1919
As most of you know, October 11-13 are the dates for our annual fall assembly and Dave Beach of the Woodstock Inn has twenty (20) rooms, double that is, reserved for the class. Reservations have already come in and later on Dave will ask for a deposit from all. This is the big foliage weekend of the year and the demand for rooms in the area is bigger than ever. Our program is much the same as in previous years - cocktails and dinner at Woodstock Friday evening, lunch for the game Saturday at the Hanover Inn Tavern. Somewhere along the line a trip through Hopkins Cen ter is a must - probably Saturday morning. So mark the date on your calendar. You will hear more about details and any changes in the program from Win Batchelder in a Smoke Signal early in September. Please get your reservations for rooms and football tickets in early. Max Norton will have some plans for our reunion in June 1964 to tell you about - we are getting together with '18 and '20 at that time. Early spring visitors" to the Hanover Plain included Dan Featherston, Jock Murray, Jack Clark, John Chipman, Lou Munro, Bob Proctor, Rock Hayes, Ed Martin, about to retire from Graybar but going to work again running the family newspapers in North Attleboro, Mass. Bob Paisley, nicely recovered from his illness last fall, and the great rowing referee, Tom Bresnahan. Tom could not quite push the Dartmouth crew in ahead of Syracuse in a race on the Connecticut River.
A nice letter from Greif Raible on his winter activities, quoting in part, "We're sorry we missed you in Florida - spent most of our time, in fact, all winter in California. To give you an idea of our activities, we shipped to California our crack filly, Nalee, with hopes that there would be no competition at Santa Anita. In this we were sadly mistaken. Some of our very close friends had the same idea. ... On the 28th we won one race, which was very good, and then we came up with a second race which we took and next we came along to the Santa Ynez Handicap which we won by five and a half lengths and a gold plate. Then on February 14 we went into the Santa Suzanna but unfortunately the night before it rained and they had not covered the track. Our filly just could not catch hold, was sixteen lengths behind. We thought everything was over, but this was her finest race. She came around from the rear on the outside and was in the lead as she passed us twenty feet from the finish. But she slipped in a mud puddle and lost by a nose in a photo finish." Greif is bringing his stable to Churchill Downs and thence East for the races.
Alex Warden, president and publisher of the Great Falls, Mont., Tribune Leader and the Montana Farmers Stockman, was elected a director of the Northwest Bancorporation (Minneapolis), a bank holding company. Batch and Lou Munro have both heard from Charlie Biddle who has been living in Barcelona, Spain, for the last five years, after many years of foreign service with the First National Bank of New York. He planned a trip to the States in the near future but a thrombosis in his leg has slowed him and he has had to postpone his trip home to take treatments for his ailment. Here's hoping that Charlie comes home 'this summer and makes a trip to Hanover without fail to see all the wonderful things that have happened in the last few years.
Nan Lewis, Oscar's widow notes, - "Will you please convey to the class my gratitude for their contribution to the Dartmouth Library of a volume in his memory. Oscar used and enjoyed the library much while he lived here in Thetford. I appreciate the kind thought of the class." Quoting in part from a nice letter from Art Palmer, now of Charlottesville, Va„ "I looked you up on the road map (the Palmers were in Florida) with the intention of dropping in, but found you were too far away. Both Dorothy and I succumbed to the virus while we were in Venice (Fla.) but fortunately there was a doctor in the house so we received prompt and continuous care. I had hoped to get up to Sarasota to see Paul Clements again, but was unable to do that either. We did, however, have a most enjoyable evening at my son's house (in Venice) with Fred and Gertrude Daley, their two daughters and the daughters' husbands."
Art and Dorothy announce the marriage of their daughter Ellen Gail to Mr. Roger David Middlekauff Jr. on Friday, April 19 in Saint Paul's Memorial Church in Charlottesville.
Recent address changes include Robert W. S. Schulz, 91 Pinckney St., Boston 14, Mass., John K. Wetherby, Rt. 1, Roberts, Wis., and back on the active list, the Rev. W. Dixon Hoag, Old Lyme, Conn.
On our trip to the West Coast, while in Florida, we missed connections with Ednaand Dick Werfelman in Fort Myers (what a beating those beautiful royal palm trees took there when they had the frost in early December). A nice note from Dick expressed their regret and mentioned seeing two eminent members of 1918, namely Stan Jones and Dan Shea, who are doubtless back in their New York haunts by now. After forty years in that city, your Secretary can hardly stand being in it for more than 24 hours. Another New Yorker, Lou Stone notes that, "We miss you at those monthly (1919) Dartmouth Club gatherings of the clan but periodically some stray disciple shows up — so it's interesting." We still have hopes of seeing Jean and Lou in Hanover come summer.
And now so long in the MAGAZINE until October, keep the news coming to both the Secretary and Batch and keep smiling.
1920 classmates Jack Mayer (l) and HarryWorth met on winter vacations in Florida.
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, Madison Ave., Shelton, Conn.
