1914

Mrs. Lester K. Little (Ruth) accepted the responsibility of contacting 1914 widows, and in response to a questionnaire she sent out, she received a number of replies.

One is from Mrs. Richard E. Pritchard and includes the information that she has one son who graduated from Dartmouth. She has attended several class reunions and found them most interesting. She has nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She has traveled extensively in England, France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland and has lived in South America, Cuba, and at 18 Randecker Lane, Kensington, Conn. 06037, where she has her present home. Her hobbies include gardening, bridge, and needlepoint. She would prefer Dartmouth to be all male, but she is resigned to coeducation.

Mrs. Ernest Kimball (Louise), of 48 Brettlewood Road in Belmont, Mass. 02178, writes that she has two children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. One of her grandchildren died two years ago in a tragic mountain-climbing accident. She plans to attend our 65th reunion in June. Among her hobbies are handcrafts, weaving, leather work, and embroidery. She has not decided whether she approves of coeducation at Dartmouth. Her comment is an old Indian prayer, "I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins."

Mrs. Roger C. Rice, 29 Taylor Street, Saugus, Mass. 01906, says that the first Dartmouth alumnus in her family was Emerson Rice, who was secretary of his class from 1887 until his death in 1942. She has been to several reunions, greatly enjoyed. She has three children, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. She has lived in Maine, New Jersey, Florida, and Massachusetts. She has played golf and bridge but is not an expert. She is old-fashioned about coeducation. She likes "Men of Dartmouth." She thinks Henry Lowell has done a wonderful job reporting the class news. She and her husband took their son Emery to Dartmouth in the fall of 1938 when the hurricane of that year had wreaked such havoc. So the slogan of his class was, "In with the hurricane, out with the war." Their second son, Douglass, graduated in 1976, in the first class to include women. She says there was the same old enthusiasm and love of it all.

Mrs. Roger C. Carroll, 126 Morningside Drive, Longmeadow, Mass. 01106, writes that her granddaughter, Katie Currier, is currently a junior at Dartmouth. Her hobby is "politics." She is very favorable towards coeducation at Dartmouth. She has been in a nursing home for four years but still takes great interest in Dartmouth events.

Mrs. James D. Gregg, 19 Hundred Circle, Wellesley Hills, Mass., advises that she always enjoys Henry Lowell's reports but never seems to write and tell him so (take notice, Henry). Her Dartmouth relatives include her brother, Clifford Chandler, her son, James Gregg '50, and grandson James Chandler Gregg, who has just been accepted.. She and her husband attended most reunions. She has three children, nine grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. The youngest of her children, a son, who lives with her, is a musician, so her hobby is music.

Mrs. Roscoe Dewitt, 4657 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75209, writes, "We are just coming out of a terrible ice storm, the first in 30 years. Thousands of trees destroyed. More than 200,000 homes were without heat. Roscoe loved Christmas. Things are not the same without him."

Recently I reported about a game-winning dropkick scored against Princeton in 1913. JayLittle took exception to my report, and in order to get the true facts, I wrote to Frank Llewellyn, who was quarterback for the Dartmouth football team for three years. He wrote to me as follows:

"Glad to clear up your confusion about the Princeton, games. We played Princeton in 1911, 1912, and 1913. The scores were Princeton 22 Dartmouth 7, Princeton 3-Dartmouth 0, and Princeton 0-Dartmouth 6. In the 1912 game the ball was dropkicked by Princeton, but the ground in front of the goal posts was rough and the ball bounced over the goals and was declared a goal, or three points. Now it would be illegal. In 1913 I faked a dive off right tackle by right halfback Curtis, but I kept the ball and practically walked around right end for the touchdown, untouched by human hand. Point after touchdown was missed, the ball being so water-soaked it could hardly get off the ground, Ripley had this play in one of his 'Believe It or Not' cartoons."

Hank Llewellyn concludes, "I am senile. Hope you are the same." He still has his sense of humor.

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