1914
The merry month of May marked the entry into this presently disturbed world of the following classmates: Files, Kingsford, Kinne, LeCount, McAllister, MacKinnon, Main, Sleeper, Paul Smith, Warren.
Theophilus has taken his 1912 Hupmobile off the winter jacks and made the long tour through Pitchfork Center, West Pitchfork, Hominy Pot, Scytheville, and home. He wasn't happy about what he saw - and sent us another magnum opus. Here it is:
IN THE BERRY MONTH OF MAY
Sing a song of Maytime; Hail the open roads; Ah, beautiful broad highways Where the scofflaws dump their loads! Sing of empty beer-cans And bottles gone to smash; Bless those lovely people Who decorate with trash!
Theophilus Thaw East Pitchfork, N. H. 01914
It is no surprise that Herb Austin has a beautiful granddaughter named Susan Mary but it took Pen Aborn's eagle eye to spot her glamorous picture in the Boston Herald and to report her engagement to a lucky guy from St. Croix, Virgin Island named Richard Scott Michael. A June wedding is planned.
Speaking of tropical climes the Gus Fullers and the Paul Smiths arranged a 1914 reunion luncheon at the Clearwater Country Club in Florida on March 11. Present were the Lay Littles, the Henry Lowells, the Charlie Batchelders, the Abe Newmarks, Franz Marceau, Howard Fahey, Constance Humphrey, and Lay's sister Grace Niles.
Charlie Batchelder wrote that many of the above also attended earlier meetings of the Dartmouth Clubs of St. Petersburg and Sarasota and that at the latter, Lize Wheelock, accompanied by Polly, gave the invocation.
To record a friendly act, when Dale Barker, Class Agent of 1915, read in our notes that Doc Kingsford had lost his 1914 Aegis by Are, Dale promptly offered an extra copy that he had on hand. Many thanks, Dale.
To Rufe Sisson go congratulations from all of us on his completion of 21 years of service to Clarkson College of Technology of Potsdam, N. Y. For over two decades Rufe has been an active member of the College Board of Trustees. Now having asked for retirement effective last February, he will serve as "Trustee Emeritus."
Rufe now 77 has made great contributions to the cultural and business life of Potsdam, the city in which he was born. In 1958 when he retired as president and chairman of the board of the Raquette River Paper Co. he had been 44 years with this company, a past president of the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce, holding also top post in trade associations of the paper industry.
A Washington A.P. release dated March 18 reads: "Eight of the nine major design contracts awarded by Congress during a Capitol Hill building boom that began in 1955 have gone to seven architects now business partners - whose fees to date total $5,197,737. What firm is it? DeWitt, Poor and Sheldon. A doff of the hat to Roscoe whose contributions to better architecture on Capitol Hill have won national approbation.
In what for both will be their junior year, Henry and Eleanor Lowell will again this summer attend the Dartmouth Alumni College in Hanover - a wonderful source of fresh inspiration and new ideas.
Recognition well deserved came to Frederick A. Davidson, our Class Agent, when on April 4 before 450 fellow Class Agents and their associates, the Alumni Council awarded him the Council's highest award for distinguished service to the College. The occasion was a dinner at the Hotel Commodore. The citation read at the dinner is printed in full on preceding page.
As these notes go off to Hanover word comes of a call to all Fourteeners in the New York Metropolitan area to converge on the prestigious Union League Club on Park Avenue for a class luncheon at high noon, April 5. Ten have already accepted. Full report in the June issue.
Secretary, Lake Road Newport, Vt. 05855
Class Agent, 9 Keogh Lane, New RochelJe, N. Y. 10805
