1914
In May a great many of us suffer from or rejoice in - a common complaint. It is called "Anno Domini." James Hilton says it is sometimes fatal, but in the cases of the following men whose birthdays occur in May here's a salute and a good many happy returns to: Barnard, Files, Fletcher, Kings- ford, Kinne, LeCount, MacAllister, MacKinnon, Main, Osborn, Sleeper, P.C. Smith, Teachout, and Warren.
If you want to travel and see the world, there are several ways of bringing this about. In the first place, you could join the Marines. Or, you could have as your mother a woman named McClumpha, work up through the ranks until you become Chairman of the Financial Committee of the United States Steel Company, and then retire loaded with honors for civic service as well as industrial performance; the route taken by Enders M. Voorhees. This time he and Polly are on another round-the-world trip by air. They will spend more than a month in Australia and New Zealand and Enders writes that they will tell us more on his return. Here's hoping, and here's hoping that the flying Voorhees have a wonderful trip.
Phil Smith, at very long last, sends along a good letter from Hartford, Conn., in which he says along with many other things, "I am just an ordinary guy with weeds in my lawn in summer and snow in my driveway in winter." This is hardly an accurate reporting of all the facts because Phil, employed in the Federal Office of the Connecticut Labor Department, has performed valiantly for that distinguished state and for that very important department. To quote further from Phil's letter, he quotes George Clayton who was janitor of the administration building in our years in Hanover. "I started as a poor boy, and you've got to give me credit - I've been consistent!" Phil reports happily that all sorts of checks and tests by the doctors reveal no cause for worry on the part of anybody.
When we asked "Vogie" Stiles at Wellesley Hills, he very modestly told us — of course disclaiming his own advancing years - that he has two grandsons of college age - one at Colgate, and the other setting his sights on what was once called Moor's Indian Charity School. All is well with "Vogie" and his family, as it should be.
Our hard working and efficient chairman. Bill Hands, is not only the official head of the class, but a very constant correspondent. Bill writes that Ellsworth Buck is absorbing plenty of sunshine in Florida, and all is coming along well for the editor of our Golden Book. "Bucky" had a long and serious siege, but iron will and strong con- stitution have triumphed.
We understand that Dr. Henry Haywood is preparing his personal history for submission to the class secretary. We have had that promise in our vest pocket for so long now I think I will ask my wife to look in all my pockets because apparently there is quite a hole in one.
Secretarial benedictions, benisons, and blessings on John Norman Hazen. "Johnny" writes a long and interesting letter from Inverness, Fla., where he and Marie have lodged for most of the winter largely because Holyoke, Mass., is not conducive to outdoor bathing all year, and because it seems necessary to go to Florida to catch up on Dartmouth - particularly '14ers. "Johnny" tells us that "Gus" Fuller was laid low with pneumonia for several weeks on his return to Clearwater from the northland and didn't quite feel up to the tasks required in staging another Sunbird. Good luck, Gus!
"Howie" Fahey again in Florida put on a baseball uniform and coached the "Old Timers" even though he is only slowly recovering from a serious illness. "Howie's" place in Hyannisport - now made famous by a resident of Washington, D.C. — is right next to the golf course from which Howie was able to retrieve several hundred golf balls. Of course, he sold them and, in a very characteristic gesture, donated the proceeds to charity. That seems to be an idea worth emulating if you can build your home next to a golf course.
Paul Smith, who started college with us but because of illness had to delay his graduation a year, has had an ideal arrangement winters in Clearwater, and summers in Hanover. Johnny Hazen writes that Paul and Gladys Smith were very cordial hosts.
You may have called him "Rosie," others have called him "Wheenie," but no matter what you called him, he's still the same old Hinman from Rome, N.Y. Rosie and his wife are authorities on old glass and plan to tour Europe, with Mrs. Dick Pritchard, in search of these rarities.
Charlie Batehelder writes - also from Florida - that he attended the dinner at the Sarasota Bay Country Club at which John Sloan Dickey gave a most inspiring address. Rosie Hinman, Walt Daley, Lize Wheelock, and the Charlie Batchelders represented 1914. Charlie writes there may have been others, but just before the dinner, during it, and after it, the mists began to rise and not everybody there was clearly discernible.
That brings us to the end of the notes for this time with the earnest prayer that you gather up your typewriter - I do not say stenographer - and send along just a little word about where you are, what you are doing, and all the other items that (possibly you're surprised) your classmates would find of great interest. We're urgently in need of more news and we thank the 'l4ers who have kept us up to date on family and business doings. Will you help us out?
Sig Larmon '14 (l) shown with J. LeonardReinsch, director of Cox Radio TV stations and President Kennedy, was reappointed by the President for a three-yearterm on the U.S. Advisory Commissionon Information. He was first appointedto this Advisory Commission in 1954.
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