1919

A card from the Elbow Beach Surf Club in Bermuda indicated that Alice Earle andBock Hayes were having a fine vacation. Class son: Mr. and Mrs. James Richards Leonard of New Canaan, Conn, announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Laura Elisabeth Leonard to Mr. David Windsor Batchelder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Windsor C. Batchelder of Darien.

Henry Clay, M.D. of the Massachusetts General Hospital writes, "For the past month I have been recovering from pneumonia; seventeen days in the hospital, after that at home. Had to sleep sitting up for a while - 'here's a tip never go to sleep with a glass of fluids in your hand - either drink it or set it down. Cigarettes are worse. Well, anyway I am going to start a new society - The Electric Hospital Bed Pilots' Association. Also thirteen cubic feet of the Phillips House - starting from the 264th brick from the ground on the southeast corner and running an appropriate distance in all directions. Classmates who haven't had it try pneumonia first, it beats coronaries. Am getting ready for the annual expedition in search of salmon - Moosehead, that is. My correspondent up there writes that in the month of January it got so cold that the calendars froze and it stayed Sunday the 23rd for three days."

Ax Warden is 1919's leading representative in the news during these last few months. He was appointed by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to the U. S. Citizens Commission on NATO. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (quoting from the Great Falls Tribune-Leader of which Ax is publisher) told newsmen that he was delighted with Warden's selection. "Montana will be represented by a man of great knowledge, experience and integrity." Another honor to Ax was his election as director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. To all this our eminent classmate adds his personal comments in typical Warden fashion, quoting, "Your continued clamor, professing interest in what is happening to Nineteeners, has moved me deeply. Hence, if you are running short of Smoke Signals, here are a couple of items on the undersigned. It is, of course, pleasing to have these things happen before somebody else writes you and supplies material for the Necrology section. News of the NATO appointment came to me in Hong Kong by cable when we were in the Orient last month setting back the cause of Asiatic relations by a good ten years The Federal Reserve appointment is a little spooky too, unless they were looking for someone who knows very little about banking. In this case they have made a very good choice. Thanks very much for the years during which you supplied gracious reminders of my birthday. One of these Octobers we will try and get back to Woodstock for the annual gathering."

A couple more additions to the retired group - Budd Welsh sent in a card from Hamilton, Bermuda, stating that he and Leonora were "Spending two weeks on the Island and looking forward to joining the retired forces." Also from Ray Hinds, "I am planning to retire December 31 and am not too sure I am going to like it. However, it seemed to Harriette and myself that this was the time to do so, while we both had our health to enjoy doing the things we have postponed." Also from Ernie Rautenberg, - "Today is the day of my retirement. It does not seem possible but it must be true and now, darn it, I go off both the payroll and the expense account. There are pleasures, however, and I am hoping that perhaps I can attend the October house party in Hanover (Woodstock). I won't be able to make firm reservations though, but if it works out, I can always find some place in the vicinity."

Last call for the 1961 Alumni Fund — elp Fred Daley and his agents along by sending in a real gift to the College before June 30. And put October 13-15 down on your calendar. Those are the dates of our annual Wood- stock-Hanover party. Get in your reservation at the Woodstock Inn early, send in for tickets for the Brown game early, as soon as you get your applications. And if you are planning to come to the luncheon before the game at the Hanover Inn and not Woodstock, kindly advise your Secretary, and if you are bringing guests, let us know how many. And now have a good summer, let Dan Featherston and your Secretary know what you are doing, what '19ers you see, and keep smiling.

Three '20s and a '17 attended the recent 45th Reunion of the Boston Latin School class of 1916. The alumni include (l to r) Buttons Hill '20, Paul Richter '20, Jack Saladine '17, and Col. Hibb Richter '20. Charlie Stevens '20, who also graduated from Boston Latin, did not make the reunion. Thirty-one of the 55 living members of the class returned.

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