1919
Recent address changes include William D. (Red) Washburn, 25 Isle of Venice, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Clifford B. Belknap, 145 Bay Shore Road, Hyannis, Mass.; Forrest L. Pitman (Pete), 3 Barefoot Lane, Hypoluxo Island, Lantana, Fla., and John A. Shelburne, 10 Laurel St., Roxbury 19, Mass.
Win Batchelder, Mr. Smoke Signal himself, reports seeing Tom Bresnahan and Bill Hoard, well known publisher of Hoard's Dairyman, Fort Atkinson, Wis., at the Dartmouth Club in New York.
Quoting in part from a letter from BobLewis, one of Lebanon's representatives to the New Hampshire Legislature, "Cotty andKitty Larmon, Anne and I attended the funeral services for Oscar Lewis in Thetford Hill (Vt.). He was to be buried in North Thetford... . The N. H. Legislature is organized and I am on the Executive Departments and Administration Committee. We start hearings on some bills next week so I am waiting to find out what it is all about... .We know we are going to miss the warmer air of Florida and the ability to get out on the golf course occasionally but we have been good and warm, no matter how cold the temperature so I guess we will be 0.K."
Chet Demond notes, quoting, "I checked my calendar by the arrival of the Class birthday card and found it was correct as usual. Another year, another card, and another hope that there will be more. In fact I inferred from your comment that you missed 'some lousy weather' up here. You also missed the most delightful day of December 31 - it was 20 below in West Cornwall (Conn.) and really put the old year in the deep freeze. A few more days like that and you may see the entire class in Florida. We hope to be in Delray a week or more sometime in February and shall surely look you up. ... I seem to keep fairly well now that I've lost the meaning of the word 'hurry' and mind my solid diet. The liquid one is unchanged. Hope you are the same." Spike Schenck (Ingleton) of 41 Margaret St., Saranac Lake, N. Y. (new address), writes, "Glad to read in the last Smoke Signal that old roomie, freshman year, Jim Davis is still well and hearty, also Charlie Biddle, soph roomie, is still going strong. As for myself, I still enjoy my rabbit hunting and fishing several days a week. I am still working and do not want to retire as my work here (Hotel Saranac) as night clerk and auditor is very light and interesting and I enjoy working with the hotel management students of Paul Smith College. Wishing you and all '19ers the best of everything for 1963." Si Stein, part-time resident of Muscatine, lowa, but currently at the Kenilworth House, Bal Harbour, Miami Beach, notes "Fortunately I do not have to retire abruptly so — each year I take more and longer vacations. With advancing years I have lost any feeling of embarrassment in not being on the job from eight to five. Since my marriage almost sixteen months ago, I have taken up a new life and am again living for the future. We have joined the La Gorce Country Club of Miami Beach and spent two weeks in November playing golf there. Ax and Hebe Warden stopped over between planes on their way to Rio and a circle tour of South America. Dan Shea '18, since his retirement from Moody's, has been living in Miami Beach and we see quite a bit of him." On the agenda for your Secretary is a trip to Miami Beach to check up on Messrs. Stein and Shea because as Si says, "we don't get 'up Nawth' like Boynton Beach very often."
A nice note from President John Dickey, quoting, "My correspondence got badly behind last fall for reasons which I am sure are no secret to you. I do want you and your classmates to know that I did very much appreciate the birthday greeting." LarryEastman writes that he hopes to inspect the Hopkins Center soon and that after a big day and evening in Boston, and arriving back at Cape Elisabeth, Me., at 2:30 A.M. he didn't seem to have much pep the next day, "What is it - old age?" Yes, Larry, all of us have the same trouble.
Hattie and Bob Paisley report that all is well with them and that Bob is on the mend from his serious operation last fall, which prevented their coming to Woodstock-Hanover. Had a nice chat with Ed and MadalynWarnke, who are wintering in nearby Delray, and don't like the winters on Long Island any better than we do those in Hanover. Saw Alex Henderson on the golf course for a few moments, and Alex looks fine and the new school, St. Andrews in Boca Raton, in which he is much interested, is going fine.
The annual Dartmouth Boston Alumni dinner was held on January 31 and 1919 did itself proud by winning the cup given annually to the class with the most members present — the first time it has ever happened. Spider Martin was mainly responsible for getting the gang out and eleven of the old-timers showed up — John Chipman, Ora Huntoon, Jigger Merrill, John Shelburne, Henry Clay, Howie Cole, Bunny Burnett, Spider, Rock Hayes, Bob Proctor, and Win Batchelder, up from Connecticut for the affair. Spider accepted the cup as the representative of the class and is to be congratulated for another "first" for 1919. Now if we all get together and "up" our contribution for the 1963 Alumni Fund, we can help Fred Daley and his assistant agents to 'get another "first" in our group of classes.
Secretary, Box 1572, Boynton Beach, Fla.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
