Class of 1918
Golf caddies at Hanover already wear a worried look. Owners of eating places have made advance reservations for plenty o' thick steaks. Professors stop one another on the campus and query: "I wonder if I'llbe able to recognize the old so-and-so whenhe comes back in June?" .... All of which, of course, has to do with our Twentieth, your Twentieth reunion this coming June. There is a lot of time and thought being put into plans by Reunion Chairman Bob Fish, and you'll be hearing from him soon and often.
Since ye Secretary had to knock off some notes for "The Roar" not very many days ago, there may be a bit of repetition in this column. I know we chronicled Amos Blandin's marriage and mentioned George Kapff's. With all this trouble in China and Japan, we had hoped to give you a report on our Far-Eastern delegation. But no news is good news. We do know that Mel Southwick was in the States this summer, so presumably he is not back in China at this time; Hua Huang was last listed as living at 11 Yuen Ming Yuen Road in Shanghai, and if any of those bombs happen in his way, we imagine the old soccer player will be able to kick 'em for a goal. As for Stew Teaze, last we had reports he was in Yokohama, Japan, so we assume the Stew is still swinging a mean tennis racket, regardless of the racket around Shanghai.
Lester (Beans) Badger, of Pittsfield, N. H., has a son headed for Hanover as these notes are written. Any other Eighteeners registering freshmen to clean rugs for Sophomores, Belding and Campbell? .... Can't read these French postmarks, so don't know whether we've given you this from George Hull of Paris—before or not. Anyway: "Claim all time record. My sonborn 9:45, took the doctor to the bank tosee if the cheque was good. Telegraphedaround 11 to enter him in Dartmouth.Result, with 51/2 hours difference of time,Richard Hull enrolled in Dartmouth before he was born. Tie that, if you can, youblighters." .... George M. Davis Jr., New Rochelle, has a daughter headed for Smith Johnny Thayer collaborated with Ev Robie 'l7 to write a Dartmouth drinking song for the Connecticut alumni meeting.
A 1 Rice (Upper Montclair) has "a twelveyear-old daughter who swings a mean accordion, being partial to Dartmouth airs. A 1 promises to have the youngster on hand for the 20th. Paul Mather's elder daughter, Mary Elizabeth, enters William and Mary College in Virginia this fall Eric Ball of New Haven says he's still in the oyster business and invites the visiting firemen to drop in for a few half-shells. Say around Yale game time Hal Ellis (Chico, Calif.) writes that he may make the long trek back to Hanover for the 20th, "if folks will behave themselves this September." Business of counting up on fingers. "But they won't," concludes Obstetrician Ellis.
Add to Orient notes: Bill Mudgett (Palo Alto, Calif.) was due to leave the first of July on a trip to Japan and northern China. Is Bill back from the war zone safe and sound? .... Clarence Tower has a daughter who is now a sophomore at Vassar. The father pays the bills from Niagara Falls, N. Y Ted Hazen (South Hadley Center, Mass.) paid a visit to New York, ran into Louie Huntoon and claims he was insulted. Louie placed Ted as being in the class of 1919. Ted and his wife are living in a new home overlooking Mt. Tom and the Mt. Holyoke range.
Our Gotham correspondent tells us: Stan Jones loses caste at home. His wife, M. 0., had the first article she has ever written published in the June issue of the Forum magazine. "Beginner's luck," said Jones sourly. "She just shut her eyes andswung at the keys." .... Dave Skinner, that well-filled financial shirt from the Bourse, recently had his photo in the paper with an assortment of Hoover collar men and some laborers, viewing a new excavation. The caption ran: "Capital andLabor." Of course, you can write your own, too! .... Farm flash! Gentleman Farmer Morey gets kicked off stool in first attempt at milking. "I don't think he'stouched a tit in 10 years," said the Guernsey, in an interview with the A.P.
