1911
There is a world of difference between 40 inches of snow in Hanover and 84 degrees of temperature in Clearwater on the last of March as these notes are being written. However the choice is deliberate. It is back home to the real Dartmouth center for Bee and me. None the less 1133 Drew Street has seen a pretty broad cross index of Dartmouthers who have dropped by. Starting with the 1911ers there were the Griswolds, Applegates, Pendleton, Dudley, Knapps, Steeves, Kenworthy's friends and Linda and Maynard Hutchinson. The Holdens and Pattens were booked but had to change plans. Then you add Ned Kenersons '03, MacKinnon '02, Nortons, Kendalls, Bankharts 'lO, McAllisters, Cheneys '13, Childs, Englishes '12, Paul Smiths, Montsies '15, Paul Miners '18, Stan Miners '22, and Ray Aliens '17. Are these not reasons enough why we enjoy our southern sojourn? Bee's unsolicited but slight coronary attack in February slowed things up a bit but she has made a fine recovery and will soon be back in harness in Hanover.
About six weeks after you read these notes (if you do) the old regulars plus some new ones will be gathering at the Mt. View in Whitefield. By regulars we mean those who have shared in this party regularly for many years. There are more who have been with us after the Hanover reunions or where the demands of health have prevented the trip. Here is the list of those expected and judge for yourselves if it would be fun to be included: Josh and Ken Clarks, Crooks, Sarge and Stanley Eatons, Farrells, Gardners, Les Gibsons, Griswolds, Keelers, Knapps, Learoyds, Lockes, Mayos, Moseleys, Pearsons, Russells, Sandersons, Steeves, Sterlings, and Burleighs. Now add Red and Marge McLaughlin, Dud Dudley and the Applegates for this year. Any and all 1911 widows are cordially invited to join the group. Among those we count on as reg- ulars annually are Marian Agry, Ruth Backus, Lillian Cooper, Marguerite Eaton, Ruth Mathes, Mildred Rollins and Helen Russell. If you have not already done so it is time to send in your request for a reservation to Schuyler or to Mrs. Catherine Elliott, whom Schuyler has asked to look out for our comforts. There is nothing exclusive about this group. Any classmate may join. Through the years 1911 has had a unique record of freedom from cliques and the continuance of genuine all round good fellowship.
The Grim Reaper still stalks among us. His latest victims are George Thurber and Charlie Warren. A letter from Charlie's wife told of his death in January in the Doctor's Hospital in New York. An announcement in the Boston and local papers told of George's death in March. We have had no word from Charlie for several years but knew that he was busy in New York. George's activities have been restricted in recent years because of ill health.
Walter Haley '13 has come up with an interesting anecdote doing honor to JackIngersoll which is quoted herewith: "As a salesman with the DuPont Co. one of my largest customers was the Thompson Hoague Co. of Concord, N. H. There I got to know Willis Thompson '17 quite well. At one of our conferences about 1925 he mentioned that Jack had come to town. I remarked what a fine football player Jack was in my time and went on to tell this story. During the Harvard-Dartmouth game in the fall of 1910 which we lost 18-0, one play had branded itself on my memory. I did not recall the immediate cause of the play — other than that it was a loose ball - kind of a first come, first served situation. Jack and a Harvard player both went for it as fast as they could run. The ball took one final bounding hop and both men leaped into the air, and stretched out, each their full length, they met with an awful sickening thud. Both dropped and when Jack slowly got to his feet with the ball in his arms, the roar of Dartmouth rooters was deafening, only to be silenced when the Harvard man did not get up. Play was stopped and first aid failing to revive him, he was carried out and lost to sight among the Harvard attendants.
"As I told this I sensed a certain look of disbelief in Mr. Thompson's eyes as he probably wondered how, out of hundreds of plays we both had seen that I could remember one about Jack that had happened fifteen years before. About a week later when I was back in Willis' office he said 'Say, Walter, I met Jack at the Y the other night and told him that incredible story and he said every word of it was true. Then he got a couple of high stools and made me stand on one while he stood on the other, and he showed me just about how his knee hit the Harvard man and where he got a shoulder pad in the face.' He then went on to tell me how Jack had called at the Stillman Infirmary the next day to inquire about the other man, and was told that he was conscious but sluggish in his responses and they were still taking X rays to determine his exact condition. Since the team broke training, in those days, after the Harvard game, Jack stayed over in Boston, and visited the man in the hospital the next day. Right then started a friendship that existed to that day in 1925."
You all will recall the abundance of dogs in Hanover in our day. You should see them now. No campus or athletic event is complete without dog interruptions. The principal damage they do is digging and scratching in people's gardens and flower beds. This led to the introduction of an article in the warrent for the annual precinct meeting, calling for their restraint. There were arguments pro and con and one of the latter was a letter in the Hanover Gazette from our Howard Dunham. Here are excerpts therefrom: "During the past three years the increasing number of dogs roaming about Hanover has created a problem. They come through my place in all sizes; tiny dogs, medium size dogs, king size dogs as big as sheep. They trot across my flower borders and seed beds." He offered certain suggestions such as: "Since owners contend that dog is man's best friend they should enjoy its presence in their own homes ... and let the 'dawg' owning family buy a 50-acre farm at least 5 miles from Hanover and move out there. The 'dawg' would love it." At the meeting John Meek '33 is reported to have inquired how to stop the hungry Norwich dogs from crossing the bridge each day on their trek to Thayer Hall in search of their evening meal. Anyway the proposal was voted down. It seems that about every family in town has a dog and their votes were too much for the nondog owners. In keeping with Washington gossip the question was also raised as to whether naked animals should be allowed about the town unclothed.
Sometimes in preparing these notes essential or interesting items are unintentionally omitted, or it may be that things are printed that should be omitted. I apologize for such an instance when in the February issue I failed to include the names of Charles and Clara Jordan among those attending AI Wheeler's funeral and they were among his closest friends.
Stan Macomber keeps in touch with Helen Wheeler, who in addition to her regular activities participated in a play in Weston and was pictured in the "Framingham Town Crier" instructing the Junior Red Cross in making garments for Algerian refugees.
Linda Hutchinson will never make a Dartmouth man out of Maynard, but he is pretty broad minded in admitting excellence where it exists. His commendatory remarks covered two subjects about which he said there could be no argument viz. the 1962 football team and the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Shorty and Muriel Mayo have the distinction of being the only 1911 representatives at two important Dartmouth gatherings, the Boston annual dinner and a meeting attended by John and Chris Dickey in Hawaii. Temporary illnesses have upset our attendance at these affairs.
Part of the Class of 1912 in Californiais pictured at the Roland Ahlswede homein La Canada: (I to r) Sam Hobbs, Ahlswede, Roy Frothingharn, Warren Bruner.
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Class Agent, 92 State St., Boston, Mass.
