1923

By the time you read these notes Ike Phillips, via Skiddoo, will have filled you in on the detail of our Princeton weekend. Ninety-one classmates, wives and widows were in town for the game, including Nickand Angela Andretta all the way from Tyler, Texas. Nick hadn't been in Hanover for over 50 years. Forty of us met early Saturday morning for the main business of firming up our 50th plans and then adjourned for a question and answer session with President Kemeny. Tail gating before this home-coming game is becoming nearly as general, if less stylized, than that of the Harvard game. By this I mean there was plenty to eat and drink all around but no tables set with cloth, silver, and vased flowers. Quite a weekend!

The day of the Harvard game started out dismally with heavy rain and everyone trying to balance a sandwich, drink, and umbrella and doing pretty well at it.

At the Princeton game a lovely young lady whom we took to be a coed dropped by to say hello to Charlie and Jean Bice and we discovered she is Charlie Rivoire's daughter Susan and that she has a son in the freshman class. Which reminds me that we are now accumulating an increasing number of undergraduate grandsons and possibly granddaughters. I know of at least four others—those of Russ Carpenter,Carl Reed, Rusty Sargent and GlenElliott. I'm sure there are others and I intend to research this statistic soon.

Kip Couch asked me to be sure and report that he has recently seen JimTaylor. Jim has made a fine recovery. His spirits are wonderful and he wants to be remembered to everyone.

The Longmeadow-West Hartford group held its 15th successive annual 1923 get-together in October. Present were Howieand Berta Alcorn, Herb Behan, Fredand Bette Davis, Bill and CatherineGates, Clarence and Priscilla Goss, JimHennessy, Babe and Florence Miner and Pete Jones. Babe says this is the first time a 1923 class president has been able to join their group.

Babe Miner tells me he has seen MaryBooth recently and that she and son Peter are planning to be at our 50th. Babe has also had recent letters from the widows of three other classmates, Ivy Baker PriestStevens, Martha Mae Scaling and MelbaHurd, expressing their deep appreciation to the class for the memorial books presented to the library in the names of their late husbands.

A fine letter from Charlie Curts, bringing us up to date and ending with "I am still operating my own Advertising Agency Service on a semi-retired basis and I'm planning to make our Reunion in Hanover next June—health permitting."

Brief excerpts from Babe's "Dear Babe" memos: Larry Miles and Ginny had a fine trip to Nova Scotia last fall. Larry then had a "poor winter" but is now getting back to normal good health and planning another trip soon. Fred Bailey has sold a couple of businesses he had built up and now finds himself "busy with my retirement." Warren Cook admits to not behaving like a true retiree by taking on an assignment as Adjunct Professor of Industrial Health at the University of North Carolina. This job together with various consulting and committee activities has taken him over most of the country during the past five months. Says he "can't phase out my life's vocational interests in an attosecond." Doug Manson missed the Princeton game but took in the one with Brown. On Joe Millar's advice he stayed at the Norwich Inn and drank a toast to all.

Go and Hattie Bliss and Art and AdahEverit are planning a trip to Portugal in February 1973. Go says Irish has volunteered to get them to the boat on time. Go goes on to say: "Hattie and I keep busy taking care of our 15-acre hunk of God's Country and doing it all by ourselves. Being in your 70's isn't as bad as it used to sound," and Doug Weymouth writes: "We finally decided to discard overcoats, boots, rubbers, etc. along with our Westfield home. So instead of two places we'll settle for just one—less work, more comfort." The Weymouths are now living in Bonita Springs, Fla. Most of these notes to Babe, as does my own correspondence, end with "See you next June!"

Looking back through the aging pages of the class scrap book I see a note in the Pudge Neidlinger section, dated May 1948, telling of the engagement of Susan, one of the Neidlinger twins, to Malcolm McLane '46, son of Judge McLane '07. Another entry dated June 1953 tells of a bad skiing accident. Here the entries concerning Susan seem to end and I think I should bring you up to date. Susan and Malcolm McLane now have five children, one of whom, Donald, is married and has a son Erik which makes Pudge a great grandfather! Malcolm, a former Rhodes Scholar and a Concord, N. H. attorney, is Mayor of Concord. As I write these notes he is running for Governor of New Hampshire. Susan, as do most wives of candidates these days, is campaigning for him. Yesterday she was in our town for a few hours during which Connie had the pleasure of visiting a bit with her. She is quite a girl—a second term member of the New Hampshire legislature, deeply concerned with the problems of State government, and a very charming person.

1923 GOLDEN JUBILEE

Secretary,

Box 2, Francestown, N. H. 03043 Treasurer,

960 Longmeadow St. Longmeadow, Mass. 01106