1914

Your secretary takes over from Henry Lowell with mixed feelings. Through many secretaryships for various local groups, we have never had to look ahead more than several weeks to write appropriately. But now, here it is only August, while the column should have some pertinent comments on the football season. We note that by the time the October ALUMNI MAGAZINE arrives, several important games will have been played. What can we say in mid-summer, except to wish for a season as good as last year's. Various classes have already announced get-togethers for games in Hanover, but 1914 has passed the period of attendance at football games. If one or two classmates should appear it will be a high spot of the season. Lay Little lives nearby in Cornish, N.H., and Abe Newmark has been known to come from Salem. Last year, your sec sat alone in the rain while it was rumored that Lay was consorting with the VIP's in another section. We had no report of attendance at other games around the country and certainly hope that anyone attending this year will drop a line so that credit can be given in a later column.

In the June ALUMNI MAGAZINE notes, Ruth Little published several responses from widows polled just before commencement. To these we add:

Helen Boggs wrote from Wolfville, Nova Scotia: "Sorry, but my traveling days are over. My grandson, Davis Joyce, is in this year's graduating class. His sister Cathy graduated in 1976, now has her M.A. from Harvard, and has a job with John Hancock in Boston. W. W. Fitzhugh Jr. '35, my nephew, and his son, John 64, were also "D's." George and I came to Hanover in 1964 for the 50th, which was our last. She was hoping to attend her own 60th at Arcadia in Wolfville last May, since that was close to home.

Martha Corliss of Plainville, Conn., wrote that she and Louis had greatly enjoyed the 55th reunion. But Louis died some eight years ago, and she hasn't been in Hanover since. She also wrote that she is in perfect health. And that is something that many of our classmates would dearly love to be able to report.

We assume that Lize Wheelock will send dues bills before long, and we implore you, as you send your check, to pen some comments on your health, doings, progeny, or anything else of interest, so that future columns may have more current information than has come to us since we assumed the secretaryship.

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