1919

As these notes are being scrambled together, it does seem a little early to be wishing all of you guys and gals a very Merry Christmas and the best of everything in 1964, but here goes anyway. You will be hearing from our reunion chairman, MaxNorton, about the doings at our 45th in June and let's make this one the biggest ever. Preliminary indications are that it will be just that, with numerous classmates noting that they will be on hand. By now, you will probably have had a full report on our fine Woodstock-Hanover weekend October 11-13 from Win Batchelder in the Smoke Signal. Your Secretary wants to make note particularly of a few of the class who don't get around as often as we would like and we were very glad to see them - Larry Eastman, Spen Dodd, Al and Mary Googins, Louis Haerle, Bunny and Winifred Lodge, Waddie Owen, Art Stackpole, and Don Studholme. Those traveling the longest distance to attend were Jack and Doris Ross, from Portland, Ore.; Louis Haerle from Zionsville, Ind.; Jim and Polly Wilson from Salem, Ohio; Norm and Ruth Jeavons from Winding River, Va.; and Bob Bard, from Birmingham, Ala. And, once again, the most sincere thanks of the class go to Kittyand Cotty Larmon for their hospitality after the game, which is always deeply appreciated. Next year it will be the Princeton game on October 10, with arrangements for lunch before the game not complete at this time, but Dave Beach will take care of a limited number at Woodstock.

Rock and Alice Earle Hayes report a nice visit from Babe and Coke McCreery at their Charlestown, Va., summer home. The McCreerys were supposed to have made the Woodstock party but couldn't do it. Pauland Adelaide Clements likewise were trying to get to Hanover this fall but had to head south to Sarasota. The Champ reports that "In our retirement we will have more freedom and time and hope to get around a little more, so I will probably be in what little hair you have left in another year."

Belated word has been received from the Alumni Records Office at Harvard of the passing on January 15, 1962 of Furber M. Libby. Furber was with the class only a short time and nothing is known of his career, as he indicated no interest in the College.

Under the headline in a Utica, N.Y., paper, "Mr. Capps has played a key role in Utica's economic progress," Jim Capps gets a nice write-up on the occasion of his retirement as president and general manager of Wicks & Greenman, well known men's store in Utica. Quoting in part from the article, "Mr. Capps was one of the strong figures who lifted Utica during the 1940s and 1950s from the economic slowdown brought by departure of the knitting and textile industries. He served for six years (1940 to 1946) as president of the Chamber of Commerce. Later in the creation of the Utica Industrial Corporation, he was instrumental in the 1950s in bringing to Utica two divisions of the General Electric Co., Chicago Pneumatic, Bendix, Oneida Electronics and many smaller firms which today form the core of employment in the area. ..." Congratulations to Jim for a job well done. He also was first president of the Empire State Association of Chambers of Commerce and served as a member of Gov. Rockefeller's Commission on Economic Expansion.

Jim Wilson has had some interesting correspondence with Bill Hoard which lack of space here prevents your Secretary from quoting fully. Jim found a copy of Hoard's Dairyman dated 1901 while traveling in Pennsylvania last summer and Bill was naturally very glad to get it. Bill's business is one of the few in the country operated by the third generation of the family. Bill notes that Alan Jones of Jones Sausage fame is feeling good again and has been playing golf this past summer, also that he sees TomBresnahan on his trips to New York.

Spotted at the Harvard game, which certainly was not one of the Green's better efforts, were John Shelburne, Casey and Tony Bevan, Bea and Spider Martin, Rock and Alice Earle Hayes, Bob Proctor, Pete Grey, Herb and Sally Fleming, Jock and Edna Murray, Carl and Mary Cavanaugh, Lou and Harriet Munro, Greif and Katherine Raible, Jack and Hester McCrillis with Gladys Nichols, widow of Hal, and Chet and Emily Gale.

Ken Huntington reminds all who do not reside in the New York area that 1919 meets for lunch at the Dartmouth Club in the Hotel Commodore on the first Monday of each month through June. So if business or pleasure takes you to the big city try and make it.

One of Dartmouth's most eminent doctors, Bob Stecher, has been honored again in his home town of Cleveland. The Stecher Laboratories for the study of Rheumatic Diseases was dedicated in October and a plaque will be placed outside the laboratories saluting Bob for his contributions to medicine and his community. Bob has been associated with the Metropolitan Genera! Hospital and Western Reserve Medical School for 40 years. During most of his medical career he has been a researcher in the field of arthritis and rheumatism. He was a founding trustee of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation and served as president of the American Rheumatism Foundation. For eight years he was president or president-elect of the International League Against Rheumatism. He was active in the development of the Metropolitan General Hospital's Brittingham Memorial Library and was its president from 1937 to 1959. All the fore-going are only part of Bob's tremendous services to mankind, and Dartmouth and 1919 also salute our distinguished son and classmate - may he go on for many more years.

Ray Adams, custodian of '19s funds, whose annual statements of our solvency could come only from a C.P.A., reports seeing Ray Pierce of Fargo, N.D., during the summer and now that Ray has a summer home in nearby Windsor, let's hope that we will see more of him. Ray also reports lunch with Bunny Collins of Sarasota, Fla., and Ragged Mountain, N.H. the latter when it gets too warm in Florida. John Fornacca is enjoying his association with W. E. Hutton & Co. in Rome, his adopted home, and many Dartmouth men over the years appreciate John's help in their travels. Once again, a Most Happy Christmas and a good 1964 to all '19ers, their families, and their widows.

Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N.H.

Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.