1916

Five of our classmates have died this summer: Charles Edwin Brundage, Daniel Webster Coakley, Merrill LincolnGreeley, Charles Everett Jones, and Clarence Asa Palmer. Obituaries written by Roger Evans will appear in this magazine. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to their families and to Clifford Herold whose wife Jeannette died in May.

The Post-Fifty-Year Reunion in June was attended by Dick and Violet Ellis, Gran and Ruth Fuller, Jack and Margie Welch, John and Elsie Stearns. Delegations from some other classes were larger but none was more flamboyant. We expect more Sixteeners next year. Hadn't you better plan on coming?

Herb Lord attended Alumni College as he has done for nearly a decade. He seems to enjoy it. Ev Parker didn't come this year as he often has in the past. We missed him here but hope he will make it for one home football game anyway — perhaps more. Phil and Sarah Stackpole spent a week of their vacation at Lake Morey in July thus affording us a welcome opportunity to discuss on my porch a few items like student haircuts and bare feet. The only thing we agreed on was that we ought to have another discussion. Can you join us?

Howard and Mary Buffinton also called on us briefly on the way up to a lake in Vermont for R. and R. They report that the water was pretty cold to go swimming much. So they dug some ferns to set out around their new home in Springfield. Sounds like sense to me. Too chilly here to even think of swimming. Jim and ClaraShanahan stopped by recently after visiting the Mary Hitchcock Hospital for Jim's annual checkup. They look fine. I guess a checkup is a good idea if it makes you look that well.

Dan Dinsmoor drove over from his summer home on Lake Winnepesaukee with his son Jim '43, Jim's wife Kay, and their children Robert and Mara. Dan entertained us all at the inn for lunch. Then we went into executive session on my porch.. The weather was hot but the discussion was cool — l mean cool, man. Dan has triumphed over impaired vision in a way that makes me ashamed to think about my surgical adventures. He talks quietly and just as sensibly as he used to. This seems to me unusual, sort of.

Jim and Ruth Coffin were at Loch Lyme for a week. Ted Gile and Elsie and I invited them to the Outing Club for lunch after a preliminary skirmish on my porch, and since Al Foley was just passing by we included him. It worked out well, I thought. I recommend the chicken and waffles with maple syrup. I had seconds. Sometimes I go for haute cuisine, at others just good cooking. What's your choice? Parker Hayden called to see us with his cousin Betty. They were en route to the doctor's pied a terre up Vershire way (inquire for directions at the general store). Parker's love of the Vermont hill country is balanced only by his loyalty to the College and the Class of 1916. His memory for facts and figures and the minutest personal data in these areas is phenomenal.

One of our neighborhood boys has just returned from serving as ring-bearer at a wedding in Belmont, Mass. He asked me if I knew Mrs. Tucker in the Ladies Guild at the church and said she was a "nice lady." I told the boy I agreed. That's our MayTucker, still doing her duty. No surprise to us, of course.

Here's another local item. Summer folks carried on so about bare foot boys in Stephen Foss' Store that Steve sprinkled a box of No. 6 carpet tacks just inside the door. Tourists congratulated Steve on his caper. Called it an "efficacious expedient." Steve told them "I wouldn't go that far, but it worked."

Why can't I hit on something like that to coax letters out of my friends in 1916? No use, I guess.

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