1920

Now that we are back in the north country our furnace is working overtime again, and these notes are being tapped out in the midst of unpacking. As we stopped on our way home at one of the Home's pecan shops to get a last bag of pecans who should be doing the same thing but the George Rands '19, and it was not until then we learned we had stayed at the same Holiday Inn the night before.

Frank Mayer has a distinction as his father, Isaac H. Mayer, is the oldest living alumnus of Yale. He will be 102 years old on july 6 of this year. Congratulations to him for living to such a good age.

Your prexy, Charlie McGoughran, will be in Hanover for class officers' weekend, May 14 and 15, but he will leave immediately to meet friends in New York on the 19th with whom he is taking a trip to the British Isles. About as Sherry and Elizabeth Baketel were leaving their plush resort at Harbour Island in the Bahamas, Len Davis appeared on the scene, proving again how very small the world is getting to be.

The Sarasota Dartmouth Club held a dinner at the Sarasota roof-top dining room which overlooks the city and bay as well as the practice diamonds of the White Sox. This whole complex, the hotel, an adjoining motel, as well as the White Sox team is owned by Art Allyn '35 and because of the Dartmouth connection everything was super. We had an opportunity to see again the highlights of the Princeton-Dartmouth game of last fall, a repetition which was not hard to take. Laddie Myers came down from Clearwater and as he does not enjoy night driving stayed over with us and a few days later we dropped in at his Yacht Basin apartment. He must have quite an "in" to have such a nice corner apartment with a panorama of the marina, the bay, and the beach. Later we called in on our friends, Curt and Grace Haines (well known to many Dartmouth people) who live in the Horizon House, also in Clearwater, where we ran into Prof. Andy Scarlett '10 who lives in the same condominium. He looks fine and is enjoying his retirement in Florida, in and out of the pool every day. The only way we can see Bing and Jane Whitaker is to call in to see them as they really stay put, their place being very conducive to just lazing. Laddie and I tried to get up to Crystal River to see Ty Green but we couldn't seem to work it in right. Sorry Ty, we'll try it again next year.

This is about the time for the 50th high school reunions of many of our '20s. RalphSunergren shortened his Florida trip to rush back north for a reunion of his high school in Arlington, April 2. Howard Hitchcock recently phoned Hal Bidwell to remind him of their 50th West Hartford High School reunion. My own 50th Nashua High School reunion is coming up in June, and GuggaFiske writes: "On May 20, 1966 the class of 1916 Newton (Mass.) High School is having its 50th reunion and I have just received word that none other than "Ky" (the "Bottle") Frost '21 is going to be toastmaster. Of course, I had my 50th reunion last year at Braeburn Country Club in West Newton, but since I had to tarry for five years in high school I have to go again this year. Perhaps I'll see Lydia (Mrs. Paul Hutchinson) holing out long putts, an accolade for Lydia, recently elected president of the Massachusetts Woman's Golf Association."

The Lakes Region Dartmouth Club is in the process of reorganization. They had a meeting with about forty attending in Laconia in April. Ken Spalding was on hand representing the '20s. A meeting of all New Hampshire alumni was held at the Highway Hotel in Concord on April 27. President Dickey was the speaker and the occasion of the meeting was to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Merrimack County which was hosting the meeting. There were about 100 in attendance, Paul Richter, he being president; Hibbard Richter from Augusta, Me.; and Charlie Crathern, from Mason. This was a stag meeting so wives were not included.

Sam and Marion Center recently returned from a trip south, swinging around to visit Marion's brother in Marietta, Ga. Sam casually turned on his TV and who should be on but Pike and Marguerite Emory, Honolulu, on a program telling of the interesting nature of his work as anthropologist and curator of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and the interesting places he has occasion to visit. What a coincidence!

Tommy Thomson writes an interesting letter telling of his trip to the South Seas. He stopped over at Bora Bora, Tahiti, and Rarotonga; then a 3½ day cruise to Auckland, then to New Zealand, and spent Christmas in Sydney stopping over night in Pago Pago, and then on to Honolulu where they took a side trip to Maui and Hawaii. They then went back to Waikiki where they visited John Coonley '25 whom he had not seen since 1922. They returned to Long Beach on the Lurline. Part of their trip was made on the Mariposa, a bridge cruise with lectures in the morning and tournaments in the afternoon and more bridge in the evening. Tommy had seen Pike Emory in 1964 and tried to look him up again this year but he was away on a trip. Tommy was so pleased with the trip he has already contacted Tracy Kohl '19 about freighter travel next year to South America.

A message from John McAllaster of Contoocook, N. H., gives the following news: "Helene and I went out to California in February to assist in our daughter's (Nancy) wedding at Carmel-by-the-Sea to Lloyd Humphrey of California, not Washington, D. C. Lloyd is a graduate of the University of California and is a C.P.A.; while Nancy attended Sam Stratton's Middlebury and has been in medical research at the Universities of Harvard, Colorado, and California. After a time at Squaw Valley they settled in San Francisco."

The July issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will be devoted to commencement and reunions. The first issue in the fall will be the October issue which will not be received until well into the 1966 football season. In case you haven't seen the 1966 schedule, here it is for your convenience and planning: September 24, Massachusetts at Hanover; Oct. 1, Holy Cross at Worcester; Oct. 8, Princeton at Hanover; Oct. 15, Brown at Hanover; Oct. 22, Harvard at Cambridge; Oct. 29, Yale at New Haven; Nov. 5, Columbia at H anover; Nov. 12, Cornell at Ithaca; Nov. 19, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

The big game in Hanover will be the Princeton game on October 8. I feel sure the College will put on a luncheon before the game in Leverone Field House, especially as the Hanover Inn is being renovated: if not, the Class will have a 1920 get-together section and tables for picnicking in the Leverone Field House in the usual place at the end nearest the football field. There will probably be the usual chicken fry for those preferring to buy and bring in their lunch but however it is done, let's plan to get together on that big day. A] Foley and/or BillCarter will be getting out a TWENTY Green Sheet nearer the time which will give more particulars.

Time is going by and the years are flying fast. Let's take a minute to look back in the July 1965 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at the 50th Reunion of the 1915 class. How's that for a turnout; and notice the Class president, Dale Barker, with his arms full of cups won for percentage and total number of men back!! It isn't too early to start thinking and planning about our 50th which will come all too soon.

Best Wishes for a fine summer to you all, and until fall, Cheerio!

Secretary, R.F.D. 1, Center Harbor, N. H. 03226

Class Agent, 90 Iron Mine Dr., Staten Island 1, N. Y.