1919
Bob Stecher has been nominated for membership in the Alumni Council and there being no other candidate from his district, he will be declared elected for a first term of 3 years beginning in June. This increases '19s membership on the Council to three—Martin and Cunningham are the other two.
Last month we mentioned that Cunning- ham was leaving the Boston Post and going with the Boston Herald. Knowing full well that any attempt of mine to comment worthily on this important change would be inadequate, I am quoting from the Herald's Editorial Page of March 16th: "The Herald will have additional sparkle seven days a week, beginning tomorrow, when Bill Cunningham, the latest addtion to our regular staff, will make his salutatory bow in a front-page column. He occupies the place in the public mind which another Herald man, the late Ring Lardner, held for many years.
"Like Mr. Lardner, he is not only a delicious writer on sports. He roams all over the fields of popular interest and 'calls 'em as he sees 'em.' He does the job day in and day out without interruption, so humorously, so joshingly, so breezily and, best of all, with such aptness, shrewdness and savvy that the professor and the bootblack share in appreciation of him.
"He is doing it his own way what firstclass writers have always been able to do. He handles his themes with such skill and penetration that everybody wants to know what his slant is. A prizefight, football or baseball game, a wrestling spectacle, a movie star's technique, a peculiar little social movement, a book, a play, a vacation resort, a political campaign—anything from slugging to a symphony has a fresher flavor from his description of it.
"Mr. Cunningham earned his athletic laurels long since as a Dartmouth football player and an all-American star. He has won many more sprigs since graduation as a newspaper and magazine writer, a public speaker, a debunker, a good-natured satirist and a decorator of whatever subject he touches. We recommend him warmly to those of our readers who are benighted enough not to be familiar with him. We welcome especially into the growing Herald family the thousands who have been reading and enjoying him daily elsewhere."
Another Boston item concerns the talented wife of our President. The following came from the March sth edition of Boston Herald: "An exhibition of children's portraits in pastel by Mrs. Mary Ludlam Davis of Framingham Center will open at the Boston City Club Monday and continue on display through this month. The portraits, more than 20 in number, have been loaned by their owners. Mrs. Davis, who began her career illustrating child's books,"draws children directly from life, using deep-toned paper of colors to match the temperament and particular individuality of each child. She studied under George Luks and Robert Henri."
If you should happen to drive South from Boston on Route lA, stop off in Walpole at the Kendall Cos. There you will enjoy, as I did recently, a visit with Everett Moxon. He occupies one of the- corner offices and functions there as Asst. Comptroller. For diversion, he helps run the Town Government of South Weymouth where he lives and serves as Trustee of South Weymouth Savings Bank.
Howie Cole, member of the law firm Brickley, Sears & Cole, i Federal St., Boston, wrote me in part: "I feel quite removed from news of the Class as I had to be out of town both at the time of the Harvard-Dartmouth game last fall and the Dartmouth dinner in Boston early this month. However, I've seen some of the fellows around town and can report the good health of A1 Crosby, Spen Dodd, Phil Bird and Louis Munro."
Hildreth M. Allison is author of the poem "Punkin Pine" appearing in the Feb. issue of Yankee published monthly by Yankee, Inc., Dublin, N. H. With what I hope is proper recognition to the publishers, I quote his poem here:
Said Solomon Snow, "My farm and line Will last as long as the punkin pine." The punkin pine was a virgin stand That Solomon spared when he cleared the land.
Now most of the Snows were a thrifty lot Who lived and labored and bred and begot; And sparingly exercised the axe-A few trees settled the yearly tax.
But after a while along came Jim And little of good there was in him; He ran to whiskey and rot-gut rum And never lived by the rule of thumb.
When everything else had gone to pot Jim made a dicker and sold the lot; And after they'd sawed the last grand tree Died in a brawl on a drunken spree.
True to his prophecy years ago Ended the farm and the line of Snow; For naught remains, and the creepers twine Over the stumps of the punkin pine."
The picture of the New York Class party for Tuss McLaughry is here for your inspection. Reading from left to right are: (seated) George Hull 'lB, Batchelder, Martin, McCarter, Tuss McLaughry, James W. Dunaway—father of a Dartmouth Sophomore and guest of Bresnahan; (standing) Jack Clark, Garrison, Treat, Clements, Moriarty, DeMond, Drane, O'Neil, Siegbert, Ralph Meader, Colwell, Little, Bresnahan, Gilchrist and his guest, Jackson.
Tom Hapgood is on leave of absence as production manager of Strathmore Paper Cos. and has been ordered to active duty at Springfield, Mass. as Major in the Ord- nance Dept.
Others in the Class on active military or governmental service include: Lt. Com. Paul Halloran, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va.; Earl Blaik, West Point; Larry Eastman, Lt. Com. recruiting officer for Naval Reserve, Portland, Me.; H. M. Chadwell, Nat'l Defense Research Committee of the Council of Nat'l Defense, Washington; Ralph Hayes, Naval Reserve Lt. in Communications, Washington; Major C. D. Merrill, sth Div. Headquarters, Ft. Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.; Major Francis B. Valentine, care of Adjutant General, Washington. Spen Dodd has a son at Camp Edwards.
Here are some new addresses: Kenneth W. Matheson, c/o Mrs. J. A. Matheson, 16890 Marlowe Rd., Detroit.
Walter S. Aylsworth, Combustion Engineering Cos., Pittsburgh.
Kellogg A. Pette, Glen Cove Rd., Wheatley Hills, L. 1., N. Y.
Chas. W. Biddle, National City Bank of N. Y., Central P. O. Box 159, Osaka, Japan. Carl A. Babcock, 403 W. Washington St., Sandusky, Ohio.
Roland C. Foss, National Shoe Cos., 512 S. Broadway, Los Angeles.
Robt. F. French, 154 Brevator St., Albany, N. Y.
Thomas J. Whelan, Lynn English High School, Lynn, Mass.
Seen or heard at Dartmouth Club New York: Bill Pickens arguing with two ships architects; Chet DeMond explaining the intricate operations of the accounting profession; Bri Greeley with his father, W. B. Greeley '81; Spider Martin about to leave for a week's golf at Sedgefield Inn, Greensboro, N. C.
Ernie Rautenberg who is on the go frequently was in New York recently. In Cleveland he saw or talked with Stecher, Raible and Sawyer, and in Buffalo, with Chet Gale.
Please remember Spider and his annual one-man Alumni Fund Roundup which this year will be known as the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign.
As "Hoppy" told us once at a class dinner in Hanover, we were on the ground when he took over. Let's show him this year that we still have our feet on the ground and that we have the same loyalty for the College that was part and parcel of us in the fall of '16.
We are constantly reminded these days of world-wide changes, most of which we don't comprehend. In the midst of this confusion, we want to be FOR something —not just negative or neutral.
Dartmouth College is something we can comprehend and all of us are FOR IT. Let's demonstrate this loyalty by contributing to the Alumni Fund this year and by being active in the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign.
JAY-SUS LE FEVRE, Kay Young, Mildred (Mrs.Jay-sus) and EV YOUNG departing from luxurious '18 quarters at 20th in borrowedclothes! Swanky gabardine ensembles ofJay and Ev having been neatly lifted during Reunion stay. Reports have it that thefollowing football season found JACK STORRSand BENIE MUGRIDGE in natty gabardineattire.
CLASS OF 1919's NEW YORK DINNER
Secretary, 2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y.
Class Agent, Graybar Electric Company 180 Varick St., New York, N. Y.
