1917*

The New York party February sixth was a great confab, with the whole college generation joining in—l9l6, 'l7, 'lB, and 'l9 being represented by 50 men. 1917 drew a natural with seventeen men present. It was Ves Whiton's first class party since 1937, a signal of his return to good health. Don Brooks had to leave early, but Mike Donehue rested his elbow at the same station, and Len Shea was right in the way of a flock of Scotches in honor of his marriage. Butch Sherman from Brattleboro stopped in for the first time in years. Art Stout was down from the Catskills, and Chuck Gilmore kept busy training for his Florida trip. Rudie Miller and Palmer Kiser motored in from Westchester, and Summy Emerson came back from the Coast just in time. Attorney Saline invited all of us to his summer camp in the Laurentians, and don't you forget it, Sam! Len Reade is one Jersey business executive who comes across the Hudson for a dinner. (Hoping you Newark gents are listening.) Dick Marschat and Mudge Mudgett were very much present—they never miss. Harry Fowler expected to leave early and join his regiment, but didn't have a Chinaman's chance. Arch Earle, who called out our gang and provided the music, finds we can just make room for the other forty Seventeeners in the New York area who missed the dinner, when the class gathers again in April. It was a real satisfaction to sit around at each table, or lean awhile on the bar, and talk with the men in the classes both sides of us George Currier has called out the Boston team for a dinner March 9, Dartmouth night, at the Yacht Club, and that's always a rousing affair.

Before attacking his many responsibilities as chairman of the Alumni Fund, Sumner Emerson, vice president of Morgan Stanley & Cos., made a tour of the Northwest and had luncheon at San Francisco with Naas Young, ardent and prosperous rooter for California At Spokane he had lunch with Bones Graves, who is reported to have all of his original hair, in its original color, and hasn't changed much since college days. Bones is one of the city's leading attorneys, is married, and is active as one of the Friends of the Library at Washington State College, Pullman Sum says Carp Atwater has put on some weight and a touch of gray, has a fine family with two boys and a girl beside Mrs. Atwater, in their home high above the city, where Sumner had dinner with them. Carp travels extensively through the mining district, selling conveying machinery, lubricating oils, and mine supplies, for which the Nott-Atwater Company is a well established wholesaler. Carp is an ardent rooter for the Northwest, but regrets he has not had a chance to get back to Hanover and sees very few of the class except at such infrequent gatherings as the Stanford Pow-Wow. He is very popular in Spokane.

The January issue of "Dartmouth-in- Dixie Doings" says Doug Fleming is talking about organizing a Dartmouth Club at Houston, Texas A good picture snipped from an unidentified Nashua paper came in with the news that Hunk Stillman is the new president of the New Hampshire Bridge Association Another press photo featured Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Dr. Deering G. Smith, who has been nominated by the Nashua Council of Girl Scouts for the annual Juliette Low Memorial Award, a three weeks' trip to the Girl Scout International Conference in Switzerland. This nomination is a real tribute Reflecting on the group of Seventeeners at the San Francisco and Los Angeles parties incident to last fall's Pow-Wow, A 1 Shiels writes: "To be in a class with men who have taken as good care of themselves, worked as conscientiously, and prospered as they have, is a real privilege Jane has been accepted for Pomona College, the nearest thing in atmosphere to Dartmouth on the Coast, so I guess I must be getting along after all." Getting along well, Al, judging by all reports Walter Sisson writes he and Ruth will go south early in March —Bermuda or Miami Slatz Allen 'phoned he was on the way to Florida.

Fred Husk of Hornblower and Weeks, Detroit, member of our class Executive Committee, comes across with this gossip: "The only two members that I ever see, and then very rarely, are Scotty Rutherford and Elmer Gray. Scotty Rutherford lives in Lansing and hardly ever comes to Detroit. However, I have talked with him on the 'phone a few times, and he tells me that he is plugging away at selling investment bonds in and around Lansing. He has a connection with the Central Trust Company there, which is more or less of a liaison nature to the bond business. Elmer Gray, who is a patent attorney, seems to spend a lot of his time in Washington. I haven't seen him since early in the fall. He used to show up at our alumni group luncheons, but apparently his business has required him to stay away in recent months.

"As for myself, I am still a bachelor, able and willing, with indifferent success at obtaining a family. My activities in sports in recent years have been rather limited to golf in the summer at the Grosse He Golf and Country Club, and shaking dice for drinks in the winter time with the elbow benders at the D.A.C."

