1915
And so - here we are facing Fifteen's Fiftieth in anticipation of acquaintance renewals, reminiscences, fellowship, and enjoyment of old surroundings enhanced by the changes that time and progress have wrought. As we try to tie up a guy's face with the name on his badge, take it in stride - we're all in the same boat!
If these notes appear a bit sparse and disjointed, lay it to the absorption of your scribe (at this writing) in finalizing the details of publication of our 50-Year Book! And timely news items are not too voluminous!
Al Cleveland says he's been studying our 25-Year Book to try and prepare himself for recognizing Classmates he hasn't seen since wayback. Cheer up, Al, they won't know you either!
I like the lone of Jack Bowler's Reunion announcements - they foretell an atmosphere of pleasing contentment.
An April card from the Italian Riviera indicates the Bob Fredericks were enjoying the life, climate and pleasures of the Southern part of "the boot."
Attending the New York Class Agents' dinner at the Hotel Commodore, your scribe got tangled up with a bunch of congenial cronies (unfortunately no '15ers) and upheld the status of our age group. President Dickey's outline of Dartmouth's budget problems was indeed an eye-opener. Which leads me to put in a final word for last-minute Alumni Fund contributions - another Green Derby win would put the bell on the cap in this our Fiftieth year.
Jack Ferguson reports the wedding-to-be of their oldest granddaughter, Sharon, at Shreveport, La., on June 28 — the first of their eight grandchildren to "take the leap." That will be a "must" trip after the 1915 TENT is folded at Reunion!
A slight interlude: "You can't say you know the horn of plenty until you've lived next door to a Boy Scout learning bugle calls."
Bob Frothingham fills us in on his marriage March 20 to Mrs. Katharine Hachney McGregor of Johnstown, N. Y. Katharine is an old friend of boyhood days and was 1915 at Vassar. She will accompany him to our 50th and we'll all look forward to meeting her.
A "love and kisses" card from Herb Potter would indicate that he came out of his late March operation with flying colors and eyeing Reunion with hopeful ideas. He says if Kay has her way, they'll be in Hanover!
That was an interesting article and picture of Walter Wanger in The Dartmouth of April 7. Sharing the same screen on the same night with President Johnson, we wonder who chose Walter's picture, "Gabriel Over the White House," for that occasion!
Am not too sure about Eben Clough's term "Golden Boy" as applied to the editor of our 50-Year Book — occasionally referred to as "The Golden Book"!
Ray White, up in Norwood, N. Y., is rightfully proud of his granddaughter, Nancy Burns, still only a freshman and a music major, who was chosen as one of a group of singers from Fredonia State University college to perform in Philharmonic hall, Lincoln Center, New York on May 14. Ray says she does not inherit her talent from her grandpa! Ray adds this P.S. for which I assume no responsibility: "Where women are concerned I think a man should have a wide acquaintance - if she isn't too wide."
Maude Lafferty says that, as a result of the item in these April Notes anent their back yard "game preserve," she has been propositioned to get into the buffalo milk business and is giving it due thought.
This June column would normally end our Class Notes for this "fiscal" year, but a re-cap of Reunion festivities will appear in the July issue (assuming survival of said festivities).
The art work of Art Sterling, as applied to 1915 literative production down through the years, is well known to most of us. Give him the germ of an idea and he has never failed to picturize in his own inimitable way - as witness the Reunion letterheads we've all been receiving. A new Birthday card series is in the works in which Art's handiwork is readily discernible. The Class owes him much for his readiness to pitch in on all occasions.
And so - as we head into a new era, I'll take the liberty of quoting a message from one of our Far-Western Classmates: "Vayas con Dios"!
Secretary, Apt. 7-G, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.
Class Agent, Deer Isle, Me. 04627
