1917*

1917 gave good support to the annual Alumni Banquet at the Copley Plaza on April 12 th and Sam MacKillop reports his attendance with a dozen other members of the Class: Mott Brown, Walt Ferguson, Bill Fitch, Roy Halloran, Bunny Holden, Spique Maclntyre, Pete Olds, Guy Richardson, Sunny Sanborn, Ray Sault, Howard Stockwell and Johnny Wheelock. Sam's letter predicted a May party, on the 15th or the 22d.

Movies of Winter Carnival and Spring scenes at Hanover provided part of the entertainment at a class dinner at New York's Dartmouth Club, April 15th. The gang included Bob Adams, Don Brooks, George Currier, Arche Earle, Trott Kingstill guarding his 10th reunion cigar—, Russ Marr, Dick Marschat, Elliot Mudgett, Len Reade, Ev Robie, Len Shea, Gene Towler and Ves Whiton. Mudge is trying to set up a golf-swim-dine-and-dance party late in June.

A questionnaire was sent late in February to a cross section of the class (about half our members) inquiring about reading time, topics and departments preferred, and practical suggestions for improving the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and our class notes. Many thanks for the large response from those who received the questions. The individual replies have been very helpful to your scribe, and the tabulated data, sent to the editors at Hanover, brought enthusiastic comments regarding the breadth of interests you men reflected. The notes which you sent for these columns were so plentiful, some of them will have to be carried over to the October issue.

Sprague to Enter Movies?

Ike Sprague wrote he moved from the family home at Wellesley Hills to their summer home in Jaffrey, N. H., in 1938, where a son Louis B. Clarke Sprague was born November lath. The family found the winter too severe and moved to Pasadena, Calif., a year ago last January. Ike resided at the Boston Harvard Club when he had to be in town, but joined the family after recovering from pneumonia last spring. They have bought a home at 1044 South Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena, and expect to remain there permanently. The house is directly opposite part of the Busch Gardens frequently used by movie casts. The Spragues have a private view of films being made, but have to keep their children, dogs and radio quiet to keep from being in the movies themselves. Ike says, "It is fun to watch the stellar at- tractions, but less amusing to be censured by police for using our own property as we feel we are entitled to. Distinguished members of 1915 and 1918 may be ad- vised that they may find a troublesome igi7er butting into their pictures if they come too close I am trying to carry on a semi-invalid real estate business which works nearly as well by mail, during the winter, as if I were in the east, shoveling snow Expect to go east in May, returning here for part of the summer, and go east again in the fall for a while Though I prefer the winter climate of Pasadena to any I have yet experienced, I intend to remain a citizen of Massachusetts. I shall be happy to see any '17yer and can assure him of a warm welcome." Until hearing of young Louis Sprague's arrival November 12, 1938, our vital statistics department credited Fanny Elizabeth Holt with being the youngest class baby, born October 24, 1938. Until you gents can report a more recent arrival, Ike's baby holds the low score.

Angus Black sends this from Brattleboro, where Mason, Kuech and Sherman also abide: "Just a small town physician getting thinner on top and thicker through the middle. Am a Republican but have no complaints about the depression or the New Deal. Take time to play golf and fish. Have a boy who I hope will be acceptable to Dartmouth in the class of 1945. Am still in love with the girl who married me at the time of our third reunion. She and I have not missed a Harvard-Dartmouth game in fifteen years."

Gyp Green writes about frequenting a stamp auction at Boston where he occasionally runs into Sam MacKillop. Gyp is a general collector, has been at it for twelve years, and is partial to U. S., British, Central and South America. Other collectors whom we have located are Slatz Baxter, Don Brooks, Al Dupuis, Palmer Riser and Arch Gile: anybody else want to confess? Gyp says "Ran into Forrey Emery, he's the owner of a prosperous brokerage house and Jack English '16 is with him. Forrey hasn't changed a bit and we had a helluva time relating some old escapades that brought back college days vividly. I'm up to my neck in the movie business (theatres) especially since I lost my father last December and have taken over his theatrical interests in addition to mine. For ten years I've intended to write to Gene Markey in Hollywood to renew acquaintances but I'm still putting it off. I have a boy ten, and a girl five."

