1919
On behalf of Fred Daley and your Secretary, our belated thanks to the 42 widows, sisters and brothers of our deceased classmates who so generously contributed to the 1966 Alumni Fund with their memorial gifts. These gifts were a big factor in putting 1919 in second place in our group of classes, topped by 1916, the 50-year class, who generally can't be beaten, but we almost did. Jerry (Dr. Jerome G.) Kerwin delivered the commencement address at River Forest, Ill., at Rosary College. Jerry has had many honors in his years as a teacher including an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia, and honorary degrees from St. Viator College, Holy Cross, and the University of Notre Dame, and was affiliated with the University of Chicago since 1921. At present he is director of the honors division at the University of Santa Clara in California.
Don Leigh notes from Wells, Me., that "The birthday card is very appropriate. We have had the good fortune to have visits from our four kids and ten of our fourteen grandchildren, and since they came from Seattle, Wash., Memphis, Tenn., New York City, and Henniker, N. H., we think that is a little better than par for the course, especially since they are all well, happy, and apparently prosperous." It would seem that the Leighs had a very busy summer.
Russ Potter is back on the job after suffering a stroke early in the year. He says he is a "lucky guy although my left side is still a bit weak but I do not need a cane and am walking better each day." Russ recently hit the 70 mark where he joined 145 other members of the class as of now.
A nice note from John Kunkle indicates that he is coming east to see Hal Parsons and Jack Vliet and hopes to make the Princeton game if he can find a place to hang his hat.
Earl (Red) Blaik, an honorary member of the class since his coaching days in Hanover, will join a distinguished list in receiving the National Football Foundation's Gold Medal Award at the annual Hall of Fame dinner in New York on December 6. Previous winners included President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, General Douglas MacArthur, and many other prominent citizens. Earl is being recognized as "one of the nation's foremost builders of men." The late General MacArthur once said of Earl: "Just as football will remain a leading competitive sport on college athletics, so will Earl Blaik be remembered as an outstanding architect of victory on the gridiron."
The British Psychological Analytical Association announces the completion of the publication of all of Freud's works with three special sets of 25 volumes. One set is to go to Dr. Anna Freud, his famous daughter; one set to James Strachey for his translation of Freud from German to English; and one to our distinguished classmate Dr.John Milne Murray. Jock was to have gone to England to be present at a dinner in London for the presentation but found that it interfered with the Murrays' attendance at the Dartmouth-Princeton game, so he begged off. Jock is presenting his set to the Baker Library, and your Secretary is sure that Messrs. Morin and Lathem will be most happy to get it.
Marie Drane, widow of Mai notes on a card from Barcelona that she and her three friends whom she has named the "four dancing grandmothers" are having a fine time on their cruise. One member of the party is Helen Warner, widow of BUI.
Howie Cole presided at the 150th anniversary celebration of the American Bible Society at Old West Methodist Church, Boston in September. He is also president of the Massachusetts Bible Society, which marks its 157th annual meeting at the same time. Jack Clark writes that, "Well, at last the class birthday card has 1919 sitting down, looking and drooling at Minnehaha Spalding instead of doing what they used to do, or talked about doing." Norm (Buck) Weaver notes that, "As we approach the end of summer I look back over the 51 years since I graduated from the Newton, Mass., High School, got off the train from Boston and climbed on the horse-drawn stage that took us from the railroad station to Hanover. No students had autos in those days, in fact about the only one in my high school was Ray Stanley whose steamer was manufactured in the family factory by the Charles River in Newton.... The problem of bringing water from the north and eastern Sierra Mountain Range is a wonderful thing to watch being solved. The D. Club of Southern California had a summer party at the Santa Ynes Inn. Regards to you eastern winter birds."
Bill Carto thanks the class for his birthday card, "It is a very clever card. Just looking at such an attractive Indian maiden makes any of us, I think, believe we were back at the age we were in 1919, or at least momentarily. Mesmerism is wonderful, which is about all there is left to us."
Spotted at the opening game with the University of Massachusetts were Cotty andKitty Larmon, Jim Davis, Jigger and Victoria Merrill, Stu and Dot Russell, and Rockand Alice Earle Hayes, there must have been more. As these notes were being hammered out, the Big Green was edged by Holy Cross in the rain in Worcester. Now that their winning streak is ended, the boys will be concentrating on the Ivy League, which is what really counts, as far as most alumni are concerned.
Secretary, The Crest, 202 Gleason St. Delray Beach, Fla.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt.
Bequest Chairman,
