1917*
Here we go for the Princeton game! Don't forget the stag dinner Friday night, November 10th, at the New York Dartmouth Club, 30 East 37th Street. Our private dining room is engaged for 6:30, but we generally gather as soon as office hours are over. After dinner we will join the rest of the alumni at the Princeton game smoker. After the game on the eleventh, are you going to motor to Blue Hills Plantation for dinner with other Seventeeners and their parties? We congregate at Princeton Inn after the game, and drive from there. "Blue Hills" is just off N. J. highway No. 09, at Dunellen, N. J.—an hour and a quarter drive from New York and about two hours from Philadelphia. Excellent dinner and dance music for two bucks, and we usually have a big enough gang to "own the place." Be sure to notify your scribe in advance how many seats you want at our class tables. Bring your families and friends.
As we go to press the Dartmouth Club is working on plans for the big Dartmouth-Stanford Pow-Wow. On Friday night, December first, there will be a smoker at the Club for alumni of both colleges. 1917 will have refreshments at the close of business hours, then dinner at 6:30 in a private dining room, before this smoker. The next day there will be a big cocktail party, dinner and dance after the game—probably announced elsewhere in this issue by the Club.
Our letter and report of activities, dated September eleventh, went to all 350 Seventeeners and 36 returned our post card or wrote letters. These men report a most refreshing and varied crop of interests and we'll stretch their messages across these notes, in serial fashion, during the next few issues. Believe it or not, Ripley, —Bart Shackford put all this, and more, on one little card: "This card is returned more to express appreciation.... than to contribute any personal items, as so far nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. However, being a member of the Long Beach U.S.N.R. medical specialists' unit (composed of eight M.D. specialists and a dentist, each a Lt. Comdr., organized to function as a hospital staff nucleus),— well, with the headlines being what they are, one wonders how long he will be able to report 'nothing out of the ordinary'! Anyway, those of us in the U.S.N.R. have been taking various Navy courses, attending monthly instructional meetings, and trying in various ways to keep prepared. .... Being pathologist at each of Long Beach's four hospitals takes most of my time. Still keep an airplane (Stinson), and get up to San Francisco with Mrs. S. and our son occasionally. Photography, the other hobby, dovetails in with flying: 35mm. kodachrome stills and 16mm. cin6, in color, work best. Hesitate to mention photography, though, after meeting Ray Collerd a short time ago, and learning of the beautiful work he does with a Leica. You know he is a top flight professional now, representing Leica in the West.". .. . And Bart left a half inch blank at the bottom of the card!
After Shackford we present, without comment, Mr. Richard Cable Morenus:
"How can I write the story of my life on a post card? A block away and you want answers by mail. Been waiting for that 'phone call for a couple of weeks. Next, maybe you'll ask to have outstanding events engraved on the head of a pin. Give me a'ring!"
Saladine jots this: "Was at commencement two days in June. Had a week-end in Hanover in August visiting my daughter who was in camp at Fairlee. Spent a lovely day at Gile's camp with Sanborn and Maclntyre and wives, catching Gile's trained fish and throwing them back." (What the hell do you mean, throwing them back?! Listen to that one Donehue, you have eaten some of those Gile trout. -Ed.)
Here's Sunny Sanborn's contribution: "Outside of the Canadian junket with one Maclntyre and wife, there is a report of encounters on the Hanover plains going and coming—with the Gile, the Saladines, Hallorans, and Don Richmond with his mother. Quite a cross-road for lyers, n'est-ce pas?"
FATHER AND MOTHER ATTENDED DARTMOUTH, Too
"Picture of the Month" is the Stockwell Family. What alumnus can come even close to their record of Dartmouth participation? Howard graduated from Dartmouth; Dorothy attended regular classesat Dartmouth and received College creditsfor her work; their son Howard Jr., is a senior and Fred is a freshman. Stewart, age 20, went to Clark School before entering business, so has all the Dartmouth associations. Richard, age 14, is in high school preparing for Dartmouth. Joan 12, and Martha 9, insisted to your scribe, not long ago, that Dartmouth had to reopen summer school so they could earn a Hanover social security and membership card along with the rest of the family.
