1918
After 4 years in the South Pacific, Comdr.Roger Howland (3 stripes and all the ham andeggs) is back in circulation again—having beenin charge of two transports and a tanker during his service..... We understand Lewis Leeis back in civilian life again.
Stumpie Barr reports, "Bill Kurtz and BennyMugridge were in Hanover in October (some of the Tuck School men mentioned Benny's work and praised it very highly). Bill Kurtz is head of his own firm which specializes in government securities. Ed Booth has had a term off. .... RolfSyvertsen just bought Hippo Haskins estate on the old Lebanon road, giving him ample opportunity to exercise his farming instincts."
1918 Class Dinners and Bowling Dec. 12, Jan. 9, Feb. 13, and March 13
The class is proud of the achievements of George Stoddard whose picture appears in this issue. His many facets of activities are interestingly described in a letter from Eddie Felt last May: "Proper appreciation of our friend Stoddard is neither possible in two or three paragraphs nor even entirely printable in a family paper When I met him in the main dining room at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa entirely surrounded by admirals, generals and diplomats, he was dressed as follows: tweed pants, one of those coats with leather strips from the armpits to the skirt, a MacGregor plaid hunting shirt with tie to match, fringed and beaded deerskin vest, Mexican leather belt with silver ornaments and a black 5-gallon hat, with a beaded band. He was just acknowledging an introduction to a promnent Presbyterian deacon of Buffalo in the following words: 'I don't recall your face, but your breath is familiar."
Checking up with the party that had accompanied him from New York, it seems that he was perfectly normal when he took the plane at La Guardia Field. He was met at Montreal by a delegation of his colleagues who bowed low and carried his bags. In Montreal, he took the hour and a half interval between planes to conduct a sales meeting, but when he arrived in Ottawa he stepped out of character to assume the disguise described above.
"Then according to my trustworthy reporters, he announced that the greatest sport in the world was throwing knives. 'Throwing knives' says Stoddard, requires all the patience, coordination and persistence of golf, yet entails practically none of the expense. The party was then adjourned to an Ottawa department store where they purchased some 12-inch toad stabbers.
Later, after making themselves obnoxious at the bar rooms at Hull for several hours, they returned to their rooms at the Chateau Laurier somewhere around midnight. One of the more conscientious members of the group protesting that international complications might result if all the Chateau's enamel paneling was split into match sticks, they compromised by calling the desk and telling the very unconventional story that one of the members was suffering from a broken vertebra and could not sleep unless strapped to a board; they persuaded the clerk to call the engineer, who called the carpenter, who called the fabor union head at one o'clock in the morning and got permission to _furnish the board. That is one version of the story; another, that sounds more. plausible, is that a bell hop appeared and said no board was available, whereupon Stoddard demanded that his quarter be returned.
"At any rate, when I entered the room at 9:30 Sunday morning there was a knife impaling the Chateau's bed linen and in the center of the floor was a cuspidor bearing the sign 'George, see if you can hit this!' Strangely enough, when we finally got into the bush, George turned out to be a fairly good fisherman. He throws out a nice line, is very ingenious with his lures and lands all the fish that get on his hook."
Dick White, appearing in the Wah Hoo Wah column, for his many successful activities in Washington, D. C., where formerly he was President of the Dartmouth Club, has been selected by your executive committee as Chairman of the next Reunion. When will it be? "General opinion ranges from possibly an informal one in '46, maybe in '47—wait until our regular one in '48." More will be forth- coming on this matter very soon
HaVe you paid your class dues to StumpieBarr? Come up paid up at the next Reunion. The class of 1918's 25th Gift to Dartmouth, (Dave Garratt, 195 Broadway, N. Y. Chairman) was topped to date only by '19's $25,54.1.73 ('18's $21,807.17). However '18 has given $11,000 more to the College since graduation, including annual Alumni Fund than has 'l9. This is an open end class fund which can be added to each year by those who wish to make a permanent gift to the College. Encouragement will be given for substantial gifts to the College by '18ers before our next Reunion.
