1918*
"BOSTON CLASS DINNER OCT. 16TH NIGHTBEFORE HARVARD GAME 6:30 UNIVERSITYCLUB
MEL SOUTHWICK AND STEW TEAZE BOTHBACK FROM CHlNA—maybe they will kindly offer to tell us of their experiences in China at our class dinner. As of Sept. 12th, Mel in a letter says "Arrived home in good shape. Lost a couple of teeth and had to have my spectacles stepped up 4 years in strength—both of which we can attribute to malnutrition. Had some lean days but it all seems more like a bad dream. Had quite a gathering of D men on the SS Gripsholm 10 altogether and we held weekly meetings of the 'Dartmouth Club on board the Gripsholm' sent a telegram from Rio to Prexy Hopkins assuring him of our thoughts of the college. Rather a novel club in the history of the institution."
Think of it—one of their first thoughts on reaching freedom was the welfare of the college!
"N. Y. CLASS DINNER—OCT. 23, NIGHT BEFORE YALE GAME 6:30 DARTMOUTH CLUB.Chicago Class Dinner—Oct. 23—Dick Aishton in charge Will you handle it Dick?"
DAVE GARRETT reports a very substantial gift for our 25th from one who perhaps has had the toughest luck of anyone in the class and with that check came a promise of another 3-figured gift before the campaign closes 3/1/43 Sorry to learn of the death of EDDIE FERGUSON'S father and JOE SEACREST, publisher of the Nebraska State Journal and Eastern States Journalalso BILL CHISHOLM'S father, Salem banker. ....DOC JOE QUINCY acted as consultant at V-Attic Sale of the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing HARVEY HOOD is on the Board of Governors of the Boys' Club of Boston BILL COLBY has been reelected Pres. of the N. H. Conference of Social Welfare, and is also Pres. of the N. H. Society, also Sons of the American Revolution KEN JONES was skiing last Spring at Pinkham Notch and met there DOC BILL PEPPIN and BEN STONE.
FAT ROWELL OUT FRONT AGAIN He was the speaker last spring at the Boston TRI-Kap dinner—now in its 100 th year (you tell 'em, LEW COUSENS!) JAKE BINGHAM paid tribute to STAN HILL'S memory as he gazed on a tablet to Stan's memory at Lexington, Mass CLIFF DANIELS (Stevens Point, Wise.) is not worrying about their property insurance volume we have a spotter watching Cliff's behavior.... fully repaired, barrel-chested BILL MONTGOMERY celebrated Eva's birthday a few months back by a bit of light fantastic in the Rainbow Room. Eva wants a farm (last reports MARGARET SARGENT would sell hers for a song) but, said Bill, "perhaps I'll buy a farm some day and run it like a business and quit work." SWIFTIE BARNES received a letter from young Swiftie, enclosing a snapshot of himself and other Dartmouth lads in action on the task fleet out in the Pacific. Young Swiftie reports enough Dartmouth men in Hawaii so they organized a Touch Football Team and instead of the Barbary Coast Band they call it the Salt Lake City Shakers. .... FREDDIE SAMUEL'S young lad, Frederick, a smart boy at school, clipped off all the Irish bulbs of one of the neighbors and, said his Pop, "Yes, he does some things but he gets blamed for everything." .... NANCY DOCKSTADER (by the way, George is trying to get lined up in the Navy) has developed as quite a singer—and having finished high school in 3 years, wants to earn enough to take advanced music lessons (MERCHANT PRINCE JOHN O'GARA gave her a job) REV. CLINT CARVELL was the speaker at the newly organized Newton Lions Club.... BRAINY BURNHAM'S daughter Barbara was married May 23rd to a Tuft's College grad now an Ensign in the Navy ERROL THOMPSON '17 gave JAKE BINGHAM a picture of HAL EADIE'S grave in France DON SNYDER'S boy is in Hill School, hitting the ball and will be in Hanover soon. Don's lumber yard is between 2 shipbuilding yards and if he can get priorities, he'll be all set Federal Housing Commissioner CHUCK PALMER has been in England studying housing methods there.
