1916

Once again we open this column with an appeal for a class member to take over as class secretary. The dedicated and effective BurtLowe has agreed to assume the responsibilities of Bequest Committee chairman in addition to being our head agent.

Daniel Stark Dinsmoor and Mrs. Priscilla Larned Clarke were married in the chapel of the Church at Winchester Mass., on October 27. The ceremony was attended only by family and a few close friends, including the Parkhursts and the Lewises from our class. The couple plan to spend their winters in Los Angeles and their summers in New England, doing some traveling in the spring and fall as the spirit moves. Felicitations.

Dick Parkhurst reports that two Craver brothers are in the present undergraduate body at Hanover. They are Jay, a senior, and Ben, a freshman, sons of John Craver '50, one of Ed's and Marjory's four boys. If conveniently available from Hanover, we will get and print a full list of 1916 progeny now on campus.

Dick himself recently spent two weeks in Lon- don, part of the time being taken up by attendance at the 138-nation International Marine Pollution Conference convened by the UN's Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization. A special highlight of the trip was a reunion dinner, to which Dick had been invited months ago, of the officers of the 19th Indian Division of the British Fourteenth Army, held at the Oriental Club. The Parkhurst's oldest son, John, was at one time attached to that Division as a jeep ambulance driver (American Field Service in Burma). Two of the officers, young company commanders in 1944-45, remembered John. This must have been a truly memorable evening for Dick.

The Dartmouth crowd that is moving into the Harvard Stadium as this is being written on October 27 will include, as for years it has included, our Charlie Everett and some 40 or 50 or more members of his and his two brothers' families, their spouses or their dates. The core of the clan are the nine men spread across three generations of Framingham Everetts who were graduated from Dartmouth between 1908 and 1971. Including the traditional "tailgate" party, Charlie allows, it all adds up to a jolly good day. (Sure does when the underdog Green wins 24-18 -ed.)

We also have - or had - a golfer in our midst. Some time back when the captain of the 1973 Dartmouth Golf team and some 30-odd other Hanoverians were term transfers at San Diego, Ruby McFalls played a round of golf with John Lundgren and, at 80, won one hole from him. But a few days later, he shot his first ace while playing with General Tom Scott, father of David Scott, the astronaut. Whereupon Ruby hung up his clubs and knocked off a commemorative requiem. (See November Balmacaan letter).

By now you should have received full details at the 5th Annual Informal Reunion for all Post 50-year Classes to be held at Hanover next June 10-12. 1916 men or ladies accounted for 26 of the total from the 1908-1922 classes who attended last June. This is your next chance.

As the holidays approach, let me wish for every member of the Class and for his or her family a blessed Christmas and rewarding New Year.

Acting Secretary, Box E. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081

Treasurer, Singletary Ave. Sutton, Mass. 01527