Mott and Frances Brown and the three girls had a visit from Roy, June, Roberta and Donald Halloran at the Brown's cottage at Chatham, Cape Cod, according to Mott's enthusiastic card. Hal writes that after that he drove his family to Quebec, Montreal and Lake George, barely missed the Maclntyres at Quebec, then spoiled his disposition but improved his waistline on Hanover's Alpine golf course. Hal says he will take in the Navy, Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Stanford games.
Heinie Wright writes from Philadelphia:— "With the exception of a few weeks at Shelter Island, L. 1., and in Boston, it was a hot tough summer down this way. Mrs. H. C. W. is just home from the hospital and is now recovering very nicely from a major operation. I'll have to report most of the games for her, but we hope she'll be ready for Princeton and Stanford."
This broadcast is from Tommy Cotton: "Just returned from Atlantic City where we had a great conference. Intend to be at the Yale game and tell the boys about the new wife. Might even let you see her too, you old bozo."
An emergency appendectomy followed by pneumonia, laid Roger Stone low in September, but word has now come from Mott Brown and Sam MacKillop that Roger is beyond danger, and will leave the Weymouth Hospital at South Weymouth, Mass., in a few days.
Slats Allen, Peg and the children took their summer vacation at Sebago Lake, Maine, and received a visit from Hal and Mrs. Weeks, who are in fine health and spirits, Ray reports. Hal Weeks Jr., is in Exeter, going to Hanover next year and Barbara, sixteen, is at home. Slats still jumps here and there for "The Travelers," and is assistant to the V.P. in charge of casualty insurance, and lives at West Hartford, Conn.
Trennie writes from Alleghany, N. Y.: "Starting my last year at this R.O.T.C. detail at St. Bonaventure, same wife, same son, same liver and white pointer—'Mr. Brown'; same old Buick and same straight blade razors, probably only man in class who is that outmoded. May see you at Princeton game this fall and am going to try to get to Hanover for the Cornell game. Derrill Jr., leaves on Monday for his senior year—wish I were going with him."
When the commander of the Austrian battleship Radetzky surrendered to the U. S. Navy in the lonian Sea, back in J 918, Lieutenant Walter D. Kipp, commander of the submarine chaser 256, was ordered aboard the prize ship as Navigating Officer. He later received the Navy Cross for patrol duty against enemy submarines. But Kippy also brought home another juicy piece of bacon—one of the finest trophies taken by the Navy in the entire war,—the standard of the former Emperor of Austria-Hungary, which had flown over his Imperial Highness' headKippy found it on the Radetzky. Page 35 of your August American Legion Monthly shows the principal of the Charlemont, Mass., High School, standing in front of this huge trophy, just before he presented it to the U. S. Naval Academy, whose museum wall it now adorns.
Our class report a few weeks ago omitted one major phase of Seventeen's increasing contribution to the continuity and progress of Dartmouth: young man power!! The results of registration have arrived and 1917's sons in the entering class have jumped to six for the first time. Get acquainted with 1943: Richard P. Emerson; William D. Kipp; George D. Mason; Gerald B. Shattuck; Fred F. Stockwell and Errol M. Thompson Jr. Three sons are in 1942: Philip J. Blodd, James G. Fowler and John L. Sewall. The 1941 class includes Robert M. Chase Jr., Leon f. Cone Jr., and Linwood K. Thompson. The grand old seniors also have three seventeen scions, Daniel L. Harris 3d, Howard A. Stockwell Jr., and Derrill deS. Trenholm Jr. That makes fifteen sons in college and our first son to graduate was Thomas C. Foote '39, son of P. R. Foote 'l7, deceased. Notice, the Errol Thompsons and Stockwells each have two sons on the campus.
Don Brooks called up to say some of you gents have let him down on class dues. He needs your five bucks right away—at g Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
When these notes appear, the Harvard and Yale parties will be over, and we'll have the story for you in our next issue, along with a lot more news we could not cram into our allotted space this month. But right now, don't forget to send notice of your intentions to join the Princeton and Stanford class parties.
How about sending your scribe some of those pictures you took last summer?
HOWARD A. STOCKWELL 'l7 FAMILY This all began at a summer school session in 1917 when Mother attended Dartmouth andDad was a member of '17. The two older boys are undergraduates this year.
Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
Treasurer, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
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