1915
A year ago we reported that the winter ahead was going to be "tough with orneryness," and so it turned out. Do we dare hope the law of averages will reverse the edict this year? Let's try it and see!
Ralph Sawyer, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Horace H. Racham School of Graduate Studies at University of Michigan, received the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America, one of its highest awards, at a dinner October 24 at the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago. A remarkable recent picture of Ralph together with a historic photograph of him operating a vacuum spectrograph, developed by him as a Guggenheim Memorial Fellow (1926-27) in Berlin, Germany, highlights him as Spectroscopist-of-the-Month.
A sprained foot, amongst other things, prevented George Ingalls from attending our Interim Reunion in October. He didn't say whether he was doing "the twist," or what!
Norvie Milmore's daughter from Muncie, Ind., with her four children and a friend with her two, minus the respective husbands, made the 1000-mile trip for a memorable and rewarding visit with the Milmores pre-Interim back in September - with bathing, boating, sailing, sightseeing, and what-have-you providing the incentive. Norvie seemed recovered by Reunion time!
"Pete" Pray, our Philadelphia member, comes up with a couple interesting clippings - one of "The Desert Rat," a sheet put out by Smoke Tree Ranch of Palm Springs, Calif., the address of our Denny Grant, and the other a good looking news picture of Hal and Marjorie Tideman of Santa Barbara. "Pete" was a bit vague about these clippings but they both seem to have a common denominator in that "lawn bowling" is mentioned in both. Maybe Denny and Hal can set us straight on this!
Howard and May Belle Stearns got a lift out of the preaching of Reverend "Howard Jr." last summer in their church in Wellesley Hills, the church in which he grew up and was ordained. Howard's church has a fascinating history, for it was in that church that the witchcraft delusion originated - many of the original records are in the vault of the church. They drove to Hanover in August and went through Hopkins Center - Howie is not too exuberant about the architecture.
Dud Woolworth comes up with some very tempting reasons for a jaunt down to Florida —in the form of a brochure outlining luscious sea foods at an Oyster House not far from his domicile, pinpointing "what you'll see on your next trip down here." With the wintry winds whining around here, that is hard to resist! Dud says he turned over his Harvard-Dartmouth tickets to a nephew in Boston last October, but "it did no good!" Better luck next year, Dud.
Al Cleveland, weighing a strong 135 lbs., says he has a couple rugged games of Scrabble every two weeks with his family doctor, Philip Thompson '02, a near neighbor. Footballer Bill Curran, and hurdler Derry Trenholm '17, live fairly near. Rather a potent Dartmouth colony there in South Portland!
Don Bennink, commenting on his welcome to the "3 Score & 10 Club," says: "I gather you're already a member, but you don't look it, or do you?" (Don hasn't seen me in some years!) Says he's feeling fine and still at his law business every day.
I like the reply a seven-year-old daughter made when her mother admonished her for answering her teacher's query as to whether she was a little girl or a little boy by saying she was a boy - "Well, when somebody asks me a dumb question I give them a dumb answer."
A card from Portugal from Bob Fredericks late in October says they are sitting at a table in Kasbah with some personal friends of Speed Granger. Bob says they got bumped off their plane for seven hours in Barcelona, so arrived in Madrid at 5 a.m. instead of 10 p.m. Small world (particularly at that hour)!
A most interesting letter from Art Ford in Butler, Ind., in answer to a query from me, describes the program of "Companion Collies" established about fourteen years ago by his daughter, Dr. Lee Ford, a full professor of genetics and director of a widespread project of breeding and training collies as "leader dogs" for blind youngsters and companions for retarded or otherwise handicapped folks, old or young. A liberal education in the field of genetics!
It seems there was more than met the eye in our casual mention last month of Herb Potter's visit to Boston at Harvard game time. The Purcell chowder club gang was assembled and regaled with a fabulous account of Herb's peregrinations - California via the desert route, car broke down and towed out of the mesa; a trip to Scotland where his wife bought him a shirt; sent daughter Julie from Berlin to Japan on vacation; and capped the whole by picking up the gang's luncheon check (plus tip) when no one was looking. Herb enjoyed his trip no end and left no doubt in anyone's mind about that. He promised to be on hand for the 50th and left for Texas leaving everyone beaming. Atta boy, Herb! Included in the gang on hand were Geo. Steele '13, Carl Shumway '13, Pen Aborn '14, and '15ers Dale Barker, Nut Norwood and EbenClough.
Seen at the Cornell game in Hanover were the Eben doughs, the Kike Richardsons, Bob Bigelow, the George Martins and the Chan Fosters. I imagine the postponement of the Princeton game cancelled out quite a few scheduled "tailgate" parties - your scribe included - for the first time in years.
After joining Chan at a Hotel Trustees' meeting in Hanover, Dot Foster was headed for a Bridge tournament in Miami late in November.
Sid Crawford apparently has an accommodating dentist, conveniently taking off on a hunting trip in the midst of a bunch of dental appointments, thereby permitting Sid to attend the Interim Reunion. Sid reports a delightful summer with all the children present and lots of fun. Late in September Sid was still indulging in his daily dip in the ocean, but only sea gulls were left on the beach! He says he finally quit before someone had his head examined. He seemed all right at the Interim!
A little late, but - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Secretary, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.
Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.
