1916
Charlie Brundage concurring, the College has made another award of the Class of 1916 Scholarship generously founded by Sig Larmon 1914 in memory of his brother, our late classmate, Park Larmon. The recipient is David Lewis Freyberg, Class of 1971, of Sandusky, Ohio. David's record at the Perkins High School there and his promising start at Hanover bespeak the "all-round excellence applied in the designation of Rhodes Scholars - academic promise, breadth of interest and achievement, vigor and leadership," specified as the criteria of selection. Our hopes and good wishes ride with him.
Burt Lowe writes that at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota, Fla., that is, on February 27, "the Class was represented by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis, Mr.and Mrs. Emery Lapierre, Mr. and Mrs. AnsonBates, and Sally and Burt Lowe. Fred likes the area so much that he has bought a condominium apartment in nearby Bradenton and looks forward to spending more winter time here." A later report said Burt was hosting a Bates-Davis-Mensel-Lowe luncheon party in mid-March. We won't repeat what was said about the weather; we've had some too. Anyhow, most of our twenty-odd sun-seekers, like the swallows of Capistrano, will be back home by the time you read this.
From colorful, lazy, sun-drenched Guadalajara (advt.) has come a welcome installment of the "Burnham Line." See your Balmacaan Letter.
When recently reading "Endless Frontiers," the history of the McGraw-Hill Company, Paul Goward alertly asked if the Dr. Louis Bell, mentioned therein as a young Dartmouth graduate with a Johns Hopkins Ph.D. who was early secured in 1890 to add strength to the "Electrical World," might be our Louis Bell's father. He certainly was. Not only was Dr. Bell a distinguished graduate of the Class of 1884, Hon. Sc.D. 1923, but Louis once additionally listed among his Dartmouth forebears: his great-grandfather, New Hampshire Governor Samuel H. Bell, 1793; his great-uncle, New Hampshire Governor Charles H. Bell 1844; his great-uncle, Dr. Luther Vose Bell, 1826 Medical School "and at least a dozen others." Louis kept up the tradition by completing his own Dartmouth degree in 1947....
It is with sadness that we report the death at Boston on February 14 of Herbert Kimball's wife Helen. The family appreciated the red roses that spoke for the Class at her services. Our sympathy goes out to them all.
Mrs. McClary also has acknowledged 1916's remembrance of Andy, which included the presence at the Windsor services of the good John Stearnses despite icy roads. Mrs. McClary graciously added: "Alice McClary Perkins and I had a lovely time at your 50th reunion. Maybe we can join you again some time."
On a lovely day in late winter, SallyGammons gave Edna and Roger Evans a happy afternoon at Wilmington, including luncheon at the Country Club. We are looking forward to her gracing some spring day at Sea Girt.
Having read in this column of the Beans', Doyles', and Stillmans' golden wedding anniversaries, Clarence (Cap to you) and GertrudePalmer write that they would like to join the group. Their son Bill and his wife Lucy held a very nice party for them and friends at the Portage Country Club in Akron on their 50th anniversary on July 28 1967. Bill and Ruth McKenzie helped to make it official.
Thanks to Cap's reminder, we can add that: Bill and Ruth Brett's 50th was celebrated at Washington on July 10, 1967. Their two sons from Alton, Ill., and New York City, with families including four of the six grandchildren, and a group of the Bretts' closest friends in the capital surprised them with a "most delightful dinner party in a private room at the University Club. We are hopeful that our sons will repeat the same on our Seventy-fifth," says Bill.
Our heartiest felicitations to all. From such records as we have been able to dig up and consolidate, there appear to be at least four more who attained golden anniversaries in 1967 and at least another seven who married in 1918. Confirmations, anyone?
Reg Gough chips in a welcome letter from his headquarters at the New York Athletic Club where, at 76, he says he is a spring chicken compared to cronies aged 99 (and still holding apartments), 94, 92 and 87. Reg had his second cataract removed in November but with his new glasses now sees incredible things, and this year to March 4 had already read 71 books vs. 171 last year. Our letter opined that the good well-water at the Alpha Delt House likely contributed to the unusual longevity of its 1916 delegation; to which Reg replied that he didn't live there senior year. It seems that conviviality and poker didn't promise to mix well with chemistry majors he had to complete; besides, "under pressure in cold weather, the old furnace would bounce up and down on its plates as if it might go through the roof anytime. So I roomed that last year with Bill Costello in Hitchcock, where it was also much easier to get to chapel on time, and we had a good fireplace and an eightfoot bathtub." Come again, Reg.
We all hope that the Ken Tuckers, GeorgeDock, Kay Parkhurst, and Hobey Marble, the latest of our group known to have had cataracts removed, came through as well as Reg. Through his son, Dutch Doenecke from Caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn gallantly expresses appreciation for all the letters and cards of remembrance that classmates have sent him. His home address is 416 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11226.
Completed questionnaires have trickled in to April 1 from only 47 - including three of our ladies, bless 'em. This will be our last reminder. The initiative from now on is up to you.
These 47 still have yielded some welcome items: Susan daCosta in late December flew out to spend a year with her daughter Susanne in Whittier. Calif. Ev Parker has been accepted for Alumni College and has started on his reading assignments. Arthur and Marion Marsden will be gone until early May visiting en route in St. Augustine and Naples, then returning via Atlanta and the Blue Ridge and Smokies. Parker Hayden had lunched with Cliff Bean and was looking forward to an early April visit with the Beans and Fullers in North Hampton, N. H. He added that one of Phil Nordell's tickets in an old Laramie, Wyo., church lottery is now lodged in a Laramie museum and that the Otis Jacksons D' 24 (Parker's sister), formerly of Laramie, now live close to Shorty Hitchcock in Pasadena. Ig Eigner says he "is doing some tax work in season to keep himself (and presumably his clients) out of trouble" and reports with due pride of his three sons: "Larry, the eldest, keeps busy with his modern poetry. His latest book, published by the Fulcrum Press of London, is being well received, and POETRY, Chicago, usually prints his offers. Dr. Joe continues with his teaching and research in genetics at Washington University, St. Louis. Richard, a San Francisco lawyer, comes home to see us at Swampscott when he flies to Washington or New York." Ben Moxon says that winter life at Pocasset is brightened by the Balmacaan letters (especially John's "Hanoveria") and by the MAGAZINE notes of our and other classes. For in Jim Hagerty's Grill, Ben reminds us, he and Ralph Parker were headwaiters and so came to know many men of other classes exceptionally well.
Come May, Charlie Brundage, Jim Colton, Burt Lowe if possible, and your secretary will be joining John in Hanover for the annual meetings of Class officers. Wish you could be with us.
Walt and Phoebe Walters '17 included avisit to Sydney, Australia, in their SouthPacific cruise aboard the SS Monterey.
Secretary, 2-C Swarthmore Apts. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Class Agent, 50 Rugby Rd., Manhasset, L. I., N. Y. 11030
