1911
The Class will continue this year its policy for many years of sending the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to all classmates (1) who have paid class dues, (2) contributed to the current alumni fund, (3) state their desire to receive it, even though neither condition above is met and (4) all widows who want to remain on the active list and also enjoy the MAGAZINE. Subscriptions in the last two categories are paid for from the class treasury. As a matter of statistics, there are four men in the third group and nearly every widow on the MAGAZINE list carries on her husband's tradition of supporting the Fund.
The summer of 1963 was a rough one for the Class, as five of our boys have passed on since the last issue of these notes. It is a sad task to add to the honor roll these names: Boli Sherwin, May 17; Dick Chase, lune 15; Chub Pease, June 26; Gabe Campbell, luly 12; and Cap Hedges, August 2.
Wee Kimball's latest and one of his finest "LEVEN UP"s gave the story of our excellent June party at the Mt. View which was enjoyed by 51 people. However it should be stated publicly that the Dodge hospitality has not diminished through the years and we never were greeted on all sides more cordially. One more thing you should know. We have already been invited back for next June. The dates will be approximately the same as this year. Plan to arrive on Saturday, June 27 and leave on Wednesday, July 1.
Another regretful decision that it seems wise to make is the discontinuance of the Friday night dinner before the Harvard game. In recent years the attendance has fallen off and last fall had dwindled to ten. Since the University Club has now been made into a hotel, the good old custom of contemporary classes mingling and visiting together is no more. Most of the other classes now arrange their dinners elsewhere. In comparison to yesteryear the following is taken from a letter written in 1922: "I have just returned from a very successful weekend with the classmates and their wives in Boston. We had 119 men at the Harvard game, about 90 of whom were at a stag dinner the night before. Saturday night there were 150 including wives at a dinner at the University Club." This year classmates can make up their own parties and go where they choose.
Helen Jenkins, back home at 6020 Winchester St., San Diego, Calif., after a trip to the Orient for two months, sent in a clipping from the Bangor Daily News telling of Chet's being named to the Helms Athletic Foundation's Hall of Fame Honor Roll, in recognition of his career as Maine Track Coach. He was one of eight nationally known coaches to be added to the Helms Honor Roll this year. Helen refers to the many fine friends she met in the class and would be happy to hear from any of them who may journey her way.
The latest word on Charles Harris is that his wife died and he is now in very poor health and living at 249 Noroton Ave., Darien, Conn.
Gene and Catharine Fuller have sold their home in Chicago and moved to 11044 Opkir Drive, Los Angeles 24, Calif. They have an apartment not far from U.C.L.A. Gene has always enjoyed the benefits of being near college facilities.
Josh Clark's doctor son Ted '47 has resigned from the Clinic which he was operating in Springfield to establish practice for himself in Longmeadow, Mass.
Thornton Wilson, now retired, reported enjoying his twelfth year at the Sugar Hill House in the White Mountains.
Tib Reilly has enlarged her home in Lowell so that her daughter Frances and her family with four children might come to live with her.
Other widows are also making adjustments to their new circumstances. Marjorie Pierce has sold her home and moved into an apartment, Hunter's Lodge, Second St., Newport, Vt.
Bethridge Stucklen's mother died in March in Winchendon and she is faced with the decision of whether to remain there or return to her home on Chestnut St., Boston.
Frances Elwell likewise has sold the house she and Clint so much in his last days and taken an apartment at 8 Marlboro St., Exeter, N. H.
Mary Chase has taken a small cottage in the center of Osterville for the winter and plans to sell the large house. She will spend much of her time with her daughter and son in Wyomissing, Pa., and Concord, Mass., respectively.
Another of our gals has also moved. Dorothy Bowker has packed up the accumulations of 35 years and transferred them to Cedar Arms, 40 Cedar St., Worcester, Mass.
Mary and Tom Silk have gratified a long held desire by moving into a much soughtafter apartment house, Westview Terrace, 400 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, N. Y. Of course their real home is that charming house in Whitefield. A new neighbor there will be son John '5B and his family who have bought the George Burgess house on the back road to Whitefield. Mary Alice, whose husband Jim Bailey is Lyndonville's popular doctor, is breeding Conandara ponies.
Jack and Dorothy Steeves are now touring Australia on a few weeks' jaunt, and will again be in Florida for part of the winter.
Other world travellers were Dorothy Odlin who was in Europe for part of the summer and Ruth Mathes with her sister and brother-in-law, who likewise saw Europe in the spring.
Cora Morgan is almost a commuter between Seattle, Wash., and Sunapee, N. H. Now that her daughter and her husband have settled in Seattle, Cora may spend the winter with them. Also the New Hampshire home is for sale, so her final decision is still ahead of her.
One of the pleasantest sights of recent years for any 1911er was to see SwedeNeedham rolling up to our door with his fine family. They were in Hanover just long enough for lunch and a Hello, and on their way to the Woodstock Inn where Swede ate Thanksgiving dinner his freshman year. It was Mrs. Needham's first visit to Hanover. They may well be proud of their daughter, Caroline, her husband Hamilton Smith and two lovely young girls. Swede has all the spirit of ye olde days in spite of his arthritis and wanted to be remembered to all of his old friends.
There has been a bit of moving about, resulting in the new addresses as follows: Lester J. Waldron, 121 North 6th St., Indiana, Pa., Rev. C. Merton Wilson, 557 Bedell St., Baldwin, L. 1., N. Y„ Alfred A. Hormel, 20 Holiday Lane, West Yarmouth, Mass., and William E. Carroll, 200 Parker Road, Apt. 212, Elizabeth, N. J.
Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.
