1914

Of the men whose birthdays fall in April, Richardson alone was born under the sign of Aries, the Ram, whereas Voorhees and Holway appeared under the sign of Taurus, the Bull. Each of these men is entitled to all of the benefits of these fortuitous circumstances and to the hearty congratulations of all of the members of our Class.

Herb Austin writes to us from the snowy fastness of Wellesley, Mass. "Thank you for your greeting on the event of my 85th birthday. Fortunately, I do not seem to feel my age as much as perhaps I should. Both Dot and I keep quite active with the help of various and sundry little pills and other highly recommended nostrums.

"Thinking back to college days, I am flabbergasted at the cost of education now. In our day I went through four years for about $2,500 as compared with the six or seven thousand a single year takes nowadays. I'm glad that I don't have to find any such sum now.

"I seem to recall that eating at commons involved a mean charge of 280 for the combo, although one could spend much more if he ordered a-la-carte.

"For a while I ate at a club for $5 per week, and the food was good. (Perhaps every thing tasted good in those days.) As I remember it, Ma Smiley provided meals for $3.50 per week, and there was a long waiting line for her table.

"Dot and I did not get up to Hanover this past summer but spent most long weekends at our summer cottage in Webster, N.H. We didn't take in any of the football games this past fall either, but we listened to the broadcasts on the radio."

Al Overton writes to us from Cartersville, Ga. "I enjoyed your birthday greetings and I wish only that I could have seen more of old Dartmouth friends. However, no one could have had a better life or could have enjoyed it more.

"Born in Brooklyn, I went to high school in Plainfield, N.Y., to college in Hanover, and spent summers on Huntington, L.I., sailing Long Island Sound from Newport, R.I., to West Point on the Hudson. After graduation I went to Cincinnati, Ohio, with a paper mill.

"Time out for world war and officers' training camp. Second lieutenant, infantry. Trained with machine gun battalion. Went overseas as captain and battalion adjutant ammunition train. Trained in Brittany before going through the Argonne and east of the Meuse. After the armistice, marched to and across the Rhine. All this with the 32nd division. To top it off I was the police officer on a Navy transport, Orizaba, from Bordeaux to New York.

"Went back with paper mill and managed mills in Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, and Indianapolis.

"After 26 years I went into business for myself in Terre Haute, Ind., with a retail lumberyard and a wholesale building materials company.

"After 28 wonderful years in Terre Haute, I retired and moved back to Cincinnati. From there to my present apartment in Cartersville, Ga.

"I have a stiff broken leg, a metal hip, and two broken ribs, but a fine trusty cane.

"I played nine holes of golf last summer and my score was about the same as it used to be except for one thing: it was only nine holes instead of eighteen.

"I have given up the following: football, baseball, golf, bowling, skiing, basketball, bowling, horseback riding, and driving a car or motorcycle.

"Greetings to the old 1914 group."

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