Al Kendall is still selling silk and wool yarns and is located on Summer St., in Boston; living in Newton. He's another lined up for the Twentieth. . . . . Leon (Doctor to you) White can be reached at 112 Wolcott Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. His daughter, Louise, goes to Vesper Art School and his son, Leon, is going to be a doctor like daddy Speaking of our doctors, Josiah Quincy writes from 370 Commonwealth Ave., Boston: "Only gasping the last breath would keep us fromHanover next June." .... Bill Wales has moved East from Kansas City and may now be found at 187 Stelle Ave., Plainfield, N. J.
Another doctor heard from! The January issue of The American Journal ofSurgery had an article in it by our own Peter Serafin. Get a load of this title: "Banti's Disease with Gastrorrhagias and Thrombophlebitis." . . . . H. L. (Lang) Robinson (Springfield, 111.) writes: "Ihave announced publicly to all and sundry who care to listen that I am planningto break out of my shell, come spring 1938,and attend the big reunion. You may evenpublish this announcement if it rates frontpage news, in spite of the fact that mycreditors will probably take on new lifeand vigor when they hear it. My wife anddaughter will probably accompany me. Ihad a nice visit with Ed Noyes in St. Louislast spri?ig and got a lot of dope about allthe bean-eaters down Boston way." . . . . John Sanborn may now be reached at 301 E. & W. Building, Sioux City, lowa. F. D. Duke and Dick Wilson are helping to run the magazine Life, in Gotham.
Neil Sheldon, president of the Schenectady, N. Y., Rotary Club, took a six weeks' trip to Europe last summer. A card just came in from Bill Mudgett (mentioned previously) dated August 12 at Nikko, Japan. It reads: "Just back from China.Have been looking all over the Orient fora Wah-Hoo-Wah. No luck. See you inHanover next summer." .... Tom Sturgess, w.k. Connecticut insurance man, paid a visit to Atlanta this summer. R. C. Colwell, New Rochelle real estate and insurance executive, sneaked up to Hanover during the spring and again in the summer.
Vital statistic: Bee and A 1 Gottschaldt (Atlanta) announce the arrival on August go of Miss Kay Walker Gottschaldt Her sister (Helen, aged 12) cleaned up in the juvenile events at the Southern A. A. U. swimming championships this summer. .... How are Gus Gustafson and A 1 Zulick progressing on that revision of the skit, "How Time Flies!"—to be presented at our Twentieth? .... Suggestion for a fall evening: dust off the old Aegis and get names and faces tied together properly in preparation for your biggest reunion yet!
Flash! Class reunion to talk over the 20th and take in the Harvard game on October 23 in Boston. (Cambridge, if you're technical.) All members of the class of 1918 and their wives are invited to a tea to be given by the Harvey Hoods at their home, No. 2 Larchwood Drive, Cambridge, immediately following the game. These affairs have been high-spots for several years, and your Secretary is going to bust the proverbial something or other to make" this particular gathering. Treasurer Earley and Reunion Chairman Bob Fish are slated to put in an appearance from New York.
Dick Cooley (Boston bull in a china shop) has just put an addition on his store and has outgrown (Dick or the business??) his Magnolia, Mass., location Ernie Earley in a postage-due letter says something like this: The slogan is "Comeup, Paid up, in June 1938." To appear without a blemish and at par with all Eighteeners is to pay the $3.50 due September 1, 1937, for class dues and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and to pay also $1.50 per year for any back dues. Each man will get four different notices of what he owes (don't wait for the fourth), so no money means no fault of the treasurer. But Eighteeners have done a grand job—only 7 out of 420 have never paid any dues. Five of these seven got their degrees, by the way. The treasury is willing to let bygones be bygones prior to 1933, so you owe $1.50 for each year you've skipped on dues since then (plus the current $3.50) to get back in the fold with the chosen many. E. H. Earley's address is 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Mail your check in now—this column will get credit for it.
See you at the Harvard game and at the Boston (Hood) tea party.
Secretary, 811 Norris Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
