1919

Back in July the forehanded Spider Martin wrote us that one Chester Gale of Buffalo and Jack Ross were arriving in Hanover with him a day before the 1919 fall Get-together. He instructed us to make the arrangements and be ready to play golf with them. We are used to supplying the laughs and the payoff in this group and we agreed. He also said that he had very recently talked on the phone with Bob Paisley and found him, we were sorry to hear, not too chipper - plagued with eye-trouble. On the contrary, he said when he talked to Florence Stecher he found her very chipper - off to Europe in September with some Cleveland girl friends. Spider also enclosed a letter he got from Larry McCutcheon thanking him for his birthday card. He said that, while in the West, they had spent a few days with San and Jane Treat and that when they got home they found a long interesting letter from BriGreeley. He says further that the Tracy Kohls have moved from their beloved Sedona down to Tucson. They are not settled yet but feel they are going to like it as the altitude is much better for Edna.

Because of brother Dick's death George andMarian Rand had to alter their plans for the late summer. In Mid-September we had luncheon with them at the Inn where they were staying. Both seemed fine and pleased about their new condominium in Delray Beach. It was fun to be with them again. Soon after this was the first scrimmage on Memorial Field - the annual green squad versus the white squad. We saw no 19ers except Ken Huntington. The players looked big and strong and quick and made a resounding smack when they hit each other. The next Saturday they scrimmaged Yale but it poured and we don't have to tell you where we were sitting. Yale won we were told. We had a letter from Eddie Fiske trying to whip up a golf match for October 5. We told him it couldn't be done for all the golfers had been preempted by Martin or Sandoe for committee meetings. We're afraid we won't even get our nap in. Eddie had just been down to Boston for a Theta Delt Convention with some Hamilton pal in Kennebunkport. Said it was fun. We happen to know that in the package was a trip down Boston Harbor. What a push-over an old sea captain would be for a program like that.

Through Nick Sandoe we received a note from Norm Jeavons which led to a gay telephone conversation with Harriet Munro on Long Island. All are well and planning for the fall get-together. And less than a week ago Ken and Marge Huntington had their wonderful late summer party. Kitty Larmon and Bob and Anne Lewis were there and dozens of Ken and Marge's Upper Valley friends. Gauche as usual, after a round of hellos, we disgraced ourself with Marge by spending most of the time in the kitchen with her young lady grandchildren - and lovely gals they are. Two were Huntingtons from New Rochells. One, in college at Wheaton, had just finished the summer term at Dartmouth. The other has been at the University of Colorado. The third lady was a Knight from Norwich. She arrived breathless, carrying her brand new flute which, when joined together was an inch and a quarter longer than she. One day late in August we were delighted to see Tom Bresnahan's widow Claire if only briefly. She Was on her way home from Hanover, Maine, where she and Tom spent so many summers. A day or two later Nick and Dorothy Sandoe, in town for a luncheon concerned with the Larmon Memorial, later supped with us in Wilder. And finally, the next day Stu and Jane Russell arrived. They had been on Cape Cod for a few weeks. On Tuesday we went to the first Quarterback's Luncheon with them where we met Jigger andVicki Merrill and Bob and Anne Lewis. They left a day or so later to do some autumn leaf-looking before starting the long visit-studded trip back south.

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