Class of 1917
March was a great reunion month for Seventeeners gathering at dinners on the Eastern seaboard. New York's new sergeant at-arms, Arch Earle, called the first class gathering at the new Dartmouth Club, on March 7. The gang filed in early to offer a toast in front of the new oil painting of Old Dartmouth Row glistening in spring sunlight, which lights up the semicircle of cheery crystal. Seventeen men on hand were: Don Brooks, Tom Cotton, Ed Dewey, Mike Donahue, Dewey Duhamell, Arch Earle, Sum Emerson, Trott King, Russ Marr, Dick Marschat, George Montgomery Jr., Elliot Mudgett, Cliff O'Neill, Sam Saline, Len Shea, Gil Swett, and Gene Towler. After dinner Arch put on the Tremendous Twentieth Reunion films, which brought forth much laughing and heckling. Earle left his accordion home on account of Robie's absence, but promised that next month's dinner would be a musical clubs concert.
The New York dinner brought out Ed Dewey and George Montgomery for the first visit since college days. Ed is engaged in sales and price forecasting, a member of the firm of Chapin, Haskins, and Dewey at 41st St. and Lexington Ave., lives at Riverside, Conn., is married and has two children. George lives at 34-57 82d St., Jackson Heights, Long Island, is married, and George 3d is 8 years old. After the war George went to Harvard Law School, graduated in 923, and has been practising in New York ever since, with office at 2 Rector St. It was Tommy Cotton's first class dinner in a couple of years. He's with the W. P. A. at 70 Columbus Ave., and lives at 81 Horatio St., New York.
Mott Brown forwarded a good picture of Dr. Donald B. Aldrich in the March 19 Boston Transcript. The article announced that Don would preach at noon services of Trinity church, Copley Square, the following week. Mott gives you the story of another enthusiastic Boston meeting:
"In case you want it for the record, there is below a list of those who showed up for the get-together of the 25th at the Boston Yacht Club. George Currier did a swell job on arrangements and provided a lobster dinner to harmonize with the surroundings. He also did well at the punch bowl and had a delightful degree of cooperation thereat. Howie Stockwell provided three reels of Hanover movies, and Hank Loudon furnished the music with his w.k.l squeeze box. Sorry you couldn't be present, for those who were not just missed something.
"George Currier, Spique MacIntyre, Howie Stockwell, Roy Halloran, Bunny Holden, Martin Sanborn, Rog Stone, Hank Loudon, Sam MacKillop, Jack Crenner, Al Emmons, Andy Anderson, Pay Barber, Howard Bartlett, Al Dupuis, Forrey Emery, Connie Murphy, Errol Thompson, Ray Sault, Mott Brown.
"A couple of weeks ago I spent an evening, which passed as a very short one, at the home of Hairy and Alice Hawkes in Norwich, Conn. In spite of the intervening years, time has touched Harry very gently,plenty of hair, no grey ones, and not much gain in weight. Their two sons, Wilson, 10, and Henry Jr., 3 1/2, are huskies and active from all reports. Harry planned to make the March 25 Boston meeting, but then had to shift, owing to pressure of affairs with Metropolitan Life in Norwich. He sees Hal Bidwell in Hartford not infrequently, in fact filled me with envy at the number of old Crosby inmates with whom he still keeps in touch."
Barney and Mrs. Gerrish took the train to California late in February, were marooned by the Los Angeles flood, and were coming back by boat, visiting in Mexico, Balboa, Canal Zone, and Havana.
Roger Stone spent an evening with your scribe in March, looks fine and has moved to 472 Main St., Hingham, Mass., old home of his ancestor, Hingham's first Episcopal minister, a mere 200 years ago. Young Bill, at 10, handsome in choir gown, looks like future glee club stuff.
Sam MacKillop says Perc Streeter was in Boston a few weeks ago, looking like a plate out of Esquire. Perc got away from his coal strikes at St. John, New Brunswick, told Sam he was rushing to a business conference in New York (just at the time of the Max Baer vs. Tommy Farr engagement).
Hank Loudon forwarded two pictures of himself, and Jeanne and Lois Loudon, busy at piano, accordion, and saxophone, with instructions to Arch Earle to take particular notice. Hank operates an advertising business at 881 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, and says he has sidestepped the depression thus far.
THE CLASS ALBUM
Bruce Ludgate sent for our still pictures of reunion, and here's his account of Philadelphia's second gathering:
"We had a very good party on Friday,March 27. We could not muster as large acrowd as we did on the first meeting. Therewere present, Ralph Britton, Vic Smith,Heinie Wright, Russ Fisher, and myself,and last but not least were Mrs. Brittonand Mrs. Wright. We had originallyplanned to have all the wives present, andwe are looking forward to another partywhen we can have everybody there. Asusual, we had a grand reminiscence, andthe photographs, of course, helped alonggreatly.
"After dinner, some played bridge andthe others sat around and talked, with theexception of Mrs. Wright, who made useof the club library to review some of herEnglish literature."