Ray Collerd reports he has bought a new home at 1760 16th Ave., San Fran-Cisco, and the house warming will be repeated every time a '17er calls. Ray says he attended the reception given recently for "Hoppy" in Berkeley by his classmate, Bob Leavens, and also the S.F. annual Alumni dinner where Ray upheld 1917 alone Al Hickmott writes "I have gone on the Board of the New London Northern R. R., gratifying a long standing ambition to be affiliated with something more tangible than my model railroad. Am in the best of health—probably the way I live!". .. .Percy Howland of Concord, N. H. wrote just before March 15th: "Pity the tax collector as well as the tax payer on that date! It happens that I am now in the State of N. H. Tax Commission, as Director of Income Tax collections, so it is my busy time. It's a far cry from civil engineering but Thayer School has lots of other men in divergent professions. Remember me to the Thayer School men.". .. .Frank Lagay says he is "still plugging along as Passiac Valley Sewerage Commissioner in the State. Am in the insurance business as well. Have started campaigning to reelect Harold G. Hoffman as Governor." Frank's home and office are in Newark Searles Morton wrote about visits with men in nearby classes who have looked him up from time to time. An Alumni club has started in Columbus which promises to keep interests aroused. He says things are going along nicely and he will be delighted to see any of the '17 gang who come to" town. His law office is at 4a East Gay Street

Professor Herbert L. Searles of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, ended a sabbatical half year of study and travel in Europe just before the war broke out and says he enjoyed a day at Hanover last August before returning to Los Angeles.

Bill Spearin's new set-up makes him available for Boston dinners. He writes: "The 'Mrs.' is O.K. and looks as young as the day I married her, and my two boys, thirteen and fifteen are getting big enough to look 'down' on their dad. Have changed my job. I am with my brother-in-law in the butter, cheese and egg busi- ness—Robert F. Lewis, Inc., 33 South Market St., Boston. Come in when you want to look over the market."

Here's a potent flash from the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM under date line of Great Neck, April 10: "Len A. Shea of New York, playing in a fivesome at the Sound View Golf Club yesterday, shot a hole in one on the 120 yard ninth, using a niblick. The green is hidden from the tee by a rise in the fairway and the players spent half an hour looking for the ball before finding it in the cup."

Boston papers recently carried a good picture of Bob Paine, president of Nash New England Company, during a conference of New England dealers. The general sales manager of Nash paid high compliment to the sales record of the New England company, led by Seven teen's Barrett Cup winner.

HOOKS BIG MARLIN, LINE AIN'T SNARLIN'

Hank Allison sent a column from a Potsdam, N. Y. paper telling how Walt Sisson won a thirty five minute battle with a sixty eight pound, seven feet, three and a quarter inch white marlin, after the critter had cleared the water nearly fifty times, two miles off Fort Lauterdale, Fla. Blue marlin are common, white are rare, and our Isaac Walter received the official button and certificate for the biggest white caught during the season. Needless to say the fish was mounted, Walt and Ruth brought it home, and another member of the party recorded the whole show in technicolor movies, so you gents can't get facetious with Walt about spinning a good fishing yarn, especially if he will kindly put on the show at next reunion —just two years away Speaking of our 25 th, we know more than one wise old owl who is regularly sticking some coins away. There is no copyright on the idea.

Russ Fisher replied to our request for news: "Since Herr Hitler went into Poland (I did a lot of refunding to clients then), more than three months ago I went to work for E. I. Dupont de Nemourstraffic department. Mary is handling the travel bureau as usual. Our baby girl is now four years old."

Now we end our meetings in these columns until the October issue, and your scribe is bound for Hanover and the annual meeting of Class Secretaries. But before we part for the summer, there's a major item of Class business to attend to, and the gist of Class Agent Maclntyre's letter of April 25th is important. Spique said the Alumni Fund campaign was then getting well under way. The workers in various regions were being organized by the following sub-agents: Len Shea, New York; Ken Holden, Boston; Bruce Ludgate, Philadelphia; Al Shiels, Los Angeles; and Walt Walters, Rochester, Minn., with various members of the 1917 National Committee helping to cover every part of the country. Spique requested that you cut down the follow-up work and collection expense by sending your contribution as soon as possible. Increase last year's gift if you possibly can. But be sure to put your name on the list of Dartmouth supporters, and give something. Can't 99 percent of the class at least "cast a vote" for the College? We take it that Spique means—

DO YOUR LEVEL BEST

PILOT HUTCHINS, WHO OWNS AND DRIVES HIS 'PLANE, LOOKS AS PLEASED AS PUNCH ON TAKING DELIVERY OF HIS CUB COUPE, APRIL 10, 1940. Mose has been flying for three years, sharing the sky with Gil Swett, Maplewood, N. J., real estate operator, who practices with the N. J. National Guard and Bart Shackford of Long Beach, California, who owns a Stinson and flies it up and down the Pacific Coast. Seventeen's former business manager of THE DARTMOUTH is president of the Hutchins Advertising Co. of Rochester and it is not surprising that the advertising trade papers have recently praised this agency's realistic copy, placed in popular magazines for the fastest selling make of civilian private airplane. Mose flies all over New York and Pennsylvania serving his clients, and knows copy-appeal first hand.

Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.

Class Agent, 243 Marsh St., Belmont, Mass.

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