1918*

Now wearing the silver spread-eagle ranking of Colonel is Hort Chandler of the 208 th Coast Artillery now in Australia—says Hort "The people are cordial, the climate glorious, the country vast, and many will stay over after the war". . . .Loyal, as ever and anxious to be in on the Alumni Fund is Lt. Col. Duke duSossoit, who dispatched his gift from Cairo to be sure to share in the party. Duke's only complaint seems to be the 115 degree temperature in the summer time.

Eighteeners will be sad to learn of the death of Jeff Robinson on April sth (see Necrology in back). No greater tribute could be paid to Jeff than what appeared in a Toledo newspaper—"The lives of a legion of youngsters now growing into fine manhood have built for Jeff Robinson a monument not made with hands but finer and more substantial than granite or marble—a monument immortal."

Nineteen hundred and eighteen takes pardonable pride in the fact that our Harvey Hood was at the helm of the Alumni Fund again this year for the entire College. Although the Fund last year reached the undreamed of heights of about $196,000 (Hoppy's 25th year tribute) this year it appears to be about $195,ooo—total in 2 years above s391,ooo—more than the 3 previous years and the 3 lush years of '27, '28, and '29. A roaring wah-who-wah to you Harvey. The class will never know the extent to which Dick Holton (and sec'y Helen) has slaved to keep '18 as one of the 3 or 4 leading classes in amount of money given to the College. We are proud to learn that Dick has been made Vice President of the Class Agents' Assn. where he can be of even greater help to the College. Dick gave a very instructive talk at the N. Y. Dartmouth Club to other class agents June 17.

The Salem wildcat, LEW COUSENS, we understand, must sell some of his pigs—no rubber to reach the farm TOM and Priscilla SHIRLEY were in Hanover last spring with their oldest daughter. Temporarily at least, the daughter's attention was diverted from the local youthful suitor in his reckless jalopy. Tom looks pink, pert, and younger even with his stubby white mane A note from Dr. TOM CAMPBELL out Denver way to STAN JONES as of last March is interesting: "At the end of the first semester, we took Don out of Dartmouth where he had arrived at a state of magnificent confusion and put him in the School of Mines where he damn well has to work and may learn something of practical value. He is enrolled in the R.O.T.C. there and will be duly commissioned in the Army Engineers. Dick has signed up with Navy Ordnance. He is getting a heavy dose of mechanical engineering at Colorado U, later he will be sent to Navy training school and, if he makes the riffle, will be commissioned as an Ensign in Navy Ordnance. Miriam is much involved in recreational and morale work for the 3 army posts hereabouts. She does not, thank God, wear a uniform. In my humble opinion, the Administration is doing the same bungling, fumbling job of running this war that it did in "curing" the depression, in fact to date, it has shown us, in one easy lesson, how to lose a war. The confusion, the inter and intradepartmental bickerings, the woeful lack of forceful, purposeful command, the end- less delay in getting simple and necessary orders through countless hands, the fatuous adherence to outworn standards and archaic notations—sweet, sweating, Keeryst! If that collection of hand picked, hysterical old poops that compose our so-called Cabinet can't be convinced—and that damn soon that they have to quit playing patrioteer politics, there won't be any war left for any right guy to win! There is precious little complacency or unawareness hereabouts. Most of the people I talk with are just damn sore, uneasy or plain disgusted. They crave leadership; some direct and convincing evidence of good faith and real sacrifice at the top. And that goes for all sorts and classes, from janitors and taxi-drivers to "business men" (damn near an extinct species), industrialists and professionals. Maybe we'd all be happier and saner if we took comfort in one of the lesser known of the Beatitudes: "Blessed are they who expect nothing; for they shall not be disappointed.". . . .A rare limeri ck was added, but you'll have to communicate with Tom for its makeup.

