1915

Because readership of the MAGAZINE has become more and more "alumni-wide as contrasted with class-only," we are asked by the editor to treat news items concisely herein, leaving details of greater length for the newsletter. So - with Reunion's echoes waning, summer and fall doings, the advent of football, Thanksgiving coming up and winter in. the offing - here we go!

Howie Fuller, participating in the annual Creative Problem-Solving Institute at Buffalo State University, heard his powerful Memorial Day address at Forest Lawn Cemetery reproduced for the Congressional Record.

Jerry Shaw's wife, Mildred, performed as violinist in the Boston Women's Symphony in the "Pops" services late in July, joining Jerry later at his lodge in New Brunswick. Your Secretary had to turn down an alluring invitation to join Jerry up there on a fishing trip.

The perennial gathering at Purcell's in Boston, hosted by Sherm Saltmarsh '14, brought together a bunch of fish-food lovers who like their victuals spiced with Sauterne. '15ers who smacked their lips over it included Kike Richardson, Marty Martin, Eben Clough, Nut Norwqod, Dale Barker, Duze Lounsberry and Ed Dewing.

Elliot and Hazel Sharp can now feel free to get away when they feel the urge. After more than 15 years of raising chinchillas, a seven-day a week job, they have decided to call it a day. Prior to our 40th Reunion, Elliot was unable to attend Class Reunions on account of chinchillas.

Al Cleveland got in shape for Reunion with a few days up at Pleasant Island Lodge on one of those unpronounceable lakes that make up the Rangeley group up in Maine. Other Maine visitors - post-Reunion - included Russ and Isabel Rice who took their usual vacation up at Little Sebago Lake (this one is pronounceable). A card from Walt Kennedy from Detroit in August indicates recovery from a bout with his doctor who had vetoed his attending Reunion.

Joe Harris is glad and thankful to be back m circulation again after a touch-and-go operation. Joe says when he and Shorty Gray can go fishing again - "that'll be the day!" His chief complaint is that the 1915 Senior cane is too long for his purpose and wife Doris had to import one from Boston that serves very nicely. (I wonder why from Boston!) He adds: "See you at our 55th." Shorty Gray adds a footnote that he and Margaret were headed for Wyoming in July for a couple weeks, where he was to take on his 14-year-old grandson in a fishing bout. In spite of previous years, he thought he could beat him this time. How'd you make out, Shorty?

The log drive pictures in our 50-Year Book inspired Bill Terry '13 to send me an old snapshot taken 50 years ago of a couple log rollers down on the Connecticut - one of them being Bags Wanamaker. Passing the snapshot on to Bags started him off on a nostalgic dissertation about "good old" Jim Hagerty and his grill room gang. I wish we had room here to record some of it. However, some of those old swimming-hole snapshots would hardly pass the censors - even in these "bikini" days!

Eben Clough reports the Chan Fosters were over for a cookout late in July and he put em to work picking raspberries. Eben got in his usual fishing in August with Kike Richardson up in the mountains and says they got a "whale of a haul." (Whales in a fresh water lake?) George and Charlotte Simpson tied in with the Claflins,Chamberlains, Barkers and some others for the annual dinner at the Dartmouth Cape Cod Club down at Osterville in June and then on for further jaunts, ending in early September. An August card from Ruth Winship raves about the divine weather and gaiety in lovely Bermuda, as well as her enjoyment of our 50th, and hopes to see many of us over the Harvard game weekend. PetePray reports satisfactory progress and enjoying the sea air off Long Island Sound at their summer home in Madison, Conn. Johnny Mullin also reports progress and suggests the doctors add a gill of alcohol to his diet as a permanent preservative. He was due back in Hanover for a check-up in October and a visit with his grandson, now a freshman in College.

Ben Slade was pleased to see "all those grand old faces again" at Reunion and bemoans that "down here in the sticks, I don't see them often enough." Dick Merrill, former minister at Second Church, Newton, Mass., returned to preach at union summer services there in July. Don Bennink, going to Probate Court in Exeter, N. H., stopped for a brief visit with Ev Lamson and reports Ev looks fine and younger than most of us. Ev couldn't make Reunion but sends his regards to all the boys whom he had hoped to see in Hanover. A September article in the N. Y. Times says Bud and Tex Doe are having their problems securing apple pickers for their Hawbuck Orchards at Harvard, Mass. Any volunteers? From a well informed source comes this question: "Did you know that Ash St. Clair is considered the best informed man in the whole country on nuclear insurance and is picked by the insurance industry, both stock and mutual, to represent them at Congressional hearings?" Ash and his good wife took off by jet late in August for Portland, Oregon to visit their daughter and three grandsons, returning in about a month. Elvie O'Hara was scheduled to sail for Europe with Dwight's brother early in September, returning in December. Prior to sailing, Elvie typically remarked: "Oh, I'm homesick already." She's been a very busy lady with her many activities in and around Hanover! The Roy I Laffertys took off during a goodly portion of September for a Hanover visitation, giving Roy an opportunity to get in some good licks in familiarizing himself with the makeup of this year's football team. The lapse of time between this writing and its publication precludes any prophesy, but it looks reasonably encouraging! (I hope, I hope!). 78 guests turned out for the 35th wedding anniversary reception tendered the Dale Barkers down on the Cape back in September. '15ers present included the Chamberlains, Claflins, Downings, Noyeses, Rices, Simpsons and Sutcliffes - not to mention the Barkers! Must be they rate with their friends, neighbors, et al! Happy Turkey Day, everybody!

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