1913
Dr. Cy Jones writes from Sarasota, Fla., that there was a wonderful meeting of the Dartmouth clan early in December at the Sarasota Yacht Club. The next meeting was December 30 at high noon at the Plaza. A speaker from Hanover was to be there.
Stub Stoughton has just acquired his eleventh grand papoose, thanks to Dick and Dorothy. Nancy is expecting in February so when you read this it may be "twelve or more." Stub goes again to Lakeland, Fla., about March 1.
Pheney and Ann Badger spent the holidays this year on a Caribbean cruise and then will be in New York at 120 East 79th Street 11-D all winter and back on Cape Cod come spring looking forward to another reunion in June — off year reunion.
Bill English's daughter Theiss Tibbs lost her husband in December. He died at the Windsor Hospital after a long illness. You will remember that young Theiss E. Tibbs attended our 50th reunion last year with her grandfather Bill.
Hamie Hamilton and Louise included in their card a clipping from the Great Falls Tribune stating that Hamie's father, L.H.H. Sr. now 85, is the oldest volleyball player in the nation. He captained the squad which won the city volleyball championship competition at the Y.M.C.A.
Eric Foster and Grace are in Bonita Spring, Fla., where Eric had pneumonia. They still live in Candia, N. H.; they use Raymond post office. That was the reason for former notice.
One good bit of news or information arrived in December; Russell Carr's address is 387 Clarkson St., Denver, Colo.
General Willson and Edna spent six weeks with son Sam in his cottage on Long Island and a week in Vermont for the fall foliage; two weeks in Rochester, N. Y., with Bob and Betty and their three children. Two weeks in a little motel at Hot Springs, Va., on the return trip to Florida completed their tour.
George Stiles and Grace see the 1913 group in their area frequently. As usual they spent the Christmas holidays with Caroline and her family in Richmond, Va. George Davidson, Cap Avery, Earle Bidwell, Hal McAllister attended the first alumni luncheon of the West Palm Beach group. Twenty were present and four were 1913. Cap Avery asks that I throw a snowball at something for him.
Harvey and Virginia McClary were presented by Connie with a third grandson in October, Andrew McClary Paul. You'll all remember the Pauls at the reunion.
Gertrude Hutchinson, Rollo Hutchinson's widow, writes from Newport, R. I., of her great regret in missing the reunion and that Red Spillane did not contribute "Glory, glory, glory" with other songs.
As secretary I reported on my trip to Dallas via way stations and now I report on the return. Kennedy's assassination stunned the city as it did the country. I missed the Friday luncheon at the Dallas Dartmouth Club by four days. After Thanksgiving and flying back to Atlanta, Ga., I drove to Rome, Ga., to see Mose Ewing's widow Bertha and to meet Mrs. Inez Henry, assistant vice president of Berry College at Mt. Berry where Mose taught and where Bertha worked for 38 years. You may recall that Bertha and Inez Henry had planned to attend the reunion and all reservations were made before the last minute cancellation. If you have not read "The Miracle of the Mountains" by Hartnett T. Kane and Inez Henry, do so by all means. It is Inez's story; you'll realize that since her own graduation from the Berry Schools in 1921 she has worked there with Martha Berry until her death. She received an honorary degree of humanities from Berry in 1960. Bertha Ewing graduated in 1917. George Steele agrees with me on the excellence of the book and its fascination. He followed me down to Berry from Atlanta after I had gone on the Tennessee and can vouch for the tremendous interest the schools have. He arrived at Rome and Mt. Berry from Atlanta just after I left, for a short visit with Inez Henry and Bertha Ewing.
In Chattanooga I went to Lookout Mountain and the battlefield park. Bob Purse '53, president of the Dartmouth Club of Chattanooga, and Henry Crumbless Jr. '57, secretary, live there in beautiful homes. Bob was in New England and Henry in Chattanooga; both commute so I talked with their wives and left greetings from Hanover. Jean Purse comes from Concord, N. H., daughter of Doug Everett '26 and sister of Ted Everett '54, so I had a great chat. The return trip through North Carolina, Georgia, the Carolinas again, Virginia, and states north took so much time with "visiting" I had to skip Washington to return for Christmas with Paul Reed '25 and family in Manchester, Mass., and then to Potter Place.
Secretary, Box 62, Potter Place, N. H.
Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
