1921
Ray Mallary recalls the days of the S.A.T.C. when Lt. Keith Funston took our company for a march across the Ledyard Bridge. As the old structure began to sway like a "hammock in the breeze" there came an excited order, "break step, break step."
We also remember another episode when on a morning hike taken up to the top of Balch Hill we were ordered to do "push-ups ' in the snow.
And Ort Hicks was captain of the under- aged" and his company was dubbed the Boy Scouts.
Reveille was sounded off by RolandBatchelder. Some mornings were so cold that his bugle froze up. Every few days we had to police the parade ground which of course was the college campus. We picked up waste paper, leaves, burned out matches, and a few angle worms.
Phillips Noyes was saddened to report that on August 24 last his grandson Peter, son of Phillips Noyes Jr '49 was killed in Bloomington, Ill., while operating his motorcycle. He was just ready to begin a teaching career - the only one of the many Noyes grandchildren who wanted to enter the profession.
Belno Marsh Whelden recalls that back in the 1930s he entertained two members of the Dartmouth Glee Club. One of the guests was Roland B. Sundown '32, a Navajo Indian. He stood before the fireplace in the Whelden Library and told of his family experiences. He wore a pair of beaded moccasins made for him by his mother. Roland became a teacher in the Cheyenne- Arapaho High School in Oklahoma. He is now in the Welfare Service in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marsh states that the Indians should be proud to be associated with the heritage evoked by Eleazar Wheelock.
Dana Lamb's oldest grandson Gordon is Northeast Gliding Champion of the United States. Dana's second child is a trustee of the Middlesex School, trustee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and tennis champion of the Bedford (N.Y.) Golf and Tennis Club.
Joe Folger's granddaughter was married in June to a Bowdoin College man from Lebanon, N.H. Another granddaughter is in England for eighteen months. She was graduated from Keene State College and spent one year at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Werner Janssen paid a surprise visit to Hanover recently. He was given the "Cook's Tour" of the college by Ort Hicks, and your secretary had a long and friendly telephone visit with him. We believe that he planned to go up to Stowe, Vt., to see a married daughter.
Jack and Eleanor Hurd will be spending the winter in the Virgin Islands. Jack took his flute with him and can tootle away to his heart's content. It will be their first winter in the tropics and a wonderful change from the snows of Hanover.
Bob and Mary Luce celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 30. He previously ran a retail store, retiring in 1968. He has lived all his life in Waterbury, Vt.
Tom Staley reports that Mac Johnson is still going along in the same way. He reads the papers from day to day, just trying to keep up with world events which seem to be moving with a much faster pace than in his earlier and younger days.
Jack Hubbell has just returned from Nassau. For seven consecutive weeks starting early in October he will be away on business.
Tom Staley writes his regrets about being absent for the homecoming weekend including the Class Meeting. He says that the distance was too great and he and Anne are limited in their traveling to some extent. They plan on going to Arizona for a few weeks in March and April in 1974, and also to spend the Christmas holidays with Jim Carvens '23. Jim was with us at Dartmouth for a year, then moved on to Princeton where he could graduate in a shorter time. He was the Class of 1923, and was a fraternity brother of Tom's, (Kappa Sigma of course). Your secretary wants to acknowledge the receipt from him of many of these notes. He got them when classmates mailed in the class dues. Maybe he should enclose a stamped and addressed envelop with a blank piece of 1921 stationery with the birthday cards.
Just received a nice letter from George Harris in Farmington, Conn, thanking us for the birthday card that arrived on the 75th anniversary of his nativity. His daughter Marilyn from Weston surprised him by throwing a party and had all of the children and many of the grandchildren from all over the U.S. as far away as San Diego, Calif, and Vienna, Va. He writes "my eyes were a little red from holding back the tears."
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