1919
Our favorite correspondent, Katherine Graves(Mrs. Cotty) Larmon, writes as April Fool's ap- proaches. Her weather report: "Seedlings ger- minate in my warm living room. Others, which need 'gentle bottom heat,' like the dining room better." (Parenthetical note: Our hip pocket where we keep our wooden golf tees is full of grass seed, has the advantage of what bottom heat we can offer, and nothing ger- minates ... we wonder.) Outside, she and Napoleon find white stuff on the grass which she does not believe is green yet. "Don't come for a little." She reports with a certain defiance that the attic is not cleared out yet (whose is?) but that son John and bride visited and were im- pressed with the cellar. Many times giving Cotty a hand before the 1919 cocktail party, we've been impressed by the cellar. We suggest a little reserve in this cleaning out effort. Kitty reports, too, that Florence Stecher has, after nine weeks, shed her second cast and starts trying to walk again. Fanny Ames is off to California to visit her daughter Priscilla who is making a birthday cake for the occasion.
Our peerless leader Nick Sandoe writes that he had an engaging chat on the telephone with Bob Paisley. He is in good spirits in spite of some developing cataract problems. And he will be at Reunion definitely if he can get a grandson to drive him up. Nick says too, "HeleneButtenwieser phoned the other evening to say she was coming to Reunion and wanted to check on the dates." After weeks of research we finally got Gale straightened out. As of now we have it from Geroge Rand, Spider Martin, Nick Sandoe,Stu Russell (indirectly), Kitty Larmon and, of all people, from Gale himself that he is recovered enough to be back at work part time. Dorothy Sandoe talked to Emily Gale and she says, "We will get to Reunion, gas or no gas." Jack and Hester McCrillis are back in Newport after a Florida sojourn and Jack is readying to reshape and edit the 1919 films for reunion use. And at long last, the Sandoes filled up their precious B.M.W. with high test Bavarian beer and "went it" to Acworth and Hanover. They saw Kitty Larmon, Jigger and Vicki Merrill, and Max and Helen Norton. Max seems in fine shape; Helen had been sick but mends. GeorgeRand says the Delray Beach boys, Rock Hayes,Don Lovejoy, Stu Russell, King Cole, and GordonMeader, are about the same. Fat Jackson has tossed aside his pneumonia and is doing the Ponte Vedra golf course three times a week. Rock, George and Marion dined with Si andGladys Stein in Boca Raton.
Spider Martin writes that Fred and EleanorMcCrea visited them in Scotsdale and that Freddie said Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's friend, had some of McCrea's wine in a Los Angeles restaurant and immediately flew up to their place to look it over. Spider expected to talk with Jack Ross who is golfing at Palm Desert, Calif, but doubts there's enough gas to get them together. He says, "I talked to Althea (Mrs. Ernie)Rautenburg at Sun City, Ariz. She is recovering from a broken hip but is in very good spirits." And sneaked in the envelope Rynie Rothschild '21 writes, "Martin is winning money at golf but Rothschild claims a strong assist on two occasions when as Spider's partner he had 78 - 79." He always makes it look so easy, that Martin.
And Adele Ives is dead. First as Fred's bride and later, widowed, as an executive in the Hanover Inn, Adele became known and loved by more 19ers - indeed by more Dartmouth men - than almost any Dartmouth lady of her time. Hers was a life which served and brought joy to generations of Dartmouth men and their families. It is a particularly great loss.
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