1915
Here we go into November with Thanksgiving in the offing, to say nothing of a football schedule that is a real challenge.
While Eben Clough and Kike Richardson were regaling themselves back in August trying to extract some fish from Nash Stream, Fanny Bennink checked in with Eben's Margie for a weekend visit. Margie says Fanny is "quick as a cat and is a model in her age class." Eben reports the fishing nil, as the hot weather drove the fish down to the cool bottom. He also reveals the mystery of who stole Kike's Antique Thunder Mug was cleared when someone found it under a pile of canvas in the shed.
It is reported that Amos Blandin '18 says this year's football team should be "loaded in the line!"
Fletch Low, who played pro-baseball after graduation with the Boston Braves until 1919 and served three successive terms as a Hanover representative to the Legislature from 1961 to 1967 and more recently returned from three years with Vista-Job Corps in Tennessee, was Republican candidate for County Commissioner this year.
A cute card from Dan Daniell of Green Bay, Wise., offers "get well" wishes when he learned this scribe missed our 1970 Reunion for the first time in 18 years. A later note reads: "Dan Daniell announces the birth in the James B. Blanchard family (his daughter, Marcia) a baby girl, Anne Elizabeth, born Aug. 25, 1970—making nine boys and seven girls." Dan adds that mother and daughter are doing fine and the father will recover!
Jeanette Reynolds says the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is her "mainstay and prop" which she reads from beginning to end and comments on "the high calibre of the articles written and speeches given are uplifting to my soul." This confirmed by her contributions to the Alumni Fund!
An inspirational note from Norvy Milmore implied a final visit to Hanover back in August—which we trust was made as planned.
Further reports from Eben dough reveal they were hoping to take in the Princeton and Harvard games. Hope they made it! He referred to Kike Richardson's celebrated 1915 party the morning of the Harvard-Dartmouth game and it is presumed all appetites were satiated as of yore. Other games were scheduled to be seen or listened to from armchairs via television and radio. Some of Eben's quotes are indeed unusual, such as: "Tip—a sum of money that is more than you can afford and less than the waiter expected." "Football game—a contest where a spectator takes four quarters to finish a fifth." And "For rent—large sleeping room across the street from college girls' dormitory—also pair of binoculars."
Other quotes that come in from various classmates are indeed challenging to a columnist - "How do porcupines make love? Carefully!" "'Oh Broth-e-r' — said the sweet young thing as she spied a young Sampson down on the beach—'and I don't mean Brother!' "
A September note from George Dyke pictures a "hideout" he frequents once a year, stating that this is their 29th straight year of attendance at this location — The Virginian Motel at Jackson Hole, Wyo., a very interesting looking "Hole" indeed.
Another interesting note from Hal Pinkham up in Milton, N. H., refers back to the Hanover days of Coach Frank Cavanaugh. Hal has been experiencing the throes of cataract operations and is now awaiting the proper fitting of glasses which he hopes will enable him to make a brief visit to New York, as well as to continue to read the ALUMNI MAGAZINE "on into our eighties." We'll be rooting, Hal!
Barring further receipts, or news, this about winds up our column for this issue. We hope that all goes well with everybody on into the future.
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