1917
Here is great news for all of you Yale game goers! Bob and Anita Scott are again going to hold an Open House after the Yale game on October 29 at their new home on Fox Hill Road, Woodbridge, Conn. Bob wants me to say that classmates, their wives and guests are invited, so every 17'er attending the Yale game should make a point of journeying out to Fox Hill Road after the game. Bob has even offered to provide maps so that no one need go astray. Just drop Bob a card and ask for a map!
And speaking of Bob and Anita, here is what Bob had to say about a trip he took this past summer. "After some traveling around Austria, Switzerland and Eastern France, visiting some of my World War I diggings from Dijon to Bar Le Due, we head for England and then Scotland. I was elected a member of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in 1965, and this will be my first step into the Club House as a member and not a tourist. I have a golf date with the Chaplain of the R & A on the Old Course August 6. He is Rector of the local Church of Scotland, but pours and enjoys a very generous glass of Scotch when the occasion demands. He and his wife will go up with us to Gleneagles where I will have five days of golf before we fly home from Prestwick to New York."
The Norm McCullochs were to take much the same trip, particularly through the Scandinavian countries, and to do those countries together, but somehow their dates got fouled up and the McCullochs preceded the Scotts by seven days without ever once meeting.
Angus Black recently has spent some time at Mary Hitchcock undergoing various tests, and finally, on August 23, was operated on for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta complicated by a gastric hemorrhage. As of last night, August 30, Angus was coming along very nicely and expected to be discharged from the hospital on September 7, with full recovery. Gladys Black has been staying at the Occum Inn so as to be near Angus during this trying time.
Announcement was made at the annual Commencement Luncheon that our own Vin Smith of Wickliff, Ohio, had been elected a vice president of the General Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College for 1966-67. Congratulations, Vin!
On Friday, June 17, Howie Stockwell suffered a severe heart attack and was confined to the hospital for some time. When last heard from Howie was convalescing well, but his doctor has told him that he will have to change his style of living. This means, among other things, that he will be unable to be with us at Woodstock for the Fall Party. I am sure that all 17'ers wish Howie a prompt and complete recovery!
Doubtless you all read in the June 23 SENTRY of the death on May 10 of ShermSmith's daughter, Natalie (Smith) Chisholm. As Sherm indicated, she was the wife of Walter K. Chisholm Jr. '43, and the sister of Alan D. Smith '50. The entire Dartmouth family joins, I am sure, in extending to Sherm and his family the most sincere sympathy.
Ralph Sanborn reports the theft from his home of two weather vanes. The theft, being investigated by State Police, was discovered by Ralph when he went to check the vanes. The two vanes were identical in design and were replicas of the vane on Baker Library at Dartmouth.
I have just received from George Currier a formal notice to the "Class of 1917" advising of the death of his wife, Helen. She passed away at Burlingame, Calif., on Aug. 23. A funeral service was held on August 25, and interment was in the Golden Gate National Cemetery. The cause of Helen's death was not given, but whatever it was, it must have been a blow to George to whom the sympathy of all 17'ers is extended.
In June I made mention of a trip upon which the Brookses were about to embark. Well, instead of going to Vancouver directly from Wyoming as I had said we were going to do, we went to Belton, Mont., where we left the train and went to Glacier National Park, our first stop being at Lake McDonald. From there we went over the Continental Divide via Going-to-the-Sun Highway and Logan Pass to Many Glacier Hotel. Then came Waterton, Banff, and Lake Louise. We rode a snowmobile on the Columbia Ice Field before going on to Jasper and finally, Vancouver and Victoria. A boat ride took us from Victoria to Seattle where we were met at the dock by Sam and Lou White who spent the evening with us at our hotel. The next morning they picked us up and drove us around to see the sights, one of the most spectacular of which was the Space Needle, left over from the World's Fair, atop of which we had lunch some 600 feet in the air. Later we went out to Sam's lovely house in Bellevue where we sat around on his patio until time to catch the train for Portland. One night there with friends and then on to San Francisco where we had four days and nights. One evening we went out to Sausalito and had dinner with Dr. Ed and Eleanor (Brown) Shev (Mott Brown's daughter) and their cute five-year-old daughter. Then on to Los Angeles for two days, on the first of which we had a delightful drive down to Rancho Santa Fe where we visited my former boss. Upon our return we went to Sally Shea's apartment for dinner with her and her sister. The next morning Aland Janet Shiels called for us and with Janet doing the driving, we went down to Laguna Beach for a delightful lunch, and then for a brief visit to their house up in the hills. Then back to the hotel and to the train for Chicago after fine visits with 17'ers.
Gil and Jane Swett and Sumner and Charlotte Emerson have just completed courses at the third annual Alumni College. The work was not easy, but there was plenty of time for extracurricular activities.
Reunion Bulletin No. 1 has just been received from the College. It stresses the fact that the next ten months will pass by faster than you could think possible. So - begin now to plan to be in Hanover for our 50th next June, and begin saving up so you won't be caught short when the time comes!
And now I come to that part of these notes that I like the least where I have to list the names of those who have passed away since my last report. Don Green died suddenly on May 31, Charlie Riley on June 4 and Heinie Wright suddenly on July 6. The sympathy of all 17'ers is extended to the families of each of these men. In Memoriam notices will appear in this or another issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Secretary, R.F.D. i, Box 27 Woodstock, Vt.
Treasurer, 315 Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
