1923
October weekends were complete washouts weatherwise. In doleful and unremitting sequence the Penn, Brown, and Harvard games were played in downpours. We hate to admit it but on two Saturdays we left the stands before the end of play - on one occasion to join a houseful of Alpha Delts et al who were cheering the Boston Red Sox and Louis Tiant and where the beer was free.
This is the time of year when the Dear Babe green slips are plentiful, as you loyalists send in your dues, oftentimes with news of what you and yours are up to. Much of what follows is culled from these contributions.
Tommy Chambers wants to know what the cheers are like which have replaced Way-Hoo-Wah and the Indian Yell for the Team. To bring you up to date: The current cheer leaders are mostly girls - very decorative! The cheers themselves are, to this allegedly sardonic old timer, extremely unimaginative and unstimulating and at least from our disadvantaged spot didn't seem to create much audience participation.
Tommy goes on to say that: "Our family will be stationed in Lima, Peru, after the first of the year. Son-in-law is a major in the Air Force."
Art and Inez Wormcke have lived in Rocky Hill, Conn., since 1936. Nearby is the Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferry, the oldest in continuous operation in the U.S. Art retired from the Hartford National Bank and Trust Co. in 1965 and recently retired from the University of Hartford Evening Division after some 40 years as instructor with staff assignments.
Paul Carver - "Still running a little store in Marblehead, Mass. Gives me something to do in the a.m. Play golf every day in the summer and go to Naples, Fla., for the winter. Haven't the nerve to retire as I'm so used to leaving the house every morning. The store gives me some place to read my mail and see what comes in. Always surprised to see it as it was purchased a long time ago. Have a good girl to run the store while I'm in Florida. Ruth plays golf four days a week - summer and winter and really enjoys herself."
Chuck Calder congratulates Babe on getting him into the habit of paying his dues when billed and goes on to say that he's still working a half day from 8-12. At last report Chuck was vice president of Lenihan-Gorton and Co. with sales responsibilities in the general insurance field.
Hank Freeman: "Still blessed with abundant good health, walk 18 holes of golf twice a week pulling a cart at Camp Pendleton Marine Memorial Golf Course where I have privileges as a retired USNR officer. Swim some in the Pacific when it's over 65 degrees. Active in my church - usher and count the money. Do a little gardening around our "Condo." Have a lovely wife and am happy. What more can one want?"
Accompanying an extra dues payment in memory of Ed Laventall, Phil Segal writes that he and Nanette have sold their Newton, Mass., home of 40 years and become apartment dwellers - "lots of advantages."
Edith Murphy writes a cheerful note for Starr who is confined to a nursing home, and says things are sometimes hard for him to take but he's "still on top" and enjoys having her read the Dartmouth news to him.
Robby Robinson is healthy and active in his business and about as content as anyone should be at his age. He says: "Hope I make it to the 55th. That 50th was one of the high points of my life, One of my friends tells me: "At our age don't worry about some ailment today because by tomorrow that one will be gone and you'll have a new one."
Under the prestigious letterhead of the Greenwich, Conn., legal firm of Hirschberg, Pettengill, Strong and Nagle, Cub Strong says he's still practicing law and that his wife, daughter and two grandchildren are all well. Cub, who is a director of the Greenwich Federal Savings and Loan Asso. and the Greenwich Water Co., goes on to say that both Joe Zone and Doc Roberts are still active attorneys in Stamford.
Word comes to us that Dud and Jinny Pope celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last June at the Skokie Country Club in Winnetka, Ill. Some 35 of their old friends joined them.
Metty and Katherine Morse celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary in October.
I'm happy to report that Priscilla Goss is recovering nicely from a recent operation for hiatal hernia. Any of you who have had, or who have contemplated, this operation know what an ordeal it entails. She and Clarence are hoping to make it to the Yale and perhaps the Cornell games.
The past month has brought the sad news of the loss of four more of our number - Matthew G. Jones, Payson A. Jones, J. Charles Durkin and August H. Ziegler Jr. Obituaries will appear in this or a later issue of the Alumni Magazine. On behalf of the Class our deepest sympathy is extended to Tom Norton whose wife passed away last June of cancer.
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