1916
The Class will learn with regret of the death of two of its fine members during the summer. Bob Clunie died June 18 and LivyCole July 6. Their obituaries appear else- where in this or a subsequent Magazine. Bob was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, the Exeter Club, the College Band and the Freshman Baseball Team. The high regard in which he was held by the townspeople of Damariscotta was evidenced by the crowded church at the funeral, and the closing of all the stores in the town during the services. Dan O’Leary T7 sent me a copy of the tribute which Bob’s former stu- dents at Lincoln Academy paid to him, and added, “Bob made an indelible impression on this community. Everyone loved him; those who went to school to him held him in deep admiration, reverence, and affec- tion.”
Livy Cole was also known to many in the class as King Cole. He was a member of Sigma Chi, the Glee Club, the Choir, the Dramatic Club, “The Arts” and the Lambs. He was also assistant manager of the Dra- matic Association. He and Jack English at- tended the Universite de Montpellier, France after the First World War, and there they organized a university glee club, the very first in the long history of the university, which was founded in 1292. The glee club had a quartet in which Livy sang top tenor and Jack, baritone. The good people of Montpellier were much impressed with the a cappella rendering of Dartmouth songs and campus medleys.
The deep sympathy of the Class is ex- pressed to the families of these our departed classmates, and also to Shirley Harvey and his family in the death of his wife, Annette in late April. The Class will gratefully re- member the pleasure of her presence at our reunion last year.
Fletch Andrews writes that he returned to working a few hours a day, but found an eight-hour day too much. “After a couple months of this hard life” he and Marg planned to go East again to the seashore around the middle of July, adding, 'This should really have me back ‘in the pink.’ ”
i_JjLJ.Vy i. J J. Stirling and Betty Wilson, ambassadors extraordinary to the Western T6ers, appar- ently didn’t make the slow boat to Japan, though as I write these notes I have not learned the cause of their missing the boat. However, they did get to the Fair, and were to lunch on the Fourth of July with Hankand Annie Blaney, Perc and Aline Burn-ham also being guests. They saw ShortyHitchcock, Spence Sully, Dan Lindsley and Frank Cowan, and tried unsuccessfully to contact Judge Phillips, Carl Eskeline, DanDinsmoor and Dan Coakley. Dave Shum-way and Freddy St. George Smith were also at the Fair, and doubtless many other Class- mates. Russ and Edith Leavitt spent three weeks visiting family through the West.
Karl Shedd suffered a heart attack in late winter, just as he had accepted a teaching position at a Kentucky college, following his retirement from the University of Geor- gia. He is still very much under the weather. I hope soon to have news from Polly of his improvement. The Class sends him best wishes.
Welcome cards from Bill and Ruth Mc-Kenzie from Cordova, Spain and Sam andLou Cutler from London. Bill couldn’t get used to dining until 9 P.M. and was over- eating, but said the bullfights, the flamenco dancing, the churches, and the castles were all very interesting. Sam and Lou’s whirl- wind tour of Europe was rather exhausting, but lots of fun.
Cliff Gammons entered the Delaware Hospital, Wilmington on May 10 for the re- moval of his larynx. The operation was completely successful and he has made fine progress with the speech therapy.
It is high time this column spoke a word of appreciation to Ken Henderson upon the signal honor accorded him by the College, in March, the Dartmouth Alumni Award, in recognition of his outstanding work in behalf of Dartmouth.
Spence Sully has recovered nicely from a hospital bout earlier this year. He goes up about once a month to see Red Tucker in the hospital. As you may know. Red is now quite helpless, and it would cheer him up mightily to have a word from you. His ad- dress: Dr. Cecil W. Tucker, 7934 Cherry- stone St., Panorama City, Calif. Won’t you drop him a line?
Dick Parkhurst has found the job as Class President such a sinecure that Secretary of the Treasury Dillon invited him to serve on a committee, composed of experts in ship- ping and fire protection, to consider meth- ods of minimizing navigation hazards cre- ated by gases remaining in empty tanks aboard tankers after the off-loading of flam- mable or combustible cargoes. On the com- mittee roster they have Dick listed as a Transportation Executive.
Five of the Class Officers, Dick Parkhurst,Art Conley, Ed Craver and Jim Shanahan (with spouses), and yr. Hon. Sec’y attended the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover early in May, and enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of the College. Stirling Wilson and Charlie Brundage, unfortunately, were absent.
With the Alumni Fund figures in hand 1916 finds itself in the cellar of Group I in the Green Derby. And this through no fault or lack of hard work and enthusiasm on the part of Jim Shanahan, our neophyte Class Agent, or his fellow workers. Our participa- tion, numberwise, was satisfactory, but dol- larwise, disappointing. Admittedly we are not a wealthy class, but there are many who could pull their weight in the boat, and more, who do not do so. This puts a burden on the conscientious which cannot be over- come.
These notes are being written at the end of July for an early September deadline, after which your correspondent is off to Bar Harbor. Once in Maine, as Johnny Ames so aptly puts it, it is strictly a case of “dolce far niente.”
The 1916 delegation at the dedication of the Lincoln Filene Auditorium at Dartmouthwas composed of (I to r) Jack and Kay English, Cliff and Peg Bean, Alex Jardine,and Elsie and John Stearns.
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