1914
Tell us not in dire warning That our world is out of tune; Let's rejoice - sad portents scorning - With these classmates born in June. Hail them now in merry greeting; Hang the years that onward roll! Let's forget that time is fleeting; On your birthdays, youngsters - SKOAL! To Breslin, Buckley, Cook, Fahey, Fairfield, French, Giles, Gould, Morse, Smith, H. H., Snow, Woodman, R. C.
E. Pitchfork, N. H.
Lew Corliss reports that his interests center around his school work, although he is officially retired. His principal occupation in the field of education is teaching a class of "slow learners" in Plainville, Conn. And just to keep busy, he is now completing a "History of Granby, Conn." This will be extremely useful as a school text and obviously will be very, very well done.
Our decorative Carroll Edson is General Chairman of what is called the Retirement Preparation Seminar. We gather that this is a plan for getting men ready for the leisure of retirement and - from what we have heard about the difficulties of adjustment — a very worthwhile idea.
Charlie Batchelder - now returned to Massachusetts from Florida - reports that down there in St. Petersburg, Bob Blackman spoke engagingly to about 90 people including Lize Wheelock, Rod Woodman, Henry Lowell, Howie Fahey, and Walt Humphrey. Florida is certainly a focus for some misguided alumni who don't like 17-foot drifts of snow, icy roads and mud up to the wheelcaps. Charlie opines that these people seem to enjoy the absence of these New England amenities. Charlie also reports the arrival of Kenneth R. Stackpole, Charlie's first grandson. It has been moved and seconded that young Ken be elected Treasurer of the Dartmouth Class of 1987. Nominations closed!
If you haven't already read Jim Hawley's book, "The Deserted Village," see if you can get it in your public library. It is a very interesting job.
That "sweet concordance of mellifluous sound" coming from Clearwater, Fla., is caused by Gus Fuller and some cronies in barbershop singing. It is reported that Gus can still hit high "Z" with the same clarity that characterized his singing way back in the days when men were men (and the ladies were glad of it). Howie Fahey, WaltHumphrey, and Henry Lowell aided in this harmony which featured a glorious rendition of "See Those Ships Go By."
Sig Larmon, retreating from the rigors of winter in New York, landed in Paris and Frankfurt when the cold was most penetrating; and he jumped into Rome when the merchants were wiring the U.S. for a supply of snowshoes. It was the heaviest snowfall in the history of Rome. The new aphorism is "when in Rome, do as the Eskimos do."
And here is an interesting note on hobbies — kindly supplied by Mrs. Bill Holway down in Tulsa, Okla. Bill is still very active, ably supported by his wife and two engineer sons, in his own very successful engineering office. Bill gives a good deal of time to his proliferating cattle-ranch at Grand Lake, Okla. His work - mainly on hydraulic engineering — took him to the Philippines and last year to Nigeria. A busy, productive and happy life.
See if you can match this one. Frank A. Welch is the senior member of his law firm of Welch, Welch, Holmstrom and Hyzer. He has been in continuous practice of the law, with special reference to tax problems, since 1917, but listen to this one! - Frank and his son, Alex, for 8 consecutive years have won the low gross in the father-and-son golf at Midlothian Club in Chicago. And that is no second flight club. Frank shoots in the low 70's!
Bob Kittredge is now retired and very evidently enjoying the surcease from the grinding care of his very large and successful financial investment enterprise. Looking forward many years, he says he is considering having engraved on his headstone, "Here lies a man who never did a stroke of work because he wanted to." His record belies the proposed epitaph.
John Burleigh is class agent for his Exeter class of 1910 and it is more than reasonable to suppose that he has turned in one of his characteristically good performances. He summers on the Maine Coast, as recorded before, and devotes a good deal of time to photographing the wild flowers and the wilder natives of that interesting region. And just to keep his leisure somewhat more occupied, he is the Town Auditor of Bedford, N. H., and helps his wife, Bunny, in raising Chinook dogs and Brittany spaniels.
He was christened Frank, but we all know him as Hank (Lewellyn) and you will remember him cavorting gaily on the athletic field when he was ruining the prospects of Harvard, Yale, and assorted adversaries. His interest in sports, of course, continues but now along more sedentary lines — golf, gin-rummy and watching what the youngsters now do on television in football and baseball.
Thanks to Pennell Aborn, we have a clipping reporting the marriage of Fran Pooler's son John to Ginna Bryant. The new Mrs. Pooler is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, but young John strayed from the fold of Wheelock to graduate cum laude from Brown and is now working toward his doctorate at Duke University.
Mirabile Dictu! Our kindly and erudite Myron Files amazes us with some delightful water-color sketches with which he occupies some of his spare time in favored Northwood, N. H. We well remember "Squeak" when he was an outstanding student in English at Dartmouth; then when he was a beloved and respected Professor in English at Tufts, and now comes along the revelation that our multi-faceted friend can draw and paint like - well, Utrillo.
And now for the Dartmouth Quiz.
Were members of the Masonic Order always welcomed at Dartmouth?
What famous poet and essayist was Professor of Anatomy at Dartmouth Medical School?
What is the annual cost per student to the College for a Dartmouth education?
When was Dartmouth's first inter-collegiate baseball game played and against whom?
That's all for this summer - make it a good one - and help mine be better by shooting along whatever notes of yourself and classmates you can manage.
Secretary, Farwell Lane, New London, N. H.
Class Agent, 9 Keogh Lane, New Rochelle, N. Y.
