1914

Early in August our indefatigable class chairman and treasurer pro tem, Vogie Stiles, sent letters to the widows of our class mates who have passed on to determine how many of them were still interested in receiving the Alumni Magazine. He received some very interesting replies, some of which he has forwarded to us, so this month we have the rare opportunity of hearing from a few of the members of the distaff side of the 1914 family as follows:

From Lake Alfred, Fla., Lorine Cole (Mrs. Hadley) writes, "Much as I had always enjoyed reading it, crippled hands have made the AlumniMagazine too heavy for me to handle, however, Mr. Lowell has done a fine job with the Newsletter and I am very grateful for receiving that.

It was good news that Elmer Robinson is making a good recovery but I was sorry to learn of the passing of Pen Aborn.

I never' knew any of my husband's classmates but I have always admired them because of their enthusiasm for each other and their fine loyalty to Dartmouth College."

From Tucson, Ariz., Louise Wood (Mrs. Bertram C.) writes, "I am still very active at Red Cross one day a week and, being able to drive, I can take off for the northern part of the state of the West Coast whenever I want to. I am very lucky to have a nice circle of friends and really enjoy things at the U. of A."

From Belmont, Mass., Louise Kimball Souza (Mrs. Edwin E.) writes, "I have just returned from a visit to Maryland with my two great-grandchildren, Mark, 8, and Pamela, 2. Before that I visited my younger daughter who has a second home in Rochester, Vt. There we had five grandchildren and two cats so my summer has been merry and happy but not exactly peaceful. Next Monday I go back to my volunteer job at the V. A. Hospital in Boston. I spend four days a week in their occupational therapy clinic and doing O.T. on the wards. I love the work and it fills many otherwise lonely hours. It also keeps me out of mischief. Best wishes to the class of 1914."

And. "I am writing in answer to your letter to my mother who is not well enough to reply to you at this time.

"I am the sole surviving offspring of my family. I had two brothers. Roy Jr. and Larry, who died in their twenties.

"When Larry and I came back to New England from Texas where dad was stationed in 1945 we headed straight for Dartmouth College to see dad's dorm and re-visit the real New England. (We had been in the Southwest for four years.)

"Dad had wanted Roy Jr. to go to Dartmouth and I, for one. am sorry he didn't, but he, on his own, selected Georgia Tech. He was to have been a chemical engineer but he failed to return home after the second World War. Larry died soon after. (Roy, a fighter pilot, was lost in the Philippines in '44.)

"I have always been proud that Dad was a Dartmouth man. (I don't like coeducation there.)

"Now, my question is, Can I receive the Magazine as a member of the 1914 family? I have never married." (signed) Mary M. Borden, daughter of Horace Leroy Borden. E. Longmeadow, Mass.

Phil Smith writes to us from the Connecticut Valley in West Hartford, Conn.: "My claim to fame as a member of the Famous Class of 1914 is modest in the extreme, but I believe that I have the distinction, and I am sure that that is the proper word, of having appeared in The Aegis more often than any other member of the Class. It is not immediately evident to the uninitiated reader of it, but my face appears ten or a dozen times in the illustrations.

"During our junior year Walt Humphrey and I both lived on the top floor of Massachusetts Hall, though not together, and when Walt needed a model, he frequently impressed me into service, since I often looked over his shoulder as he worked. For example, I was that blond prom-girl in the center spread, sitting on a desk with a sheet over my boney knees so that Walt could get the drapery of her skirt. Today the pose would have presented no problem to him, but, back in 1913, skirts were really skirts.

"It is a great compliment to Walt's artistic skill that he was able, in spite of the angularity of his model, to come up with the excellent results that he accomplished."

Class Secretary, 905 Hacienda Dr. Sun City Center, Fla. 33570

Treasurer, 46 Kirkland Circle Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181