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Rink has paid off hugely in 10 years. It has<br />
helped that our Λg College has had a potent<br />
academic attraction for Canadian boys;<br />
the three fabulous Ferguson brothers came<br />
from as far away as Birsay, Saskatchewan,<br />
for instance. Their father, a wheat grower,<br />
came to Boston for the Easterns, then to<br />
Ithaca to await the tournament, which was<br />
held in the War Memorial in Syracuse and<br />
sponsored by Colgate and Hamilton. I had<br />
a lovely couple of hours piloting him<br />
through Day Hall, Sage Chapel, and Olin<br />
and Uris libraries, and seeing the delight at<br />
the Ferguson name when I introduced him<br />
to friends. Another name to conjure with<br />
on campus right now is that of Ned Harkness,<br />
the phenomenal coach, who last spring<br />
also took on lacrosse and gave us that Ivy<br />
crown.<br />
We should soon be growing some of our<br />
own hockey players, just as the Ithaca area<br />
has long been a fruitful source for <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
wrestlers; the Peewee hockey program has<br />
kept Lynah full of shouting kids and sleepy<br />
fathers Saturday mornings from five until<br />
noon all winter. So Ithaca hasn't completely<br />
gone to the dogs, in spite of the antics of<br />
a noisy bunch of activist-authoritarian students.<br />
The <strong>Cornell</strong> Conservative Club sponsored<br />
a talk by Senator Strom Thurmond,<br />
entitled "Why Not Victory?" in Alice Statler<br />
Auditorium which attracted about 700,<br />
all quite well-behaved; there was some<br />
pointed questioning but the straight-forward<br />
answers were listened to and many were<br />
applauded.<br />
But I stray from chronicling '14 doings.<br />
If this reaches you early enough in May,<br />
remember the 1914 dinner at the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Club of New York Tuesday, May 16; probably<br />
the clan will start gathering by five<br />
or before. After Walter Addicks had made<br />
all the arrangements, he and Sue took off<br />
in mid-February, loafing down toward<br />
Florida, with Clearwater Beach as the objective.<br />
He deserved a rest, after a strenuous<br />
summer and winter with continuous<br />
visits to doctors, dentists, and hospital tests.<br />
They expected to be back about April 1.<br />
Feb. 20, Ike Carman sent me a photostat<br />
copy of the signatures of all those present<br />
at the 30th Reunion dinner that we held<br />
in New York at the Club on Oct. 27, 1944,<br />
in lieu of the Ithaca Reunion that was<br />
washed out by a certain war. Seventy-six<br />
men signed, plus C. L. (Bull) Durham '99.<br />
I have my copy tucked away somewhere<br />
and will give this one to the Collection of<br />
Regional History eventually. It was fun<br />
reading over the names, many of them still<br />
among the faithful who attend our annual<br />
New York dinners now, but not so pleasant<br />
to see so many who have since passed on. I<br />
also remember what a 1915 sparkplug Ike<br />
Carmen was in those eventful years.<br />
George Barnes keeps plugging away at<br />
making a good showing for the class on the<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Fund. He wrote on March 3 that<br />
our total to that date was $13,975, from 83<br />
givers, 31.2 per cent of possible donors. He<br />
said we "compare very favorably" with<br />
nearby classes; that doesn't satisfy George,<br />
who plainly wants to echo our hockey fans'<br />
chant: "We're No. 1." He complains of very<br />
slow progress after his heart attack, though<br />
has assurance that it really is progress. He<br />
also reported that it snowed in Andalusia<br />
for a few hours before turning to rain,<br />
something very rare for South Alabama.<br />
Talking of warmer climes, Bert and Marjory<br />
Halsted sent us a postcard from San<br />
Diego of the hotel and its pool in Coronado.<br />
The p.c. reads: "The Turquoise Pool<br />
