1916

Back at the old stand with the wish that you have had a pleasant summer. I hope that if you traveled abroad you got to countries where they didn't say, "Yankee, go home." At any rate welcome to the pages of this venerable MAGAZINE, and may you find good reading between its covers in the coming year.

Anson and Leila Bates returned the mid-dle of June from a five months' European trip which will be recounted more fully in a Newsletter. One of the pleasantest features of their trip was a delightful visit with GeorgeHarding Smith at his beautiful place in Normandy.

Congratulations to Fletch Andrews, who has been elected vice-president of the General Association of Alumni. Fletch is dean emeritus of Western Reserve Law School, Cleveland. He joined that faculty in 1927 and was dean from 1948 to 1958. After his retirement he continued part-time teaching until 1964, while holding a key position in Probate Court. He is legal counsel, chief master and referee of the court. He holds a LL.B. degree from Western Reserve and a LL.D. from Yale University. He is a past president of the Cleveland Bar Association.

Dick Parkhurst writes Ed Craver, "Good of you to call up on your wedding anniversary day. Well I remember with what trepidation I wielded that razor! Do you recall that I had to leave the wedding reception early in order to get to Newton for Carl Holmes' wedding later that same afternoon?" Those were the happy days! The date — June 12, 1920. And speaking of Dick's razor, that was before the days of the Wilkinson Sword Blade and the enjoying of it shave after shave after shave — like the chap who used a blade 72 times. It turned out, however, that he was only eight years old. . . . Dick was in Hanover in June to observe 1915's grand Fiftieth. He came away very much impressed and loaded with ideas for our big gathering in June next year. ...

It wouldn't be a summer for Dick unless he got aboardship. I had a word from New-buryport where he was splicing the mainbrace on the USCG "General Greene," while attending the 175th Anniversary of the U. S. Coast Guard.

Congratulations to Charlie Brundage on a job well done as he retires from the chairmanship of the Bequest and Estate Planning Committee of the Alumni Council. His final report shows the receipts from this program in fiscal 1965 will be the second highest since the program started - being surpassed only by fiscal 1960, when the College received a single bequest of nearly $2,500,000. As of June 10 receipts this year, including new bequests of over $1,000,000, were $2,622,426.

Al Caiman, who has been Professor of History at Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., for 43 years, and chairman of his department for more than three decades, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at that college's commencement in June. In his last month before retiring from teaching duties, Al also received a gift from the Phi Beta Kappa members of the Upsala faculty in recognition of his service to the college; and the New Jersey State Assembly passed a resolution honoring him for his service in the field of higher education in the state.

John Ames and Charlie Jones send me clippings from New York papers featuring the sensational trotter, "Dartmouth," who had just won the $100,000 Realization Trot at Roosevelt Raceway. He was styled one of the most underrated standardbreds in history. A week or so later he raced here in Philadelphia at the Liberty Bell Track and again came off the victor in a fine field of trotters. Can this perhaps be taken as a hopeful augury for the football team - or the track team? Charlie inquires of the horse, "Was he foaled in the Bema? Was he taught to trot by our famous track coach, Harry Hillman? Does he give part of his winnings to the Alumni Fund?"

Olin and Dotty Smith have four grandchildren who are fine swimmers. The youngest girl, Linda Williams, is one of the best 12-year-old free stylers in the Middle Atlantic States. She swims for the Hershey Aquatic Club, in the Harrisburg area, and has also won many races in Philadelphia meets. Olin sends me a half-page spread from a Harrisburg paper about this young lady with some pictures of the blonde young mermaid. She and her sisters have won dozens of medals and ribbons for their athletic prowess. Olin adds, "If Dartmouth goes co-ed I'll try to steer her 'that-a-way.'"

The report of the Alumni Fund was set forth in quite some detail in the August Newsletter, but your Secretary must take some small space here to say again what an outstanding job Burt Lowe and his stalwarts did in bringing 1916 from last place in our section of the Green Derby in 1964 to third place this year. The Class and the College say thank you to these men for all their strenuous work.

The Class is deeply grieved at the deaths of our Classmates Jack Curtin and RogerMorse, which were reported in the August Newsletter, and whose obituaries will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. The sincere sympathy of the Class is expressed to the families of these loyal members of 1916.

Secretary, 7 Swarthmore Place Swarthmore, Pa.

T reasurer, Staples Point, Freeport, Maine

Bequest Chairman,