1911
It is with sorrow and great regret that we make the announcement of Bob Barstow's death (see In Memoriam). Ken Clark feelingly expresses our sentiments as he writes of the memorial service. "The service was very unusual in that six separate ministers and each of Bob's three sons spoke. Bob was a very dedicated person and the attendance at the service and the comments of the speakers attested to the affection of those who knew him and had worked with him, and of the great contribution which he had made to the cause which was his ideal in life."
Wee Kimball has always been contributing to the welfare of 1911 and there is no man in the class with greater energy and enthusiasm. His latest was an invitation to a picnic (so called) at his summer home in Contoocook, N. H. Actually he and Elsie put on a sumptuous spread that most would call a banquet. His home is located on a side hill looking off to his private pond and along stone walls built partly with Wee's own little hands. During the summer when grandchildren and others gather, the household count is from twelve to fifteen. On this occasion there were Bill and DotGooding from Rye; Jake and Midge Lovejoy from Sunapee; Chuck and Emma Emerson from No. Conway; Josh and PollyClark from Newton; Art and Rebecca Shepherd from Amherst; Bob and Kay Sanderson from Pittsfield; the Pearsons and Burleighs from Hanover.
The Kimballs have returned to their home in Tuckahoe, N. Y. The great exodus started Sept. 4 as follows; Warren Jr. and wife and four kids, Dave and wife and three-and-a-half kids, one horse, one pony, one dog, and one cat.
You all will have to do with these meager class notes while Pat's "Leven Up" temporarily suspends publication. Pat is now in the hospital in Hartford recovering from a mild stroke. Helen gets to see him each day and surely would be glad to take him any message you care to send him.
Chuck and Emma Emerson celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary at a tea in their new home on Birch Hill, North Conway, N. H.
Our sympathy goes to Ned Judd whose wife Anna died suddenly Aug. 16 in Ogunquit, Me., where they have spent their Summers for many years. The day before they had taken a trip to celebrate their 44th anniversary when she seemed in the best of health. Like Ned she had been a school teacher before their marriage and was a life-long resident of Hartford. We were happy to see her at our Fiftieth.
The principal news in the Griswold family is the marriage of Eunice's niece Sandra on October 6. She has been a delightful addition to the Mountain View parties in recent years.
Red and Marjorie McLaughlin have not picked the spot yet but they are going to leave Alabama and return north to be nearer their grandchildren. He reports still feeling young and chipper and able to Go-Go-Go.
The first football game of the year found Jake Lovejoy, Boli Sherwin, Bar and MadgeLocke and Sarge Eaton enjoying the 27 to 3 victory over U Mass.
The wandering Ken Clarks have returned from their semi-annual (?) trip abroad. This was his message from behind the curtain: "Spent yesterday trying to see Moscow in the rain, went by train from Leningrad and back on their crack Red Arrow."
The latest word of Al Hormel is that he is back on the Cape at West Yarmouth, but no news beyond that.
About our only contact with RalphBlanchard is through Wee Kimball, both being insurance experts. Ralph is still unmarried, living in his old family home in Plympton, Mass., and advising and consulting on insurance matters.
Spim Norris' wife Peggy had a bad fall at their cottage in Ogunquit last summer injuring her back and has been confined ever since. Spim is retiring gradually from practice but his patients do not cooperate in this matter.
Rebecca Shepherd's daughter Nancy wrote: "Dartmouth is gaining a wonderful man in the theater area, James A. Clancy whose house we rented in lowa City. Jim is a marvelous person and a real catch for Dartmouth."
The Ken Knapps have returned to their winter home in Florida, at 10515 94th Ave., North, Largo, Fla. They have an attractive house there with the front door and porch opening right onto Lake Seminole.
Les Waldron's one complaint about his retirement is that there is but one other Dartmouth man in his community and he misses his contacts with the college groups. Les was one of those who started in the tire business at just about the beginning of the automobile manufacturing business. He was a veteran of World War I, an official of the Rubber Division of the War Production Board in World War II, chairman of the Appeals Board of the National Production Authority during the Korean War and then for five years a member of the Business and Defense Administration of the Department of Commerce. This long service has made him a well-known figure in the rubber industry.
One of the participants at a summer program at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in New Bedford was Gabe Farrell, where he was introduced as "Director-emeritus of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, permanent chairman for the Blind at the United Nations and author of the book, 'The Story of Blindness.' "
Other celebrants of a Golden Wedding anniversary this past summer were Dickand Mary Chase on July 15.
Brad and Barbara Patten again spent the summer at Woods Hole, Mass. He thrives on research, is engaged in the fourth revision of his book on embryology which is a standard text in practically every medical school in the country, and a special project for which he is receiving a federal grant.
How young can we oldsters become? Here is Windy Batchelor seriously flirting with the idea of doing graduate work at Saint Louis University. He has never let up, as is testified to by the publication of the Second Edition of "Operations Research," an annotated bibliography, published by St. Louis University Press. It is a volume of 876 pages and is an exhaustive index of about 12,000 entries with extensive digests giving the essentials of contents and ideas of the author. This has led him into training several analysts and he is now engaged in the initial stages of organizing an operations research group.
Thornton G. Wilson, now retired and living in Mansfield, Mass., speaking of rough winters, etc., says "We are tough old New Englanders. Arthritis has given me a stiff left knee, but I am better off than lots of people for I have no pain in it, just inconvenient. I always enjoy reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and Pat Partridge's 'Leven Up' letters."
And so it goes as Ken Ballou speaks of an offending right leg but "We were in Maine in July at Weld, near Rangeley. Now we are back waiting for winter. I still go to my old office for one day a week and still enjoy the contacts."
From John Norris come more wishes common to so many of us. "Anne and I wish we could see the eleveners more often. When is the next Fiftieth?"
Harold and Lucile Pease on their return to Seattle from their trip east, tired and anxious to hit the hay in their own beds, still took time out to reflect the nostalgia as a result of what they called their last across-country. They called on several classmates here in New England, spent a day and night in Hanover visiting and just looking around and absorbing all the changes. In summary "We saw many old friends whom I had not seen for many years, my brother and sister, and some relatives whom I had never seen before."
Just as these notes went to press word came that Pat died in the Hartford Hospital on October 5.
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