1914

Summer as always found Fourteeners and their brides traveling hither and yon with the earliest report being the journey of Fennell and Reinette Aborn to Hanover to attend our off-year reunion that never jelled. They just missed Rufe Sisson; had a good chat with Mart Remsen; enjoyed meals at the rejuvenated Hotel Coolidge in White River and at the new Woodstock Inn.

Henry and Eleanor Lowell, lured from Florida by the charms of New Hampshire, vacationed in New London where of course they called on Elmer and Cris Robinson.

Mart and Kathleen Kemsen spent eight weeks on a foreign cruise visiting Iceland, four Scandinavian countries, Russia, Germany, Holland, and Ireland.

Jim Hawley and his daughter attended Jim’s 60th reunion at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. Then went to Hanover where both were deeply impressed with the art program and art shops of Hopkins Center. By the way it was Jim who guessed correctly that of the eight whose birthdays fell in May Win Snow was the senior in years. Jim is now serving pancakes with Vermont maple syrup to all visitors.

Records are sometimes inexact as I learned after offering good wishes to Natand Jean Hallett on their May 8, 50th wedding anniversary. I had the correct day but the happy event occurred two years ago. TT .3 i J X

Undaunted I venture now to offer to Wesley and Viola Englehorn congratula- tions from all of us on their 55th wedding anniversary which, thanks to a Cape Cod newspaper clipping from Dan Chase, was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Middleton in Dennis, Mass., on August 19. The friendship of the Englehorns and the Middletons runs back many years as it was in Chicago, 111., on August 19, 1915 that both couples were married in double ceremony. Mrs. Middleton is Wesley’s sister.

The summer brought sadness to many of us. From Mat Hallett came news of the sudden death on May 16 of his son-in-law, George I. Ray Jr.

From Les Bacon by phone came the tragic news of the loss of his beloved wife Viola after a sickness of three weeks.

Delayed but no less moving came newspapers stories of the death on May 15 of our classmate, Benjamin Harrison Quarles of Washington, D. C. His only known sur- vivor is his daughter Constance Ann (Mrs. George Winsor). Our Golden Book records Ben’s outstanding military record in World War I in France with the 351 st U. S. field artillery and no less distinguished was his lifetime record as owner and partner in Pittsburg and Washington pharmacies.

The greatest shock was still to come when to our home on the Canadian border came the New York Times with news of the death of Ellsworth Buck on August 14, 1970 at his ranch in Crivitz, Wis. Possibly no member of our class was better known or better liked and respected than Ellsworth. Nor have many had broader interests or held more positions of importance in the field of business, banking, politics, and civic activi- ties. More on Ellsworth’s life will be found elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue of the Magazine.

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