1915
I'm wondering if the "wag" who sent me this quote was hinting! "I write stuff, not because I want to but, like a hen laying an I must. I lay a good many eggs, too." And he didn't even enclose a news item!
The George Simpsons report coolish weather, heavy traffic and crowded motels down Florida way, but found a lush spot with Pennsylvania Dutch cooking that made their Feb.-March trek and siesta quite enjoyable. George says they went South for a sun-tan and will try for a "green-tan" at Hanover in June! (Reach up for that one!)
A colorful card from Russ and IsabelRice pictures a charming "Georgia Peach" at St. Simons Island. Isabel asks if I care for Georgia peaches and Russ, more practically, says "If not, how about a halfback for our team?" They just missed the BudDoes who stopped at the same motel a week previous.
Kent Smith does it again. A news clipping from Cleveland pictures Kent as the newly elected 15th president of the Natural Science Museum of Cleveland. (This item - by courtesy of Bill Steck '31.)
Frank Collingwood breaks a long silence with an informative note from Tampa, Fla., thanks to the persistence of Chink Chamberlain. Frank says they spend eight months in Florida and four months in the North, that there are not enough days in the week, that if one hasn't yet retired he'd better do so and there's plenty to do, if a person wants fishing, boating, shuffleboard, cards, poker, bridge, etc. Sounds all right, what?
Echoes from Boston are as varied as usual. A St. Patrick's gathering at Purcell's brought out Saltmarsh '14, Steele '13, Barker,Clough, Lounsberry and Bush Campbell back from a bout with the flu. It develops that Eben Clough is quite a bird watcher and, on the strength of that, it is rumored he is to be official Greeter at Reunion. KikeRichardson, "up to his armpits" in taxes, did take time out for some fishing up at first Conn. Lake but, at 32 degrees below zero, found the fish in hibernation and settled for the allurements of a warm campfire. The second "half" of Kike n' Pearl returned from a visit with her sister in Winter Haven and George and Mae Martin had just returned from Florida at this writing. Details are lacking, but it is reported that BobFrothingham has married an old girl friend. Chan Foster, Chairman of the Banquet Committee, is reported in close communion with Ray King, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee, on certain Reunion arrangements.
At this writing, Reunion announcements were scheduled to go out and a banner turnout is in prospect. Get aboard, everybody - it's THE BIG EVENT!
By the same token, preliminary reports show us off to a flying start on the Alumni Fund and if ever a Green Derby win is in the cards - this is it!
We regret to report the passing of the following classmates - Art Ford, Denny Grant,Reg Prior, and Dud Woolworth. Our deep sympathy goes out to their families.
A quick card from Herb Potter says he was headed into the hospital for an operation which shouldn't be too serious. He should be out and around by now - said event occurring late in March. His chief worry was - making Reunion.
A sign on the 12,000,000 ton Hoover Dam gives pause for thought - "U.S. Gov't Property — Do No Remove."
Chink Chamberlain had an inspiring visit to Washington. Invited to attend the Prayer Breakfast for the President, there were 1400 present, including Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, diplomats, Armed Forces, and laymen like himself. His wife Esther attended the International Christian Leadership Seminar which was held at the same time.
Dave Markham comes up with a puzzling question. Who was the Dartmouth alumnus who posed as an elderly biology professor at a Dartmouth dinner at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago back in the '20's, delivering ing a masterful and learned address (in a flowing white beard), only to have the whole thing exposed the next morning in the Chicago Tribune as a hoax, with front page pictures of "the professor" - with and without makeup? Dave says he was there but can't remember who the guy was.
Dale Barker says he's really gone collegiate — he teamed up with son, Dick, and now has his "office" done over with Dartmouth wallpaper. (Dick did the job!)
Which leads to this bon mot — recently received: Beauty may be only skin deep, but the budding youth says: "That's deep enough for me - I ain't no cannible"!
While there will be a June issue of these notes, this is really the last opportunity to ogle all and sundry late signers-up for Reunion to join the throng and get in on this our Fiftieth with all it has to offer. Let's go!
Harold K. Davison '15 of Woodsville, N. H., attorney, former Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and Chairman of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, will deliver the traditional 50-Year Address on behalf of the Class of 1915 at the Commencement Luncheon program in Hanover on Saturday, June 12. One of New Hampshire's most distinguished public servants, Mr. Davison was vice president of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni in 1929-30 and was 1915's class secretary from 1930 to 1933.
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