1933
Within one month, we have had four deaths of classmates, and great classmates they were - Jack Robinson (March 10), Douger Douglas (March 15), Harry Osborne (March 19), and Paine Knickerbocker (April 3). It has been a hard blow to family and to all who knew them. Some classmates were especially close and volunteered to write the obituaries to appear in the Magazine. Because of space limitations, these obituaries couldn't tell of all the accomplishments and of the honors received by these men, the affection they inspired in their friends and associates. All of the four had difficult final illnesses. It is good to know they are now at peace.
The memorial service for Harry Osborne was in Cranford, N.J. Ed Foley and Jack andLaura Masten attended. Jack roomed with Harry at Yale Law, after Dartmouth. I couldn't go to the service, having one for a family member at the same time. Dick Baldwin '42 sent me the order of service and said, "I shall miss him."
Ed Foley and Jim Petrie were ushers at the service for Douger at the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, N.J. It is the church where Jean Douglas's father, Dr. John J. Moment, was pastor when Douger and I were going to Sunday School and partaking of our first communion. Ken and Dot Weeman sat with me at the service. Page Worthington tried to get to both services, but a heavy schedule of business meetings prevented him.
Some of the above resulted in correspondence and conversation with classmates: Nedand Ann Lord have spent the winter in a rented house in Baltimore and head back to their Maine home in May. Ned had expected to attend the memorial service for Douger, but Ned, as a pedestrian, was bumped by a car driven by the wife of a Baptist minister and spent some time in a Baltimore hospital E.R. No bones broken - he was just bruised and shaken. "Don't get mad! Don't say it! I'm a Baptist minister's wife," the driver said. Can you imagine Ned saying in response, "I am Lord of Baltimore!" Ned and Ann have already reserved a room at Quechee for our mini, September 21.
In phone conversation with Jack Masten, I learned that he, Laura, and Bob and PanEstes enjoyed five and a half hours of Parsifal at the New York Metropolitan Opera. It had great reviews.
I've received notes from two of our classmates' widows, Mary Merson and Ray Theriault, thanking the class for the memorial books placed in the library in memory of Jim and George. Mary is considering a move back to her old home in Ipswich, Mass. Ray is spending time in England, now that April's there.
As Bob Fox said in his newsletter, I, too, saw a copy of George Gates's column in the medical school alumni magazine, mentioning nine of our classmate/doctors. I sympathize with George's plaint that he hasn't heard from most of them in a long while. Nor have Bob Fox and I. Hartie Krans is forgiven. He has already (April) sent off his check to the Alumni Fund.
Bob Fox, Carl Burrill, Norm Erlandson, and "Shin" Shineman are working on a Cape Cod mini for June 25-26, when President McLaughlin visits that area's Dartmouth club. Shin is its treasurer.
Mannie Sprague reports seeing Bob andShirley Cox at a Santa Barbara, Calif., Dartmouth Club soiree. This is a newly regenerated club and will be even more so now that Mannie is on its board. He says he has been interviewing Dartmouth '89 candidates from a school in Carpinteria, Calif. Three received early admission; five more wait final rulings.
Charles Monagan '72 returns the "plug" given his book by his father in our March issue. He tells me that Horace by John S. Monagan was published in April by the Georgetown University Press. It is a biography of Horace McKenna, S.J., "an inner-city priest who became a legend among the poor and downtrodden in Washington, D.C." This authorship, this effort by a guy as old as you are, deserves a "Give a Rouse" in my book, if not in the DAM.
Lup White, having also read that March issue, says that his son, Dick, is class of '72, obviously a vintage year. Lup is not writing a book - he's writing to classmates about the Alumni Fund. He got me!
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