1914
How better can I open this month's Class Notes than to thank all of you for so many letters already received and for the many more that I know are on the way.
Following Elmer's happy custom let me list the thirteen classmates whose birthdays come in December: Curtis, Fred Davidson, Donovan, Edson, Emerson, Gardner, Hallett, McLaughlin, Pooler, Welsh, and Wheelock. And an extra Merry Christmas to "Jigger"Gardner who arrived on December 25, 1892.
In our more than 50 years since graduation we have had thirteen secretaries who have kept our records. In sequence they were: Frank Llewellyn, Ted Marriner, RayTrott, Dwight Conn, Clyfton Chandler,John Palmer, Herb Austin, John Burleigh,Ed Leech, Ducky Drake, Pen Aborn, JohnConners and Elmer Robinson. Elmer's service of six years was exceeded only by EdLeech's twelve years and Ducky Drake's ten years.
A report on a recent M.I.T. Art Collection lists Walter A. Netsch Jr. M.I.T. '43 as a member of the Art Committee in charge and as loaning two of his own pictures. Is this not the son of our own Walt Netsch?
Kit Kittredge reading of my 25one inch from the Boston Post is reminded of his seven nights a week and many days at football games pounding a telegraph key sending press reports. This led to his later experience as a reporter and assistant editor on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and a stretch on the New Bedford (Mass.) Evening Standard.
Win Snow is reminded of his clippings from the Boston Post for whose sports department he wrote the story of the Harvard-Dartmouth game and of the day he stood on a staging in front of the Post Building announcing the Harvard-Yale game play by play, "Shades of Cris Shenkle."
To Forry Blood from whom so many classmates have had thoughtful greetings on the occasion of a Golden Wedding Anniversary now go our greetings on his wedding day for on September 9 in the Tilton School Chapel where they met sixty years ago Edna Whitcomb White and Forrest C.Blood were married.
Win Webber, the man who at 71 played in a tennis doubles exhibition against Pancho Gonzales, then world's champion, is not idle with his pen as a new book on World Federation will soon follow his earlier series of three books on "The Facts of Life."
Ellsworth Buck, a fellow tree farmer, is back from his summer at Thunder Mountain Ranch in Crivitz, Wis., but soon will leave Staten Island for the Keewaydin Club at Naples, Fla.
The Howard Faheys had a bit of tough luck. While they both escaped injury, their car was badly damaged in a smashup. They have left the Cape for their winter home in Florida.
In Pawtucket, R. I., where both LayLittle and Elmer Robinson were born, a new school on October 22 was dedicated to Lay's sister, Agnes Little, who as the retired Assistant Superintendent lives in the Little homestead. Lay spoke at the ceremonies and he and Ruth saw the Brown-Dartmouth Same.
Chuck Kingsley, our intrepid hunter and famous Dead-eye Dick, leaves for the deep woods November 4 promising a later report on his prowess.
A welcome note from Roscoe DeWitt deep in the heart of Texas says: "My heart bleeds for you, lad! Would help if I could, but we are the Antipodes down here and the song by the fire comes through very faintly." Sheer nonsense!
With deepest regret your secretary reports word from Clarence W. Pierce of the death of his wife August 17, 1967.
Also comes sad news from Virginia L. Harvey, Dean of Russell Sage College of Troy, N. Y., of the death on September 29, 1967 of her mother, the widow of Philip C. Harvey.
Secretary, 40 Crane Rd. Scarsdale, N. Y. 10583
Treasurer, 11 Holbrook St., Palmer, Mass. 01069
Bequest Chairman,
