1919

An account of the annual Woodstock-Hanover 1919 weekend will have to wait until Win Batchelder's next Smoke Signal as the deadline for this issue of the MAGAZINE is October 5. On hand for the opening game of the football season were Normand Elisabeth Sterling, all the way from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., who have been enjoying a long stay at nearby Lake Morey, Ken and Marj Huntington, at their farm in Orford, N. H., Oscar and Nan Lewis of Thetford Hill, Vt., Nick and Dot Sandoe,Cotty and Kitty Larmon, Jack and HesterMcCrillis, and Stu and Dot Russell. The Russells have been house-hunting in Hanover for sometime, preparatory to Stu's retirement, a house with one floor and a beautiful view. So they will take up their residence in Hanover in the not too distant future, having found what they wanted, and will be a most welcome addition to the community.

Murray Hawkins writes from Geneva, Switzerland, "The annual card caught up with me here. Heidelberg is a wonderful place as are so many places here. Hope to be in Rome in October and will look for John Fornacca." Bill Grant, of Ruxton, Md., was in town one day but your Secretary missed seeing him. The Grants have a home in Contoocook, N. H., which they are fixing up for the future, and spend much of their summers there. Walter Lilienfield of Chicago notes, "Your good wishes appreciated, many thanks. We're all getting up there, aren't we?" (Secretary's note, that is the understatement of the year regarding '19ers.)

Address changes include Holden K. Farrar, 1410 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, Ill., and Harold J. Morse, 278 Chase Road, Lunenburg, Mass.

Quoting in part from a letter from LouMunro, "I had planned with Harriet to drive Blake (the youngest Munro son) down to Winter Park to get him started in Rollins College. However, I now have to be in Boston for an important meeting, so cannot go down with them — present plans call for me to fly down on September 17 and drive back with Harriet. We had hoped to stop over and visit the Jeavons' but now a business trip to the Coast will prevent this. There, we are considering taking the train to Virginia and driving up to Woodstock with them." It would seem to your Secretary that Mun is working harder than ever, rather than easing up, as so many of the class are.

Your Secretary can't describe the Hanover Scene the way Sid Hayward can, but as of early October and it will surely hold for our 5-7 weekend, the foliage in New Hampshire and Vermont in the immediate vicinity of Hanover is something beyond words. In many years your Secretary has not seen the purple reds, the bright yellows, the rusts, the other shades beyond description, mixed as always with the greens perennial. Every year, those of us who are fortunate enough to view all this wish that there were more classmates who would make a special effort to come back at this time of the year and share with us the New England countryside in all its splendor. It probably is good in Arkansas, Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina, but it always seems as though there is something special about the colors that Nature produces in this neck of the woods. Try and make it next year. '

The role of the widows in the Class is most important to both the Class and the College and all of us welcome their continued interest as evidenced by their generosity in support of the College, and in our various publications. Quoting in part from a letter from Dorothy Pelleticr, Jim's widow, "It was pleasant to hear from you, and I have already sent my token sum to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. It has always distressed me that my contribution had to be of necessity a modest amount for Dartmouth meant so much to Jim as a student and an alumnus. My only college contact in recent years has been the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and the Smoke Signal. If I've previously neglected to express my appreciation in receiving both publications, I do so now."

Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.