The Young Republican, February issue, carried a two-page story on Hap Mason, entitled "Coming Over The Horizon," by Frederic F. Van de Water. It portrays Hap's campus life, his liberal handling of wages and hours in his own business long before the New Deal, his social welfare work in Brattleboro, and his political leadership of Vermont, in dealing Roosevelt a stirring defeat in 1936, at a state campaign cost almost nil. Too bad we can't run this complete character story in our limited columns!

Bruce Ludgate says that since Armstrong Cork Cos. bought Whitall Tatum Cos., they now have both the bottle and the cork, so let him know if any of you boys want to bottle off your cider. He is sales manager for the Philadelphia district and was recently elected a director of the Drug Exchange there. Part of his Rotary Club work involves setting up a series of forums on good government for seventy outstanding young Philadelphians, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania. He reports that Vic Smith established a very nice business on building specialties, such as metal windows and rolling steel doors. His oldest daughter is a cellist with the Swarthmore Civic Symphony Orchestra, plays in a group representing the high schools of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and last year played in the All State Orchestra Art Jopson has reason to be proud of Art Junior's stellar performance on the Germantown Academy football varsity last fall, culminating in his election as captain for next season.

.... Heinie and Mrs. Wright have moved to the Greystone Apartments in Haverford, Pa., where they are more accessible to 'i7ers Russ Fisher is still scheduling trips for the peregrinations of Wilmington citizens Ludgate says the Philadelphia gang are planning their first winter dinner, definite notice to follow.

"Mayor La Guardia reminds Willis S. Fitch, Boston banker, of their days of flying service together during the World War," was the cut line under a big frontpage picture of the two, in the Boston Herald recently. Other press clippings and pictures indicate that Willis is speaking to various organizations around Boston. Douglas Corrigan autographs Will's recent brain-child: "To a right-way author from a wrong-way author." And as personal military aide to Governor Saltonstall, Will is attending functions all over the state. For a rest and a little bridge playing he took a West Indies cruise on S.S. Saturnia in February Ed and Irma McGowan spent most of February in Miami The Maclntyres and the Sanborns took in that big-time show, Winter Carnival, and joined the Giles for dinner.

Bob Paine winds up a good letter with an excellent observation on the class,—but here's his whole story on the letterhead of Nash New England Company: "I am here in Boston as president of the above distributorship— 10 years Christmas day. Bob Jr. was appointed assistant varsity football manager at Harvard, which means he should be varsity manager his senior year. Dicky—now 6 years old—seems to favor the name of Southern California, which he heard on the football broadcasts, but we old 'uns know it's dangerous to just follow a name. Barbara Anne, who never wants her age made public, but she does have a driver's license, is in Winsor School with only one year more to go.

"When Elaine and Barbara Anne and Bob and I attend a hockey or football game, it sounds like a crateful of kilkenny cats, as we all root for different teams; at the Harvard-Princeton hockey game the other night I was rooting for Dartmouth— on the broadcast from Hanover.

"We elder Paines shoot lots of bridge, poker, red dog (occasionally). In summer, it's tennis, a little golf, seashore, and sailing. By the way, the race track profits are not possible, and haven't even nibbled at it for two years.

"See Ralph Sawyer occasionally as he drops in here for a chat. Charley Peters was in for a minute the other day—believe he is in business around Boston again.

"My best to everyone—seems as though our class picked a tough but interesting 20 years to live through. I'll wager we are all tougher and more balanced as a group than any single group in history, with the war, the 1921-1929 boom, the crash, and two depressions."

Curly Carr gave us a happy thought in a letter which appeared at the end of our March class notes. As the list of 1938 Alumni Fund contributors appears below, wouldn't it be a good idea to pick up your March issue again—and judge the importance of what Curly wrote? Most of us can help simplify the tremendous job just ahead for Class Agent Maclntyre and his many helpers, as Spique's predecessor points out.

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 168 (68% of graduates). Total gifts: 12,718.25 (86% of objective). ARTHUR P. MACINTYRE, Class Agent.