is filled with warm, filtered salt water,<br />
pumped from 300-foot wells." I don't quite<br />
"dig it," but it must have been satisfactory,<br />
because they were usually there from noon<br />
to 2 p.m., and this was late February.<br />
"Spike" Murray wrote me pleasantly from<br />
Morrisville, Pa., saying: "I see Leon Slack<br />
once in a while—he's going good and believe<br />
it or not, he's six years older than I—<br />
his father died only last year—they said he<br />
was 99 but I think he was well over 100.<br />
Also get a nice letter every Christmas from<br />
Don Rice but never see him any more; he's<br />
a good friend too." Spike subscribes to the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Sun, to get more detailed reports<br />
on games than the N.Y., Philadelphia, and<br />
Trenton papers carry. He was delighted to<br />
see a two-page ad by the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Committee for Balanced Education. I was<br />
one of the signers, along with Carl Ward<br />
and "Doc" Peters. It and an accompanying<br />
story will appear in this issue of the <strong>News</strong>,<br />
I believe. Do not be too disturbed about the<br />
Sun's editorial pronouncements, Spike. It is<br />
a lively paper, but almost totally unrepresentative<br />
of student sentiment.<br />
Burt Brodt wrote Dick Ainsworth and me<br />
a joint letter March 3, starting it with: I<br />
would refer to both of you by your initials.<br />
Being what is known as a scan reader, I am<br />
being stopped dead by sudden reference to<br />
a person or a government agency or some<br />
other organization by two, three, or four<br />
letters, and I have to go back and see if a<br />
name is mentioned anywhere. For instance,<br />
the AFL is devoted either to labor or football,<br />
but football can be labor and labor<br />
often plays football with issues. I am convinced<br />
that the English language will shortly<br />
be destroyed by initials. This reminds me of<br />
the "new math." I read some lessons on it<br />
in the newspaper and decided that I was too<br />
old a dog for this trick." Burt will be glad<br />
to know that we had a nice phone call from<br />
Gilbertsville by Florence Ainsworth the<br />
other night to report that Dick gets a kick<br />
out of news of classmates in this column.<br />
'15<br />
Men: Arthur C. Peters<br />
155 E. 50th St.<br />
New York, N. Y. 10022<br />
Le Clair Smith of Pittsburgh, 17 Cumberland<br />
Ave., makes a splendid suggestion<br />
for all classmates who are planning to visit<br />
EXPO 67, Canada's Centennial World's<br />
Fair at Montreal this summer. Accomodations<br />
represent a major problem but he<br />
points out that Plattsburgh, only 60 miles<br />
south of Montreal, located on beautiful<br />
Lake Champlain, has many facilities, including<br />
two new motels, Howard Johnson<br />
and Holiday Inn which would solve the<br />
problem for those driving up or willing to<br />
use Greyhound bus service. Greyhound will<br />
run buses hourly from there to the Fair,<br />
thus eliminating parking problems as well as<br />
hotel crowding for those who reserve early.<br />
He thinks this might be a good time and<br />
place for an informal get-together about the<br />
Friday June 9th weekend and generously<br />
offers to arrange reservations for those interested,<br />
who write at once, addressing him<br />
at Kent-Delord House, Plattsburgh. This<br />
cooperation merits some takers and many<br />
thanks.<br />
A note from Carl E. Battey, 2370 N.<br />
Altadena Dr., Altadena, Calif., tells of<br />
spending a week in Tucson, Ariz, after<br />
visiting the Don Palmers, '16 there, for a<br />
few days. He also had luncheon with Tim<br />
Munn '13, whom he had not seen since the<br />
old days on the Hill. The talks covered all<br />
the old-timers from 1912 to 1917 as well as<br />
Fred Ebling, '09, of his brother's class Tim<br />
teaches at the U of Arizona part-time and<br />
states that a number of <strong>Cornell</strong> men are<br />
