Class of 1918
C. F. (Chuck) Palmer has been chosen to head the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, as president Old Sid Holbrook (217 Roxbury St., Keene, N. H.) has taken the step. The announcement reads:
"Reverend and Mrs. Frank Place announce the marriage of their daughter,Edith Roper, to Mr. Sidney Wallace Hoibrook, on Monday the sixth of September,niyieteen hundred and thirty-seven, Boston,Massachusetts." .... The congratulations of the class to you both, and we'll be seein' you at the Twentieth.
Bill Wright, the Deeth (Nevada) cattleman, allows: "It is my present plan for mywife and myself to come to Hanover nextJune. I will try to leave here in May andgo by way of the Canal, or possibly if Ifeel real flush in time as well as cash, byway of Peru and across the Andes by planeand up the East Coast. This is'all tentativebut I have the June reunion definitely onmy schedule." .... Judging by the route Bill has laid out for himself, he's determined to win the "greatest number of miles covered returning to reunion" prize.
These notes are typed way before the Harvard game, even if they are to appear in the November issue, so if you see no account of the doings in Boston, don't think for a minute those doings were of no account Paul Gerrish is now living at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. His work: child development. (Ed. note—that's exactly the way Paul wrote it on his blank!) .... A 1 Sibbernsen's address is now Bennington, Neb Justin Barnard may now be contacted at 7109 Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Md.
A newspaper advertising salesman is Johnny Lawler. He's with the Coos BayTimes and resides at 1055 Flanagan Ave., Marshfield, Ore William C. Hulbert may now sign his mail as Treasurer, General Motors, Suisse, S. A. and you can reach him at 67 Rue du Stand, Biel (Bern) Switzerland John C. Campbell has a new address: 30a N. 25th Ave., E., Duluth, Minn Bob Fish wants to know why we don't list address changes alphabetically. But then Bob always did like to see someone else work, even in the days when he held cramming classes. But have we got Bob working now? I'll say so. And the plans that lad is making for our Twentieth!
Reunion fever! The night of September 28 our phone in Atlanta rang. It was Cleveland, Ohio, on the line. In a second Fat Hardie's voice boomed into the receiverand how that lad's conversation carries one back twenty years! It seems that Fat was having a party in Cleveland, and shortly Jack and Thelma Slabaugh of Akron got on the line. Talk was all of reunion in June, and pre-reunions at the football games this fall. Unless F. D. R. prohibits the railroads from transporting Eighteeners to Hanover and blocks off the highways, it's a darned sure bet that we'll have the biggest attendance ever, at the Twentieth.
Credit for the new reunion masthead at the top of this column goes to Stan Jones, who talked a New York cartoonist friend of his into making the able sketch Another of our Jones boys, Thomas R., is now living at Moultrie, Fla. (Star Route.) • • . . Harold Bruette is in the insurance business in Buffalo. His business address: 17 Court St. Speaking of Court St., it so happens that 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. V., is your treasurer's address—so if you haven't squared yourself in recent weeks with Earley for class dues, why so forth and so on Richard Oppenheimer is an investigator and can be found at City Hall, in Springfield, Mass. He lives at 42 Chase Ave., Springfield.
George Stoddard (DeLaval Pacific Cos., San Francisco) says he has been holding the fort around San Fran for the class of 1918 entirely by himself. The alumni out there are making big plans for the Big Green-Stanford game out there in 1939. "Incidentally," states George, "I am quiteconfident that about 98% of our classmateswill drop in to cash checks and dip theirtoes in the Pacific during 1939 when theGolden Gate International Exposition willbe in full sway. I have thought some ofsuggesting that a hang-over party from ourclass reunion of next year be held in thisvicinity in 1939. In a business way I havebeen intensely busy for the past yearthough I have fortunately been able towork in several pack trips in the HighSierra and have staked out several likelyspots for a good ski run this winter. Hopeto see you at the 20th—my gosh! has it beenthat long?"
