Class of 1918
Gene Peppard, good-natured citizen of Winchester, Mass., postcards briefly: "Stillholding the children ratio at 3:2; still depressed, still alive." .... Tom Proctor is a wee bit more communicative. Seems he's still an engineer for the TVA and has been working on a railroad bridge in East Tennessee and living in Harrogate, Tenn Al Rice, Upper Montclair, N. J., reports a trip to Chicago and a confab with that big banker, Dick Aishton Gus Gustaf- son sends out an S.O.S. for Eighteen visitors. He's still the baron of Louisville, Ky.
Em Morse writes from Chicago: "Just recently had a big shock. My freshman roommate, Ray Baldes, now tycoon athletic director, Boston University, announced hismarriage to Elizabeth Anne Fraser on September 5. Thought he was as perennial asyours truly. Also had a phone call from FatHardie recently when he was in Chicago,but he tells me he is still in our bachelorranks."
Woody Hulbert writes from Somerville, Mass., of some interesting movies he saw at the Pittsfield, Mass., "Y", wherein the DaDa-Dartmouth skiers carried off honors. Quite in the old Hulbert tradition, we'd add Bill and Marguerite Chisholm (Marblehead, Mass.) have sent their son to Belmont Hill School, which means it won't be long before 'lB has a son enrolled at Hanover. (Ed. Note—ls one of our young sprouts already up there?) Chauncey Hood and his missus are operating a mighty fine tea room at Beverly Farms, Mass., we learn.
William K. Lownsbery is reported by that alert Northern California secretary, B. L. Winslow '20, as now residing in San Francisco. Last dope we had on Bill, he was in Tucson. Will our private operatives please report? .... Your Secretary needed a lil* dope on trees. Wrote Dick White (New Brunswick, N. J.), and does that boy know his trees! .... Please take a look at page fifty in the class record book. Can't we revive some of those ten "inactives" before the twentieth reunion? For that matter, Treasurer Earley would doubtless like to see certain other members of the class revived, at least to the point where they crashed through with the 13.50 that was due a couple of months ago and will still be welcome at this date.
Ken Jones (Melrose, Mass.) chronicles a visit from Dwight Edson, Houston oil baron, who was properly impressed by the Parker House roof bar. Ken and Marsh Leavitt took a week's trip around the Gaspe Peninsula (you don't know where that is, either?) this past summer. Says he practised his Roule French on the natives; the men were all off fishing. Ken still a bachelor, but calls attention to the fact that next year is leap year Strange as it seems the majority of the class does not receive the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. And since the mag is our one best means of keeping the class together, it appears something should be done about it. How about passing your copy along to one of the brethren, if a casual inquiry indicates he does not receive it regularly? Mebbe that would help bring still another back into the fold. Our twentieth reunion will be sneaking up on us before we realize it, and if old Eighteen is going to be back in numbers, the old interest will have to be rekindled and kept burning bright. Or somethin'.
A card postmarked Akron, 0., states that Mourton D. (Pat) Case has been laid up, disabled, for the past nine years. Trying to check further, we learned that Pat has been in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the past several months. Possibly one of the traveling classmates will be able to bring this column more up to date on Pat Wm. R. Brewster now located at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H And the Alumni Records Office says Cyril Angell can now be reached at 58 Prince St., Needham, Mass. No longer up in Maine, Doc?
Lieutenant Commander Paul L. Mather writes from Quarters "I," Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.: "To the Yale-Navy gameand enjoyed bounteous hospitality of Tomand Alice Sturgess. He has two young hopefuls who will be splendid assets to Dartmouth's football team about ten yearshence. To the Harvard-Dartmouth game,amongst classmates. Faces familiar, but oh,so aged. (Ed. Note—l calls them words treason.) Years certainly are fleeting by. Notableexception, Herm Whitmore. See Colbathoccasionally; he is also with Uncle Sam ina civilian capacity."
It seems there wasn't any formal gathering of Eighteeners in Boston at the time of the Harvard game, but Dick Cooley and Jake Bingham report seeing Doc Angell, Les Brown, Hort Chandler, Dusossoit Duke, Eddie Ferguson, Dave Garrett, Harv Hood, Ken Jones, Paul Mather, Ed Noyes, Parker Poole, Sew Strout, John Sullivan, Curt Tripp, Leon White, and Herm Whitmore. Surely there were more, but at a distance of over a thousand miles from the battleground, it's difficult for your Secretary to say just who Here in Atlanta we had a private wire from the Yale Bowl, and did unshirted hades break loose when the Big Green came through! Chuck Palmer and your Secretary upheld the traditions of the class in the celebration that followed. Since this column must go to press, it's impossible to give you any story of Eighteen activity at the Bowl. However, imagination is a great aid.
A merry, merry Christmas to each and every one of you—and when you get around to making New Year's resolutions, how about one to keep in closer touch with class activities and to drop an occasional bit of news to the conductor of this column?
Johnny O'Gara, country gentleman and New York merchant prince, went pheasant hunting not long ago, and bagged five (all tied to trees, he modestly stated). Send him your name and address and he'll send you one, maybe It will be past tense when you read it, but the class is scheduled to gather at the Dartmouth Club of New York for a before-the-Princeton game dinner and smoker. November 22 is the date.
Secretary, 811 Norris Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
