1916
A word to the wise: Even those familiar with Princeton crowd and traffic conditions after dark on a football weekend will do well to put their Interim Reunion notice and road map in their wallets now. See you there.
Before that big day, Ev Parker says he must return to Denver but, while East in October, is driving Kay English to Hanover for the Penn game. Harvard precincts, it is rumored, are once more to be invaded by Sally's perky green feather. . . . And CharlieBrundage will have spent ten days of working vacation at Canaan close to Hanover, to Canaan College of which he is chairman of the board, and to the color of the leaves.
Our energetic engineers report: Dick Ellis characteristically acknowledged having had major surgery last spring, only after he had returned to work July 1. Ernie Frey, from his return from Europe in 1920 to his retirement in October 1963, worked in or near Buffalo, yet he and his wife Ruth managed in most years to spend some time in New England enjoying the ocean, the autumn foliage, and at least one home game at Hanover, also the Green's games at Cornell. Now they get to New England more often and when they've had enough of winter weather, head south. Hugo and Ginny Gumbart, strenuous pair, wishing to see the best of the British Isles and Scandinavia _ last spring without the hazard of self-driving abroad, flew over and back and between, otherwise traveled by bus except for doing the Norwegian coast. From Dublin April 30 they first toured most of Southern Ireland, then had an intensive two weeks around historic southern England, including boat rides on the Thames and a memorable "Taming of the Shrew" at Stratford-on-Avon. On they went through the English Lake Country to Edinburgh and another week around Scotland. Of course, Gum says, theirs had to be the wettest May recorded in the British Isles since 1873. But their last four days, spent in and around London, were warmed by the hospitality of three English couples they had met in Majorca or Greece in 1965. With better weather gracing their second month, they sailed up the Norwegian coast from Bergen to North Cape and back on a boat small enough (2900 tons) to explore many of the smaller and more interesting fjords, some still snowbound on the land side. Perhaps the peak of their trip came in crossing southern Norway to Oslo via Stahlheim and the Songefjord, for there "the scenery was not even second to that of Switzerland. We crossed the Furca and Grinzel passes from Locerne to Interlaken in 1957." They thor- oughly enjoyed their final eight days in Denmark, divided between Copenhagen and the Fairy Tale Tour. Fast hydrofoil even permitted two hours in Sweden, at Mahno. Then they flew home to Cincinnati, to recuperate. Dan Lindsley talked by phone with the McLellans on the SS "Monterey" at Los Angeles in mid-August before the latter cruised off to the South Seas; then Dan and Christine motored to La Jolla to welcome their older son and his wife and four children back from Oak Ridge to California. Dan Jr. now is a full professor at the University of California at San Diego. As they have done for the last eighteen summers, Dan and Christine spent the second half of September at The Trading Post Resort on Carnelian Bay, Lake Tahoe.
A colorful Tahitian card from Hiram andLaura McLellan at Papeete reported "beautiful scenery and girls here, but have not yet secured a picture suitable for publication." Steady old Hiram. Rupert Perkins fits in somewhat shorter trips to Virginia and Georgia from his home and is continuing property survey work in Carlisle. Recently he spent an evening with Fred Davis who has sold his place there and plans to spend summers in Vermont and winters in Florida. Ken Ross returned to the FPC in June and expected by now to be in the Middle East on a consulting assignment. Dave and Marion Shumway started the summer by driving to Los Angeles to visit their daughter in May. Being so near, they then up and flew out for two weeks to see all the five main islands of Hawaii, returning by DC-8 with 185 others. Thus refreshed, they drove home cross-country, successively vacationed on Cape Cod and in Maine in July, at Lake of Bays, Ontario, in August, and at Asheville, N. C., in September. In Hawaii, they swam a lot. They thoughtfully visited Harold Plumer '02 at his retirement home in Kaneohe (see the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for July, p. 36). They lost their hearts to the people and to the scenery in general. But let Hawaii's case rest on Dave's description of what they saw from Hanalei Plantation on Kauai: "Bali Hai and the whole coast where 'South Pacific' was filmed. I counted twelve waterfalls from our windows on one rainy day."
Long in the granite business, Fred Davis later confirmed his plans on a letterhead reading: "If It's Granite, We Have It." Now he's had it.
Felicitations to Karl and Polly Shedd on their golden wedding anniversary celebrated at Athens, Ga., on August 25. Hundreds from the community and university and other friends turned out to pay them tribute.
The deep sympathy of the Class is extended to the family of Marty Linihan on his death July 23. A notice will appear in the In Memoriam column when the facts are obtainable.
Your secretary recently detoured to Columbia, Conn., perhaps twenty miles east of Hartford, and visited briefly the small one-room building which first housed Moor's Charity School. According to the Chase- Lord "History of Dartmouth College," at the suggestion of Eleazar Wheelock "Colonel Joshua More... a wealthy farmer of Mansfield . . . purchased for the school, June 28, 1755, at a cost of five hundred pounds (old tenor) a parcel of land, containing about two acres of pasturage, contiguous to Wheelock's mansion in Lebanon (now Columbia), having on it a 'small dwelling house and a shop or school-house'... in the hall of which the students and their instructors attended morning and evening prayers... . The frame is. still extant." According to a small card placed on the door by the local historical society, the building was moved at least four times until, when the town's modern school- house was built a few years ago, the old schoolhouse was moved to its present location on the village green, between the old Congregational Church and the modern school. For many decades before that, it was used as a town public school. Dr. Wheelock's original "mansion" still stands, to the southeast of the church. If the term "old tenor" trips you up, Phil Nordell, our authority in such colonial matters, says that Colonel More's five hundred pounds (old tenor) were worth somewhere around 150 Spanish milled dollars, or commcrn American dollars of that time. To put it another way, the pound old tenor had a value about one-tenth or one-twelfth that of the pound sterling in 1755. You would get more than a sense of history, as we did, from visiting that plain little building.
A Thayer School group of '17 men when they were making a survey of the Connecticut River back in 1916. Left to right, they are Bill Birtwell, Harold Bean, Vic Smith,Bob Adams, Rudolph Miller, Harold Ruggles, and Clark Goudie.
Secretary,2-C Swarthmore Apts. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Treasurer, Singletary Ave., Sutton, Mass. 01527
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