1937

Good Lord, December already and it seems we just successfully hurdled the Trick-or-Treat season. This brings up a request. How about you wonderful wives putting us down please on your Christmas card list. We can use family pictures that include Mr. '37 and of course any notes you write will be more welcome than Santa Claus.

In following the fortunes of the Blackman Bombers this fall we tried to muster a class gathering at the tremendously popular tailgate operation prior to the Harvard game. In making a number of local calls we found many tied up in previous plans but the thought was well received. So we painted a large 1937 on a bed sheet, tied it to a pole and mounted it high on a telegraph pole in the parking lot across from WBZ studio. The wind was just right to keep it flying and, lo and behold, like moths to a flame, in drove Barby and Dana Douglass with daughters from Maine and Peg and GeorgeRoewer from Syracuse. Others in the fold by arrangement: Betty and Gib Reynolds, Connie and Stan Berenson, Dot and Monk Amon, BJ and Dex Smith, Bea and Dick Wood. Esther and Fred Mayo were nearby and we had a brief sight of Jane and Bill Brown. Heard were there: Rotches, Luttrells, Handrahans, Chesters, Lappins, Barretts, Mc-Kinlay, Ruggles, Al Grays, and Will Brown but since the game was a sellout it was difficult to operate our spy machine. DanaDouglass is now involved in building rest homes in various Maine locations. Expansion being hoped for there is one planned, he says, for Hanover which is good news for us for our Sixtieth reunion. Barby is deeply involved in social work for the state traveling about quite a bit. Daughters avec, one in nurses training at Newton-Wellesley hospital, other at school in Kennebunk. Bill Brown is trying a new wrinkle with his Gloucester-based department store having made up a booklet for a mail order business. They now have one daughter married, several to go. Jane is Mrs. Republican, actual title vice-chairman of Massachusetts Republican State Committee and also registration chairman. Maybe you don't think this is a tough assignment in the home stamping-ground of the Kennedy legend plus assorted Curteys, Devers etc., it's strictly herrmg-bone all the way. Lynn Prescott stopped by our house after the game with son, Dan, indicating that Dana is well situated in Viet Nam on Westmoreland's staff and enjoying tie work.

Come next year we give notice here and now to all heading for the DH tailgate party to look along the river side of the stadium for the 1937 flag and join the group. Get there before noon or bring your own parking place.

if "On to New Haven and the Portal 10 tent. Hoped to meet up with the New York contingent but impossibly there must have been a better game elsewhere Flo midLanny Moore, Mary Lou and BUI Falion, plus Ginny, Joe Tardiff, Lenme Harris and fellow notetaker Rog Allen were it. This tent is a real good deal, set-ups and ice for a buck a head, leave your stuff there during the game, it's guarded, always a big crowd but plenty of room. As Kay and I ran from closing gate to gate at game time just managed to shake hands with BobDeVarney. For news of other attendees m the "higher priced spread" of seats you will have to await Rog's nimble news letter.

Took a few local trips this summer. Dropped in on Julian Leslie at his Casco Bay Trading Post on Route 1, Freeport, Me., and was shocked to find him in agonizing pain from a back problem. We since hear he underwent a disc operation and is now "back" to normal. He figured the culprit was having to bail out his boat by hand when the pumps conked out. Not so good a summer businesswise, too much sun with everyone clinging to the beaches. They need rainy days to bring in the shopping crowd. You should see his home, old farm building completely remodeled in pine paneling, a pool, and a gorgeous view of the bay across extensive fields. Has 200 acres of undeveloped land plus a private road in and you can't see his dock or plane hangar but they're just over the hill on the bay. Had a delightful visit with wife Tata and excellently mannered young son, Robbie. Next trip drooling wife Katherine wants to go.

Also attempted to locate Sergeant WolGaines of the Maine State Police. It was his day off but they told me he supervises all operations on the Maine Turnpike from Kittery to Portland and is constantly on the move. Only way to contact him on duty is to ask at any toll gate or see if the old bus can still do 100 MPH - either way is equally effective.

We spent Labor Day weekend in Harwichport, Cape Cod, taking this opportunity to look up Milton Marsh who owns and operates a very attractive gift shop and tourist home right on the main road through town, named Port-O-Call. He has been a lousy correspondent through the years but after graduation he joined an electronic research firm in Connecticut. A later change in management produced a typical problem so he quit, moving to Cape Cod where he worked a few years with a contractor. In 1956 he and his wife opened the Port-O-Call and have built it up to a well-stocked shop. The house has room for only seven guests who normally come back each year. They have a son in the freshman class at Dartmouth and maybe, now, we'll get to see the Marshes once in a while, there's nothing like having an undergraduate son to produce family-induced reasons for a trip north.

Also dropped in on Gladys and EarlCleaves who own a cottage overlooking Bass River, but let us recommend a full gas tank if you plan to look them up! Earl says, as a math teacher in Lexington, Mass., he loves his work, his summer place, and peace and quiet. Their son is also teaching in the field of mechanics and had recently rebuilt a 1937 Ford pick-up truck, adding a corvette engine and repaint job. that looked like it had just come from the factory.

Jack Young says his son, Jack, graduated from Dartmouth last June, now in airforce. Son, Bob, just entered with the class of 1970. Daughter, Jane, home from a semester at U. of Madrid now in her senior year at Hood in Maryland. He adds simply that mom and dad continue to live through it all in Greenwich, Conn.

We have a letter from Hal Putnam that indicates he and wife, Glendora, have formed a law partnership in Boston with a branch in Needham. We quote "We would have been delighted to join you at the DH tailgate party but a mild coronary floored me around Labor Day and the recuperative process is slow, but I hope sure. I have dropped 19 pounds and will get out the skates again for the additional exercise that is needed, so I hope to have a healthful future." Good luck Hal.

Anybody know the whereabouts of EdLaudani or Phil White? Last heard both lived in California, Ed in San Leandro and Phil in Goleta.

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