1913
Candia, N. H., celebrated its anniversary July 3 to 7 by presenting "Candia's First 200 Years," a pageant by Dr. Carl C. Forsaith of Auburn, N. H. Featured in the pageant were 50 men and women of Candia dressed in costumes of the town's early days. Carl owns about 100 acres of the original 200 acres his ancestors obtained in Candia some 230 years ago.
Tom Nichols suffered a cerebral and falling on the patio at the. New Hampshire Highway Hotel had a bad compound fracture of the skull. After several days in the Concord Hospital he made the trip to Marblehead by ambulance with, a nurse and then was operated on at the Salem Hospital. He is now at home and can go over the stairs once a day. Florence wrote, "It was a nightmare of an end to a very fine time at the Reunion. Tom is now able to write and see people for a short time."
Chuck Riley went to the Cape Cod Hospital upon his return from Hanover for surgery, as Clayt advises, "Chuck was operated on two weeks ago and all they could find was little or nothing so they took his appendix. He went home before the 4th of July."
Many wonderful letters come to the secretary of a class, however, in June just before the reunion this one arrived which pleased me very much. It was a marvelous letter from Frederic Libbey from Boston. Ruth enclosed it with a message that he, Fred, had been working on the letter for a long time, a few lines at a time. He is blind and has multiple sclerosis and has been in bed for 26 years. His four-page letter, fifty lines, spoke of my work for the Class, the close contacts with the men and their families. He wrote of the 10th Reunion which he attended and sent regards to Freeman, Shumway, Terry, Towler, Conant, Ashton, Chuck Riley, and any remembering him, in fact "good luck to all you old boys who are 50 years out and still loyal and perhaps feeble but full of the Dartmouth Spirit." Fred's address is 222 Marlborough St., Boston, as shown in the 50 year book.
Ed Stiles of Penticton, British Columbia, was finally unable to reach Hanover, as Phyllis could not make the trip. Ed says he dreamed of being there with us and talking with Bill Gibson, his old friend and hero.
Bill and Mildred Davis received a Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for their garden at Winchester, Mass., 3 Central Green. Anyone seeing it will know the award is so well deserved. Bill does much for beautifying the town of Winchester.
Having accomplished such a remarkable and successful result of the 1913 Alumni Fund 50-Year Campaign with your help, Bill Terry left on August 8 for Eagle River, Labrador for salmon fishing, where he wore long underwear instead of Bermuda shorts as you may have done in August but not now. High water and bad weather made fishing not up to par.
Lt Comdr. Carl E. Shumway USNR (Ret.) of Lynnfield Center was one of 46 early Naval aviators invited by the Secretary of the Navy to spend May 28-31 on the carrier Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) at North Island, San Diego, Calif. He was flown from Naval Air Station, So. Weymouth, Mass., to San Diego May 28, picking up other pilots en route across the country. A reception was given them that night by Vice Admiral Stroop, Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. May 28 was spent at sea on the carrier Kitty Hawk, second largest carrier in the world, with demonstration takeoffs, landings, bombings, missile, and rocket firings. The next day was spent at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, Santa Ana, Calif., as guest of Major Gen. Kier. Final Day, May 31, they were airlifted to Point Mugu, Calif., and Point Arguello Naval Pacific Missile Range, where they were hosted by Rear Admr. Clark with numerous demonstrations. The Early Aviators were flown back to N.A.S., So. Weymouth, Mass., on June 1.
Bill Towler had a quick trip to Italy, leaving July 15. He returned from Paris at noon July 26 via London - dinner in Summit, N. J., at 7 - Wow! You have by this time received his and Andy Comstock's letter on bequests. This follows action taken by the class at its meeting on June 15, 1963 in Hopkins Center.
Stub Stoughton returned after the Reunion to the hospital in Hanover for surgery and stayed in Hanover for a while until he went to the Claremont Hospital in Claremont, N. H. He will return to New Jersey this fall with his sister.
Louis Fishel's long siege at the hospital recently kept him away from the Reunion, but he is back home now where he is living with his daughter and her two children and his mother who will celebrate her 100th birthday in August. Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns from all of 1913.
Mose Linscott climbed Mt. Washington during the week of August 12. Not bad for a 71-year older.
Dorothy Catterall and Charles F. Colchester were married in July and spent their honeymoon in Switzerland and Paris. They will live in Dot's home in Garden City as they are selling Charlie's home there.
Secretary, Box 62, Potter Place, N. H.
Treasurer,: Hanover, N. H.