teachers there.<br />
Albert S. Crawford's new address is 1960<br />
Greenfield Rd. in his old home town of<br />
Birmingham, to which he returned after his<br />
wife's death. He is now neurological consultant<br />
in research projects on strokes at<br />
Rehabilitation Institute, Detroit, Mich.<br />
Clark D. Abbott, who "misbehaved<br />
healthwise in '66," but is coming back<br />
strong, writes that "recent letters from John<br />
H. Alsop, Luther Banta, and T. Burns<br />
Brown indicate all are well and leading active<br />
lives, although retired. He confirms a<br />
detailed report from Sherman M. Grant,<br />
whom he sees frequently, that Sherm's new<br />
car was ruined when a 19-year-old boy<br />
crashed into him, driving a car he had<br />
owned but a few hours. Only a rugged<br />
physique and what the medics described as<br />
a "good thick skull" enabled him to weather<br />
the shock of the impact, which loosened<br />
three ribs, broke his bowling arm, injured<br />
his knee, etc. But he is right back in the<br />
driver's seat of a new Plymouth Belvedere.<br />
Russell B. Bean also wrote to Clark of interesting<br />
travels in Europe last summer. He<br />
has been trying to retire for some time from<br />
the fire protection business he built and has<br />
operated for years in Salt Lake City.<br />
Dr. Lloyd E. Moore, after a winter at<br />
Vero Beach, Fla., expects to resume his<br />
permanent residence at Star Rt., Hagaman.<br />
Meyer Brechsler writes that living at 7207<br />
Bay Dr., Miami Beach, Fla. "sure beats the<br />
wintry north." He revels in daily swimming.<br />
Frank Fielding has reminded us that we<br />
are indebted to "a guy yclept Grant Schleicher,"<br />
to Ί6's Secretary Birge Kinne, for<br />
graciously providing us with extra copies of<br />
the excellent brochure, commemorating<br />
their Big 50th Reunion, which was prepared<br />
for the class and donated by the late Larry<br />
Gubb, who died before it was produced. As<br />
Frank said, "It was a honey."<br />
A different 50th anniversary was observed<br />
by J. Arthur Buhr. It was not a<br />
golden wedding but a business celebration,<br />
marking his 50th year of association with<br />
the F. H. Lawson Co., now in its 150th<br />
year. He termed it "the oldest sheet metal<br />
products manufacturer west of Pittsburgh."<br />
By spending winters at Belleair Bluffs,<br />
Fla., Howard Wright beats the heat shortage<br />
in Oconomowoc, Wis., where his permanent<br />
residence is 3844 Black Hawk Dr.<br />
He reports that the Frank Cartwrights of<br />
Canandaigua stopped for a visit and "a few<br />
good golf games resulted." Son Robert married<br />
Connie Hollister '42 and lives in nearby<br />
Hartford, Wis. The Wrights have eight<br />
grandchildren, two of them married. They<br />
make a bid for 1915 class championship<br />
with one great-granddaughter. Clifford Cro-»<br />
nan of Shelburne Falls, Mass., writes,<br />
"We're OK. Had a visit from Walter and<br />
Marion Phillips last November. Our son,<br />
Calvin has been made editor-in-chief of<br />
McGraw-Hill's Chemical Engineering Magazine."<br />
Gerald F. Heaϊy operates his real-estate<br />
business from Flint, Mich., but gets down<br />
to his branch at West Palm Beach, Fla.,<br />
the Healy Realty Co., on some of the most<br />
desirable occasions. Gerald gets around as<br />
a real estate counselor and recently spent<br />
some pleasant days at meetings in Freeport,<br />
Grand Bahama, Miami, and New Orleans.<br />
'16<br />
"Dear Birge:<br />
Men: Franklin Thomas<br />
10 Chestnut St.<br />
Garden City, N.Y. 11040<br />
I have reserved the Sun Room at the<br />
Statler Club for dinner for the 1916 group,<br />
so far about 15 of us, for the evening of<br />
June 16, 1967 (Friday of Reunion Weekend).<br />
I did this in mid-March last through<br />
Terry Geherin, who is the <strong>Alumni</strong> secretary<br />
in charge of "Older" classes trying<br />
to have informal Reunions. Well do I re-<br />
May 1967 49