spending the winter near their daughter Ellen in Chapel Hill, N. C., but Troy adds that he will be back on the old job again, come spring, as proprietor of Palmer Gulch Lodge. His son Watson is going back to college to get his doctorate, which is his first love. They should meet up with Julia Dunning's son who is teaching at Duke in Durham only a few miles distant. In terms of the Bad Lands, that is no distance at all. Troy is living at the Carolina Inn and hopes any classmate going through will look him up. Son Watson is editor of the Hill City Community Calendar entitled "Sometimes Wrong but Never Silent - Wit and Wisdom from Woodland Wat." It is clever and witty.

Here are a couple of new addresses: JackCrooks has changed from 28 to 34 Thornton Park and True Dudley will be at Hickory Grove, S. C. c/o Rev. A. A. Jones for a few months.

Miriam Morris took an active part in the recent campaign by getting 82 prominent museum directors, collectors, and benefactors to form a Committee of the Arts for Nixon-Lodge. In a letter to her Dick Nixon wrote:

You may be sure that I share with you a recognition of the need for a greater awareness of the importance of our cultural traditions. To accomplish this, I feel that we must make sure that our relative progress in the field of cultural relations is in balance with that in the technical and scientific areas. More specifically, we should expand our activities in the field of cultural exchange with the countries of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe as an essential part of our program in the cold war. I am pleased to know that such a distinguished group of Americans as those comprising your committee . . . would be willing to assume positions of leadership in helping us to carry out our objectives in this field to win the hearts and minds of people throughout the world.

The Ken Knapps have purchased an attractive house on the lake-front, Lake Seminole, Largo, Fla. The address which is 10515-94th Ave. is about half-way between Clearwater and St. Petersburg and assures that they will be a part of the Dartmouth gang during the winters hereafter.

Our other newly-weds, Chet and Helen Jenkins, report from their winter home in San Diego while eating breakfast in the patio with brilliant sun and temperature of 75 degrees: "We drove 4320 miles across the USA., stopping at many places en route, through snow in New York state, rain through Illinois and Missouri and fog in Denver. The Rockies were covered with snow, so we went south through Raton Pass to Phoenix. We are flying to Honolulu and the four larger Hawaiian Islands on December 21 to spend Christmas at Kona and New Years at Waikiki, then back to Los Angeles on January 4."

Last month's MAGAZINE gave a Wah HooWah to Sam Aronowitz for being selected bythe Albany Exchange Club to receive the1960 "Golden Deeds Award." All '11 menadd their own salute, and we'd like to quotepart of what the Albany Times-Union saidabout Sam in an editorial:

In anyone's list of outstanding Albanians, Samuel E. Aronowitz couldn't miss placing among the top half dozen. . . .

An amazingly varied and constructively useful career has been the lot of this man and Albany is lucky indeed to have had him working, for its betterment for nearly five decades.

Law, banking, industry, fraternal and veterans organizations, hospitals, colleges, and benevolent and philanthropic organizations have each profited - and the nicest part of this whole story is that they STILL are - from contact with Sam.

Eben Holden writes from Portland, "We have no plans, but certainly want to get away from winter here after Christmas. He will be in Florida yet joining the rest of us "softies"!

A most welcome addition to our list of those returning in June is Ruth Mathes who will be there for the post-reunion at Lake Morey. And here is a word about future informal reunions from Mary Silk: "I still have such a bad feeling inside not to have the 50th in Whitefield, but with the boys booking the house so solid with large conventions it just does not fit in. I believe there are eight for our early season and five for our post season with 1962 and 1963 almost sold out. But just because you are not able to come at your usual time this year, don t think tor a moment that we don't expect and want you to be with us every year after this during the first week that we open in June."

What about post-reunion this next June? Well it will be at the Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee, Vt. It will be for any part of three days starting Sunday afternoon, June 11. The cost will be $15 per person per day. All you have to do is make your reservation. The entire Inn is reserved for us.

Reservations in Hanover you know about. Applications for reservations in Massachusetts Hall will be mailed to you late in March or early April. You may apply any time from now on for reservations at the Inn or Motor Inn by writing to the Hanover Inn.

JUST DO NOT FORGET.

Secretary, 1123 Drew St., Clearwater, Fla.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.