1920
By the time you receive this issue the football season will be well under way with two or perhaps three games already played. Bob Blackman is busy working with new material but we are betting on him and the team to come through - and the new cement stands are scheduled to be ready for the first game on September 28.
Bill Carter expects to go back to Kalamazoo College for another year of teaching made possible through an endorsement professorship given by Charles J. Munroe in memory of his father. Laura, will, of course, go along with him and both will be missed from the Hanover area, but it is a wonderful opportunity which has been afforded him.
Olney (Mugs) and Lucia Morrill and daughter Julie took a trip to Europe this summer. Although they were going to visit several countries they were going to concentrate on France.
We are indebted to Paul Richter for sending a clipping from the Concord Monitor telling that Phil Gross of Birch Acres in New London has been elected president of the Senior Citizens Club.
Al Foley gave quite a good reporting in his News Letter of the Alumni Fund final figures of A! Frey's sendoff from Pittsburgh and his trek to his new home in Dresden Mills, Me., and of the summer 1920-21 get-together in .New Ipswich. '20s came from near and far for the picnic, Tink and EstherLombard from New Jersey; Frank Morey,Eddie Bowen and Charlie and Frances McGoughran came in one car. We don't know whether Frank and Eddie swung around via Connecticut to pick up Charlie and Frances McGoughran or whether they swung around via New York State to pick up Eddie and Frank. We were glad to see them all, however, and all '20s have fallen in love with Frances, Charlie's charming and delightful new wife.
Word had been received that Gugger andJosephine Fiske planned to attend the picnic in New Ipswich. Did they lose their way or was it too near the time of their move to Seminole, Fla., where they expect to make their home? A note from Roy Rubel said that plans to sail to Norway kept him and Emma from going to the picnic. Everybody was pleased to see Elizabeth Robertson especially remembering last year. Jim wasn't feeling too well but he made an extra effort to get to the picnic as he was so anxious to see the '20 crowd again. It was about the last thing Jim did before he was taken so critically sick.
The Henshaws '21, Walt and Mabel, had such a good time they had a repeat pre-formance, smaller scale, at their home last week, in Pittsfield, N. H„ which included a few from the two classes, Paul and LillianRichter, Charles and Elsa Crathern, Phil andHilda Gross and the Harry Garlands, the Batchelders and Abe Weld from the '21 Class. We hear it was a grand party and the Macombers were sorry they couldn't make it.
I just missed seeing Hib Richter by a half hour the other day in Concord. He is going to teach legal courses again at the Augusta Branch of the University of Maine.
Sadness came to Charlie and MargaretStevens while they were on their trip to the North Cape. A cable came that Margaret's father who made his home with them on Siesta Key in Florida had died suddenly. Since they were unable to get home in time their son took care of arrangements and Charlie and Margaret continued on their trip as scheduled.
It was sad also to learn that Jack Mayer found it necessary to undergo eye surgery. He lias come along well and is now waiting for special glasses to be made for him. He did a grand job on the Alumni Fund in spite of his handicap and he is to be congratulated, and Margaret also, because I am sure she was a great help to him.
Last spring Hazel and I stopped in to see Dot Harvey to find her bustling around preparing for weekend guests, Warrie and Florabel Chamberlain, who were in the north visiting their daughter and her family. Soon after, Dot was going to take two grandchildren on a cruise.
Thanks to Carl Lenz for informing us that (Dr.) Hal Clark of Scarsdale, N. Y., was in White Plains hospital recovering from surgery. He was making good progress at the time and it is hoped his recovery is now complete.
Laddie Myers is very helpful with news of the '20s with whom he comes in contact. Russ and Ada Keep have sold their home in Huntington, L. I., and are living temporarily in an apartment on Hilton Head Island (South Carolina) in one of the golf villas surrounding the Sea Pines Golf Course. They are planning to build a home in that general area. At the time of Laddie's letter he had been to a Dartmouth Club luncheon where he saw Bing Whitaker, Ken Fenderson, and Carroll Hills. Laddie was toying with the thought of California but I believe his decision is to remain where he is in Florida which is good.
Sherm Adams' Loon Mountain Ski project is doing all right and progressing by leaps and bounds. Wednesdays and Saturdays are the two big days with barbeques at the top of the mountain or at the foot of the mountain. This is a four-season resort affording beautiful views of the Kancamagus Trail and the White Mountains.
Another '20 number has come up. JakeMinnis died suddenly on April 2, 1968. Jake and Dorothea enjoyed travelling and since his retirement in 1963 he had been to the Orient and to London, Ireland, and Scotland. The records do not show that he had any children but the sympathy of the Class goes to Dorothea in her sorrow. An In Memoriam will appear in this or a later issue of ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Slg Sigler had a tour of jury duty to attend to this spring but as soon as that was over he and Betty had planned to come to New Hampshire and Vermont to make a concentrated search for a retirement home in this North Country. Not having heard from them we are hoping they have not given up the idea as we had looked forward to having them in this general area.
Pat and Nancy Holbrook are opening their Hanover home at 7 Downing Street again after the Princeton game on October 12. All '20s, their wives, and a friend or two are invited to go there after the game to partake, celebrate and like last year have a good gab fest.
And last but far from least is the news that Jim Chilcott opened his petty cash and donated $250,000 toward a pioneering audi-torium-laboratory at the Dartmouth Medical School, to be known as the Chilcott Audi-torium-Laboratory. It is a generous and magnificent gift and we are all proud that he is a member of our Class.
Just as these notes were about to be sealed and mailed Isabel Morse (Mrs. Robert Morse) stopped in on her way from Rutland to her summer place on Lake Sebago in Maine. She was in Florida last winter and in the spring she took a trip through the Canadian Rockies. It is a coincidence that she mentioned that while in Maine she was going to visit the Morse family cemetery lot and that the Morse plot was next to the Chilcotts' which reminds us that Jim came of Maine stock having been born in Bangor.
Secretary, R.F.D. 1 Center Harbor, N. H. 03226
Treasurer, Beersheba Farm, Star Route Richmond, Me. 04357
