1914

APRIL SONG

(Pronounced "Sawg")

Now the trees are in the bud; Now the stream's in pulsing flood; Springtime's in the youthful blood — So's my cold!

Sunrise glows its warming red; Tempting me all gloom to shed.

But I recall the doctor said "Aspirin, liquids, stay in bed."

Theophilus Thaw East Pitchfork, N. H.

An even dozen classmates celebrate April birthdays. For real drama in real life read their remarkable careers in our Golden Book. They are: Dearing, D. A. Emerson, Fordham, Grant, Gregg, Higgins, Holway, Richardson, Richmond, Stratton, White, and Voorhees.

To check each month whose birthdays are impending your secretary turns to the big 1914 Record Book that you signed over 50 years ago and there in your handwriting is the date of your birth. Now in return if on seeing your name in the birthday list each of you will send even a postcard it will mean news coming from 145 sources adding great interest to these notes.

Alan Overton reports moving from Terre Haute, Ind., to Cincinnati, O. He is now at 214 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, a suburb (?) 45215. He has retired from the wholesale building material business - remembers meeting Hank Llewellyn in the Argonne, Roger Rice in some French town, and Rubber Floyd in Cartersville, Ga. To meet all the gang, Al, come on to the 55th in 1969.

From always alert newsgatherer PennellAborn comes word that he, Abe Newmark and Sherm Saltmarsh represented the Class at the Feb. 8 dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. Abe left the next day for Florida. Sherm is busy ice fishing the Aborns are in an all winter mixed bowling tournament. In nearby Marblehead Loring Nichols' daughter Kinky (Mrs. Garland Gray) gave her father a party on his 75th birthday.

Thank you, Phil Smith of West Hartford, Conn., for the interesting letter of your recollections of Lou Gove prompted by your reading of Mart Remsen's reprint from Yankee Magazine.

Remember please, to read again Mart's News Letter of Feb. 2 for details given by Lay Little of this year's Early Bird Informal Reunion in Hanover April 19-21 (FridaySunday). It can be a gay preview of next year's 55th. „

Jesse Claeys Beck looking for the end of the rainbow in sunny Italy found it couldn't match life in her own sunny California and February found her back in Santa Barbara 93103 at 1295 Old Coast Highway.

Note too, that after 45 years of making Scarsdale, N. Y., their legal residence the Sleepers, not content with living seven months of the year in Newport, Vt., in May are moving there lock, stock and barrel. For winter living they have bought a house on Main Street built by Gordon's grandfather's brother after his return from the Civil War.

Johnnie Piane spent most of February as a guest at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. Going through Hanover in early March I was delighted to find him home - in good spirits and very much on the mend.

How far the little candle throws its beam. The eagle eye of Dartmouth College Forester Bob Monahan '29 caught in our January notes the story that Ellsworth Buck had planted 100,000 pines. Having had strange damage to the tops of red pines planted in large areas of the College Grant, Bob wrote Ellsworth asking if he had had any similar experience. The answer yes cleared up the mystery. In new plantings weeds grow faster than trees making perfect ground cover for mice and other rodents. Large flocks of crows attracted by food perch on the upper laterals of the young pines damaging or often breaking off the tender growth.

If you have any problems bring them to your Class Notes.

Secretary, L 40 Crane Rd. Scarsdale, N. Y. 10583

Class Agent, 9 Keogh Lane, New Rochelle, N. Y. 10805