STEW TEAZE BACK—the alert eye of LOUIS HUNTOON spotted a Rhode Island news item saying Stew was now about to arrive on the SS GRIPSHOLM as a Jap exchange prisoner no further news from MEL SOUTHWICK It's MAJOR JOHNNY MCDONOUGH NOW—Ft. Benning, Ga D. FRANCIS SHEA, a bit difficult to date up this summer, was up at Buffalo in June, the annual Invitation Tournament, shot a 3, 4, 3, and turned in about 78—the pressing gallery finally threw Shamus and his partner into a dither and they lost out. Shamus won the 2nd flight of the Lakeville tournament and on the first hole par 5 shot an eagle—turned in a 77 at Ridgewood, reported sighting CAP HANLEY at Hackensack Golf ClubCap handles big tires (General Tire Cos., trucks) so isn't so badly hurt by the rationing.
GET READY FOR DAVE GARRETT NOW On his 240-acre farm up in N. H., Dave enjoyed a good vacation—said he might run up to see Judge Amos Blandin (gas permitting) infanticipating, says Winchell, of the Blandins If every 'iBer paid $20 a year to the Al. Fund it would take about 30 years to pay off what each owes Dartmouth for his college education alone (in '39 tuition income averaged $398.28 per student, yet operating expense per student was $768.95).... Our 25th (7 more months) is our first opportunity to make a real sacrifice for the college. Fair and reasonable guides might be: H/2% to 2% °f our '42 income (or '43) but closing date is 3/1/43. Three times each one's largest annual contribution to the Alumni Fund, or 6 times one's average gift to the Fund. The goal is $15,000 Dick Holton gave the college last June $5500 for the Alumni Fund. Send checks to Dave Garrett, 195 Broadway, New York, before 12/31/42 (why not now?) to get benefit of gift deduction in '42 income tax returns. Said Huxley: "most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do when it ought to be donewhether you want to do it or not." How's that?
There's a new 10-lb. boy in the RED WILSON family BILL COULSON and his 2 sons are in the Navy LES GRANGER recently gave a luncheon talk on housing conditions From CLINT CARVELL to DICK HOLTON "enclosed 15 is the gross proceeds from a recent wedding or funeral or something—give it to the Alumni Fund. Have been saying all winter that if I ever got a wedding that paid more than a dollar, I'd send it to the Al. Fund. Some fellow decided to get married, and accidentally put $5 in the envelope. You might inform the class that anytime any of them want to get married and I can do the job I'll contribute the whole fee to the Al. Fund unless I have to travel too far. We are trying here (Lawrence, Mass.) to reorganize the defunct Dartmouth Club." .... TY TYRREL'S daughter just graduated from Packer—grabbed a temporary job with AT&T Cos From RUSS TOUT to DICK HOLTON "if you know of anyone who wants to go boarding up in the sticks, on top of the world, send them up to me—it's only a farm but the roof doesn't leak yet." .... from BILL WRIGHT, 71 Ranch, Deeth, Nevada—letter to DICK HOLTON enclosing 10% increase in his gift to Al. Fund—"This is a tough spot from the standpoint of labor—you can train a shipbuilder, a welder or even a pretty good soldier in short time. A livestock hand must grow up with the business, etc., etc. It is too bad you fellows are out of gas back there and have a gloomy outlook on rubber—but after all, you would insist upon your day of economic planners who seem to have planned all things to perpetuate bigger and better bureaus, but which have rapidly attached themselves to war efforts with even larger appropriations by failing to make adequate provisions for tax payers in the event of a contingency—or are you a New Dealer?"
