1914
June a year hence will find most of us in Hanover for our 55th reunion. Would it not refresh our recollections of each other if on reading our birthday list each month we were to turn to our Golden Book for the highlights of each man's career. Our June list includes Breslin, Cook, Fahey, Fairfield, French, Morse, Harvey Smith, and Snow. Note as you read of these men at a time when a new war claims our attention the service they gave in World War I.
Our class poet recently surveyed the Hanover scene with feelings and impressions he can no longer repress.
What Is So Rare?
What is so rare as a day in June? Well, listen to my doleful tune That tells you what you rarely see At school or university:
You seldom find a campus lad In cleanly garments neatly clad; You hardly find a student now Whose shaggy locks reveal a brow; And rarely is a student seen Who knows that soap is used to clean.
It makes me queasy in midsection; Praise be! The wind can change direction!
Theophilus Kilmer Thaw East Pitchfork, N.H. 01914
Coming closely on last month's feature story of the honors that came to Fred Davidson is news that he has been hospitalized with some sudden disorder. Mart Remsen who flashed this word is holding his newsletter long enough to give all of us further information. Fred has our love and our prayers.
Your secretary had to miss the April 19 and 20 '14 weekend reunion in Hanover but knows how pleasant it was and how blessed with beautiful spring weather. The participants were the Fred Davidsons, the Larry Kingmans, the Phil Smiths, the Mart Remsens, the Ducky Drakes, the Lay Littles, the Herb Austins, Jim Shields, and Sig Larmon.
The Class luncheon reported last month as about to be held at the Union League Club was another happy affair attended by Ellsworth Buck, Doc Cook, Charlie Crandall, Walt Daley, Fred Davidson, Jim Hawley, Chuck Kingsley, Sig Larmon, Allen Richmond, Gordon Sleeper and Fred Weed.
News comes of the marriage of Margaret M. Mechling and Franz Marceau on April 8 at Sarasota, Fla. Our warmest congratulations are offered. Their home is at 450 32nd Avenue, North Apartment, 207 West, St. Petersburg.
Ray and Ruth Little in the course of their recent trip south visited with Jean and MatHallett in their lovely Charlotte, N.C., home. You well remember that Mat's real hobby is reproducing antique furniture. Ruth, who knows her antiques, found them in every respect equal to the originals. She hopes that Mat will exhibit them in a one-man show in Hanover.
A recent Open House Newsletter of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital reporting progress in the great expansion and improvement program that by the summer of 1970 will just about double this regional hospital tells of the gift of Martin J. andKathleen Remsen of a long-hoped-for and badly needed 28-bed Intensive Care Unit.
Ray Kitterage who finds the new Hanover Inn to his liking writes:
Nostalgia! The Hanover Inn, 1910 to 1914! Where Dartmouth newsmen filed their imperishable stuff at the W.U. telegraph office just beyond the "desk" and Miss Rhodey. Ed Elkins ('14) and I punched it out to the hungry newspapers, seven afternoons and nights a week, and the newsmen and others stopped to chat with us for hours. Perry Fairfield, manager of the Inn, and Hunt, a medical student, assistant manager, at the "desk" and athletic coaches, etc., sitting in the lobby nearby, discussing their plans, etc.
President Lay Little has just flashed word that Voghie Stiles who served as FredDavidson's deputy chairman for our successful fiftieth reunion, has accepted appointment as chairman of our June 1969 55th reunion.
Secretary, Lake Road Newport, Vt. 05855
Class Agent, 9 Keogh Lane, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10805
