1915
This quote from The Scandal Sheet strikes a responsive note: "The five greatest inventions of all time are beds, breakfast, dinner, supper, and women."
Under the heading "Group Sees Brazil Despite Snow" appears a picture of Mrs.Don Bennink heading the committee in charge of the Lawrence (Mass.) Garden Club at a January meeting where a program of color slides picturing sunny, warm scenes of Brazil was presented - in striking contrast to the then-enveloping snow which blanketed New England at the time. Mrs. Bennink is president of the Lawrence Garden Club.
A colorful card from Muriel (Mrs. Dan)Waugh from San Mateo, Calif., describes an extension of her eleven-day Hawaiian trip to San Diego, Salt Lake City, Minne- apolis, and back to Connecticut by April 8. She says the ten grandchildren have grown and lots of fun to be with.
"Chuck" Ingram reminisces a bit about freshman year when Hal Pinkham and BillRogers roomed next door to him in Thornton Hall. Bill, as a footballer, and Hal, as a poet, offered an interesting roommate combination.
A series of intriguing missives from the Eben Cloughs indicate an extensive tour down through Maryland, the Williamsburg Restoration in Virginia, Cocoa Beach, and Fort Lauderdale in Florida and, apparently, more to come as they were heading for St. Petersburg, as of March 1. Eben says they looked high and low for some of his ancestors, while Margy couldn't wait to crawl into her Florida bikini. They woke BenSlade up out of his beauty sleep in Fayette- ville, N.C. (see end of these notes for Ben's new address) and tied in with Gus and ClaraBraun for a night out on the town in Fort Lauderdale, as well as the famous night boat trip out of that metropolis. It is presumed they'll wait for the snow drifts to clear away from their snug little nest at Ipswich, Mass., before returning North.
Plans for our big 50th next year are starting to roll. With Jack Bowler as Reunion Chairman, Fletch Low in charge of finances and Charlie Comiskey heading up the Attendance Committee, we have the makings of a potent lineup of an unbeatable team. Start feeding the bubble banks, everybody — you'll be surprised how the dough mounts up! And, After 50 Years calls for a renewal of old times and catching up with the new. June of '65 in Hanover is a must!
"Pete" Pray phones in from Philadelphia for a little chat and gossip. Amongst other things, he had lunch some time ago with an old Yale friend who roomed with him and "Zeke" Carpenter during those post-grad Harvard days. From occasional echoes down through the years, I gather those post-grad days at Harvard brought together quite a bunch of congenial souls!
Russ Rice had a note from Earl Ryan explaining delay in his Class Dues with: "Sorry, just out of the sick bay." No further details at this writing. Russ and Isabel were scheduled for a ten-day trip along in March down to No. Carolina - Southern Pines and Pinehurst, west to Asheville, and then home.
One of the interesting books of the day is "James Forrestal," a Study of Personality, Politics, and Policy — by Arnold A. Rogow.
At last report (late January), Marv andMarion Frederick were in New Zealand. And in mid-February, Duze and HelenLounsberry were flying to England, although they were grounded before take-off for 25 hours by bad weather. Bud and Tex Doe report all's well at Cocoa Beach where they'll be until the end of March. On the way down, stopped for a "Hello" visit with JedMowry at Murrell's Inlet, S. C., and brought him up to date on class news. Bud says the fishing down yonder is poor this year, but he did land a 20-inch one (he didn't specify the breed) and warned us up here to take it easy on the snow shoveling! (The only shoveling we do is Off the 7th floor window sills!)
Art Nichols is recuperating nicely at this sitting from an eye operation at Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. A visit with him at the Center confirmed that he was getting top treatment there from all and sundry.
The Barkers and the Murdocks got together of a Saturday evening in mid-February for dinner and gab-fest. Later, on Monday, the two men conferred on shaping up preliminaries for the 50-Year Book now in process of compilation and all classmates are hereby advised to be ready to supply certain biographical information when questionnaires are mailed out this fall.
Commenting on Compulsory Chapel, SidBull reminisces about the rough-housing he used to have to put up with on Sunday evenings when Pete Cannon took such occasions to let loose pent up energy in administering physical fitness perpetrations of his own invention. No wonder the SAE boys were hardy!
"Chink" Chamberlain reports that his 97- year-old mother, who suffered an ailment sometime ago which the doctors couldn't fathom, is now pulling out of it - which has all the doctors and nurses wagging their heads in astonishment. What a remarkable demonstration of stamina!
Referring to Art Nichols again, we had a slight discussion as to comparative ages and I have since verified that Art is the youngest man in the class. Still just a freshman!
And now, as an aid to your Secretary, please consider this: No news is too big, or too small, for this column, but sometimes it is too scarce! How about giving us some? Start off the Spring season right!
Changes of address: Frederic P. Lowe, Villa Siesta, 1001 Braker Lane, Austin, Texas; Lee R. Mac Hale, Beach Hotel, Ft. Myers Beach, Fla.; Benjamin J. Slade, 932 Country Club Drive, Fayetteville, N.C.
Joseph D. NewmarkNew Head Agent for the Class of 1916
Secretary, Apt. 7-G, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N.Y.
Class Agent, 219 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass. 12160
