1915

As you read this (I hope), many of us will be hitting the highways and skyways for our delayed 45th at Hanover - some may already be there. A big turnout is expected and the Reunion Committee has gone all out in its preparations and arrangements. May we all have fun in recapturing the past, enjoying the present and anticipating the future!

In the same breath, we are also confronted with the home stretch run of the Alumni Fund drive. Duze Lounsberry's "big and fast" team of Agents is giving its all and it would indeed be a fitting climax for 1915 to once again top the field in our Green Derby group. We urge everyone to stick with the Team until that "last white line is passed."

I find that the list of said Team, appearing in this column in April, failed to include Paul Gibson. My ancient typewriter must have "hop-skipped" on that one. Sorry, Paul!

Jack Ferguson reports a grand visit from the Lounsberrys during their trip out in those parts and a drooling re-hash of exciting events to come. Later, Duze says Don and Rachel Howe in Omaha rolled out a red carpet for them as big as the Dartmouth Campus. While there, they turned on TV and there on the screen was Dick Merrill speaking in the interests of the Omaha Area Council of Churches. That's one way to stage an impromptu get-together. Too bad it couldn't have been two-way! Duze. also reports a pleasant evening with the DaleBarkers, on their return to the Boston area, together with Helen Rose -who was visiting there.

A card from Roy and Maude Lafferty says Islamorada, Fla., is rebuilding rapidly but you can't rebuild trees, so the scars of Hurricane Donna still remain.

Warren and Ethel Montsie expected to leave Clearwater, Fla., for their Cape Cod home at Brewster, Mass., in May and are looking forward to the big affair in Hanover this month.

Margy Clough says Eben and Kike Richardson had the best fishing ever up in the North country last February - the trout were out of this world. Kike has bought the camp up there and Margy says "Now the boys can have things modernized (in their rough way)" - which leaves something to the imagination!

Norvie Milmore was reported working on Herb Potter back in April and might bring him back with him for Reunion. Hope he made it.

I have before me an unexpurgated edition, recently written, of "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," which purports to show what actually happened on that famous night. It's an amusing epic and available for perusal by any of our Boston patriots. Authored by a good '15er.

The extensive alterations and expansion of the Hanover-Norwich-Lebanon airport runways must have taken a lot of doing. Advance flight reservations by phone simply wouldn't work. It took two personal visitations and an act of Congress (almost) to book flights from New York to Hanover and I'm not sure (at this writing) that the flights may not be via Miami!

One of the boys in Boston sends me a snapshot of a touching group of us all dolled up in our Sunday best - way back before our sheepskins were doled out. The only catch to showing it here is that the same picture appeared in this column in June 1954. If you're chat curious, look through your back issues — heh! heh!

Returning home from Florida in April, George and Mae Martin report the best vacation they ever had. George allows it's tough getting back to the daily grind — 4:30 every AM (and I think I have it tough when my buzzer goes off at 6:30 AM!). George says he tried to see Red Folan while in Florida, but Red was probably at a couple ball games. George still misses his Red Sox but said he saw quite a lot of the Braves games — he knows quite a number of the players.

Bob Fredericks hands me a copy of The Bema - May 1915 issue and it was quite a thrill reading some very pert articles by Charlie Griffith, George Hutchins, Don Bennink, Ed Burgum and George Ingalls, as well as one by Bud Whitney on "Troughing" (very pertinent to your scribe, if you know what I mean!). Some of the advts. in said Bema were most illuminating - a couple New York hotels offering rooms with bath at $2.00, and a Boston hotel with the inscription: "Strictly a temperance hotel"!

The College is "all shook up" by the announcement that our esteemed Alumni Recorder and Alumni Editor, Charlotte FordMorrison, is retiring at the end of this year. What a wealth of alumni contact she has built up down through the years! She is going to be missed and the College is already scrambling around for someone to take her place. We salute you, Mrs. Hugh Morrison - may the years ahead add to your blessings!

Hal Davison, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of New Hampshire, says he plans to attend the entire three days of Reunion, after which he will attend a convention of N. E. Utility Commissioners the last week in June - probably his last, as he expects to retire after July Hal says he sees Jack Bowler and Fletch Low in the House and Senator Howard Sawyer nearly every week and thinks they are enjoying their experiences as statesmen. Good - just don't let affairs of state interfere with Reunion!

I see where the Cambridge police recently broke up a Harvard student demonstration in the "Squayah" with tear gas. Aren't we glad the White River police didn't have tear gas that memorable night of the Lome Elwyn fracas! Was you there, Sharlie?

It is rumored that the reason why Gus Braun is spending so much time trying to improve his golf game is because of the scoring ability of his good wife, Clara! The Brauns and the Roy Laffertys are teaming up for the jaunt to Hanover for Reunion.

I am sorry to report the passing of Pete Cannon whose In Memoriam notice will appear in a later issue.

Bob Fredericks says he's doing a selling job on his wife and hopes they both will be at Reunion. So do we!

Changes of Address: James H. Brackett, 1244 West Marion Way, Santa Ana, Calif.; Harold S. Ellms, 2525 South Humboldt St., Denver 10, Colo.; Donald K. Howe, 103 North 55th St., Omaha 152, Nebr.; Harold H. Mattison, 16 Perry St., Auburn, N. Y.

The Surf Room of the Bath Club, Reddington Beach, Fla., was the scene of a 1914 Reunion in April, attended also by Line Wilson and Joe Barnett, two '13ers. First row (l to r): Grace Niles, Katherine Hinman, Helen Boggs, Evelyn Grant, Blanche Floyd, Chick Grant; and row, Joe Barnett, Geoff Beals, Elinore Beals, Caleb Niles, Mrs. Wilson, Betty Fuller, Mrs. Barnett, Rubber Floyd; 3rd row, George Boggs, Charlie Batchelder, Gladis Smith, Line Wilson, Jeannette Batchelder, Helen Emerson, Fred Davidson, Louise Davidson; Top row, George Forbes, Paul Smith, Brad Harrison, Rosie Hinman, Gus Fuller and Dean Emerson.

These three members of the Class of '15 are all members of the New Hampshire State Legislature. They are (l to r) Dr. Howard P. Sawyer, State Senator from Brookfield; and Representatives Fletcher Low and Dr. John P. Bowler, both of Hanover.

Secretary, Apt. 7-G. 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.

Class Agent, Deer Isle, Me.