1915
Now that we've solved the mounting of a new typewriter ribbon, may its use be replete with useful and newsworthy items!
Eben Clough comes up with a couple of interesting snapshots of not-too-recent vintage. One is a head-on view labelled "On my way to work in my younger daze" and the other is a rear-end view labelled "Going home at daze end"! Back in December, Margie t ook a girl friend to lunch at a very special Tea Room where none but women partake and some old codger got in by mistake and was shooed out with brooms. While there, a lady came over and greeted them and it turned out to be Marian Huntress with her daughter and sister. 'Tis a small world! And back in January, Eben and ChanFoster, attending the Stag Sports Night dinner at the North Shore Dartmouth Club in Salem, were ruled as the oldest living alumni present and were greeted with loud cheers. Later on, in February, Kike n' PearlRichardson formed a cozy foursome table with the Cloughs at the 103 rd Annual Dinner at the Dartmouth Alumni Association in Boston. These Massachusetts folks sure get around!
While working with Art Sterling on a new series of birthday cards, he said there was a chance that they might hit for Houston, Texas, by air with some friends, then on to Mexico, with a wind-up in Florida in time for the spring ball games there. If so, this issue of the MAGAZINE should about coincide with their trip and we hope it measured up to expectations.
Anent birthday cards, Ssid Bull hands an accolade to Art for his artistry and adds "I imagine the first 75 years are the hardest but I'll bet the next 25 are the shortest." Sid says he went into serious training along in January and played nine holes of golf down at Lake Worth with two fellows whose ages were 89 and 94, "and they both beat me- right down the middle 125 yards and they make it look easy." Sid adds that Mountain Brew is a lot cheaper down there in Florida!
Late in January, Duze Lounsberry reported that Kent and Thelma Smith were en route to the South Seas and that RalphBrown had been hospitalized up in Bangor, Me. Duze is tightening the reins for the Alumni Fund drive, so let's all tighten the belt towards our usual support of his dedi- cated efforts. Competition is keen from some of '15's adjacent classes!
Norvie Milmore says he'll expect two overcuts for tardiness in replying to a recent letter. Norvie may be tardy in correspond- ence, but he sure makes up for it in performance as witness the job he did in rounding up the 1966 Interim Reunion.
And speaking of Interims, let's all mark our calendars for the next "Get-together" which Jack Bowler is lining up for Sept. 29 and 30 in Hanover. Tempus fugits! The new Hanover Inn will (hopefully) be ready to offer us a new insight into Hanover's growth. Which is remindful of the old watering trough in front of the old Inn where Red Spillane '13 used to perpetrate those spontaneous gatherings - a la Salvation Army — where the old jingle "We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band" set the tune for the nickels and pennies plopping into the pot. Remember?
The recent Hanover petition against involvement in Vietnam has brought forth an editorial by a good Williams alumnus bemoaning the sad condition on the Dartmouth campus, as well as at Williams and other colleges, regarding the deterioration in patriotic spirit which prompted a lot of us to enlist in Uncle Sam's forces way back when. Said editorial, published in a Manchester, N. H., newspaper, has brought to this scribe communications which in the interests of neutrality must remain unpublished. Let it suffice that the chips are falling and we can but let them fall where they may.
The Purcell's Lunch Club in Boston is still thriving. A January group included Geo. Steele 'l3, Dale Barker, Jerry Shaw,Roy Norwood, Duze Lounsberry, and Eben Clough. They are happier at being given a better seating location in the Club -having "driven the Harvard group downtown." Eben says that, with the new seed catalogs in, he was almost too busy to figure out how to cheat Uncle Sam on his income tax! Kike Richardson tried to inveigle Eben into joining their fishing gang up at Connecticut Lakes for ice fishing this year but Eben, remembering the 43 degree below zero temperature of last year begged off - the sissy! Eben says he's working on a recruit for Dartmouth - still a sophomore in high school, but a whiz! Hope he makes it. Also, Eben reports the reason Kike and Don Law chose their fraternity was because the Sigma Phi Epsilon house was so close to the hospital easier access to the nurses!
With which — to properly greet the approach of spring, a Classmate sends in this one: A postman complained that a vicious dog prevented delivery to a certain address. The dog's owner agreed to tie up the dog. The next day the postman returned to find the dog tied up - to the mailbox! Best 0' luck with Form 1040!
Secretary, Apt. 7-G, 245 Avenue C New York, N. Y. 10009
Class Agent, 219 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass. 12160
