1911
Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 92 State St., Boston, Mass.
THIRTY DAYS TO OUR FIRST FIFTIETH ... DON'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE
With Pat Partridge's last "Leven Up" you have had about all the information you need on how and when to get there. If you have made your reservations and returned the postcard every thing will be in readiness for you, even to your name printed in large letters on a big badge. If you are within driving distance and had not planned on being present but it proves to be a nice day, step on the starter and head for Hanover. That will be the big day on the 1911 calendar and you will find your classmates eager to greet you. You would also be helping to make a record for attendance at a fiftieth reunion - may be!
A loud YES vote from Hugh and Jane Kenworthy brings the number of men to 99 and wives to 72. Who is going to be number 100? The post-reunion at Lake Morey is meeting with enthusiastic response. You know we have the entire facilities of that fine resort for three whole days. Forty men (and most are taking their wives) have said definitely that they will be there. Another dozen are waiting for their wives to talk them into it. We also know that Marion Agry, Lillian Cooper, Ruth Hastings, Ruth Mathes, Mildred Rollins and perhaps other wives will be there. Come and join us if for only a day. It will be a good place to relax after the Hanover excitement.
With the deaths of Walt Greenwood and Riley Young our Class has lost two more stalwart and loyal men. Although both for different reasons were not frequent attendants at Dartmouth affairs they were continuous supporters of the College. Walt was deeply involved in helping to settle the traffic problems of a large city. Riley was forced to retire in the prime of life because of ill health but was still able to enter into the civic life of his native town.
Each year more and more eleveners are identifying themselves with Florida. This year twenty-two such may be included as permanent or part time visitors to the citrus state. First, the residents. A phone call to Heine Chase in Dayona Beach obtained the news that his daughter had named her third son for him, and that he and Livie went to spend Christmas with them, and that he was ill from pneumonia and unable to return home until March. Good visits were had with Don and Fanny Cheney both at their home in Orlando and here in Clearwater. They are house hunting as there is a bulldozer parked outside their front door just waiting to crash through. It happens that their house is right where the new interstate highway is going. Don is chairman of the county historical society and participates in settling land damages for the highway department also. Bob Sanderson is fortunate to be a resident of Palm Beach now that the President has brought new fame to it. Bob is a past president and one of the oldest members of the Sail Club and some officer of the Country Club which Life and other media have pictured as Kennedy favorites. A pleasant hour was spent with Bones and Esther Tindall at their home in Winter Haven. He seemed greatly improved in health over a year ago, which shows what good care Esther has taken of him. He has a fine philosophy of life which has allowed him to make the most of the quiet life the doctors prescribed for him. He can join any arts and crafts organization whether it be in metal working or other skilled trade. Art Witte of Boynton Beach is wintering in Spain and cards from Marjorie tell of the enjoyment they get from the museums, etc. The news from Art Wyman, still unmarried, is that his health will not allow him to make the trip to Hanover.
Most of the temporary sojourners will have departed from this beautiful weather by the time you read these notes. It has been a good winter in Florida, especially in comparison to the home towns of most of us, where we have been enjoying 80 degree plus or minus weather starting in February and continuing all through March. The Burleighs will be back in Hanover arranging final details for the FIFTIETH. The Dick Chases left for Osterville the first of March and word from Mary is, "We have been home just long enough to want to hit the road again. We have been treated to two snow-storms, neither of which was much more than a nuisance. We'll go to Maine and northern New Hampshire in May followed by THE TRIP to Hanover in June. We have our room reserved." The last word from Jack Crooks was that he was back in the hospital and mending nicely and expected to be at home shortly. He is banking on Hanover. The Les Gibsons were driving home while their skipper was on his way to tie up the yacht in the Merrimack River for the summer. Bendy and Eunice Griswold were at Indian Rocks Beach for a couple of weeks and made a welcome addition to the Clear-water Dartmouth gang. The winter did Cap Hedges a lot of good. He and Coleen visited about and, as she said, they had a wonderful time. They were leaving April 11 for Louisiana and Cap's landholdings and on to Cedar Rapids. Their next destination is Hanover in June. Not seen, but reported as being on the East Coast, were the Ed Keelers and Chub Sterlings. A card from Ruth Backus in Miami tells of her love for the flowers and beauties of the South, but she missed the enchantment of the West Coast. The Eben Holdens said that after eighteen days of weather from 5 to 20 degrees below zero it seemed like spring with the temperature in the twenties. They left for Clearwater for a few weeks. Doris will open her gift shop in Scbasco, Me., right after reunion. The Ken Knapps and Clyde Lockes are sort of semipermanent Florida residents, both having winter homes here. It was fun calling on classmates with John and Margaret Pearson when they were here, among one of the pleasantest being with the Shorty Mayos at the swanky Vinoy Park Hotel in St. Petersburg. One day we looked up to see a Pendleton walking up the path. It was not Stick but his brother John '15 who has just settled in Dunedin. He said Stick is still in Melrose. We were glad to greet Dutch and Helen Waterbury who have been wintering in Eustis while he was recuperating from a setback of a year ago. He looked as though he would be going back home to Utica fully recovered. Maynard and Linda Hutchinson made their annual trek to Lake Wales and the Keys to attend the Alcoma Association meeting (orange groves) and do some Auduboning. Cap Weston gave a lecture at the University of South Florida entitled "Fungi in Service and in Sabotage." Glen McConnell, whose record was given in the last issue, completes the list "visitors and visited" so far as we know or remember.
Thornton Wilson, now retired and living in Mansfield, Mass., writes that his spirit will be with us in Hanover, but arthritis will keep his body at home.
Gene and Catherine Fuller left Pasadena in March to face the snows of the Midwest but say they will not be enjoying the Hanover spring with us. We are sorry as we had hoped very much that reunion would find them present.
Helen and Al Wheeler are rejoicing in the birth of a granddaughter.
Dutch Whitman is back in the Baker Memorial Hospital again for therapy treatments to aid him in overcoming a bad knee that makes walking difficult.
Ken Ballou took time out to refer to the directory and added that he was needing a stout cane as the result of a stupid fall but "will see you in June."
From Kate Keough came the pleasant words that "I read the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with great pleasure and pride. Last spring I had planned to join you at Whitefield but alas all the little viruses are so attracted to me. I love to hear from my dear Austin's classmates." We hope no virus will keep her away next June.
A long letter from Julia Dunning is filled with wistful words regretting her probable inability to get back for reunion. She is now visiting her family in North Carolina, Michigan and Illinois. Her last words were: "P.S. I just can't make it. P.P.S. Damn." It is a good ending for those who can not make it but for others a much better ending will be:
WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT.
Kippy Tuck '13, Mrs. Herb Fish ('29), and President Dickey at a recent dinner given by the Dartmouth Club of Paris.
