1911

Plans for our annual June Reunion at the Mountain View are all set. The dates are from Saturday, June 23 to Wednesday, June 27, 1962. The terms and conditions will be the same as have prevailed for the past few years. Schuyler will confirm this to you individually later. If you are interested but feel you cannot stay through the full time you will be welcome to come for as many of those days as you wish. A visit there in late September found the boys carrying on with the usual degree of perfection. Mary and Tom had left for Ithaca where Tom will continue his work in the Hotel School. Their season was one of the best ever. John will return to Arizona and Schuyler to Palm Beach for the winter.

On September 9 Cap and Coleen Hedges were honored at an open house at the home of their son and daughter-in-law in Cedar Rapids in celebration of their golden wedding anniversary. Among the two hundred guests were all four sons. They were pictured with their oldest and youngest grandchildren, David Jr. and Mary, daughter of Horace.

Just as these notes are being typed comes the sad news of the sudden death of ChetJenkins at his home in Orono, Me. No further information is yet available. We all enjoyed Chet and his charming wife Helen so much at Reunion. Chet with his heavy crop of dark hair was the youngest looking man in the class. .

There recently was a small gathering of 1911ers at Wee Kimball's summer home in Contoocook, N. H. The gang included the Pearsons, Goodings, Lovejoys and Burleighs. Wee has enlarged the ancestral farmhouse to accommodate the children and grandchildren and built an attractive pond in the field below the house. It is good to see Wee returned to good health. For many years Wee in his great modesty has refused to give permission to tell the story of a unique and distinguished business career which he developed. He started in business for himself as an insurance broker in New York,, following eight years with the New York Reciprocal Underwriters. He specialized in insurance for retail stores, was made Director of Insurance for the National Retail Dry Goods Association, then Director of the Corporate Service Division of the association. In this capacity he made surveys of the insurance problems of member stores and was giving a general business service. He was then called "one who knows more about retail insurance than any other man in the field." He then went on to "'secure the confidence of some of the biggest department stores making up the Associated Merchandizing Corporation." His reputation described by a leader in the industry: "A man who knows his stuff thoroughly. You can't shake the guy - he's basic and sound, say some of the Big Shots in the retail business." His business has been built on the group service idea and is being rendered to the largest department stores in the country especially in connection with fire and casu- alty insurance. When his doctor told him he must practically retire from the business he replaced himself with his two sons, Warren Jr. '44 and David '49, but occasionally helps the boys when work piles up too high.

Sam Aronowitz has been named one of 25 directors of a proposed bank holding company which would be the largest in the nation. He was selected by the president of the National Commercial Bank and Trust Co., one of the seven banks seeking to form the Morgan New York State Corporation which will have its headquarters in Albany. The selection of directors was a preparatory step to seeking federal and state approval of the $6 billion statewide holding company.

Thornton Snow has a new address at 743 Main St., Melrose 76, Mass. and Ruth Backus has moved to 64 Beverly St., Rochester 10, N. Y.

From Troy Parker in the Black Hills:

No great news from here. We had a wonderful summer. Old friends popped up from all over the country. Sort of as if we were having a wake and the chief corpses were on their last legs. It was a lot of fun and we survived with less damages than we had anticipated. Plans for the future arc still unsettled but we do look at another year without fear and trembling. Chapel Hill, N. C., will probably see us for most of the winter with a few weeks at Captiva, Fla., stuck in for good luck. For anyone as loyal to Dartmouth as I hope to have been these long years, I have had fearful little contact with the place and its loyal sons. But the heart is there even if the feet do not carry me to those green hills as often as I would like.

Writing from Lake Mohonk, N. Y. JackEandall gives a brief synopsis of a year's activities. He keeps a home in Putney, Vt., where he is at various times in the year but spends the spring and fall at the Lake Mohonk Mountain House as its physician. He aiso travels to various parts of the country visiting his family. He says: "It is hard to tell where we will be next. My old heart is not too good and I am not allowed to do very much. I have some very good doctors asid a good wife and they keep me well within bounds and in good shape considering. Please give my best to everyone."

It is pleasant to know that Dutch Whitman is getting around again after a year's bout with arthritis. He says that a cane is better than a wheel chair. He was planning to watch the World Series via TV with Ciiarlie Jordan and Josh Clark as they have done for several years.

Slim Eaton and Sybil with their son Fred '41 and his wife broke loose from his doctors. who had kept Slim from reunion, and got to Hanover and New England in October just in time to see the fall foliage.

Sarge and Esther Eaton with their daughter Betty and her husband left for a six weeks' visit in Europe on October 2.

Helen Russell writes that she keeps her traveling shoes ready for use. She visited a sister in Connecticut, a brother in Washington and her three daughters and their families. Evelyn is in New Jersey, Margaret in Cincinnati, and Roberta and her husband have gone to Wiesbaden, Germany for three years so Helen will have another country to visit.

We send our sympathy to Mort Grover, whose wife Lela passed away in Asheville, N. C., following a long illness.

Vlildred Hurley in continuing Pat's contribution to the Alumni Fund expressed her regret at being unable to attend Reunion because of her brother-in-law's death. Her son, Col. Paul J. Hurley, USAF, completed the course at the National War College, part of the course being a trip to the Middle East and home by way of India, Greece, Spain and France. Mildred continues to occupy her home in Lancaster, N. H.

Charles W. Bowker, Realtor, 340 Main St.. Worcester 8, Mass., continues very active in his capacity as appraiser. He is frequently a witness in the Superior Court be- cause of land takings by eminent domain.

Like the robins, classmates will soon be taking off for the warm climes of Florida to join the others who reside there the year 'round. Those going for most of the winter months will be the Knapps, Dick Chases,Crooks, Sandersons, Hedges, Holdens, Steeves and Burleighs. Others will be there for shorter periods.

Beginning December 1, official 1911 head quarters will be at the Burleighs, 1133 Drew St., Clearwater, Fla., and the telephone number will be 446-2118. Classmates and friends will be welcome. The orange grove on the property will furnish plenty of fruit juice for all purposes.

Wee Kimball's Contoocook farm was thescene of a 1911 summer reunion. Enjoying the day were (l to r) Wee and ElsieKimball, Bill and Dot Gooding, JohnPearson, Bee Burleigh, Meg Pearson,Midge and Jake Lovejoy. Class ChairmanNat Burleigh operated the camera.

Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.