1919
Winter visitors to the Sunshine State included Rock and Alice Earle Hayes who stopped in Delray for a few days in their tour of the state, which included a trip to the west coast and Key West. On their way north they stopped in Ponte Vedra Beach and golfed and had fun with the Jacksons and the Sterlings. Budd and Leonora Welsh report from Lubbock, Texas, en route to Green Valley, Ariz., for the month of April. Quoting in part, "Hope to see some Dartmouth folks there as it was developed by a group from Cleveland and Chicago. May be down your way next year."
KC Bevan, executive director of the New York Higher Education Assistance Corporation, threatens to retire but seems to be as busy as ever. The big boy notes "I seem to get more involved in this job the closer I get to leaving it. Have been in Washington twice since the first of the year - interesting but wearing. I have a suggestion on class birthday cards - stop sending them after 70 until 80 and then resume. Of course, I don't feel a day older than when I was 40 (when I lie, I lie good)."
Art Palmer, transplanted from Connecticut to Richmond, Va., says that "I am intrigued by the card and am not sure just what the message is but I suspect the native was to offer several alternative suggestions. I have chosen my own to chuckle over. Have our grandchild number 7 (grandson number 6, and we went to Ohio to see him). My best to all nineteeners that you see." .
Fishing story of the season — Si Stein took Gladys out for some deep sea fishing late in March and she hooked what appeared to be a nice kingfish, but wound up with a 300-pound shark which she boated after a tough struggle - quite a feat for a 130 pound girl. Needless to say, she needed a few days' rest after that.
1919 was represented at the '18 Pow-Wow in Fort Lauderdale, by Lucy Henderson, widow of Alex, Guy and Muriel Cogswell,Red and Trudle Washburn, Si and GladysStein and the Rands. It was a fine party and apparently will be an annual affair. '20 and '17 showed up, Rog Wilde '21 was another representative from the North Country (Woodstock, Vt.). Speaking of the latter town so well known to some '19ers, Frank and Peg Holmes, former owners of the Woodstock Inn and hosts to many class parties there, spent most of the winter in Delray and the Rands had many pleasant evenings with them and numerous good bridge games.
Al Taylor, who hasn't been heard from in far too long a time, finally checked in, due to _ the efforts of our roving ambassador, Win Batchelder. Quoting in part from a note from Al, "Thanks for your birthday greetings. In turn I send you and all '19ers Easter greetings. Had a pleasant visit with Win here (Washington) some weeks ago. Through my fault we had a lot of filling in to do. I intend to do, in the future, all the fence mending that I can. I have certainly been the prodigal son!"
Cotty and Kitty Larmon are breaking out of the Hanover early spring to take a trip to Augusta - Cotty to play the famous golf course with brother Sig '14, and then to see the Masters, which here in Florida, we hope to see on TV — at least part of it. KingCole came in for a call, bringing the CharlieWarners with him and it was nice to see Charlie again after all these years.
A mislaid note from KB Johnson, now of San Mateo, Calif., thanks the class for his birthday card and states that he does not find things dull at all since he "ceased commuting" over a year ago and "It seems incredible that it has now been 12 years since you and I lifted an elbow together — at Lake Morey - but the effect of that still lingers!!"
The Ernie Rautenbergs report all's well this winter and that they are planning a trip to Australia next year and also to be on hand in Hanover in June '69.
You have all heard from Fred Daley and his assistant agents regarding the 1966 Alumni Fund. Please do the very best you can this year for the College and help keep 1919 right up at the top among the classes of our generation. Quoting from Ray Buck's "Bulletin," "Ecumenical Note - Rev. Richard P. Unsworth, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, gave the sermon following the 11 a.m. Mass at Aquinas House on one Sunday morning, and the Rev. William L. Nolan, Chaplain of Aquinas House, preached at the Dartmouth College Service in Rollins Chapel on the following Sunday."
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