1919

Congratulations to Win Batchelder from from all '19ers for his fine, nostalgic Smoke Signal of September 15, reliving as it did our first days fifty years ago on the Hanover Plain. Batch got his material from a set of bound issues of the Dartmouth furnished some years ago by Teto Webster. A card from Norm and Elizabeth Sterling indicates that they spent part of the summer in Roaring Gap m the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. At this writing, the Sterlings are at their cottage on Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vt., where Norm is catching some fine bass and both are watching the Big Green team in action, before taking off for Ponte Vedra, Fla. Spotted at the opening football game with the University of New Hampshire were the Stu Russells, the Larmons, Huntoons, Huntingtons, Fiskes, Sterlings, Rock Hayes, Ed Martin, and Jack and Hester McCrillis.

Your Secretary and Jack Taylor '22 made the trip to Worcester to watch the team try to give the game to Holy Cross in the first few minutes but to finally come through with a fine showing. Herb and Sally Fleming were there from nearby Shrewsbury, as well as Messrs. Martin and Hayes, and there must have been more.

All of you have received your bill for our annual class dues from our most efficient treasurer, Ray Adams. Hope that by now you have sent Ray a check — if not, please do so right away. Now that our memorial book fund is sufficient to take care of those of us surviving, we have a fine chance to build up some kind of a fund for 1969, our fiftieth reunion and the 200th anniversary of the founding of the College. Howie Cole, our Bequest Chairman, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Bible Society at the society's 156th annual dinner in Boston. A nice picture of Howie appeared in the Boston Herald in honor of the occasion of the election of the prominent Baptist layman. As these notes are being typed, the big annual gathering at Woodstock-Hanover for 1919 is coming up, October 8-10, with a fine crowd expected, larger than usual, as we ran out of rooms some weeks ago. A full report will be in Batch's next Smoke Signal or the December issue of the MAGAZINE.

A nice note from Don Studholme, promi- nent clothier and furnisher of Plattsburg, N. Y., quoting in part, "Thank you for the class birthday card, which, as usual, arrived on exactly the correct day. (Secretary's note, truly a miracle.)... I feel you must have some special arrangement with the Post Office Department, since it is the only piece of mail that I receive in the year that shows up when it should." A quotation from a note from Jim Wilson anent our advancing age, "I must decline what fattens, I must decline what cheers, that is how I know I'm in my declining years," added note from Jim, "I can still dream." Walt Cooper suggests that we wire our birthday greeting "So that the recipient gets it before he passes out - at any rate it arrived on time - but watch it!!!! . . . Louise and I are leaving in September for a flying trip around the world — Hawaii, Japan, Formosa, Thailand, India, Beirut, Vienna and home. If we don't do it now we may not! Time is running out." CharlieWarner of Hopkinsville, Ky., claims that he has been taking his birthdays in "but the recent one was my 70th and suddenly I became aware that I am getting along now, where kids say 'look out for that old man,' while I cross the street at an intersection." Bill Carto, of West Harwich, Mass., says that the card ' Raised many fond memories and brought back recollections of many carefree days and happy ones, or so they seem now. . . I am looking forward to our fiftieth and, God willing, we will really try and make it. Jim Capps states that "I am partially retired but it is very difficult to let go altogether, and Beulah doesn't want me under her feet. We spent our winter vacation in Bermuda, and will probably be in Utica most of the summer with the exception of weekends. We will be glad to welcome any classmate day or night."

The Rands had a delightful lunch in Contoocook, N. H., with Bill and Helen Grant in the Grant ancestral home which is really a museum of beautiful things, and Bill's latest effort on our birthday card will be forthcoming shortly, and it is up to his previous standards, and then some. Lou Munro reports that "Harriet arranged a very nice birthday party for me on August 18. During the party I couldn't believe I was 70 - but on the 19th I felt as though I was 80!!"

Budd Welsh checks in - "I regret that Leonora and I will not be present at Woodstock this fall I have taken on the job of Major Gifts Chairman for three counties in Jersey m the national effort to raise million for the Presbyterian Church. A great deal of work is involved, but it is a worthy cause. Hope to get to the Princeton game and may see the gang at the November luncheon in New York. Don't forget that 1919 meets for lunch the first Monday in each month through June at the Dartmouth Club of New York in the Hotel Commodore.

Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer,

184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.

Bequest Chairman,