Class of 1918
This is being typed considerably before the Princeton game and the New York Eighteen party, therefore details on that big affair will have to wait on another issue. However, our Boston delegation went to town in a big way at the time of the Harvard game, and Jake Bingham reports on the gathering in the following manner:
"Once again, just before the Harvard game, on October 24, Barbara and Harvey Hood opened their lovely Cambridge home to Eighteeners.
"Enjoying the buffet luncheon were Jake and Ruth Bingham (this is alphabetical arrangement and not in order of arrival), Jimmy and Mrs. Carpenter, Hort and Elizabeth Chandler, Dick and Edith Cooley, Lew and Helen Cousens, Ducky and Jennette Drake, Duke and Mary Duke, Eddie and Mrs. Emerson, Eddie and Mrs. Ferguson, Tom Groves with a very attractive girl friend, Woody and Mrs. Clifford Hulbert, Louie Huntoon, Jasper and Ann Johnston, Ken Jones, George Kapff, Fred and Edna Morse with daughter Marjorie, Park and Mrs. Poole, Joe and Dorothy Quincy, George and Mrs. Rowell, Tom and Priscilla Shirley, Sewall and Margaret Strout; Curt and Gladys Tripp, and Leon and Lilla White. We'd like to have all the ladies' first names but the sources were not available.
"Seen on a Hood table was 'Fire' by Cliff Meredith, an interesting picture story only briefly looked into by your scribe.
"One topic brought Tom Shirley to the fore—the number of children, Tom led for a few minutes with four—Jimmy Carpenter took first honors of those present—five. In addition, at the game were Bill Brumby, Doc McDowell, Amos Blandin, Rolf and Margaret Syvertsen, and probably others that I missed.
"Your roving (wish we did get around more) reporter set out for the Holy Cross game, stayed out of the rain by overnighting at Concord, N. H., vacationed a week in the White Mountains, and then took a pelting rain on the chin and elsewhere to see the Brown Bear succumb to the Big Green. It was remarked in the stands that while Brown was a Baptist institution, there must have been some pretty hardshelled Baptists on the Dartmouth team. Though soaked and windswept, Hanover looked good.
"An undergrad habit now is to rub the nose of the bronze bust of Craven Laycock in Baker Library for exam good luck. Verify the shine when next in Hanover. "Sharing the rain drops were Ed Booth, resident, Spud Proctor, well-slickered nor'-easter outfit, up from Franklin, and Fat Sheldon, who drove over that morning from Schenectady." .... Our thanks to Jake, for a very column-worthy report. And now for some address changes: Herm Whitmore resides at 201 Highbrook Ave., Pelham, N. Y. and is general manager of the Boxboard Division, Robert Gair Company Gordon Valentine, listing himself as a salesman, lives at 1000 S. Jackson, in Green Bay, Wis George Mcßride, teacher, is at the Santa Fe (New Mexico) High School Jeff Robinson lives at 2849 Brookside Road, Toledo, Ohio. And in case you should happen into Atlanta, after office hours, Allan Gottschaldt now makes his home at 11 West Andrews Drive, Atlanta.
Hal Ross (Albany, N. Y.) vacationed up in Canada last summer and on the way back stopped in to see Ed McDowell in Plattsburg. Sez Hal: "Ed is the most notedin his line in Northern New York at least,and I don't mean maybe. He's just openedup new offices with rooms and rooms ofvarious new apparatus, has two nurses, andfrom what I noticed must specialize in obstetrics Henry Oppenheim is Albany's big wholesale grocer. Bill (Lyman)Poole is writing beaucoup insurance. Madison Cameron is a big and prosperous Hudson Valley grape-grower and very proud ofa most charming wife, taken not so manyyears ago. Haven't heard from Earle Johnson in ages—has anybody? Incidentally, Istill wash dirty shirts for a living."
Hi Belding and Tom Campbell have sons in the freshman class at Hanover. Now will you believe you're growing old and that your twentieth reunion is just around the corner? .... George Kapff (Boston) spent the entire summer in Europe, leader of a tour of 62 students. Expects to repeat next summer, so if you have a youngster you want to see the world—see George.
A source of keen disappointment to your more or less hard-working class officers is the fact that Eighteen hasn't a larger number of the boys getting the ALUMNI MAGA- ZINE regularly. Especially since this column is our main means of keeping in touch with one another and drumming up plans for the Twentieth. As you know, your class dues of 13.50 cut you in for a year's subscription. But how about those bucks who don't pony up with their dues and don't get the magazine? I ask you. If each one of "the regulars" would pass along your copy to some other classmate who isn't on the list—mebbe a perusal of this reminder would induce a number to kick through and send their check to Ernie Earley, class treasurer, at 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
By now we had expected some dope from Bob Fish, who heads up the reunion committee. Chances are, however, that Bob has been busy lining up plans and com- mittee personnel and he'll doubtless break out with a lot of news ere long. Might even make his report the basis of another issue of "The Roar" provided enough of you gentlemen favor your Secretary with some news or somethin'. A few weeks after you peruse these lines, it will be Christmas—so, here's a Merry, Merry Christmas to each and every Eighteener and the hope that we all see a good deal more of one another during the year 1937!
Secretary, 811 Norris Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
