1931
Spent a wonderful weekend with Charlieand Dot McAllister at their lovely home and location at Candelwood Lake near Danbury, Conn., over the Yale weekend.
Just as we were about to leave for New Haven on Saturday morning, the rain started to fall and by the time we parked at the Bowl it was really coming down in bucketsful!
The Macs had prepared well for the occasion with plenty of food and beverages on hand in the rear of the station wagon. The rain made it foolish to venture outside the car so inside we stayed and partook of said food and beverages to our hearts' (and tummies') content. We deliberately arrived at the Bowl early since signals had been arranged previously for us to meet up with the Clarks and the O'Briens (Dartmouths who live in Princeton, N. J., and who seem more like '31ers than '32ers to me) and the Hodsons (unfortunately Frank got socked by a 'bug' and couldn't make it).
The combination of arriving real early, having plenty of "ingredients" in the car and the downpour led to plenty of fun. By the time we were ready to head for the Bowl we were fairly wet inside and all well and warmly dressed outside so what difference did a downpour make? (answer is none). We hardly knew it was raining at all and what's more, we had plenty of company - in fact there were 10,500 of us brave, venturesome, and happy folks who eventually made the game.
Pre-game attendance had been estimated at around 26,000, so you see the rain had its effect on the less hearty and more sensible people - at any rate it gave the rest of us plenty of room to spread out blankets and put up umbrellas as the rain came and went intermittently throughout the game.
Brave classmates whose familiar faces were spotted at the game in our section of the Bowl were Benson, Clark, Cukor, Hanauer, Hobbs, McAllister (and brother "Bub" '34), Miller (Spence), Russell (Hank), and Simonson. Between the wonderful spirit that most of us were in in our section and the wonderful way the team clobbered the Yalies, we all left having had a wonderful time — and I mean wonderful.
Got a nice letter from Bunce Clarkson outlining some ideas he has for Class activities and in which he philosophizes, as follows, "Being a nice quiet rainy day with the autumn leaves drifting down listlessly to the ground, it leads one to reminisce a bit and think about much of nothing. This, I have been doing for many years, but now it seems to be a profession with me. And more than that, I seem to enjoy it! Yes, it gives me a chance to think of all the things which I would like to do."
Sounds nice to hear, Bunce, that at least one of us is smart enough to take time out to think once in a while.
Guess most of us are aware of the tremendous job that Gaylord Freeman is doing in the financial world via his Chicago bank, but I also guess very few of us knew of this condition as stated in a news article about Gay in the Chicago Sunday Tribune dated October 14, 1962 as follows: "Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., chairman of the Crusade of Mercy and vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, knows what it means to need help. When he was in college he was told that he would be blind before he was 40. His wife read to him each night until his eyes strengthened. Today at 52 his sight is good and he wears glasses only part of the time." The article continues to tell of the time and effort that he expends in behalf of the Crusade work. Hats off to you, Gay, keep it up.
A listing of officers and executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston shows that Ken Sampson is the executive committee member representing Southeastern Massachusetts.
It's always fun to hear from or about you fellows out West. Someone whose signature I can't quite make out but who wrote on Parthenon Pictures stationery from Hollywood was good enough to send a trade magazine clipping which states that Walter L.Farley Jr. has been made veepee and sales manager of W. J. German, Inc. of California. The company is exclusive national distributor of Eastman Motion Picture Films. This article led me to go to Dick Holbrook's write-up in the 25-year book which says, "Bill is assistant office manager of the Motion Picture Film Division of Eastman Kodak in Hollywood. He has been on the West Coast since 1936. He is an associate member of both the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the American Society of Cinematographers." Our congratulations, Bill.
From Ernie Moore comes a program entitled "Dartmouth in Greater Boston - A Liberal Arts Seminar — The Individual in Society." This was sponsored by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and Dartmouth College. On the committee on arrangements were our Johnny Benson and Ori Hobbs.
Ernie reports that at a recent Charles River Dartmouth Club get together the Boermeesters, Clarksons, and Langenbachs attended.
Since these columns have to be prepared a month ahead of publication date once in awhile I get fooled regarding my timing. Because of this, I neglected last month to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas in the column that will come out in a few days (today is December 4) - nevertheless I hope that you all did have a Very Merry Christmas and since this column won't show up until after New Year's Day, I'll have to close with a belated but nevertheless sincere wish for all of us to have a most healthy and prosperous and wonderful 1963.
Just imagine our 32nd year out coming up!
Every time the family of Len Clark '3l gets together it's a Dartmouth reunion initself. The reason why is shown in this photo which includes Doug Keare '56, "Ginger" Clark Keare holding daughter Heather, Lee Clark holding son Scott, ButchClark '56, Len holding granddaughter "Shelly" Clark, and Dottie Clark.
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