1916
The deep sympathy of the Class is expressed to Coralie Larimer and her family in the death of our Classmate, Joe Larimer, whose obituary will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. Joe was active on the campus in his undergraduate days, being a member of Phi Delta Theta; The Dartmouth Board; vice president, David Cross Debating Society; president, Sophomore Debating Union; and secretary-treasurer, Lincoln- Douglas Debating Society. In college he roomed with George Ingalls '15, now of Boulder, Colo., who first informed your Secretary of Joe's death. Joe had recently moved from Pacific Grove to Los Gatos. Our classmate, Bob Sherer, of Pacific Grove, who grew up with Joe in Evanston, writes me that Joe was unhappy in his move to Los Gatos, and that he and Coralie were planning to seek out a more agreeable climate. Bob attended grade school in Evanston named for Joe's father.
I regret also to report the death of two of our class widows. Mrs. Donald Wessel died in Salem, Mass., December 5 and Mrs. Bailey V. Emery died in Osaka, Japan on January 15, while on a tour of the Orient. The Class is indebted to "String" Downing '15 and his wife for the many kindnesses shown to Mrs. Wessel in her last years. Don died in 1954, while Bailey died in 1938 Mrs. Emery's home was in Tulsa.
By the time you are reading this Ed andMarge Craver will have returned from a flying trip to Hawaii by way of Seattle. As I write the notes the trip is planned to be from February 13 to March 10, with their headquarters the Surfside Hotel, Honolulu. Happy surfboarding, folks. And Jim andClara Shanahan should be about half way through a cross-continent jaunt of two months, — flying to Phoenix and then a Hertz car to drive to Las Vegas (Dan Dinsmoor volunteers to keep their wallets under lock and key). Later to Los Angeles or San Diego, and a leisurely moving up the coast with the goal of Seattle, if possible. They plan to look up everybody in those regions that they can contact, - honest-to-goodness ambassadors from the effete East to The Wide Open Spaces. As Dick Parkhurst puts it: "Big Meeting of the West Coast Balmacaan Athletic Club Scheduled!"
George Dock writes me, "This past weekend I breezed past your region going to and returning from a funeral in Chambersburg. It was not a most delightful visit to those regions as it was below zero and we had a terrible trip back in a chilly PRR car. However, I drank a silent toast to you as we nosed out of Paoli and east on the Main Line." And speaking of Paoli and the Main Line, - many people inquire what is meant by the latter. To some it means the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. But to the people who live on the Main Line it is much more than that. It is not only a locality but it is really a state of mind. And, if you must know, a completely self-satisfied one. It can be best expressed, perhaps, by the old saw:
Angels singing Soft and lowly, "There's no world Beyond Paoli."
In the death of Warde Wilkins, Secretary of the Class of 1913, that good class has lost a hard working and distinguished member and the College a most loyal and worthy son.
Your Secretary hopes that all the Class will "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the letter of January 8 and the enclosures which came from Charlie Brundage, Chairman of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program, and, incidentally, the senior member of the Alumni Council. They are well worth your careful study and attention.
Dave Shumway pays our late classmate Jack English the perfect tribute in writing me, "I think Jack was the very heart of the Class, both in his undergraduate days and since."
Dick and Kay Parkhurst have recently completed a project dear to their hearts, - a memorial to their son, John Wilder Parkhurst, a member of the India-Burma Section 12, American Field Service, British Fourteenth Army, who died in Calcutta, India, July 3, 1945. The memorial is in the form of bookcases, with books of India and Burma in World War 11, together with an appropriate tablet, installed in the ground floor lounge of the fine new headquarters and club house of the American Field Service at 313 East 43rd Street, New York.
We were pleased and flattered that Catharene's grandson, Jim, age 12 (son of my nephew, Bill Cleaves '40, of Rockport, on Cape Ann) wanted to spend part of his holidays with the old folks in Philadelphia. He wished particularly to see the Mint he collects coins - and the Franklin Institute of Science on the Parkway - I expect he wants to be an astronaut. We also took him to the fine new aquarium, called The Aquarama - a kind of Disney show - on south Broad Street. We were looking at a tankful of strange denizens of the deep, and there was a young miss of about three years and her daddy standing near us. As a particularly bizarre creature, paper-thin, multicolored, and swimming vertically rather than flat like a flounder, floated up to the glass and fixed us with a baleful stare, I heard the little gal whisper to her daddy in an awed voice, "Holy Mackerel!"
On Sunday afternoon, March 28, the Dartmouth Club of Washington will be hosts to the Dartmouth Glee Club at the Hotel Statler. The concert will be dedicated to our late classmate, Francis Stirling Wilson. At that time there will be a formal presentation of the commemorative library of barbershop favorites which the Class has established at the College as a memorial to Stirling. It is hoped that President DickParkhurst can be on hand to do the honors, and it is also hoped that there will be a good turnout to greet the Glee Club. The afternoon selection for the concert should attract children.
Secretary, 7 Swarthmore Place Swarthmore, Pa.
Treasurer, Staples Point, Freeport, Maine
