1911

Frank Whitcomb has sent in a most interesting description of Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown, Pa. to which he retired in 1965, describing the facilities and associations he is now enjoying. It is a beautiful place. His story was neatly typed single space on three sheets - a remarkable job for an 84-year-oldster. WeeKimball will save it for another issue of 'LevenUp, hopefully next February or March IF others will send in their stories of their own special arrangements as soon as possible or by January 31st at the latest. Jake Lovejoy's niece, Joan Hier, who shepherds our Class Notes and our In Memoriam articles in the AlumniMagazine, has kept the Lovejoy name alive with three sons bearing the middle name of Lovejoy.

Bendy Griswold had a 1967 Porsche. He willed it to the man who washed and polished it every week. He went a step further and established a trust fund for its perpetual maintenance. What a kindly, thoughtful gesture from the watch-dog of our Treasury for so many years.

Chuck Bush reports that Watergate hearings fascinated him. His eyes were constantly on TV, his grass and lawn was a hayfield and his garden a patch of weeds. Needless to say they reinforced his political bent. Troy and Janet Parker visited their daughter Ellen in Eugene, Ore., the latter part of August to stay some weeks, hoping it would improve her health. They planned to stay some weeks in that delightful city. HenrySmith told Stan Macomber that he spent two weeks at Chatham on the Cape last summer. It has been his wont for years. It's a long drive so he must have fully recovered from his illness of last winter. Ken Clark and Elizabeth took a trip to Alaska the last half of September. In due course we hope to have their report to pass on to you. Spim Norris says that on a corner, double shelf in the living room of his cottage in Ogunquit, Me., have rested two beer steins, one from the Hofbräu in Munich where Hitler opened his campaign; the other was a "Dartmouth 1911" stein. He gave the first one to a grandson who served three years in Germany in W. W. II and had visited that beer garden. Spim seldom drinks beer but he christened the Dartmouth 1911 one while his grandson toasted the visit with the German one. He wonders how many of the survivors have the Dartmouth 1911 stein.

The October 25 issue of 'Leven Up named its editor as "The Executive Committee." That was because there were no takers for that class job following the appeal for volunteers in the previous issue of April 12, 1973. Actually, the October 25 issue including the new Class Directory was organized, edited and typed by our President Wee Kimball with the exception of the reports by John Learoyd our Class Agent and Don Cheney our Class Treasurer. It was an exacting chore without a single error in transcription of the source material and must be the envy of all classmates.

The Samson Occom gravesite matter. We have had no additional word from Hanover on this subject since the full report made in 'LevenUp.

The Season's Greetings from Cape Elizabeth and the rest of the Executive Committee to all classmates, wives, widows, sons and daughters wherever they may be. Keep well and smiling, too!

1910's Bert Kent was pleased to retrievefrom an antique dealer a 1915-16 BowlingTournament Trophy won by the Class.

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