1914
SUMMER SUMMARY
While the staff of this magazine was drowsing in its pine-scented summer months - and you were busy making life grim for the greens-keepers - or adding to the coffers of the body shops, or waving frantic signals to the native that repairs your dock, a lot of birthdays slipped into "the corridors of time." We salute these youngsters who had birthdays - and we wish them well: In July: Blood, Bowman, Campion, Drake, Estep, Fuller, C. K., Gaige, Hawley, Jones, Larmon, Lawrence, Little, G. P., Loveland, Newmark, Parker, Perkins, Quarles, Warner, Webster. In August: Farwell, Floyd, Boggs, Corliss, Adams, Lyons, Jones, McLean, Reardon, Aborn, Leech. In September: Applin, Batchelder, Bean, Daley, Forbes, Fraser, Harvey, Haywood, Jenkins, Kingman, Kingsley, Knoop, Learoyd, Lowell, Piane, Sisson, Smith, Weed. And coming in October: Buck, Duke, Flanders, Fuller, S. A., Green, Humphries, Johnson, W. M., Kehayas, Lincoln, Lyons, L. V., Margeson, Simanton, Smith, H. A., Van Riper. Many happy returns, young fellows!
Chris and I returned from a short visit over the hill and found the following verse under a rock near the beehive. It seems that young Theophilus Thaw walked all the way over from East Pitchfork, N. H., just to give us his views on a current trend.
The Old Dean's Lament
Once upon a midnight dreary, As I recalled, now sad and weary, The cleanliness - the deference - Of my students gone before, Came a flippant kind of tapping- A derisive, mocking rapping- Just a brazen kind of slapping On my cloistered study door.
There IT stood in hairy splendor; Mouldy jeans, sans belt, suspender, Shoes from off some slaughter-floor.
"Ever take a bath?" I queried - Answered IT with "weltschmerz" wearied, Mother died - so - NEVERMORE!"
THEOPHILUS POE THAW East Pitchfork, N. H.
Once again death has struck hard at 1914. We have just learned that Dr. Fletcher Colby passed away in mid-August. We remember him as one of the quiet, competent men in college and we are not surprised that Fletch had risen to great heights in his chosen specialty of urological surgery. He was the author of many texts in his specialty and one of his books "Essential Urology" has been translated into twelve languages and is used throughout the world. The whole class joins in sending sympathy to Mrs. Colby, his son and two daughters.
Congratulations are in order now to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Barsaloux who have recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. Lawrence is now retired from his position of Chief Chemist for the Union Bag and Paper Company, but is active in civic affairs and is executive secretary of the Granville Chamber of Commerce, so here's a skoal to Lawrie and his good wife. We thank Dr.Jim Shields for letting us know about the Barsaloux.
There is disturbing news and good news about our old friend and classmate, Dr. Henry Hayward. John J. Reba, one of Harry's friends in New Brunswick, N. J., tells us that Harry is slowly recovering from an illness which makes him a patient in the Roosevelt Hospital Annex in Metuchen, N. J. We know that a lot of you will want to write to Harry to wish him well, because he was one of those rare spirits, always doing something for somebody else and claiming no credit for it. Good luck, Harry!
It isn't news now that Charlie Batchelder has, after many long years of record-breaing as a class treasurer, resigned and handed this job over to Howie Curtis. You'll be getting official notice of this in time, so prepare yourself, make sure your fountain pen has plenty of ink in it and have your check-book ready. 1914 is to be congratulated that Howie Curtis has consented to take over.
Now there is a good note from Ted Main. His grandson, Ric, after a very disturbing surgical upset, is now back in school with the grim prognosis pretty well behind him. Ted also writes a warm invitation to all '14ers who wend their way to Florida. You will find Ted installed in a beautiful apartment overlooking the water at Satellite Beach, Fla. This is an open invitation and I am sure that Ted means it. I wish we could get down.
The interests that started way, way, way back in "19 something-or-other" persist in many cases. Our old friend BUI Breslin in Rutherford, N. J., is coaching the junior girls softball team - even though it is many, many years since Bill hung up his spikes for good. But he has ready access to softballs because his son, Bill Jr., is Director of Recreation for the Physical Education Dept. at the University of Delaware. Bill says some of these youngsters are "natural swatters," and he ought to know because he has swatted some good ones himself when he was "young and gay."
Congress is so busy passing laws that they probably won't entertain this suggestion — a law making it illegal for any one family to have anything approaching a monopoly of brains. We refer specifically to our classmate Jim McCallum. Jim retired as Winkley Professor of English at Dartmouth in 1960. He is now retired from many activities but, since he had two years of undergraduate Greek in '61 and '62, he has been reading Greek on his own ever since. Jim gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning to read Greek, transplant seedlings in his beatiful garden and survey the world from a viewpoint of a man who has achieved what he wants and - knows it. "Mrs. Jim" also retired from her job as Associate Editor of the Hanover Gazette, but she is a trustee of the Howe Library, the Hanover Historical Society, and does publicity for the Vermont Vassar Club. Their son, Bill (Thayer 1951), is chief estimator and troubleshooter for the Walsh Construction Company. Their daughter, Ann, graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Vassar and is married to a Ph.D. in Botany from Yale. Daughter Alison also graduated from Vassar, is married to an executive of the State Department and, just to keep busy - because four children and assorted livestock aren't quite enough - she is a licensed Real Estate Broker. All this adds up to the fact that there ought to be an antimonopoly law applying to some families.
But now a sad note. Maurice Hastings died in April. Maurice didn't stay with us all through college, but he left very warm memories of a quiet and able gentleman. Our sympathy is extended to Maurice's family.
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" -Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Copperheads, Whigs, Tories, Know-nothings — come one, come all! Alexander "Zandy" Taft, Republican of Greenville, N. H., Dartmouth '49, and the son of our late classmate. Bill Taft, is running for the governorship of New Hampshire presenting very outstanding qualifications. If you live outside New Hampshire, we'll try to see if some arrangement can be made - but be sure you vote!
Now for the Dartmouth Quiz. 1. Is there any college beside Dartmouth that has graduated a class in every year since 1771?
2. Why did Samson Occom give up his studies at Dartmouth?
3. How much land did Gov. Wentworth offer Eleazar Wheelock to move Moor's Indian Charity School to New Hampshire?
4. How did Gov. Wentworth show his appreciation to Eleazar Wheelock for what he had accomplished?
5. What Dartmouth president offered the somewhat verbose prayer thanking the Lord for "oxygen, hydrogen and all the gases" and then, for good measure, thanked "the Lord for the cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla oblongata"?
That's all for this time. Don't forget to send in any news of you, your family or classmates. It will be deeply appreciated.
Secretary, Farwell Lane, New London, N. H.
Treasurer, Palmer National Bank, Palmer, Mass. 01069
Bequest Chairman,
