1917
By the time you read these notes the 1965 Alumni Fund campaign will be well under way. As we approach our 50th reunion in 1967, it seems to the writer to be particularly fitting that 1917 make an impressive showing as a Class. Then when we return to Hanover for that long awaited 50th, we can do so with our heads held high, knowing that we have done our best in support of the College. Participation is where we have fallen down in the past because some few individuals have failed to respond to the call simply because they were unable to contribute substantial amounts. To this group let me say that every contribution, be it large or small, is greatly appreciated by the College. So do the best you can, but by all means, do something, and, as I have said before, you will feel better for having done so.
Just a month ago I reported the unhappy plight of Bill Wooster. Mrs. Wooster told Bill about the paragraph I had written in my notes, and he "was pleased," she says. Just a few days later Bill was dead. He had had transfusions and his heart was just too tired to carry on. At least, as Mrs. Wooster says, he is where there is no more pain. His death occurred on February 14. After March 15, Mrs. Wooster will reside in the Presbyterian Home at Lakeland, Fla., where she and Bill had planned to live together.
Larry and Lucile Nourse are elated over the birth of another grandson, born to their daughter, Patricia, on January 20, at the U.S. Military Hospital at Asmara, Ethiopia. By the time Larry wrote to me, Patricia and the baby, Joel E. Keys Jr., had returned to Khartoum, Sudan, where the baby's father is first Secretary at the U.S. Embassy. The Keys have three other children, and all planned to return to their home in- Alexandria, Va., within a few weeks.
Pete and Lucy Olds are enjoying their life of retirement on Cape Cod, and are as busy as a couple of bird dogs. They have joined the local Congregational Church, Lucy has joined the Women's Club, and Pete the retired men's, club and the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club. Come summer, Pete will have something to do with the Yacht Club, that's for sure!
Jim McGowan has published a booklet of poems entitled "Keepsakes." Jim has been writing poetry for many years and "Keepsakes" is a collection of 41 of his favorites. The collection includes many of local origin including "Captain Isaac Hall," "The First Mile," and the "Lone Sentinel at Oak Grove." Another, "She Was a Lady" is a poem about the old Narrow Gauge Railroad, owned by Melvin O. Adams of Dartmouth fame, in whose memory the poem was written.
Just at this point I received word of the death of Hobart (Hobey) Ford. He passed away on March 1 while at his winter home at Man-O-War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas, B.W.I. Further details will be forthcoming in the very near future.
Surprise! Surprise! From Blue Chip Ranch, Las Vegas, Nev., comes word from Fred (Finny) Houghton. Just what Fred does out there is not fully explained, but he does say that one of his hobbies is, and has been for about 14 years, breeding Belgian Sheep dogs. He sent along a picture of one of them and it (the dog, that is) is a beauty. Fred's second hobby is playing the piano for his own "amazement," which he has been doing since 1905. His business card also lists "Fruits — Nuts — Trees — Small Cage Birds — Swan — Ducks — Specialty Poultry and Rabbits." That must be quite a ranch! Fred is interested in knowing how many classmates still have their Dartmouth Freshman Green Book. How about you? I have mine.
After experiencing pneumonia last October, and a long period of convalescence, first in a nursing home and then at his daughter's, Ike Sprague is back in his apartment at 354 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, where he is living a reasonably comfortable life of retirement from the Boston Athenaeum where he spent many happy years. He is, however, suffering from chronic bronchitis which keeps him indoors in bad weather, and causes him to cough "at all reasonable and unreasonable times." Better luck, Ike, with the return of warmer weather!
Phil Evans was the only 17'er who attended the Boston Alumni Association dinner at the Harvard Club. Where were the other 17'ers from the Boston area?
Russ Fisher writes from Phoenix, Ariz., that he has been appointed meeting secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Phoenix, and that with the aid of post cards, telephone calls and personal contacts, "our meetings have been blessed with a quorum." Also, Russ says that he has been elected second vice president of Chapter 306 of The Sojourners, which I suspect is a group interested in travel.
And speaking of Arizona, Walt andPhoebe Walters were, at least on February 18, at The Warrens' Guest Lodge at Tucson. Roger Wilde '21, of Woodstock, recently flew to Sarasota, Fla., to enjoy a few days of golf, and while there, was royally entertained by Gil Swett, Sumner and CharlotteEmerson and Hugh '26 and Charlotte (Ford) Morrison.
Your secretary has just been re-elected president of the board of Woodstock's Ottauquechee Health Center, a position he has held since February 1962.
Secretary, South Pomfret Rd. Woodstock, Vt.
Class Agent, 337 N. Steele Rd., West Hartford, Conn.
