1919
As we write these notes, the annual Fall Get-together or Woodstock Weekend is only just over. It belied either name, held in Hanover and it not yet fall, but it was a great success. There for the Friday night dinner were: Ray Adams, Batchelder, Tom and Claire Bresnahan, Jack and Betty Clark, Fred and Gert Daley, Jim Davis, Dick and Spike Dudensing, Herb and Sally Fleming, Chet and Emily Gale, Art and Janet Havlin, Rock and Alice Earl Hayes, Ken and Marge Hantington, Max and Caroline Huntoon, Cotty and Kitty Larmon, Bob and Anne Lewis, Spider and Bea Martin, Jigger and Ernestine Merrill, Jock and Edna Murray, Jack and Hester McCrillis, Max and Helen Norton, Bob and Hattie Paisley, Greif and Kay Raible, George Rand, Stu and Jane Russell, Nick and Dotty Sandoe, Bob and Florence Stecher, Nock Wallis, Teto and Shirley Webster, and John Williams.
At luncheon before the game the next day were the above and Spen Dodd, his son-in-law Ted Yardley and his grandsons, Michael and Nicholas Yardley. Fanny Ames, AdeleIves, Amos Blandin '18 and Alberta, and Henry Lyons, old friend of the McCrillises and frequent participant in these affairs, and father of James P. Lyons '50. All told, some sixty-odd; a remarkable showing for a party held so soon after our 50th.
The program followed the old pattern: and Friday lunch-time found small groups eating here, there, and everywhere. The executive committee met and heard reports from class officers. Everything seemed to be in fine shape. In a late afternoon seminar, our own Dr. John Milne Murray and Professor Francis M. Gramlich of the College explained the teen-age mores, answered questions, dispelled grandmother fears, and grandfather ires and applauded the maturity, the understanding and the success of the Dartmouth approach. Then cocktails and dinner - precious minutes filled with that unique joy that comes from association with these old friends - friends tried, true and comfortable. At the end President Sandoe, among other things read from a report of our 10th reunion. We all visualized these same friends forty years ago doing the most outlandish things.
Next day luncheon in the Tavern Room and off to sit in the warm fall sunshine and watch the football game. And from there to the Larmons' for their always-better-than-efore affair. A great get-together one that calls for cheers for Stu Russell who does these things so well.
Dartmouth 42 - Boston College 6 was fun to watch. Fortunate we were to sit sandwiched between two knowledgeable football commentators. We got some sterling instruction in the fine points of the game. On our left was Dorothy Sandoe, an intimate friend of Dartmouth's star safety-man, Jack Roberts '7O (she walked across the street with him at reunion). Before each play she told us that he was going to do something wonderful - and, by golly, he did. On our right was Jack Clark, the Jenny Lind of '19. He set us straight right away on a point that might have escaped the ordinary observer. He said, "Chasey's signals are pitched too low - they should be in C#." We watched and we liked what we saw.
Ray Adams is always good for a hatful of news items mostly gleaned from the back of those demands for his pound of flesh which he sends to all of us. To wit: Collie O'Gorman plans to be at 111 Bradley Place, Palm Beach, Fla., for the winter. Marshall andPeggy Chadwell just arrived home on Sept. 6 from a trip to Norway with Jack andHester McCrillis. Hester says "... the perfect trip; doing it again I would want everything just the same." Part of the time they were on a mail packet which poked its nose into every stream, bay, and gulf; powered by a Fiord Motor no doubt. The CharlesMillses, currently off to Denver, plan to spend three or four of the cold months in Florida. From Red Murphy tersely, "It must have been a good reunion. Sorry I missed it." Harriet reports that Louis Munro stood reunion well and is now doing fine - that he would have been at the party on the 20th but for a wedding they had to go to. And Bill Smith writes, "... have to miss seeing you on Sept. 19. Claude and I leave on Sept. 16 for three weeks in London and Italy...
and didn't we enjoy reunion! Congratulations to the Class on a wonderful turn-out." From Larry McCutcheon, ". . . Fishing was poorest I have ever had at the lake - so of course admit I should have been with you all in Hanover. If Florida is on your winter schedule, please look me up in Pompano." And last this amazing message, "I have finally, at age 72, retired as of last June 30, with appropriate ceremonies: reception, presentation of framed certificate, Paul Revere bowl engraved with my name and length of service (it was a little over 25 years). However, my retirement isn't quite what I anticipated as I was urgently invited back for certain things I sort of specialized in, such as welfare, courts, advising our credit department on medical angles and taking care of our archives. So I find myself back at work anywhere from one to four forenoons a week. Must say I do sort of enjoy keeping my thumb in the soup. HenryClay, Archivist."
One sad note we must report from the Fall Get-together. Spider Martin, always so bright, exuberant, enthusiastic, and dynamic, has had a traumatic experience which has thrown him into a deep-seated depression. He has lost his first-tee magic. Up to now Spider has arranged golf-match handicaps as quickly, as capably and as profitably as the Rothschilds arranged the finances of Europe. We found him in the Hayward room shaking his head and muttering in his beard. The story came out finally in a question he asked, "How could I shoot a 91 with a 23 handicap and still lose a buck?" We feel for him.
Incidental Intelligence: Rock and AliceEarl Hayes have bought a condominium in Delray Beach, Fla., where they will spend the winter months. Fashion Note PearlAdams is preparing for a week in Boston. Ken and Marge Huntington have spent almost all of the summer on their farm in Orford, N.H. Ingleton Schenck and three friends plan to be at the Harvard game in October. Dick and Spike Dudensing are seeking an apartment for several winter months in Florida. And from George Rand a clipping from the Boston Herald, Sept. 4, "The acting duo of Paul Ford and Dorothy Loudon, recent summer theater headliners in the area, has a strong Dartmouth connection. Ford is a member of Dartmouth's Class of 1924. Dorothy is the daughter of James E. Loudon Jr., of Claremont, N.H., Class of 1919 and the niece of retired Hub advertising executive, Henry A. Loudon '17."
Bob Paisley, the fightingest 80 lbs. that ever wore a shin guard for the Big Green, in now weighing in at a slightly higher figure, to take on progress. The highway department of Massachusetts, or New York, or both makes ready to turn his farm in the deep sticks between Williamstown and Albany into a complex of Paisley-patterned cloverleaves and speedways. It is, of course, a losing fight, and Hattie tells us that he sits looking down his fields, his rheumy eyes dimmed by tears as he cries in his beer. He says, "Hattie, look at all those yellow cows." When we say "cows in the meadow" sounds nice, she replies, "Well, they're not really cows, of course, they're bulldozers."
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