1915
We'd like to extend our belated welcome to Alyce Robertson as Alumni Recorder and In Memoriam Editor and to Ted Bremble '56 as Managing Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
The accompanying snap of "Opie" Horton would indicate he has all the facilities of a well-heeled hobbyist. I am told he was fashioning "toy cannon" when this was taken. At any rate, it makes the mouths water of some of us do-it-yourselfers! Opie was bearded in his lair out on Long Island by Speed and Virginia Granger after a visit with Opie's wife and sister-in-law. My wife got a lift out of Speed's '"regards to the better '3/4'!" Speed also enclosed a yellowed copy of an opus in three stanzas, evidently rendered at our Fifteenth Reunion. (I was ploughing through the wilds of interior Cuba then.)
A billet-doux from Mexico reveals the Johnny Mullins were touring that country in a big way with the Roger Wilkinsons '23 - "excellent roads and friendly people." They were scheduled to fly to Yucatan, Guatemala, Acapulco, Los Angeles, Portland, Denver and home about April 1.
Another Mexican card shows the wandering Marv Fredericks jumping from Florida to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Texas, Mexico, and on for several weeks in Arizona - home by April 1.
This man Howie Fuller sure covers a lot of ground! Early in February, he was elected Council Member-at-Large of the Buffalo Area Boy Scouts of America. Later, he was the recipient of the Torch Leadership Award of the United Fund of Buffalo and Erie County.
Your Secretary attended a luncheon meeting in New York on March 13 conducted by David Orr '57 of the College Secretary's Office and got a good briefing on Developments in Hanover rendered by Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, Associate Director of Development. "Liberal learning" today sure covers a wide range!
Shorty Gray phones in from a New York dock on a March evening just prior to sailing on a European-Mediterranean cruise - says I should stay home so he could have reached me during the day! He and Margaret were headed on quite a jaunt, expecting to land back in Miami in June.
Carl Gish took a quick jump out to Denver in mid-March. Says he didn't get to see Harry Ellms but did call him from the airport at 1 A.M. with a resultant reaction not exactly becoming a good fraternity brother! I'm looking forward to seeing Carl's new offices down at Chase Manhattan Plaza.
There are a couple of murals well worth seeing at the Dartmouth Club here in New York. One, by Peter Michael Gish '49, has already been mentioned. The other by Walter Humphrey '14 has to be seen to be appreciated. As a backdrop to the bar, it has all the atmosphere one could ask for in a men's lounge — a remarkable rendering of Eleazar's Indian entourage, male and female, as conceived through modern eyes. Beautifully done in color!
Colorful greetings come in from Muriel Waugh out in California where she has been visiting her family and grandchildren. She admits the sun has been behind the clouds too much with lots of rain and very cold - "most unusual!" Home in April.
At this writing (late March), we are in the midst of circularizing our list of "Mrs. Fifteeners" to bring our widow list up to date. A report will be forthcoming when all returns are in.
The Laffertys and Murdocks had a pleasant March get-together during which most of the affairs of the universe were solved (one way or another), amidst early spring weather that gave promise of the inherent glories of Stuyvesant Town. (I hope this leaks through to our Stuyvesant landlord!)
Helen Rose was scheduled to visit with the Dale Barkers late in March, undoubtedly to get in trim for her activities in behalf of the Alumni Fund.
Ev Lamson says the Class birthday greetings plus the ALUMNI MAGAZINE plus JackFerguson's Newsletter all add up to closer ties between us all. That's good! Ev says he and Charlotte tried to get up to Reunion but couldn't make it, although they have hopes of getting to Hanover this summer - to see some of the new changes since they were there last. Hope you can, Ev!
The Sid Crawfords blew in on the EbenCloughs in a spanking new Buick for a prest. Patrick's visit. Eben says Sid is learning to paint from a Kennebunk native and has done better than well — he didn't say whether on canvas or the way most of us do! Eben claims he caught the biggest fish in 9 years of its kind (Cusk) up in the North Country this winter - 9½ lbs. - even Amos Blandin '18 couldn't equal it. It is rumored the Patten Lunch Club is scheduled to move some time in the future, due to rehabilitation in that area, and has its eye on a new location where they'll be nearer to Heaven - the round table will be set up on a balcony! At a mid-March meeting, Warde Wilkins '13 hustled down from the North and reported 18 more inches of snow on top of the four feet already on the level, while Hal Claflin chugged up from Brewster on the Cape with no snow reported. (Althea and daughter settled for bridge with some girl friends while the boys were at lunch.) Nut Norwood was spotted in the A & P looking "jest like a nu blown Croakus with a big smile a yard wide and cheeks as pink as arbutus blossoms." Max Wilcox was reported in Florida until April and the Gus Brauns were headed for the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Variegated news items sometimes come in through channels that call for versatile interpretation, as well as ingenious culling!
Bags Wanamaker reports they expect to drive to the Seattle Fair this summer; next year to South Sea Islands (Bali, Tahiti, etc.), Australia, New Zealand and back to Hong Kong. Don't overlook Hanover in '65, Bags, with an Interim somewhere in between!
Les Dunn, our celebrated geneticist and professor of zoology at Columbia, delivered a series of Rutgers lectures earlier this year on the subject of individualism, discussing evolution and its implications for mankind, stressing that evolution is a continuing process which, having led to development of the human species, is now in part controlled by those same human beings. I hope he's right!
Gertrude (Mrs. "Chuck") Woodcock has a busy life. After 26 years of teaching, she retired in 1959, only to be kept busy by substituting - except when away on a trip. Her trips include a round-the-world Southern Hemisphere cruise, a Scandinavian and North Cape jaunt, last- spring a Mediterranean cruise, and next fall a round-the-world Northern Hemisphere trip to include Hawaii, Japan, Hongkong, India, etc. And she still finds time to read the ALUMNI MAGAZINE!
Beatrice (Mrs. Ernie) Boyd, with a son Alden '41, a daughter, and four lovely grandchildren - two boys and two girls, finds life interesting and enjoys the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Mrs. Harold L. Smith of Detroit describes the late and unlamented winter out there as a "blinger" - a new term to me but certainly expressive.
The Alumni Class Officers Meeting will be coming up about the time this is read and we hope to come back from Hanover filled with the stimulation such meetings always produces. May it ever be thus!
Changes of address: Dr. Gustave A. Braun, retired, 1900 South Ocean Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Ralph L. Burgess, 3228 Cherryridge Road, Englewood, Colo.
Secretary, Apt. 7-G, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.
Class Agent, Deer Isle, Me.
