1919
Well, here we go again for the 1962-63 season and your Secretary’s fourteenth year of trying to keep up with our classmates. However, if you can stand it, we will try to carry on to the 45th reunion which comes in 1964, and then a change will be in order. The account of our annual fall party October 5-7 will appear in Batch’s next Smoke Signal, and what a swell job he is doing for the Class and the College.
Some of you may have seen Dorothy Loudon, singer and comedienne, on Ed Sullivan's show in late August. She has appeared at the Blue Angel in New York and on various TV networks. Dorothy is the daughter of Jim (Red) Loudon, of Clare- mont, N. H., and the niece of Henry Lou- don T7, and a most attractive young lady. A note from Ed Wamke, quoting in part, “I saw Nick Sandoe at the Club in New York last week, when Hoppy came down. It is real nice to hear so many of our gang have taken up in Florida. I was down there as usual this year but didn’t see anyone and I was in Delray, Lauderdale, and Clearwater. I hope next January to go again. It is quite possible that I will locate down there and try to take it easy fairly soon.”
A Worcester, Mass., paper reports that Henry O. Holley, principal of the Monson, Mass., High School for 39 years retired in June. Henry is past president of the Mon- son Rotary Club, a past commander of the Monson American Legion Post, and past president of the Hamden County Teachers Convention and of the Massachusetts Sec- ondary School Principals’ Association. AlanJones, head man of the Jones Dairy Farm of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and donor of the famous Jones sausage that tasted so good at the Woodstock party, notes, “Thanks very much for the birthday card. This is my 65th but I don’t contemplate any retirement. It doesn’t look as though I will be able to make the fall meeting and eat some of my own sausage for breakfast. I will be leaving just about then for James Bay, on Hudson Bay, where we go for our annual goose shoot. This I expect to be doing as long as I can swing a gun and pull a trigger.” From a Jacksonville paper, “Norman Sterling, lo- cal traveling angler, has returned from a long trip, this time to British Columbia. Norm fished a couple of hundred miles north of Vancouver, and took Pacific salmon weighing over 55 pounds. His next jaunt will take him and Mrs. Sterling to Vermont, and the fly gear will be in the luggage as well as spinning rigs.” It so hap- pens that the Sterlings’ destination in Ver- mont is Lake Morey about 18 miles from Hanover and, as these notes are being as- sembled in early September, your Secretary is looking forward to seeing Norm and Elis- abeth.
The Dartmouth Club of Western Con- necticut has made it official! To many alumni in that region WinBafchelder has been “Mr. Dartmouth” for many years, and it was said for all to hear at the club’s an- nual dinner in May when Batch was named “Dartmouth Man of the Year.” In addition to his many services to the class Batch has been on the Alumni Council and president of both the Dartmouth Club of New York and the Dartmouth Club of Connecticut. He has been honored also for his leadership on the School Board, Finance Committee and other Darien, Conn., civic and church pro- grams.
Bob Lewis, Lebanon, N. H., realtor, and former operator of Williams Laundry, is running in the Republican Primary for Ward 3 representative to the General Court of New Hampshire in Concord. Also on the local political front, Roger Goodnow, of Keene, N. H., has been appointed chairman of the city Bridges-for-Senator Committee. Roger is associated with the Cheshire Oil Company in public relations work and has long been active in city and regional affairs. A nice newsy letter from Dick Dudensing re- lates, quoting in part, “.. . One day in April I called Bob Paisley only to learn through Bob Jr. that Bob suddenly had a lung opera- tion. Serious, but blessedly not the worst news. Shortly thereafter I visited him at home in Garden City and he was recuperat- ing wonderfully and really didn’t appear to have undergone such an operation. He has been up at his Hancock, Mass., home building up.” Hal Parsons is another class- mate who has had tough luck, “I have been on crutches since spring, and kind of un- comfortable especially in the left hip. Thank goodness this has eased up and I am still looking forward to Woodstock even though I can’t make the stands for the game. Did you see in the paper that Jack Vliet’s wife died? I talked with him when we were in Essex (Conn.) and he is living in a small house there. We are living on the boat at Greenport (N. Y.) and taking short trips to Connecticut or around here. We pick our weather so as not to bother either my hips or Ethel’s. You know she broke her hip again last March just as we were about to leave for the West. So we have had Western Long Island instead of the Far West.”
The Class was represented at the World’s Fair in Seattle by Budd and Leonora Welsh, Budd reporting that the golf courses out that way are tough, and Jim and Paula Stone who stated that they were all worn out but hoped to make Woodstock. Walt Cooper checks in, “Thanks for the birthday card —• you were kinder than one of my friends who said that I had reached the metallic age silver in the hair, gold in the teeth and lead in the pants. Fat (Jackson) phoned me on the way to the Cape from Florida. He is as happy as a clam. Next week Louise and I take oft for a month in Europe Paris, Oslo, Copenhagen, Bergen, along the Rhine by car from Dusseldorf to Baden-Baden, on to Zurich and then a week in Mallorca.” Larry McCutcheon of Pompano Beach, Fla., gives an account of their summer in a note from Lyme, Conn., “Mary and I have been fishing in Canada since early June and plan to leave here and head for Moosehead Lake and try the salmon and trout fishing. When we leave we may return via, Hanover and, in that case, will surely hope to see you. Be sure and stop in when you come to Florida for we too are sorry not to have seen you last winter.” Bill Carto writes, “Your class birthday card arrived right on the dot (Sec- retary’s note, not all our classmates have had this experience). It is a thoughtful and increasingly meaningful remembrance as we grow older and our once full ranks become thinner and thinner. On, my next birthday, if the Lord wills it, I shall have joined the ranks of that select company of those re- tired.” Vernon Burke of Lakewood, Ohio, notes, “I am real well for which I am grate- ful, but the inactivity of retirement at times gets me, resulting in boredom, especially when one has no close family left. Personal matters do keep me occupied but not nearly as active as I would like to be, so I have come to the conclusion this retirement busi- ness, even though security has been attained after years of struggle, does not afford the resulting compensation we so often thought of in prior years. This is unless it is accom- panied by fresh external contacts and con- tinued associations of long standing, which, for some unknown reason, dwindle when we get put on ‘the shelf.’ Believe me when I tell you that fundamental principle of the birthday card is one of extreme rare merit.”
Editor’s Addition—-The 1919 class sec- retary has left out the most important news of all about himself. On Thursday, Au- gust 16, Mr. George Wilson Rand of Han- over, N. H., was married to Mrs. Marion Louise Naramore, widow of the late Harold B. Naramore, honorary member of the Class of 1914 and former owner of the Wah Hoo Wah Farm in Lebanon. George retired from the 1. P. Stevens Company, New York, in 1960. The Rands are making their new home at 3 Prospect Street, Hanover.
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H. T rpnsnrpr 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