Red Davison wrote in February: "I hadplanned for a long time on being in Hanover last June, but in this business 'whenyou have to stay, you have to stay.' It hasbeen a regret on my part that I haven'tbeen able to be in closer contact with Hanoverin the past few years, but whetherfrom business or rut, I haven't been ableto do much about it."
Red is assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern University Medical School and professor of surgery at Cook County Post Graduate School of Medicine; attending surgeon at University Hospital and chief of Surgical Department at Cook County Hospital; fellow, American College of Surgeons; member of American Medical Ass'n; Illinois State Medical Society; Chicago Medical Soc.; Chicago Surgical Soc.; collaborator in original research on autoplastic transplantation of bone for skeletal defects, and author of numerous surgical articles. Clubs—University, Sunset, Saddle. Recreation: Squash, Riding. Home—835 Thatcher Ave., River Forest, 111.; office—University Hospital, Chicago, 111.
STOP OFF IN DES MOINES
We caught Dr. Lee F. Hill for a twentyminute visit at Des Moines, March 26. He is a pediatrician to lowa's best families, looks fine, is enjoying life. Lee's chief complaint is that he never sees any of you men, and after signing up for reunion last June he got snarled up with a medical association meeting.
Hands that work the soil and push the pen are carrying Art Stout's philosophy of American life to the readers of country papers in the Hudson River region. From "Uplands" at Bangall, N. Y., Art Stout writes, "You'd better plan to come up tothis farm sometime this spring or summeror we won't be on speaking terms This year the horse barn (garage and storehouse to a city feller) gets a new roof anda few structural repairs. Maybe that doesn'tsound like much, but it's 48' x 25' with a26' x 24' ell, and if you'll take your padand pencil that means a hell of a lot ofroof. Then there's the tenant house to bedone, but come up and we'll give you thelowdown on what a city-countryman doeswith his spare time and $ $ $
Best luck to Jack Saladine, president of Electrical Supplies, Inc., at Hartford. He took over the old Sprague Electrical Supply Cos., of Waterbury and Bridgeport in February, formed the Sprague Electrical Supplies, Inc., in those two cities, and is president of that electrical supply distributing company also. (Just an economic royalist!)
Sumner Emerson journeyed to Bethlehem as headliner on the Dartmouth night program of the Alumni Association of Eastern Pennsylvania, was met by Duffy Karnan of the latter's executive committee. After the meeting a third alumnus wrote: "Sumner made a tremendous hit with theboys, giving a delightfully informal 'talk'on Dartmouth College and some of themore pertinent phases of his work andobservations as a member of the AlumniCouncil. We recommend him most highlyto any group of Dartmouth menwhere, who want a 'regular' talk on"''College by a 'regular' gent!"
Keyes Page wrote late in March from Jackson Heights that following the siege in the financial market he had been laid up with a stubborn attack of intestinal flu A trip to Texas kept him from reunion last June, but he hopes to be at a New York meeting soon and catch up on all the class conversation.
Curly and Ann Carr spent a few days doing the New York theatres late in March after Curly had gone through all the income tax headache for his clients at Eaton and Howard.
Dick Morenus is writing radio copy on the Rogers Peet, I. J. Fox, and Central Fur programs, and an occasional Dupont Cavalcade script, but is all set for the approaching trout season.
The March 1938 issue of "Dartmouth-inDixie Doings" gives us a lift: "It may bethat having an ace real estate man as itspresident constitutes at least one cause forthe Georgia Club's growth. He's A. Henley Sturgess of the class of 1917 , and heheads the Georgians this year for the second time (non-consecutive) since hemoved to Atlanta from Massachusetts in1929. District manager for the NationalRealty Management Cos., Inc., with officesin the Candler Building, he's tied in withmany Atlanta activities and organizations—Chamber of Commerce, PhilharmonicSociety, Capital City Club, Real EstateBoard, serving on many important committees of the last-named. And, oh, yes,he and his wife, Sara, have two sons,Henley Jr., 16, who'll be ready for Dartmouth in a year or two, and William, 13."
Reg Smith of Albion, Mich, wrote a friend of his in Boston: "Last summer Istarted for the class reunion with a fellowfrom Lansing, Mich, and one from Detroit, but had a cold when leaving and itgrew much worse, so I left them at Rochester and returned to Michigan, and didnot get to the reunion. Just one week agoI put in some time with Fred Husk, who isin a broker's office in Detroit,—and thenI received some news of Dartmouth because he is the class agent for MichiganFor the past two years, Curly Carr has sentbulletins to me to broadcast to the members here in Michigan on the AlumniFund, but now Fred is doing that job.
We might add—Fred and all the members of the 1917 National Committee, are working on the Alumni Fund under Spique Maclntyre's leadership, we hope, and with prompt response from all of us.! With very few exceptions, can't everyone give something—a. buck or two; Every name in support of Dartmouth counts!
BEFORE YOU FORGET—MAIL YOUR ALUMNI CHECK NOW
Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
