1916
The editors, with great regret, report the sudden death of Class Secretary Pete Cleaves at his home in Swarthmore, Pa., on November 13. This month's column was written some days before his passing. Pete had attended a football game the day before and seemingly was in good health. His death brings sadness to a whole host of Dartmouth friends.
The Class expresses its deep regret at the deaths of Classmates Hap Ward and BobPease, and tenders to their families its sincerest sympathy. Their obituaries will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Ed Craver's grandson, "Batesy," is the center on offense of the Worcester Academy football team. Ed recently saw them play the Tufts freshmen and said it was a lot of fun.
Don O'Leary and Vic Smith, both '17, tell me that there was a goodly turn-out of Seventeeners at the Woodstock Inn for the Massachusetts game. They said that the Balmacaaners were missed at the party. Some of our Class are advocating a football reunion next year at one of the early games. Your Secretary thinks well of this idea.
George Harding Smith reports from his home in Normandy that he gets the scores of the Ivy League games in the Paris edition of the New York Times, but no details. So he is forced to wait for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for the dope.
John and Elsie Stearns gave their annual informal party after the Brown game, at which about twenty of the class were present.
Joe and Selma Newmark, just a couple of go-gos, attended the Brown, Harvard, and Yale games.
Fifteen of the Class dined in the Lincoln Room of the Harvard Club on the eve of the Harvard game, "with no invasion by hostile Harvards, before or after the dinner," writes Park Hayden. Apparently the Harvards saved their strong-arm tactics - the team, that is - for next day. On Saturday seventeen of the Class were the guests of Dick and Kay Parkhurst at luncheon at their home, Oak Knoll, in Winchester. Afterward they avoided all the fuss and fury of the traffic problems around Cambridge and the Stadium by watching the game on television. It was reliably reported that there were three televisions in action — in separate rooms, I presume - so that the fans who felt the necessity of cussing a bit as the fortunes of war went against us could move to a room out of earshot of the ladies. Sally Gammons went to the game with her daughter and son-in-law, a Harvard man. and was forced to sit on the Harvard side of the field. However, she wore her famous green peaked hat with the long white feather, which brought good luck in the Princeton game. She created a bit of a sensation when she appeared in the Dillon Field House at the post-game celebration in that John Harvard stronghold. Then she and her family called at Dick and Kay's.
Cliff and Jeanette Herold were not able to attend reunion in June because at that time their younger son, Bill, who had completed nine years of college and seminary work, and had graduated from Western Seminary, was being ordained as the pastor of Grace United Church of Christ, Detroit. They must feel very proud of their son, who is doing so well in his chosen profession.
One of the things that makes the weekly luncheons of the Dartmouth Club of Wash ington at the Touchdown Club interesting is that you never know who may be there. In mid-August four members, including GranFuller, John Ames, and Willis Fitch '17, had decided to give their orders, and Gran had produced his book of applications for football tickets when three young men asked whether this was the Dartmouth table and could they join it. Welcomed, they introduced themselves as Ted Petiglio '66, who is returning to Thayer School this fall, and Monahan and Calhoun, both '67. All were so clean cut and modest in bearing that it was not until a lively exchange about the College and its activities, sparked by the football applications, was well under way that it developed quite naturally and without any emphasis, but as casual matters of fact, that Grant Monahan plays soccer and is also captain of the lacrosse team and, somewhat later, that Calhoun is Bill Calhoun, offensive end and captain of the fooball team.
Understandably the lunch hour was longer than usual. The youngsters, appeared surprised that men fifty years out of Dartmouth had such a keen interest in the College and were so well informed about its current activities. The oldsters were delighted that the College would be represented in athletic contests and elsewhere by two such outstanding young men who, like the third, were innately gentlemen, quiet, unassuming and well-bred, and whose appearance, conduct and conversation gave promise that they would continue to distinguish themselves in civil life and as Dartmouth alumni of whom the College could be proud.
Luncheon over, it seemed a matter of regret that members of the Touchdown Club at other tables had no idea that because of their distinction in athletics and as individuals two of the young men sitting at the Dartmouth table would have had for them the special interest they had for us.
Dick Parkhurst's wife, Kay, came back from her 50th Reunion at Smith in June with the following story, which she warns me not to attribute to the Fifty Year Class: Two Smith "girls" were driving from Ohio to the reunion and went too fast, so they were stopped by a state trooper. When he asked where they were going and looked at the driver's license, he said, "My goodness, 82 years old and still driving." She replied, "Of course, and my friend here is' 91." "And I suppose she drives, too," observed the trooper, with real sarcasm. "Oh, no," said the driver, "she came along to change the tires." And Kay adds, "Having seen some of the intrepid gals—older than me, of course — at Northampton, I feel quite sure the story is authentic."
Your Secretary says MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Class at the end of a most momentous year in our Class history.
Secretary, 7 Swarthmore Place Swarthmore, Pa.
Treasurer, Singletary Ave., Sutton, Mass. 01527
Bequest Chairman
