1919

The big date for '19ers to hold in mind is next October 7-9 when Princeton plays a return engagement with the Big Green in Hanover. We have a limited number of rooms set aside by our good friend Dave Beach at the Woodstock Inn, but they are on a first come-first served basis. The program will be the same as in previous years - cocktails and dinner Friday evening at Woodstock, luncheon before the game in Alumni Hall in Hopkins Center in Hanover, then to the game and back to Woodstock for dinner. Many 'l9 reservations are already in so try and plan as far ahead as possible, as two years ago there wasn't a room within fifty miles of Hanover for this event. Batch will tell you all about it in a Smoke Signal sometime in September. You will also hear about his Florida travels, and, incidentally, Win spent some time in Delray and the Rands were delighted to see him. The Jacksons came down from Ponte Vedra to get warm and spent a few days with us.Fat and your Secretary played golf at the Pine Tree Club, reputed to be the most difficult course in Florida, and the extraction of $1.50 from the retired baking man was a source of great satisfaction. It might be added that the course record remained intact, and strokes were needed to collect.

Quoting from a Framingham, Mass., paper, "Robert N. Wallis, a senior vice-president of Dennison Manufacturing Company and a director since 1952, has retired. Nocky joined Dennison a few years after graduating from the Tuck School, in 1925, and since 1957 has been vice president and treasurer. Active in community affairs, he served as president of the Framingham Union Hospital for many years. He is trustee of the Framingham Savings Bank and a former director of the Framingham Area Chamber of Commerce."

Greif Raible, acknowledging his birthday card from the class notes that, "These mileposts are flying by faster than I realize. In fact, I never thought I would hit this one after the career I have had. As we look back on the years of the past, and think of the mistakes we made, the right things we did, and the hopes that went to hell, it stands out as a shining light that we have a closely knit 'Class of 1919.' We know each other well, our failings and our assets and it seems to me that we have all grown up more or less together - and we recognize them. As you go along, there is one thing that you can cling to and that is— Dartmouth College and the Class of 1919. It's been a grand feeling for any person to have." Greif's words certainly express, your Secretary hopes, the feelings of most of the Class.

A nice note from Connie Seward, Eddie's widow, quoting, "Thank you so much for your comforting letter of sympathy, and also for telling me of the placing of a book in the Treasure Room of the Baker Library in Eddie's memory. ... Of course I shall always be interested in Dartmouth - I have been well indoctrinated since I first met Eddie when I was 15 years old and he was 25. These letters from his classmates always help so much."

Nostalgic note, quoting from Ray Buck's Bulletin, "The sights and sounds of March on campus with the passing away of the duckboards and the shift to the three term schedule. Except for the low spots here and there on well-travelled concrete walks, the duckboards that once criss-crossed the green from one end to the other are no more. Although the boards would have been helpful for a short period early in the month when the campus snows were melting fast and across-the-campus stroll was a squishy experience, the boards aren't really needed anymore, thanks to better drainage and a regrading of the gravel walkways a year or so ago. There was a bit of North Country charm about those weathered slats that one who once walked them now misses. . . ."

Last call for the 1966 Alumni Fund - by this time most of you are already in, but Fred Daley needs something, the bigger the better, from every member of the class to keep 1919 right up among the leaders in the classes of our generation, as we have been for many years.

And now so long until October, and keep smiling and healthy.

Secretary, 3 Prospect St. Hanover, N. H. 03755

Class Agent, Madison Ave., Shelton, Conn. 06484