Delightful note last May from ERIC BALL, the oyster man to DICK HOLTON "enclosing my check of $50 for Al. Fund also one from niy Dad ($100) now 81 years young and still going strong. He has loads of pep—he wished to give this money in honor of his grandson, Ernest E. Ball 2nd, class of '43, now in Tuck School. Am working on my son for a gift too." .... from MIKE DAVIES to Dick "my son is '43 and my daughter is headed for Smith this fall"—also note from RALPH NORTON to Dick "delighted to keep my name on the list so here's my contribution to the Al. Fund. Wish it were more but you know the cost of 3 kids in these days and what the bond business is like." from MRS. ROGER WARNER, Wallingford, Vt. "Roger is Captain in army air force, training at Miami Beach. We've lived here in Vt. for a year. Daughter Phyllis was married in March and husband is about to go into the army. Our son Roger will be a junior at Cornell this year Agricultural Dept." .... We are pleased to say NED ROSS's mother is better—She was quite ill in May, so Ned got up from Lebanon to Hanover and enjoyed his first graduation exercises from a Boston newspaper "B. U. Savant in Federal Post—PROFESSOR RAY BLADES to join Price AdministrationB. U.'s law school will lose one of its most popular Faculty members for the 'duration' this week when Prof. R. C. Baldes interrupts a 20-year-teaching career to go to Wash, as Chief Counsel of the Export Price unit of OPA. Since he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the law school in 1920, he has been one of the leading members of the Mass. and Federal bars and is now the Austin B. Fletcher professor of law at the law school. Was Chairman for 5 years on faculty committee on Intercollegiate Athletics."
Caption in Cleveland newspapers "DOTY" IS NAMED WPB HEAD FOR NINE COUNTIES" That's our HAL—good work Hal 808 FISH reports "FRED CARLETON passed through N. Y. after attending graduation of his son at Kimball U. Academy—he's located in Denver, Colo. is living with his wife and 5 children" .... from EDDIE FERGUSON, "I called the Salem Wild Cat, LEW COUSENS, on the AI. Fund drive and disguised my voice so that Lew thought I was a Naval officer. I told him he was wanted back in the service, and he bit like an old horse. He pleaded that he had done some work on the air raid business, and that after all he was nearly 50 years old—after a minute or two I couldn't hold in any longer and the jig was up—it was rich for a while. Lew is carrying pigs from Salem up to his farm in N. H. in the back seat of his car. Nice car I'd say!" .... Had a nice visit with MARIAN and DAVE GARRATT (Chairman of 'lBs 25th Fund) and daughter Martha Jane at Port Washington recently a delightful place. Lovely twisted apple trees in the back Dave, a super gardener, has made it look like a millionaire's estate after toiling he has a delightful basement bar to refresh himself in has a real Victory garden a master craftsman's workshop Martha Jane, about 2, can already hold her own with the best of the tomboys GERRY GERAN is applying for a Lieutenant's commission in the Navy. Good luck to you, Gerry LT. COMMDR. AL RICE has WARREN KING and GUS BROBERG in tow now as Navy Aviation recruits Al spoke at Commencement exercises at Syracuse before 20,000 people in the Bowl and immediately after Lord Halifax, and when his 18 recruits came out of the stands to be sworn in publicly, the Stadium went wild.
ALUMNI FUND
The Alumni Fund went positively mad about 1195.388 that's about $390,000 in 2 years under the leadership of HarveyHood—that's about 3 or 4 years' normal take. What do you think of Harvey doing a job like that in abnormal years? Money couldn't buy the leadership of Harvey or Dick Holton. Dick did 991/2% of the work for 1918, his assistants doing the rest. Dick got the 3rd largest amount of dollars out of some 70 classes ($550). Give him a handhe's a tireless worker. What Dick feels unhappy about is the givers who are normally in, but who missed out this year. Comes the April issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and their names do not appear—well, they can't blame Dick.
PLEASE ACT NOW. Dick suggests that everybody send in a snapshot of himself, so that a friendly album can be prepared for our 25th the success of which, of course, will depend entirely upon the number that respond. Won't you please do that now? While Oscar of the Waldorf turns over his 320 acre estate to the aged of his profession up in New Paltz, we find JAYSUS LE FEVRE, great coal-hay-grain-feed-and-lumber merchant, being picked by the Republican leaders as the organization candidate for the G.O.P. nomination—JAYSUS can't miss up in that country and whatahel; could you find a better man for Congress ?
LT. COL. HENRY G. FOWLER 'l7
Secretary, 161 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
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