1913

The football season is here and Dartmouth will field a strong team in spite of the fact that fourteen All-Ivy players have been lost from the last two teams (9-0-0 in '65 and 7-2-0 in '66). Any team that has a Gene Ryzewicz can't help but have explosive scoring potential.

I am a volunteer at the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Bedford, Mass. I noticed in the class directory that Leland Croscup was a patient there. On my next trip I con- tacted the registrar and was told that he died January 17, 1965 of pulmonary edema. Leland was a patient for 35 years. So another classmate has left us.

KJ viaoouia iv/ JIUO IVJLL UO. A nice letter from Bill Davis. He reports that he and his wife spent the summer at East Falmouth, Mass. His high school group have their reunion at Whitefield, N. H., this fall and he expects to attend. Bill's granddaughter presented him with his first great- grandchild in April of this year. Congratulations! The father of the child expects to go to Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. A subsequent letter from Bill tells us that he gave up his beautiful home and famous garden in Winchester, Mass., and returned to Concord, Mass., his home town. On April 19 last a grandchild called and asked him if he would accompany her with two friends to the grand reproduction of the original battle of 1775. He states further: "The kids always get a great kick when I revert to my role a Concord historical guide during my juvenile years. Of course, there are many extra stories which came down by word of mouth some very amusing which are not in the history books." Perhaps we can prevail on Bill to tell us about them.

Bill Mason reports that he and his wife are living a quiet life in Winchester, Mass. He has slowed up his golf game and has not played much in the last three years. His daughter and her family live in San Francisco. The grandson is entered in the class of 1980, Dartmouth. His daughter's husband, E. C. Grayson, is a commander in the Naval Reserve. He was assigned to a training period at Jacksonville, Fla., and took his family with him. Bill and his wife flew down and had a wonderful visit with them. Had an interesting letter from "Zanny"Robeson, Washington, D. C. He reports that he had a spell of sickness in 1963. With the care of a devoted family, the aid of good doctors, a courageous and indomitable spirit, he is up and around again and anxious for news of his classmates.

Here is news from an old "thirteener." None other than George Francis ArthurMulcahy. First of all, none of his classmates, he said, could realize how he felt about not being able to attend reunions. His job was a 24-hour one. George did manage to get away for a flying visit to the younger of his two sons in Verona, N. J. Robert is presently director of market operations for the Fibers Division of Allied Chemical Corp. He graduated from Lowell Tech where he was a protege of classmate, DaveMorey on their "Podunk" football team. George, the older son, lives in Annandale, Va., and is head of the performance branch, Aerodynamics Lab, in Washington, D. C. He received his degree in Aero Engineering from M.I.T. in 1957. Here's to a bright future for both boys.

Ed Styles reports that he is getting accustomed to a rather lonely life since his wife died. He hopes to be able to attend the fifty-fifth next year.

Nita Semmes sailed to Italy June 20 on the "Leonardo da Vinci" with her two grandchildren.

Renza Shepard has recently been elected a trustee of Bradford Junior College of Bradford, Mass. She is a graduate of Bradford and has long been active_ in its welfare principally as a member of its scholarship and alumni bequest committees. Bart andRenza have just attended a ten-day convention of the International Congress of Organists which was held progressively in the cities of London, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, Canada. There were some 500 organists in attendance, coming from Canada, United States, and England with a few from Mexico, France, and Australia. Famous organists gave accomplished organ recitals on the many large and beautifully toned church organs in those cities. Bart and Renza attended the first of such congresses which was held at London, England, ten years ago where they made many friends. They then went on to tour Scotland, France, and Switzerland. Bart still keeps up his interest in music. He is organist at his church where he has played for many years. He also enjoys playing and keeping in condition the nine-rank Aeolian pipe organ that he installed in his home some 25 years ago. He has retired from the insurance business but is kept busy with the affairs of Pinkerton Academy in Derry which now has grown to some 1,000 students. He is a trustee of the Academy and has been its treasurer since 1925. Bart and Renza's son Alan Jr. is in good health and is very active in the N.A.S.A. space program. He is chief of the astronauts at the Houston headquarters and co-ordinates the activities of some fifty astronauts. He is also interested in banking and is co-chairman of the board of directors of the Baytown National Bank. His picture appears in the September issue of the National Geographic Magazine in the article about Houston, Texas.

Ed and Florence Sides flew up to Hanover in June to attend the graduation of their grandson David Sides. Young Dave expects to be inducted into the Navy in the near future.

Joe and Marie Barnett spent ten days in New Canaan, Conn., in September visiting their son Jack and his family. Jack is a part owner and general manager of Golf Digest in nearby Norwalk. From New Canaan the Barnetts went to Winnetka, Ill., for another ten days' visit with their daughter. Mrs. Wm. J. O'Brien. Since son Tom '5l lives in Evanston there were many family gatherings.

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