1914
Beware the Slides of March
The wind is a torrent of darkness, Whistling through the trees; The moon is a ghostly galleon Tossed upon cloudy seas, As March slams onto the campus, Congealing the students' blood, And turns the paths of our boyhood To blankety blank blank mud!
Theophilus Noyes Thaw East Pitchfork, N.H.
Inexorably the months pass and with this issue we come to those among us who were once hailed as blessed events in the month of which our class poet Elmer "Theophilus"Robinson offers the above warning: Cranston, George Gilbert, Hall, Little, Sheldon, Spore, Tilton, Woodies, and Woodman.
Saved for another day is our poet's lament on winter of which he had had too much. His sad verses were written as a duet to be sung by Gus Fuller and Charlie Batchelder now vacationing in sunny Florida.
Lay and Ruth Little bade their goodbye to winter on February 12 and are reported now on some idyllic island near St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. Just too late for our January news came word from Cap Law-rence that he and Lucy had attended the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Connie andFrannie Pooler on December 19 in Weston, Mass., leaving there for their own holiday in Florida at the Jupiter Island Club at Hobe Sound.
No one reading the Golden Book of 1914 could fail to realize the contributions made by our classmates in almost every field of endeavor but particularly in teaching. From Florry Blood comes this recapitulation of personal histories: "We taught in 63 prep schools and 65 colleges and universities; we taught everything from Flute to Theology. Nine of our 1914 boys taught at Dartmouth at one time or another." Florry's own teaching record was outstanding.
Ted Main giving his new address in Florida as 512 No. Twin Towers at 2020 No. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach, writes that the fish are biting much better with surf-casting the real fun (no pun intended).
Although skeptical that any Fourteener really retires I must report that CharlieCrandall writes from Westfield, N.J., that he has finally done so after his long and varied career in security and publishing fields. Charlie still sings with the Westfield Glee Club and from a fellow member's son, Jonathan White '57, comes a story of our own Gail Gardner of Prescott, Ariz., too long for this column but on its way to Mart Remsen.
Fred Davidson who retired from Corn Products Company some eight years ago is pleased that his son-in-law James Lester, a Princeton graduate, has been appointed plant manager of Corn Products' newest ultra modern starch plant now being bum on the shore of Lake Erie. When it is ready Jim and Fred's daughter, Anne, and their four daughters will make their new home in Huron, Ohio.
Secretary, 40 Crane Rd. Scarsdale, N.Y. 10583
Treasurer, 11 Holbrook St., Palmer, Mass. 03257
Bequest Chairman,
