1914
Space permitting birthday greetings are resumed with best wishes to November-born Austin, Brown, Campbell, Elkins, Foss, Piatt, Saltmarsh, and Webber. This with a friendly reminder that a response is expected in time for next month's deadline, December 5.
Admittedly it is hard to stick to business when only a few steps away Lake Mem-phremagog still as a mill pond is calling and all outdoors is a riot of color. Yet from the welter of clippings, notes and reference books on my kitchen table must be distilled news of what 1914 is doing.
My thanks to Ed Elkins to whom so many of you in sending dues have added news that I have borrowed.
Lay Little calls his five years' dues term insurance; others speak of joining the Optimists' Club.
Ted Mann says "It was a grand reunion" and calls us "The youngest 55th class ever to return to Dartmouth."
Jim Gregg still threatens to retire from business after 55 years on State Street (Boston). Want to bet!
Jeff Beals regrets missing reunion but this summer did make a trip north seeing Sig Larmon on Cape Cod and Lay and Mart in Hanover.
Herb Austin wrote of vacationing Switzerland in July.
Doc Cook writing Edgar remarked that the creosote and tar on his check came from his just finished job of black topping his 90 by 11-foot driveway. "Ugh," said Doc.
Walter and Ruth Junkins spent several weeks of their summer in Long Sands, York Beach, Me., keeping unbroken a ten-year record of driving north from Sebastian, Fla., to Maine in company with members of their family.
Chuck Kingsley who yields to no one as a 1974 optimist does make mention that a heart attack threatens to spoil his 1969 shooting record.
Ken Grant missed reunion because of two operations in 1968 that still had to be reckoned with.
From Helen Adams came word that her husband Wilson has been in the hospital since July 14. We have no further details. Their address is 300 West Pueblo Street, Reno, Nev. 89502.
Phil Smith whom sciatica kept from reunion is much better following three weeks of hospital time for removal of a ruptured spinal disk.
To all on whom time adds extra burdens our hope is that every word of our class notes will carry the unspoken message of love and good cheer.
Moose Englehorn joined many others in expressing to Edgar his debt of gratitude to all who made the 55th so memorable a success.
From notes your secretary made during reunion it appears that Lize Wheelock, ArtDearing, and Jim Healy while roommates in Hanover desiring to attend a certain Harvard football game resorted to a certain unconventional means of transportation that ended in a harrowing experience calculated to give anyone nightmares.
Because these notes are incomplete will Lize or Art with or without collaboration please compress the true story into say 500 words for publication in this column next month.
Momentarily expected but doubtless too late for this issue is expected word from Chairman Vorgie Stiles of his appointment of a new Class Agent to take over the duties that Fred Davidson has so long and so ably carried.
Secretary, Lake Road, Newport, Vt. 05855
Treasurer, 105 Carnarvon Circle Springfield, Mass. 01109
