1911

Wee Kimball not only publishes an outstanding class newsletter but he also controls the weather. Sept. 22 was as beautiful a fall day as ever comes our way with the fall coloring just breaking forth. This was Wee's and Elsie's picnic day at his ancestral home in Contoocook, overlooking the hills and mountains of central New Hampshire. This was their third party of such ambitious proportions, and each year they were favored with just such co-operation from the weatherman. The word "Picnic" is improperly used in view of the sumptuous repast they set before us. Wee explains his success in business by careful analysis and planning and meticulous attention to detail. You will have noticed that in his thorough editing of "Leven Up." Here is his countdown on this party in which he covered the state and environs. Twenty-two classmates and wives accepted and were present. There were six more non-eleveners, nine more eleveners were due but were prevented by illness or funerals from attending. Another fourteen had to decline originally and only one failed to reply. This secretary is envious of a record in which he got virtually a 100% response. Those enjoying the occasion were Burleighs, Chamberlains, Josh Clark, Dudley. Dunham, Emersons, Goodings, Griswolds, Kimballs, Midge Lovejoy, Spim Norris, Pearsons, Pendleton, Sandersons, Armes '12, Ann Hodgkins ('20), Louise Kimball ('14), McAllasters '20, and Sybil Danforth.

Gloom however was cast over this occasion by the tragic news of the death of Ted O'Leary the previous Saturday. He was killed in an automobile accident when his car was in collision with another car. His wife, Alice, who was with him was taken to the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis with lacerations of the forehead but was reported in good condition that night. As these notes go to press there is no later information available, but a more complete story will appear next month. Ted and Alice had only recently moved into their fine large house at 12 Wequasset Rd., Harwichport, Mass.

The College is being forehanded and making sure that 1911 is preparing for its 55th reunion by sending official notice that the classes of '01, '06, '11, and '16 will reune from Friday, June 10-Sunday, June 12, 1966.

It was a pleasure to welcome to Hanover Dave Hedges and his son Dan who was entering Dartmouth with the class of 1968. The full name of the third generation of Dartmouth Hedges is Daniel Kauldell Hedges. Dave's son Dave Jr. is a senior at Leland Stanford University.

Fred Sprague writes from Rockport, Mass., that he wants to receive the MAGAZINE and that he plans to be at Whitefield next June.

Marguerite Eaton reports on a busy summer having visits from her three sons and their families. She says that she still can pull a soda through a straw.

We are glad to welcome back to our active list of gals, Arretta Putnam and Dorothy Stevens of Weymouth, Mass., and Concord, N. H., respectively. They bring the number of widows who are interested to participate in 1911 affairs up to 46.

Your secretary tries to keep informed about classmates so that he can report to you what the rest of us are doing. There are a few men about whom you see little in print but who, nevertheless, may always be counted on to do their Dartmouth chores and in their own quiet ways. But the quietest group are those few who have disappeared from sight and hearing. Neither the college office nor we know whether they are living or dead. The college does not officially list a man as deceased without proof or substantiation of the fact but does relegate them to an inactive list labelled "disinterested." It is probable that nearly all of the men listed below are dead but at any rate they have been lost and unheard from for over 35 years. If any classmate has any knowledge of any one of these please send it along.

Here are the "Eleven Unknowns": Rolfe W. Bond (at one time in Los Angeles County General Hospital); John F. Carroll; William P. Downey (only address we ever had, Goodwill Farm, Hinckley, Me.); John R. Emerson (confined in State Hospital, Medfield, Mass., in 1928); Charles S. Hale Jr.; John R. Hayes; Francis (Bowler) F. Johnson (with American Oil Products Co., Somerville, Mass., when last heard from); William A. Noyes, last seen by a classmate in Chicago in 1929); William F. Plant Jr.; Clarence G. Stone (attended Oklahoma A&M College and was in business in Tulsa when last heard from); Harry F. Waterhouse (engineer with F. G. Shattuck Co., New York City in 1929).

With two exceptions all of the above men attended Dartmouth only one year or less, and no one over two years. The only others on our inactive list are five men who after freshman year transferred to other colleges from which they graduated and give fealty to those colleges.

At 1912's 52nd were (l to r) Randy Burns, Ned Richmond, Floppie and Roy Lewis.

Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.