1917

Bequest Chairman,

Burton L. Gale has been planning a trip in March with friends to San Francisco on a freighter via the Canal and expects to spend some time on the west coast. The Gales hail from Buffalo, N. Y.

Meredith Brill says: "Thanks very much for your birthday greetings. It is wonderful to be remembered after so many years. Mrs. Brill and I retired from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society on June 30 after over 36 years of service, she as counselor and I as assistant general secretary-treasurer. We are retained as consultants and also have a history to write of her father's long connection with the Society. I am keeping busy on the boards of the Boy Scouts, locally and nationally; Tompkins County U.F.; Tompkins County Mental Health Society; and the Advisory Board of the N. Y. State Youth Rehabilitation Camp near here. Hazel and I have signed up to come to Hanover next June for the 200th Anniversary of the College. Hope to see you and other 1917-ers then."

Norm and Mary McCulloch also hope to go to Hanover for the 50-plus reunion.

Herbert L. Searles says: "Thanks for your birthday card. It is a charming and thoughtful custom. Keep it up. I approve of your spark of wisdom about growing old."

So many classmates have commented on the birthday message they received from the Class this year that we are prompted to repeat it for the benefit of those whose message perhaps was different. At our ages and sometimes lacking recent reports, we don't always know if "Happy Birthday" might have a somewhat hollow sound. So, with a hope that the admonition might not be needed, we said: "A birthday means only that you are one day older than you were yesterday; so don't let the day get you down."

Word has been received from Bob Boynton that Angus Black passed away on January 9 at Dick's House where he had been under treatment for about three weeks. His wife Gladys had been staying in Hanover during his illness.

Sumner Emerson reports that, although Charlotte was hospitalized recently for major surgery, she is now fully recovered and both of them have escaped the flu "so far." They hope a number of '17ers will be in Sarasota before the season is over.

We also have a report that George Gregory was due for hospital treatment to correct an irregular heart.

Col. Derrill deS. Trenholm thanked us for reminding him that the number 76 had come up in his age bracket! "It's lucky for me," says he, "that I have a young as well as a sunny natured wife. . . . Also had a card from Mott Brown, my ole friend from Troy who used to bed down over in Crosby House, frosh year, I believe. We were visited during the holidays by one of our grandsons. What a high hurdler he would have made - 6 feet high. But as Harry Hillman would have put it: 'eager, willing, but left his speed home in the closet!' David is a junior at Colorado State - needed a haircut like they all do. See you in September. Keep well."

Wesley C. Thompson was honored on December 2 by a retirement party on the occasion of his 47 years of service as an executive of the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co., of Charlotte, N. C. He joined that company in 1921 after discharge from the army. It was while serving there that he met the sister of the operator of the family business whom he married after his release from the service. He became production manager of the company which was then making 30 tons of pipe a day and at the time of his retirement they were making 30 tons an hour.

It is always good to make contact with Mose Hutchins. A card written January 24 says: "Your birthday greetings arrived this morning along with those of several classmates, all of which are greatly appreciated by Pauline and me.... It has been a fine day with many phone calls from friends and, best of all, a surprise (to me) visit by our daughter who lives in Farmington, Conn. . . . Pauline is having a small birthday dinner for me. It will be a change for me to wheel my chair into the dining room. . . . Best wishes to Helen and you from Pauline and me."

Between handling "The Sentry" and (temporarily) these class notes, it is just possible to get mixed up. How Carlyle Sweet's card got in with those of departed classmates is a mystery, but his name should not have been listed among those in the January 23 issue. He responded: "I'm feeling fine . . . remain active . . . have been spending the summers in North Carolina and winters in Fort Lauderdale I enjoy your letters ... always on the lookout for Dartmouth men, yet rarely see any."

Waltman Walters '17 holding the trophyhe won as runner-up in the South Atlantic Coast Short Iron (Par 3) Tournamentheld on Key Biscayne last December. Hehad a score of 108 for 36 holes.

Acting Secretary Quanset Village, Box 235 South Orleans, Mass. 02662

Treasurer, 315 Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa. 19083