1919
Ken Huntington reports on the monthly luncheon in March of the metropolitan '19ers at the Dartmouth Club in New York. Chet Demond, Dick Dudensing, Hal Parsons, Nick Sandoe, Lou Munro, Ray Legg, and Ken were on hand a pleasant time was had by all. Hal has to use special aluminum cane devices to get around but appeared to be in very good spirits and reported that Ethel had come through her setbacks in very good shape. Ken also reports a short West Indies cruise coming up for the Huntingtons.
Rock and Alice Earle Hayes and the Rands spent a few days on the west coast in Venice, staying at Fred Daley's Warm Mineral Springs Inn. We golfed, swam in the 87 degree pool, and had a fine time with Fred and Gert. They drove us to Sarasota for a good Dartmouth party and '19 was well represented by the Larry Milligans, now residents of Sarasota, where Larry is a representative of Previews Inc., Bunnyand Madaleine Collins, Hal and FlorenceMorse, Paul and Adelaide Clements and the above mentioned delegation from Venice. Bob and Anne Lewis, from Lebanon, have been in Venice all winter but couldn't make the party. We saw Art Brentano for a short time on a visit to Charlotte and Hugh Morrison '26, and tried to talk the Brentanos into coming to Hanover in June. Stu andDot Russell stopped by Ocean Ridge on their way east from Scottsdale and heading for Hanover via Ponte Vedra and Holyoke. They report a fine dinner and visit with the Sterlings and the Jacksons. Spider and BeaMartin arrived at the Country Club of Florida in Delray for a few weeks and your Secretary and Marion promptly hustled them off to Fort Lauderdale for a Dartmouth party at the Yankee Clipper where KingCole, a recent arrival in Delray where the Coles will make their home, Spider and your Secretary were the only '19ers present.
En route we stopped in to see Charlie McGoughran '20 in his swish apartment in Fort Lauderdale, and found ourselves knee deep in 1920's, Mildred and Nate Whiteside, Virginia and Ed Bowen, the Leo Ungars, lowa's representative on the Alumni Council, and Raynor and Ruth Hutchinson - Raynor being a former champion badminton player in Boston. Waldo Chamberlain, Dean of the Summer Session in Hanover, was the speaker and brought the assembled alumni present up to date on all the projects going on at the College and did a very fine job.
We are always tempted to quote from Sid Hayward's Bulletin which some of you receive, and usually resist, but his writing on the Alumni College, August 16-27, is a must, quoting, "the Alumni College is the greatest invention since the wheel — we are thinking of the wheels on the ox cart which conveyed Eleazar from Connecticut through the wilderness to Hanover nearly 200 years ago. Our new and welcome project has its wheels too: For example the enthusiastic blessing of the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council; the support and deep interest of John Sloan Dickey who made front page news by announcing the unique plan at the great 100th Anniversary Banquet of the Boston Alumni Association, January 22 attended by 1200 braves and squaws; the leadership of Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs '21 (retired) of Hanover who is chairman of the plan that TIME magazine calls an alumni occasion 'to heft brains rather than bottles'; and other sturdy support personified by the special committee in charge." ...
A card from Ed Fiske indicates that now that the curling season is over, the Fiskes and family are headed south to Ormond Beach to play some golf and get some sun. Gladys and Si Stein entertained the Hayeses, Rands and Dan Shea '18 in their lovely apartment at Kenilworth House in Miami Beach in early March, winding up a fine time with luncheon at the adjoining beach club. The Steins were headed south for some fishing on the Florida Keys and then back to Muscatine. A personally conducted tour of the new St. Andrews School in nearby Boca Raton by trustee Alex Henderson was a most rewarding experience. The plant is very attractive, the headmaster is H. Proctor Martin '29, and, as of March, they have 190 boys in attendance which is about all they can handle at present. The progress made by the school in two years is amazing and a great great credit to Alex and his associates.
When you read these notes, being typed in Florida on a cloudy day (how can anyone say that about the Sunshine State?), the 1964 Alumni Fund campaign will be well into its second month and how is 1919 shaping up in competition with classes of our time? Early reports (March) indicate that we are doing pretty well on advance gifts, but, as usual, this is due to the extreme generosity of a very few in the class, whose gifts increase each year. How long has it been since you increased your gift or are you in a rut and continue to send the same old amount each year? Many of us are re- solved to give a substantial up to our gift this year to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Fund and to put 1919 right up at the top of classes of our time, and this will require the realistic giving of every member of the class. And we do have our 45th reunion June 15-17, which is an additional reason for additional giving in 1964. See you next month.
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, Madison Ave., Shelton, Conn.
