1924
Writing just a day before the Columbia game, we have the bumps of Harvard and Yale behind us — two games we could and should have won, but didn't. Talking to some of the team I have in class, morale is good and you will know as you read this what the rest of the story was. Those of us who were here over the Brown game had good seats and pleasant (too warm) weather and also some nervous moments.
The football weekend was a very real success. We tried a variation on the usual arrangement at Bonnie Oaks but will return to the Inn-and-cottages plan next year. Which is important to call to your attention: the weekend next year is the third game again, October 10, and the foe is to be none other than Princeton. We have our usual arrangement with Bonnie Oaks but already several have signed up and it is always first-come, first-served. But there is plenty of room. Some will probably make this a long weekend, with Columbus Day on the 12th. I shall get out a letter to everyone who has ever come to this weekend and stayed with the gang at Bonnie Oaks asking them to make tentative reservations now; they will not be asked for a deposit until September 1, 1964. Anyone who wants to be in may have a copy of my letter with reservation request form by writing me. Each year we have some new faces - as ButtsLamson pointed out in the Class Letter; also some who drop out, either because of pressure of business (that happened to at least three I know of this year who had made reservations but had to cancel, priorities being what they are), health, etc. So now we add #3 to our requests for word from you: (1) a returned questionnaire with current data and a picture for the Class book, to Spud Spaulding or to me; I'll send another if you've mislaid the original; (2) a response to Ford Bowman to indicate present plans or intentions regarding our Friendly Fortieth reunion come June 1964. It is solid fact that our plans are far advanced, and also that every sign indicates that this will be the party to attend: classmates, their children and children's children, and several widows of classmates have already indicated they will be with us (I'm writing each of them when I can find a breather come the Christmas recess). The Committee believes we may well break all attendance records for a 40th; we count on you. And now I add #3 — your request for a reservation come October, 1964 at Bonnie Oaks. That will be the fall foliage weekend again, but of course we can't promise to deliver as it was two weeks early this year. At least we didn't have rain . . . although many in this area were praying for lots of it, which we are just now getting nicely.
Correction in Butts' otherwise excellent Class Letter: Fred, son of Solly and PegThurston, is a student and I had him in a Precept, . . . but the manager of the football team this year is Franklin Olds Loveland III, nicknamed "Turtle," and son of Frank Loveland Jr. '24. I've already commented on other sons of '24 now in college, but see I forgot to mention Staff Keegan, son of my freshman-year roommate, Duke(Stafford Warwick) Keegan. I have WallyLord's son in class at the moment; also named Wally; and Bob McCollom's son Bruce. The annual visit of Red and NormaMaloney will have been history, along with the Cornell game, by the time you read these notes, Luit's son, Peter Luitweiler, has distinguished himself in his four years here, including a junior year abroad. And, as I've said before, there are more sons of '24 still coming up. Plenty of room, and I'll delight to be across the desk in class from them - for two-and-a-half more years. I almost forgot to mention that Larry Marshall's son, here in Tuck, has a wife who is much loved by Hanover moppets in the lower grades; they'll be missed.
In addition to address changes reported by Butts recently, we now have the change for the Doug Craigs: 5 Deerhill Drive, Hoho-kus, N. J. (07423). (I have friends who've lived there and so I know that Indian name is really so, although there is a lot of kidding about it.)
This is all for now; will save other items for next time and try to plow my way through the piles on my desk, for this first term is the rough one in terms of academic routine, my additional clinical work, and the gay social whirl—-including your very welcome visits here in Hanover. Remember to write Spud and Ford (Class book data and picture, and reunion) if you haven't gotten to that yet. It's later, far later, than you think.
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