1919
Greetings and salutations and here we go on another year of trying to keep you posted on the doings of '19ers all over the country and the world. Win Batchelder's superb job on the Smoke Signal has kept you informed in detail about various members of the class and their activities - Sherm Green, Ed Martin, Stu Russell. He has seen or tried to see Doc Hainlen, Bill Phinney, Nat Merrell, Burton Brown, Ho Owens, as well as Nels Browne, Don Studholme, Hal Avery, Spike Schenk, Sam Sheldon, Fred Laird, Cliff Belknap and maybe a few more. Batch is is very modest about his own accomplishments so your Secretary wants to report that he and Harriet were guests of honor at a dinner at the Wee Burn Country Club in June given in his honor by the United Fund of Darien, Conn. Batch has long been prominent in civic activities in Darien and the honors bestowed on him on this occasion were certainly well deserved. The Batchelders are enjoying Salisbury, Conn., the site of their new home but Batch doesn't seem to have slowed down much. In our travels during the summer we had the pleasure of seeing Fat and Hon Jackson, Art and Maddie Havlin, and Pete and Mary Lou Grey (on a short expedition to Cape Cod) also on the same trip Doris Cunningham with her daughter Marcia and husband "Suds" Bissell '50. Also, on a trip to Kennebunkport, Me, we had the good fortune to catch up with the Cap'n and curler extraordinary Eddie Fiske and Jessie. Other Dartmouths at the Colony were George and Agnes Boughton '28, owner of the fine hotel (also Delray, Fla.) (Advt.), Doctor Charlie and Blim Hazzard from Chappaqua, N. Y., same class, and Sykes and Helen Hardy '27 from Chicago, taking in the nice cool Maine temperature.
At a recent Dartmouth Club of Hanover cookout in the Bema '19 was represented by Jigger and Victoria Merrill, Bob and AnneLewis, Stu and Dot Russell and your Secretary and Marion (maybe someone was missed in the large crowd). Summer visitors to Hanover included the J. Raymond Stevens from Pennsylvania, Larry and Mary McCutcheon from Pompano, Fla. (the McCutcheons had been doing a lot of fishing in Canada) and Maury and Priscilla Hall, with whom we had a delightful dinner and a fine evening. Maury is taking it rather easy with Kidder Peabody in Boston but is still at it. A few golf games with the aforementioned Russell and Cotty Larmon have resulted in the red for your Secretary, as he just can't seem to get enough strokes out of either of them.
Paul Clements comments on the birthday cards, "However, I wish that you would send them to Daniel Webster or some of the older fellows and not keep reminding us kids on how old we are really getting." From Sewall Sawyer via Jim Wilson, "I retired a little over a year ago as Secretary and Comptroller of Monarch Aluminum. My principal recreation is golf which I play three or four times a week, weather permitting, and also enjoy occasional games of bridge and gin rummy. Our sons are pretty well scattered: Sewall C. II '52 is with Dancer Fitzgerald and Sample, New York City and is the father of our only grandchild. Lawrence W. Duke '55 is a CPA in Houston, Texas, and Dale B. U. of Michigan '6O is a Ist lieutenant in the Air Force and is currently stationed outside of Tokyo. We expect him home in the late summer or fall."
Recent address changes include Lawrence D. Milligan, Apt. B, Miramar Apts., 67½ South Palm Ave., Sarasota, Fla.; Maurice R. Robinson, 55 Witherbee Avenue, Pelham, N. Y., and Norman A. Weaver, Apt. 9, 5528 Fernwood Avenue, Hollywood 28, Calif.
Dan Featherston notes, "Will you please continue to delay my birthdays as you have so successfully done over the years by something more than mailing my birthday card late. Nothing much has happened since I last saw you and I have enjoyed your detailed report on your Florida travels and Batch's travels in the North. I have written for a reservation at the Woodstock Inn." Hal Parsons reports from the "Penzance III" cruising around Long Island Sound, "This business of loafing is bad because the less you have to do the less you do. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and personal note on the card. I sure am hoping that I can make Woodstock and the lunch even if I cannot make the game. It is a long way from the Inn to the game on crutches. I am going to ask for front row seats so I don't have any climbing to do." Had the pleasure of lunch with the Bill Grants, summering in Contoocook, N. H., in Bill's ancestral home. Bill was immediately put to work on designing a new birthday card which he has done in his usual efficient fashion and it will be forthcoming in a month or so. It represents a lot of work on Bill's part and he rates a big hand from the class for his unselfish efforts on behalf of 1919.
Many of you will remember the late Dewitt Gifford Wilcox, our classmate and one of many we lost in W.W. 1. Your secretary and Marion had a nice chat with his older brother Dr. Max '15 and Freda while in Kennebunkport. Max is retired and spends his time in Maine and Florida when winter comes. A nice note from Bill Carto, quoting in part, "This birthday, my sixty-fifth, was the highlight one. Every Bell System man contemplates — sometimes with wonder, sometimes with hope, this particular birthday. It means retirement from the business mart. A number of associates, close and dear to our memory, have gone to their heavenly award and so those of us who are permitted to finish the race realize that theirs is neither winning or losing - just striving and contending. My wife and I have looked forward to this time for years when we might return to our native state (from Washington, D. C., to West Harwich, Mass.) and so again a wish has been granted We have never had the good fortune and pleasure to attend any reunion of 1919. Perchance we can make the forty-fifth."
This issue of the MAGAZINE should reach you about the time of our annual Woodstock-Hanover party October 11-13 — a fine crowd is expected but, in any case, start thinking about the 45th next June.
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
