1911
First things first, and that is where we put this final announcement about our informal reunion at the Mt. View, starting June 26 and going through the month. The cost and other details were given in the last issue of "Leven Up." Just make sure that your request for reservations has been made. Most of the "Regulars" have already signed up and add Wee and Els Kimball to that list as most welcome participants. Also it is gratifying to know that Ed and FrancesKeeler following Ed's two and a half months in the hospital will be on hand. Via JohnPearson we learn that Ed still is dependent on a cane but he can get up and down stairs, is driven to his office every day, but with twenty pounds gone he may have to buy some suspenders. We surely will be glad to see you out again, Eddie.
May we add our congratulations to those of his associates in their honoring of Josh Clark on his completion of fifty years' service with the State Mutual Life Insurance Company. The occasion was a small private gathering at the Parker House in Boston which was attended by three vicepresidents from the home office and other company friends and described by Josh as "a small intimate male affair. It seemed good to be there to be greeted, lied about and greet everybody, and where you could order what you wanted to eat." His "peddling" of life insurance consisted of being general agent of the company in Boston for most of those years until his retirement to General Agent Emeritus at age 65. He is still doing a grand job at "peddling" Alumni Fund needs to the class of 1911, and scholarship aid to all alumni for the Dartmouth Educational Association. The treasurer's report for this year contains this paragraph: "An outstanding effort by Joshua B. Clark 'll, Vice President, produced about 350 new members in the year under review. This accomplishment by Josh, after absorbing the inevitable attrition, produced the remarkable net increase in membership recorded for 1962."
Gabe and Elsie Farrell have become Sea Island, Ga., converts along with the SargeEatons, Jack Russells, Ed Keelers, JackSteeves and other Eleveners as a charming winter vacation resort.
We are delighted at the good news about Betty Curtis, Bill's widow. On May 1 she was married to an old friend, Russell D. Smith, at her daughter's home in Roanoke, Va. He is a retired New York business man. Following a trip to Hawaii, a tour of California and the West they will spend the sum- mer at Alton Bay on Lake Winnepesaukee. In the fall they will move into the Skyway Harbour Apartments now being built near the Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Fla. The address is 7200 34th St. South.
The C. and G. triumvirate Jake Love joy, Chuck Emerson and Boli Sherwin made their annual trek to Hanover for the strawberry festival, and offered their services to their local classmates. Last year it was repairing Pearson's incinerator. This year it was taking up his duck-boards.
Ruth Backus writes from England: "Here I am in this charming Cotswold town (Chipping Campden) where I came in 1959. London for ten days was fine though weather poor, cold, and rain almost every day. Spring is late here after a dreadful winter."
The Dick Chases have left their winter quarters in Concord, Mass., to return to their home in Osterville. They are already flirting with the idea of returning to the Dunedin Hotel on the outskirts of Clearwater, Fla.
The latest 1911 landowner in Florida is none other than our class treasurer, BendyGriswold. He and Eunice were making their farewell call on the Knapps in Largo, another outskirt of Clearwater, the day before they started home when they learned the house next door was for sale. They did not buy at the time but waited till the next day, then they were on their way to Saco which will continue to be their principal place of residence.
Brad Patten wrote of their Central American trip, which was most interesting, in these words: "All sorts of tropical birds were new to us and a chance to see the newly excavated Mayan Ruins at Tilsal. Just to add a bit of excitement the day we went up Volcan Irazu in Costa Rica it started to erupt for the first time in fifty years. It was - to put it mildly - exciting to stand on the rim of the crater and watch the steam and sulphur fumes billow out in swirling clouds with a roar that was frightening. We were probably damned lucky in our timing for two days later she let go with streams of lava that destroyed all the surrounding farming area. I would hate to have to start running ahead of that at an altitude of 11,000 feet where leisurely movement made us puff. The country is by no means as spectacular as the Andes area we were in in 58-59, but nevertheless interesting and picturesque."
With the arrival of spring the southern winterites return to their native haunts. The Kimballs are at Contoocook, Crooks in Winthrop, Knapps at Honoeye, N. Y., Holdens at Sebasco Estates, Me'., and Sandersons in Pittsfield, N. H. The Parkers will be happy nowhere except at Hill City, S. Dak., and Sticky Pendleton will retain his Melrose address, though he is still uncertain where he will hang his hat.
Harry and Ruth Horton spent a couple of months in Arizona and Mexico. He retired last January so he now is a man of leisure. Though he was elected chairman he says it is a rather empty title although he is available for consultation. They hope to get East before fall. We surely will be glad of the chance to show them the new Dartmouth if we can find our way around the new buildings.
Jim Irwin, that old reliable so and so, comes to the rescue with a pleasing letter that shows he still reads this news column and gives us up-to-date information about some of the boys. Cap Hedges remains about the same, still has the two husky boys who can pick him up and take him for a ride each day. He is well cared for in Hallmar Infirmary.
Jim refers to a letter from Rick Castle which he says is really history making being the first letter he has ever had from him in the seventy odd years since they first went to kindergarten together in Quincy, then on through grade and high school and finally at Hanover after which their paths divided. He quotes Rick as follows: "Marian and I thoroughly enjoy living in California. We do have some fog and smog, but it is nice to have flowers blooming every day in the year and the mild climate is helpful to Marian. We are very comfortable in our new home which is brand new and very well equipped with its beautiful lounges, dining room, etc., which provide a charming atmosphere for happy living. There are about 270 retired people here now and they are a very interesting group. Eventually there will be 100 more when 60 new cottages are completed. We are planning to move from our apartment into one of them which will give us considerably more room."
We now sign off for the summer and here is hoping that you all retain excellent health and enjoy yourselves to the utmost, including a grand four days together at the Mountain View from June 26-30. Meanwhile keep the news coming in so there will be things of interest to tap out on the old typewriter, come September.
Herb Wolff '10, president of the Association of Bequest and Estate PlanningChairmen, presiding at the May 4 luncheon of the class officers in Hanover.
Secretary, „ Box 171, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 92 State St., Boston, Mass.
