1913
Don't forget the Old Grads' Reunion, June 16-18. The special weekend is for all old grads that have been out of college fifty-one or more years. All '13ers should make every effort to be in Hanover on this momentous occasion as the college has planned a very special program. After the hardest and worst winter in memory, it looks now as if we would get some spring weather. Gradually the huge piles of snow have faded gently away and lessened the chances of floods which could have been disastrous here in New England. The disappearance of the snow has left a sordid mass of broken branches, leaves and whatnot to be cleared away, not to mention candy wrappers, papers, and other things thrown away by school children on their way home. Oh yes and numerous empty beer cans thrown out of the car by "hotrodders," that new element of young modern manhood.
Bill Gumbart wrote Bill Towler that his own status remains the same as he has written before. He keeps his office and old desk where they have been for forty years and goes in to do a bit of work and attend a meeting or two. Lack of energy, he says, or inclination to do much more. Also the law, like science and technology, changes and expands so fast that obsolescense affects a lawyer these days as it does a computer. Living in a university town he observes how old fashioned he has become. He prefers the time when we went from the B and M station (Norwich and Hanover) to the Dartmouth campus by stagecoach.
Lois and Bill Towler are spending two weeks fishing, shelling, and bathing at Naples, Fla. Then they go to Sea Island, Ga., for a week and will be back home by April 10.
In a letter to Mose Linscott, RalphBadger tells of his trip to Guam. He and his wife left last November and spent nine weeks there, where he did a job for the Guam government. From Guam they traveled to Okinawa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Manila, Brisbane, Sydney, back up the east coast 1200 miles to Haymen's Island on the Great Barrier Reef, to Auckland, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, Fiji (including a trip to the Yasawa Islands), to American and Western Samoa, Bora Bora, and Tahiti. From there they returned home via Honolulu. Mose returned from Florida to the "deep freeze" of Massachusetts last March and said what a sucker he was to come back to all that snow. Said he was horrified to hear about Joe Barnett's accident while in Florida and would have gone to see him had he been on the West Coast instead of the East and was without a car.
Nathaniel Merrill '48, "Tubby" Merrill's son has staged the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's "II Trovatore" which will be the opening offering on April 21 at the War Memorial Auditorium at Boston, Mass.
"Mose" Linscott has written the following letter to the 1913 Class News editor: "On what grounds, sir, do you set yourself up as a competent judge of athletic affairs? The undersigned handsome young athletes resent your impertinence in presenting to the class as its premier athlete a certain 'Line' Wilson. Since when, sir, did a person who rides in a golf-cart, occasionally dismounting to tap a small white ball into a hole in the ground bamboozle you into thinking he was an athlete? Be advised, sir, if the undersigned fast tennis players are ever again relegated by you to second string standing, be prepared to defend yourself in a suit for libel brought by the champion tennis doubles team of the class, M.Wright and Mose Linscott"
Harold McAllister has written about his sojourn in sunny Florida the past winter. He goes on to say "We had planned to leave for home 19 March but since an unexpected cancellation made it possible for us to stay longer in our apartment, we are staying until 2 April and should be in Manchester the 6th or 7th. At present our nextdoor neighbor says there is three feet of snow in our driveway, which, incidentally, hasn't been touched all winter. This has been a most unusual winter here, weatherwise. Yesterday (Mar. 13), 7 out of 10 temperature reporting stations in Florida reported record lows. There has been almost no trace of the hot weather we love and usually have. Still it is better than Manchester which is buried in snow and very cold." Our sympathy goes to all those poor guys that spend the winter in the sunny south.
Mac says that he and "General" Wilson attended the Dartmouth Alumni luncheon in West Palm Beach. "Cap" Avery and George Davidson were planning on being there. Cap's wife is desperately ill and was in the hospital, at last reports.
Joe Barnett writes that he is coming along well but is not too spry yet to be walking along those long corridors. He says that "Laddie" Myers '20, former trackman, is at the hospital (Morton Plant) with some kind of a heart condition.
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