1916
The engagement and late May wedding in Copenhagen, of Miss Inge-Lise Nielsen and Everett Humphreys Parker Jr. of Mountain View, Calif., has been announced by the future bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Director Knud Eric Nielsen of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The groom-to-be is of course our Ev's son Ted, of '64 and Tuck '65. Ev and his lovely daughters Betsy and Polly and their husbands are all attending the wedding. Thereafter Ev will travel through Denmark and Norway until May 31 when Betsy will join him for a tour of the Norwegian fijords until June 8. Then they fly to Boston, as Betsy writes, "so Dad will be rested and rarin' to go for the great 55th reunion!" The Class toasts them all.
Belatedly we note in the good book that Jim and Clara Shanahan celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on February 1. Again, felicitations.
It was like the Parkhursts, when in Arizona in April, to visit Fort Huachuca where Pete Soutar was stationed in 1918-19.
Larry and Rene Doyle spent three months this winter in Hillsboro, Florida. They reported having some pleasant times with Ray De Voe, now of Boca Raton; also a visit the Doyles, the Kelvin Doyles '40, and Ray had "with Hobie Baker and his charming wife, who live on a beautiful estate with its own very broad beach, near the Palm Beach entrance to the Intercoastal Waterway. After cocktails, we were taken to an elegant surf club for an excellent luncheon... A great day." We regret to hear now that Rene on April 21 entered the hospital at Sewickley, Pa., where their doctor son Alfred is.
Ralph and Lossie Parker as usual spent April at Cocoa Beach. We've just phoned Hawk Tuttle down the New Jersey coast at Beach Haven Park. Eye troubles have slowed Tut down and stopped his driving, but he is still in there pitching.
As we write, John Ames has sent a note from the widow bringing the sad news that Frank Cowan died at Salt Lake City on March 29. Almost simultaneously Esky and Dan Dinsmoor combined to report that Dee Stillman passed away on April 20 at Santa Barbara, and that Esky was sending flowers and himself would attend the services on behalf of 1916. Memoriam notices for both of these good men will appear in the first possible issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
The Records Office has been notified thatClarence Edward Peterson died of cancer at Englewood, Colo., on January 21. You may remember that he and the late Tom Ryan, also from Denver and long out of touch, shared 32 Reed our freshman year until they left.
Hollis and Carol Nickerson have it planned. Their treasure includes a married son on Cape Cod, and married daughters in Winchester, Mass., and Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Each has three girls and a boy. Hollis and Carol accordingly spend their winters at Ponte Vedra, their springs at Winchester, and in the summers the whole family gathers at Wellfleet where the young people have similar houses on a shady hillock close to our classmate's own old family home on the bay. Hollis feels he missed something by not reaching Hanover from Norwich University until sophomore year and by leaving our senior spring for the first Plattsburg O.T.S. So do we, but he's modest.
Jim Coffin writes that Nashua's stiff winter hasn't bothered them much. He has "a good neighbor with a snowblower who does my driveway for a very nominal fee, and a gadget that warms my car motor, so we get along very nicely. And I like my own coffee."
The Coffins are among those wise and fortunate enough to have gathered, by the time you read this, for our 55th reunion and another picnic at El Nathan.... Both our doughty successor who will be there and report those events, and the new set-up we have devised, will we assure you deserve your cooperation.
Secretary, Box E, 111 S. Chester Rd. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Class Agent, 50 Rugby Rd. Manhasset, L. I., N. Y. 11030
