1914
To these notes written the night before what may prove to be Vermont's greatest storm of the year it seems timely to offer this forecast of spring written by our class poet.
Look Out Spring Old winter's woods are bare and sere; And leafless trees make landscapes drear. Then quickly does the change appear—For Spring is near, yes, Spring is here. Our brooklet from the ice breaks free, And gurgles by the budding tree; The birdies chirp right merrily For Spring, releasing Spring is here! But don't be sure all now is swell—And all your griefs in limbo dwell, For Springtime's cold will stalk the land—Vick's Vapo-Rub keep right at hand-Kerchoo!!
Theophilus Thaw East Pitchfork, N. H. 01914
Before we dip into the past for flashbacks of earlier days, a look through the grist of today's news finds GilMcDonough writing from Denver, Colo., that he is still going to his office to work a few hours a day and that on occasion he sees his Denver classmate, Fred Cranston, looking fine and also keeping busy at work.
From Chuck Kingsley comes a letter expressing concern that the current generation may be completely unable to comprehend the subject matter of the Christmas cards which we all continue to exchange with each other as though our machine age or technological era did not exist. I do not want to throw the whole class into a dither without disclosure of Chuck's thesis so for lack of space I'll ask Sig Larmon to open his News Letter to full report and discussion of Chuck's letter. Watch for it.
Our treasurer, Ed Elkins, is deeply grateful for the generous response to his request for replenishment of our Memorial Book Fund and very especially for the contribution made by John A. Skakle '45 in his father's memory and as a present to his mother.
In a birthday note to Phil Smith of West Hartford, Conn., I enclosed a copy of the Indian drawn by Walt Humphrey overprinted 1914-1950 for our 35th reunion. To Phil it brought back memories of Middle Mass and the many times that Walter, then my roommate, called Phil as all-purpose model for the beautiful illustrations in our 1914 Aegis.
So much for contemporary news of which we seem always to have too little. You heard last month of our good fortune in rediscovering a scrapbook of our class notes of 1928-1949.
To whet your interest in having them sometime reprinted in full here are random quotes from the years 1935-47 when JohnBurleigh was our class secretary. John, as I learned on phoning him just now, is home at Bedford, N. H., recovering from a rough time of surgery and hospitalization.
November 1928, Dan Chase has his new novel "Roads End" accepted for publication, his fourth. Enders Voorhees becomes treasurer of Johns-Manville Company. Lt. Paul Perkins spends two weeks flying at Mitchell Field. Fred Davidson returning from Paris tried the Hanover golf course. Doc Cook is now teaching at Croesus Institute otherwise Hackley School in Tarrytown.
Myron Files operates a sizeable farm in Harvard, Mass. Dr. Albert Herring returns from several weeks' travel in South America. Roscoe De Witt interviews his architectural clients in the Kirby Building in Dallas, Tex.
This is only a sample from notes of one month in which appeared comment on over fifty classmates.
Sadly we conclude our notes with news of the death of Winfred Scott StinsonJones in Spokane, Wash., on January 24, 1971 at the age of 79.
Secretary, Lake Road, Newport, Vt. 05855
Class Agent, 171 Brimbal Ave. Beverly, Mass. 01915