DR. ROLF SYVERTSEN, Secy of Dartmouth Medical School, reported an extended vacation between the College year end on May 10th and the beginning of College again on May 18th SYL MOREY does a beautiful job now in putting on a traction splint (he and banker ANDY ROSS are toughening up on bicycles every evening) No additional news on MEL SOUTHWICK interned in Japan. STEW TEAZE, is on way here as an exchanged national—Helen (Mrs. Teaze) said in her letter last April—"Stewart is interned in Yokohama. I understand a Swiss representative had visited interned Americans there and reported conditions were not bad, and the men in good spirits. The Swiss advised that the internees can receive visits, food and laundry from outside. Stew has been writing on modern Japanese woodblock print artists and I am hoping his present leisure time will stand him in good stead".... from DON BLISS, American Embassy, London—"transferred here a year ago, travelled by air from Calcutta to Egypt across Africa."... .JOHNNIE SIMMONS reports that he was in Florida a couple of months last winter watching his son, John Jr. (Cornell '41) get his wings as a pursuit pilot and then said"and now he's a flight instructor in Georgia." 808 FISH ran into MARY DUKE in Tucson last winter. Then and there, said Bob, I wrote to Duke and Mary wrote to Mildred, thereby keeping the records straight—Bobs says Dartmouth will be mighty fortunate if they can get the 2 mighty nice, big, strapping lads of Dukes (the Quick Lunch Prof has bought himself a house in Arizona and is thinking of changing his Co. slogan from "After Sunset Lightolier" to "After Sunset Arizona"), MARJORIEBUTTS looks fine now after visiting friends in the diplomatic corps in Mexico City last spring. Eddie, Sales Mgr. of the huge Stein Hall Co. of N. Y. now takes the Chicago office under his wing a 150.... young BILLY ROSENFELD passed the hurdles and entered Dartmouth in July.... a nice letter from GEORGE HULL last April—"am with the WPB in Wash. Freddie and Dick are carrying on somehow in Paris. The Germans have the upper two floors of my house—my family the rest—if the Germans get chilly, I guess they'll get some coal in—there are about 400 Dartmouth men here I believe. If it weren't for the worrying about Paris, I seldom enjoyed life more. CLARENCE OPPER promised to have us down for a swim. Am thinking of joining up as we understand the Air Corps wants some of us old guys as ground officers". . . .from JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM out Denver way, "Prof. Foley was out here in May for annual Rocky Mountain Assn. meeting. Made arrangements with Tom Campbell for a room at his hotel to stay and mighty nice of Tom, he made it complimentary. Tom's hotel, The Albany (nice ad, Tom) is one of our nicest. CHUCK HILLIKER has had a tough time in the automobile biz and lately has been helping enlist mechanics for the Ordnance Dept. This keeps him out of mischief to a certain degree. My wife will not let me work in the garden this year unless I raise vegetables so the flowers will have to take care of themselves. Anyway gardening at my age ceases to be a pleasure and I look forward to trout fishing with more interest."

LT. COMMDR. AL RICE gets himself plenty of fan mail from broadcasting over stations from coast to coast—was on a program with Myrna Loy last spring. TOM STURGESS had his picture in a trade paper magazine for presiding at the Eastern Underwriters Assn. Meeting JOHNNY O'GARA and Mouse recharged their batteries a bit last spring at Ponta Vidra, Jacksonville, Fla MIRIAM and 808 MORRISON, GEORGE and MARY STODDARD, DOT and GEORGE DAVIS and EVELYN and PETE COLWELL attended the surprise birthday party ANN JOHNSTON staged for JOHNNY on April 25th (Major Bob Morrison—Ordnance Dept.—puts in a 6 day week—leaves at 8 A.M. and gets home at 8 P.M.) AL GOTTSCHALDT reports seeing the name of MEL WESTON and wife on the board at the Inn last May. Al has offered to tackle the "25 Years Ago" column, running jointly with this column until Reunion. Any snapshots of undergraduate days (please oh please dig 'em up) should be sent to Al at Lyme, N. H.—says Al —"saw STUMPIE BARR, HARVEY HOOD, JAKE BINGHAM, ROLF SYVERTSEN at Reunion last May. We were spotting the activities of '17 and will turn our dope over to HORT KENNEDY for our 25th. Suppose you saw DWIGHT EDSON is now a member of the Alumni Council. That's carrying on '18s tradition—since Harvey now steps aside to become a Trustee. Our class has had somebody on the council for a long timebeginning with BILL BEMIS. AMOS BLANDIN who wasn't there, was elected one of the V. P.'s of the Gen. Assn. of Alumni for the coming year. JACK STORRS was up to see young Jack graduate and brought him out to the farm and we had a swell visit—also saw DWIGHT SARGENT, whose son was graduating. My oldest daughter, Mary Louise had quite a part in the Commencement Show (Out of the Frying Pan).". . . .A nice letter from EDWIN (Stubby) W. STANLEY (Putnam, Bell, Dutch and Santry, Attorneys, 60 State St., Boston) —"attended the Dartmouth meeting in Boston last spring—Harvey did a very thorough job. It was astonishing to me how small our endowment income really is compared with other eastern colleges and how dependent we are on the annual contributions to the Alumni Fund. If we can only steam up ourselves to give as we gave per person in 1918 it was an eye opener to listen to the letters being read from Dartmouth men—all of them seemed to sense the critical position of the College at this time—and it seemed to be their first thought to give even more liberally than last year."

Above, Mrs. Horton (Germaine) Kennedyand Hort. With 'iB's 25th Reunion on thehorizon, Hort, now with J. P. Morgan &Cos. in N. Y. (after most of his years sincegraduation in Paris) has offered to pilot1918's 25th Reunion in May 194}.

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