1919
"It is Alumni Fund Time Again." That is Fred Daley's theme to start off the 1965 campaign and by the time these notes are in the MAGAZINE, you will have heard from one of the 1919 class agents and Fred and all his assistants hope you will give serious consideration to an increase this year to help keep 1919 right up at the top in our group of classes.
Sad note - the passing of Jack Cannell —in our undergraduate days a famous quarterback, Barrett Cup winner, fine student, and afterwards a fine coach in Hanover, St. Anselm's and Traip Academy in Maine - his overall record is tops. His obituary will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. Ed Martin and BobProctor represented the class at the services held in Kittery, Me.
Glad note - the visit of Bob and Kay Blackman to Florida where Bob represented the College so adequately on the Sunshine State circuit. He appeared in Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Orlando-Winter Park, Jacksonville, Sea Island, Ga., and it is the hope of the Floridians that he managed to find some fast halfbacks and hefty tackles in his travels, with the proper scholarship qualifications.
Recent 1919 visitors to the Gold ??? Coast were Marj and Ken Huntington to Ponte Vedra, Ocean Ridge, Lauderdale, and Key Largo; Toni and Casey Bevan, on a tour of the East Coast; Fat and Hon Jackson, Jim and Polly Wilson, Jock and EdnaMurray - the Jeavons expected later in April. A card from Budd and Lenora Welsh from the West Coast and Dick Wilder's Ivy League Motel Apt.'s in Clearwater Beach indicates they are traveling in Florida and will eventually come up the East Coast. Ethel and Hal Parsons spent some time in Hot Springs, Va., managed to find the Jeavons' place in Winding River, but no one was home. Other '19ers seen recently in the area are Red and Trudle Washburn and Don andWinifred Lovejoy.
The 1918 Pow Wow in Ft. Lauderdale on March 16-17 was a great success. Attending the dinner were Guy and Muriel Cogswell, Moe and Birdie Freedberg, up from Miami, Charlie Warner, down from Kentucky, Ken and Marge Huntington, from New Rochelle, and your Secretary and Marion. The next day King and Alice Cole and Pete and Thelma Pitman represented the class at the luncheon. At the luncheon for Bob Blackman in Palm Beach the following Monday, Pete, Charlie and King were on hand to listen to Bob's fine speech, as we'l as Collie O'Gorman, the transplanted Californian. Golfing note via Rock Hayes -Jim Davis had a hole in one at a course in Lakeland, Fla., which means that CottyLarmon and Stu Russell will be looking for strokes when they get together this summer.
Trace Kohl reports, "We are about to start another freighter trip and I am reminded of the one about twelve years ago that you helped us start with an evening at the Gotham in New York. We have been talking about this one for a long time and if I don't take it pretty soon I won't be able to get up those gangways and ladders. This is a four months' trip into Southeast Asia and return; going out on a Dutch ship the 'SS Rotti' and returning on Norwegian ships, the 'SS Sunnyville' and the 'SS Troubador' through Japan and back to Los Angeles. Ken Knowlton has made a couple of these trips I understand, from the Smoke Signal. Most of the ports are in the equatorial zone so we are going prepared for hot, humid weather and some surprises." Your Secretary, who had two years of "hot, humid weather" in New Guinea and the Philippines during W.W. II doesn't envy the Kohls that part of their trip - it is hot enough in Florida as these notes are being typed.
A note from Cotty Larmon, "The sun is shining, the snow is melting, dirty banks are appearing, and spring is arriving in Hanover. ... Kitty and I are leaving for Ireland and beyond and will not be back until May 25. Fat Jackson will carry on as president, so there are no worries, only gratification." Other '19 travelers are the Larry Eastmans, now in Paris, and Lil and Harry Colwell, sojourning in the Canary Islands which they report beautiful, and that they are having a marvelous time and hate to think of leaving.
Our Newsletter Editor, Win Batchelder, was laid up earlier in the winter with major surgery and had to go back in the hospital for repairs but is now O.K. he is glad to report, but has to call off a contemplated trip to Florida. Si and Gladys Stein are still in Miami Beach, according to last reports, but couldn't make the Lauderdale gathering. Charlie Harney writes in, "Many thanks for the birthday card and it is nice to know that I am remembered by the Class. Of course, like many others, I have ceased count of the years for the numbers are fast getting higher. For myself, I am semi-retired — I tried it completely but it didn't work - I have my hand in sufficiently to keep me active but not working too hard. One of these days not too far away I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you and other members of the class."
Suggestion to Charlie - how about the Woodstock-Hanover weekend of October 8-10 when we expect a large group of '19ers back for our annual fall assembly?
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, Madison Ave., Shelton, Conn.