Our dependable treasurer, Postage-Due Earley, unloads some dope. "It is with deepregret that I announce that we New Yorkers lose Stumpy Barr, who has now becomethe assistant treasurer of the College, andwill report for duty during October. Andcan the class of 1918 use him as a key manfor the 20th reunion! Stumpy seems tickledto death, and well he might be, and everysingle one that hears about it will rejoicein the opportunity he has, and only wishthat we too might have such a job in Hanover Monk Cameron, the landedgentleman farmer up on the Hudson, sitspeacefully in his carpet slippers in frontof his roadside fruit stand, letting his newapple loading machinery do the work forhim, while a few lurking C.1.0. boys hidein his cornstocks. We haven't yet recoveredfrom some high-tension apple-jack Monkintroduced us to."
Taking time out to sell another policy, Ernie continues: "The report is that T. P.Campbell, the Denver magnate, has putRalph Hitz to shame with his new 500room hotel in Denver. Lewis Lee and JackStorrs heeded the call of the Alpha Deltsand returned to Hanover for the Amherstgame, a house party, and a dip in thefountain of youth. Lou Cousens writes infrom 8 Savoy Road, Salem, Mass., and sayshe's still at the old stand, trying to do afair day's work for a fair day's pay, withone daughter preparing for college nextyear and the other in the sixth grade. AlZulick came into New York with the waveof legionnaires that swamped the town,and after picking up a million-dollar orderfor shoes from Best if Cos., he went out andcelebrated. The report is that F. DusossoitDuke, known to his pals as Duke, has completed one of the outstanding modernhouses in America, somewhere in Connecticut. It is said the rooms are large enough totake care of all of the 'lB class at the Yalegame."
Gosh! it must be that the reunion fever has caught our treasurer, too, for never has he been as free with news items before. Lend us your other ear: "Dave Garrettclaims that the merchant prince, JohnO'Gara, R. H. Macy's right hand man, ispicking up golf prizes frequently, althoughJohn states there is an error somewhere.Youth is planning a fling and a bit of thevie en plein aire right soon, when StanleyBurtoyi Jones, the Flatbush road apple,Looie Pounds, another Flatbush bad boy,Jaysus LeFevre, the key man of New Paltz,and builder, Ev Young meet for a golf outing at Woodstock, N. Y. Dusty Rhodes sentin a big fat check recently, paying off allcurrent and back dues, with the request tomake him pure, and we did."
Didn't think Ernie could write a couple of paragraphs without mentioning dues! Anyway, the insurance tycoon continues: "We haven't heard any further reportsabout Tom Shirley's fascinating side-lineof having attractively uniformed, petiteblonds disinfecting your telephone equipment every month, subject to call and service if desired. George Pierce Geran is representing an advertising firm in the citythat photographs beautiful girls—and, boy,they are honies. Gerry intimated hethought of opening a place of his own oneof these days. Jasper Johnston, one of thepowerful vice presidents at Belding-Heminway-Corticelli, was seen among othernotables surviving the mass impact of thelegionnaires in New York, dining withother executives at Keen's Chop House."
Ray Smith (Basic Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas) traveled East this past summer to put his boys in a camp in New Hampshire. He reports that he sees Dwight Edson quite often and that Dwight also made the East, Maine, during the summer. Edson is still picking the right places to dig holes in the ground and brought in a real well not long ago At a meeting in Boston in September, A 1 Lucier, Nashua mayor, was elected a vice president of the conference of New England mayors, selectmen, and municipal officers Eric Ball (New Haven) expects his oldest son to matriculate at Hanover in the fall of 1938 Your Secretary is holding out a half-dozen items so the next issue won't be short on news. So if you've sent in some gossip and it hasn't appeared, watch for the next issue, (adv.) .... But in the meantime, we can use some more dirt. . . . . The biggest kick in reading these letters from the brethren is noting the ever recurring phrase: "I'll see you at the 20thin June!"
Secretary, 910 Norris Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
