1918
Football as We Saw It!
The Dartmouth-Princeton weekend was a thriller! We were fortunate enough to be invited by Lew and Helen Cousens to spend the weekend with them in Westmoreland and then drive to Hanover for the game. It has been at least twenty years since the foliage was as beautiful as it was that weekend. It really took one's breath away to look at the hills and valleys with their exotic colors. The temperature was unusually high - about 75° - during the game. We have never seen Hanover so full of parked cars. They reached from about the Connecticut to the bottom of Balch Hill one way, and from the end of Hanover up past the new Medical School the other way. This congestion of parking was prevalent at 10:30 A.M. when we arrived. Goodness knows what it was when the game was under way.
We had a most enjoyable visit with the Cousens. Lew and Helen were in their usual form so that the kidding started at breakfast and finished just about as we closed our eyes to fall off to sleep. They had just returned from a trip to Canada, where they had a delightful time. They stopped off to see the Scullys on the way to Canada and found them very appreciative of their visit.
Now for the Harvard-Dartmouth game! It was a most exciting time. Fifteen couples stayed at Brae Burn and the Holiday Inn Motel Friday night and 17 couples Saturday night. The Harvey Hoods joined us on Friday night for cocktails and dinner at Brae Burn and about five additional local couples came back to Brae Burn for the cocktail party, dinner, and dance after the game on Saturday evening. The Classes of 1919 and 1921 joined us in the Grill Room right after the game, so that there were forty Dartmouth people and their wives in our party. In addition to this, other classes had at least 25 or 30 people who came later just for the dinner and dance. It really was a big Dartmouth night, with everybody having an exceedingly good time even though we were experiencing the unhappy results of the game. Our classmates from out of town expressed the desire to come back next year, so you had better get aboard and join them.
Unfortunately Stan Jones had an attack of the "flu" so he had to cancel at the last moment; Louie Huntoon cancelled too because his nephew decided to be married the Saturday of the Harvard game; and Lois Morse had to cancel because of many complications. Naturally we were disappointed, but hope they will be with us next year.
The Al Gottschaldfs came the longest distance to see the game, flying up from Florida on Friday. It happened to be Al's 70th birthday on Monday the 24th. and they stayed over for a party given to him by their daughter and her family. He was pushing our classmates hard to make sure they would show up at the next Pow-Wow in Ft. Lauderdale in March 1967.
Ellis J. Hatch passed away on October 17, 1966, after a long illness, at the Plainville Convalescent Hospital in New Britain, Conn. For those classmates who wish to write to his family the address is 17 Hillside Rd., Kensington, Conn. See In Memoriam section of this or a later issue for further details.
Judge Donald Macaulay of Longmeadow was recently assigned to the First Civil Jury session of the Hampden Superior Court. Don has returned to his home base for the first time in a year.
Hitty and Reed Montgomery have had a bad year. Reed slipped on the ice, hurt his back and subsequently had to have an operation for the removal of two discs. He came through the operation very successfully and will be playing golf as usual next year.
Last May Hitty had a freak accident in her sister's driveway. They were leaving the garage in a brand new car which had never been on the highway since it was delivered, when the accelerator stuck and they hit a tree, while going about 50 miles an hour. Her sister had several bones broken in her right forearm. Hitty had two bones broken in her right foot and one in her ankle, and the patella in her knee was broken in three places. Her sister was in the hospital for eleven days but Hitty was in for seven weeks. When she returned home she had to have a nurse from 8:00 A M. to 4:00 P.M. for several weeks. On July 29 Hitty's mother passed away. She was 95 years old last April. Thus the winter, spring and summer have been hectic for the Montgomerys. We saw Hitty at the Harvard-Dartnouth game, still walking with the aid of a crutch.
Ed and Clara Felt have spent the summer fishing and entertaining grandchildren. BillDutelle is still working full time for a consulting engineering firm. Cliff Daniels writes: "Adeline and I are on a swing to Minnesota and Pennsylvania to see the children and grandkids, with stops in Wisconsin and else-where to chat with old friends. Steve Ma-honey writes that Jasper Johnston has been chopping trees on his new Greenwich estate. The Syl Moreys have been weekending often at East Hampton this summer. The DwightSargents have been trimming trees and bushes on their Vermont farm all summer. Ed Stanley recently revisited Stowe, Vt., and played golf at the local golf course. He returned to the Norwich Inn and stayed for the U. of Massachusetts game.
Herm Whitmore writes: "It would be a great pleasure to see some of my classmates and take in a few Dartmouth football games, but just too far away. Saw the Dartmouth Glee Club when they came out here and they were great. We have an alumni association of Orange County, Calif., and I attended the first meeting. They are a fine group of men. Am looking forward to future meetings."
Brainard Burnham writes: "Just had my 71st. Still working at F.W. Derbyshire Inc., lathe manufacturers in Waltham, Mass." He has been with the company for 26 years. The Burnhams are hoping to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on January 12, 1968. They have four grandchildren; the oldest a lieutenant in the Air Force and the next in line a sophomore at Jackson College in Medford, Mass.
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