1938

Every football season brings up the perennial question of what the Class can do for get-togethers over and above the general affairs put on by various alumni groups in Worcester, Cambridge, New Haven, etc. This year there was a cocktail party in Hopkins Center after the Brown Game, and then Deery and Hallock put on a festivity of their own after the Yale Game. These were two worthy enterprises much appreciated by those able to attend, but there remains the feeling that there ought to be some gathering on a bigger scale.

One of the difficulties in trying to arrange something of this nature is that so many other classes have been in the field before us and have cornered most of the facilities in Hanover. It may well be that an off-year reunion should be scheduled for some other time than during the football season. The adjourned executive committee meeting originally slated for the Brown Weekend, may well come up with something concrete. In the meantime, any suggestions will be welcomed by any of the class officers.

Evidently quite a number of the class managed to get to Hanover for the Princeton tilt, but, unfortunately, there was no general class gathering; so a good many slipped into town and out again without making contact. We had the Parker Brownells, the Ed Whites, and the Don Boyles for a little tail-gating before and after the game, and then Jim Chandler dropped in later on. Big Ed is still with the same old dairy company, H. P. Hood, in the ice cream department, and boasts of a son who is a freshman in Hanover and quite a swimmer. The Boyles with five offspring and the Whites with three have done their share in re-populating the Northeast. Don Boyle is still with the Dannemann Printing Company in the Big City. Dawkins admits to having been in town but did the anonymous act and got out before anyone saw him.

Blair D. Morrissey, assistant to manager of sales-Canada for United States Steel International Ltd., writes from Toronto:

"The transfer to Toronto is not the result of anything important a slightly better job. About six weeks ago I spoke to Helen and Lew Harriman while temporarily grounded in Buffalo during the airline strike. We hope to get together soon although I cannot offer the same tent space here as we did in Pointe Claire, P.Q., two years ago.

"Toronto is our 'home town,' since we lived here five years before going to Windsor and Montreal. Betty has given up parttime social work (she has an M.A. from Columbia). Our oldest son, Blair, was graduated from Dartmouth last year and now teaches school in Hawkesbury, Ont. Our second son, Richard, 16, although he gets better grades than his brother, will probably attend a local university. Janet, ten, is our baby and, being active and interested in everything, keeps Betty and me feeling young.

"Another advantage of Toronto is that it is only three hours' drive from our summer cottage 20 miles NW from Parry Sound. Any '38'ers coming this way will be most welcome whether needing bail or only a drink."

Another '38'er residing in Canada is GusHennessey. From Montreal he writes: "Resigned position as executive director of the Federation of Catholic Charities of Montreal this summer. Wife, who has not been well, was hospitalized and out of house for ten weeks. What a situation of this nature (alone with four kids 16, 15, 12, 11) can do to one's plans. It was necessary I stay here to help stabilize the situation. But, you don't 'un-resign,' especially when your successor has already been picked.

"But, as of Oct. 3, the newly organized Federated Appeal of Greater Montreal opened its doors and I was aboard. My specific position - Campaign Consultant. The new agency has resulted from a marriage of the Red Feather, English, Jewish, and French Federations, the Combined Health Appeal (16 major health agencies) and Red Cross."

Gus was one of the last guests at the Hanover Inn before the demolition squads moved in, and had dinner with Al Foley

Quite evidently, after the spate of news the past two months, we are now in the doldrums. The only two news items the College sent me were ones I printed in the last column. If you don't want this space filled by the phrase, "Compliments of a Friend," you had better get some tasty bits into the mail to me soon.

With snow predicted for tonight (Nov. 3) the winter is upon us. To each and every one of you a very pleasant and rewarding Christinas and all best wishes for the New Year.

Secretary, 12 Summer St., Hanover, N.H.

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N.Y.

Bequest Chairman