1914

The following men are noted for right decisions. They decided to go to Dartmouth College, to graduate in 1914 and to be born in November. Let's stand and give a skoal to: Austin, Barrows, Brown, Campbell, Elkins, Foss, Humphrey, Piatt, Ross, Saltmarsh, Stratton, and Webber.

Some time when you are roaming around the country and land near Phillipsburg, Pa., you will get a good welcome if you telephone to Rachel and Ralph Jenkins. They have just bought a "new" "old" house and Ralph is busy using his mathematics, his funds, and his carpenterial skill in a major remodelling job. The old house in Somerset, N. J., was too big and cumbersome (and I suspect it cost too much to heat) so they have taken the big plunge after 37 years in the old house. We are looking forward to an invitation to see the finished product.

Our perennial helper, Pennell Aborn, was kind enough to write that Clyde Buckley has just emerged from the hospital after a stay of four weeks. That's a long time in any hospital, but Clyde says he's "dragging along on all four wheels with no tires." Clyde also says he does not notice any improvement, but those of us who are in the surgical know from experience can tell Clyde that the slow convalescence is usual. Good luck, Clyde.

Jack Dellinger says he'd prefer not to be bothered by the class secretary when he's right in the middle of writing a letter to four Rocky Mountain Boys who said they wouldn't come to the Reunion. We hope the letter produced results, Jack, and we apologize abjectly for calling your wife May. Of course we know it's Gay, but apparently the typographer didn't. We hope all is forgiven.

Roscoe DeWitt, our eminent architect, has just finished his work on the extension of the East Front of the Capitol in Washington, D. C. It is our firm hope that all that transpires in that august building measures up to the talent that Roscoe put in to the architecture. But somehow or other we have a furtive suspicion that that probably ain't so. When we asked Roscoe about his travels he said that he goes to Europe now and then and that his work takes him to Florida in the winter. When we are reborn we are going to be a successful architect.

We sometimes wonder why some of our most loyal and friendly men don't respond to the secretary's urgent requests for news. And then the mystery is answered when we get a good letter such as we did from Johnny Hazen in Holyoke, Mass. Johnny did manage to get up to the Reunion briefly, but he is sorely beset by one of the ills that besets us. and has had to limit many activities. In fact he goes to the office at the Hazen Paper Company for only a couple of hours each morning, but leaves the affairs of this successful company which he founded largely in the capable hands of his son and nephew. His son, Thomas, graduated from Dartmouth in '57, has two children and lives near Johnny so that he can see them nearly every day.

If you remember your Senior Cane and still have it you can probably find a little derby hat beautifully chiseled on it. That's Derby Hall. Derby keeps busy in Boston with a lot of business things and gives a great deal of time to the preservation of the Royall House in Medford, Mass. This gracious colonial edifice is kept in perfect repair by the committee headed by our own Derby. Derby also writes that he enjoyed every single minute of the Reunion. And he's certainly not alone in that.

If you need advice on how to run a textile empire, or if you need to hear one of the choicest jokes of the century, or if you need some beautiful furniture made, take a plane to Charlotte, N. C., and ask anybody, on alighting, where Mat Hallett lives. He has just built an office on his beautiful house and I am sure will be his usual accommodating self. Mat and his wife, Jean, took time off from North Carolina activities to spend 2½ months in Europe, leaving his son John and daughter Katherine and their seven grandchildren holding the fort in the United States. Don't forget to ask Mat about the effectiveness of the word "no."

It is now completely official! Your secretary is now the owner of 200 or 300 acres in Erewhon County, New Hampshire. You see Doc Kingsford was credited in the Golden Book with 100 acres more than he actually owns. So he very generously gave them to me. Chris and I accepted this gift on the condition that Doc builds a nineroom house with a view on the property and would divert a trout stream through the woods and then pay for the upkeep. Apparently our counter-offer was accepted because we have a very official looking communication from Ducky Drake's camp in Norway, Me., giving us full title to the property. This formidable looking document was signed by Ducky Drake, Hod Potter, Doc Kingsford, Fern Kingsford, Sally Potter and Marian Drake. Our beloved doctor from Weymouth says our house is going to look funnny with four bedrooms, two bathrooms but no living room or kitchen. But we call this kind of criticism "carping." Walter Lyons (we called him "Tige") is most fortunate in his selection of his places Of domicile - New Jersey and New Hampshire with 2½ months each year in the glorious setting of Ossipee. He credits himself with the same wife and 14 grandchildren, which I think is a record, even for prolific 1914 and offspring. He is just eight miles from "Doc" Kingsford and I hope that some time "Tige" wanders over to Doc's place with a piano because "Doc" knows how to use one.

Some men are born distinguished, some marry distinction and some acquire it through their children. Our good friend Walter Netsch took all three routes to lasting distinction. His son, Walter Jr., is one of the best known modern architects in the country and is Chief of Design for the prestigious firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and is responsible for some of the best known buildings in the United States. Young Netsch is only the second American to win the $25,000.00 Reynolds Memorial Award - this time for the striking Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado. When the designs were presented to Congress a storm of controversy arose, but the award of this prize completely vindicates the forward thinking and the talent of Walter's son. Walter Sr., who lives in LaQuinta, Calif., is now retired from a most successful career in the meat business and spends most of his time taking care of his date palms, fruit trees, roses and other plants and flowers that flourish in this salubrious climate.

That's all this time. But, please get out your favorite pen and send us just a note about you and your family. It would help make the sun shine!

Secretary, Farwell Lane, New London, N. H.

Treasurer, 165 Marlboro St., Wollaston 70, Mass.