1917

Anonymous Adams, Robert E. Aldrich, Donald B. Allen, Raymond N. Allison, William H. Anderson, Arnold E. Barber, Payson T. Barrows, Walter A. Bartlett, Howard S. Baxter, Raymond H. Bidwell, Harold F. Black, Angus C. Blood, Philip W. Boynton, Robert C. Britton, Ralph R. Brooks, Donald Brown, Mott D., Jr. Buxton, Robert B. Byers, John R. Carr, Houghton Carr, Walter D. Carroll, Everest R. Chase, Robert M. Chesley, John G. Cocks, Ralph J. Cofran, Clarence W. Cone, Leon J.

Cornelius, Laurence A. Cunningham, Louis Currier, George C. Davis, Aaron W. Dewey, Edward R. Donehue, Francis M. Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr. Dunning, Ralph A. Dupuis, Almanzor L. Durkee, James T. Earle, Edgar C. Eaton, William C. Edgerton, Alson B. Emerson, Sumner B. Emery, Forrest S. Emmons, Albert W. Evans, Philip G. Ferguson, Walter G. Fisher, Russell S. Fitch, Willis S. Fleming, William D. Ford, Hobart Fowler, Henry G. Fox, James A. Fritz, Emdon Gale, Burton L., Jr. Gates, Fred W.

Gee, Fred W. Gerrish, Bernard O. Gile, Archie B. Gilmore, Charles M. Goodwin, Fred P. Grady, Francis A. Gray, Elmer J. Gregory, George, Jr. Halloran, Roy D. Hammond, E. Kendall Hardv, C. James1 Harris, Daniel L., 2nd Hartshorn, George E. Hawley, C. Kent Healey, Maurice T., Jr. Hickmott, Allerton C. Hill, John W. Hill, Lee F. Holden, Kenneth W. Holt, Harold W. Howe, Luman B. Husk, Frederick R. Hutchins, Mosher S. Kent, Kenneth R.2 King, William T. Koeniger, Karl W. Lagay, Frank L. Langmead, Edmund C. Leighton, Frederic W. Litchard, Donald B. Loudon, Henry A. Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph McCulloch, Norman E. McGowan, Edwin W. Maclntyre, Arthur P. MacKillop, Samuel R. Marr, Russell W. Mason, Harold W. Melvin, Parker L. Merrill, Howard E.3 Miller, Rudolph N. Montgomery, George S. Montgomery, James, Jr. Mudgett, Elliot B. Murphy, Cornelius F. Murphy, Richard D.3 Murray, S. Clifford Norby, Charles W. Nourse, Laurence G. Norton, Donald H. Olds, Everett L. O'Neill, Thomas S. Osborn, Paul G.2 Osborn, Paul G.4 Paine, Robert G. Palin, Milburn R. Rariden, James V. Reade, Leonard J. Reycroft, Wendell G. Richardson, Guy L. Richmond, Donald Robie, Everett E. Rubel, James L. Saladine, John W. Saline, Samuel

Sanborn, Ralph Sault, Raymond G. Scott, Robert D. Scudder, Winthrop R. Sewall, William Shaffer, Howard M. Shea, Leonard A. Sherburne, Maxwell G. Sherman, Laurence G. Shiels, Albert, Jr. Sisson, Walter C. Smith, Deering G. Smith, Reginald Smith, Sherman L. Smith, Victor C. Smith, Vincent K. Sprague, Isaac, Jr. Steiger, Chauncey A. Stevens, Leslie B. Stickney, Robert C. Stillman, Karl G. Stockwell, Howard A. Stone, Charles L. Streeter, Percival Sturtevant, Warner B. Supeau, Auguste F. Switzer, James M. Thielscher, Karl L. Thompson, Errol M. Thompson, Willis D. Tobin, Harold J. Towler, Eugene D. Tracy, Gordon S. Trenholm, Derrill deS. Trier, Paul W. Valentine, Carroll E. Vaughan, Alden G. Walker, Harold S. Walters, Waltman Watkins, Maurice C. Wells, Ralph A. Wheelock, John F. White, John W. Whiton, Sylvester G. Wolff, Charles, 3rd Wood well, Philip Mcl. Worthington, Harry T. Wright, Henry C. Wyeth, William H. 1 Memorial gift from hisbrother, Mr. Robert C.Hardy '25.2 Memorial gift from aclassmate.2 Memorial gift from hisclassmate, Mr. John F.Wheelock.4 Memorial gift from hisfamily.MEN CARRYINGINSURANCE WITH THECOLLEGE AS BENEFICIARY Sturtevant, Warner B. Towler, Eugene D.

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