At the Yale game were Ann and Johnny Johnston, Miriam Morn son. Evelyn and Pete Colwell,Dave Skinner, King Rood, Jack Storrs, Al Gotts-chaldt (Becky had a sudden appendectomy but is coming along nicely), and Eric Ball, with the same delightful young lady he had at Dick Hoiton's party—'18ers are indebted to Eric Ball for all the clams and oysters he makes available for free, at '18s annual party at Dick Holton's Pomonok Country Club.
Amos Blandin has been appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, also elected to the New Hampshire Judiciary Council Phil Tusting is the author of "Professor Two-Fist" in the summer issue of FightStories—the setting is around Hanover and Boston, and such names as "Tiger Tarrant" are probably taken from his memory of our classmates.
Dick Holton (back to teaching at the American Bankers Institute in his spare time) and DanShea teamed up in golf match and stuck to the finals—"My fault we lost," said Dick StanleyJones was invited to the Yale game by his best client. "Thanks, Abe," said Stanley, "but the way my rheumatism is acting it's going to rain, so I guess I won't go." At the game, Stanley ran plump into his client. We haven't heard what transpired
Dressed in a plain grey suit, swanky bow tie with surrealistic design, and looking rather Anthony Edenish, Bob Fish appeared here this summer—Commenting on his life in Arizona, Bob said if he had blueprinted his retirement in youthful days on the campus, he couldn't have planned better the happy living he now enjoys in Arizona. He's working in oils a bit, has academic discussions with faculty members of the University, looks into local politics a bit and last reports indicated that a Mexican doctor was fast on the way to solving what problems, if any, he has.
Don Snyder's boy, Don, received his bar; as lieutenant in USMCR—last report John was in Germany with 9th Air Force Engineers Back in September Eric Ball reported, "Submarine son, Colgate '45, in Australia—D '43 son at Okinawa, lieutenant on USS Wiley, destroyer" .... Tommy Bryan reports Patty and Clark are back ready for school after two months in camp Herm Whitmore's daughter Jean back in Connecticut College for third time this fall. From Pups Colie"Did some fishing this summer, with my family, and had fine sport, trout—Heard with glee about my violation of parole—next year hope to square myself with the libelous Jones." .... Marjorie and Eddie Butts have the Welcome sign out for any '18ers in San Francisco (2472 Vallejo St.)
From Mary Mather (wife of Capt. Paul), "Paul out in Pacific and due back soon I hope. Paul Jr. had just arrived on the West Coast from sub patrol." .... Bill Christgau reports that his son Bill was accepted for Dartmouth .... from Charlie W'eston (Hopewell, Va.), "Still Gen. Supt. Solvay Process Cos., last three years hectic making munitions. Am President of Community Fund and local hospital, Director USO and Chamber of Commerce. Daughter Sylvie has had two years Red Cross Psychiatric work in Army hospital— after M.A. degree from Smith. Son Pete looking forward to busy fall on local football squad. Wife, Marion, Jusy counting red points and keeping family integrated." .... From Jake Bingham, ''Saw Hal Day at Marblehead, Rotary Club Meeting—is still with American Radiator, Standard Sanitary of Buffalo, N. Y."—what's new with pig raiser Lew Cousens ?.... Paul Miner has fore saken Ingersoll Rand, gone back to his old love, the Underwood Corp.Like King .Gustaf of Sweden, Paul played a lot of tennis on his vacation this summer and ended by falling out of a canoe with all his clothes on, much to Helen's disgust.
From Fat Sheldon "Who the devil wants to write anything to you old New Yorker anyway? All we read about is Stan J.oncs, Dave Garratt and the old Psi U gang. The old pals in the sticks, except for Le Fevre, who tried to follow Franklin D, are a bunch of hicks. Think I'll move back to New England. That Boston crowd is okay." .... (nausea overcomes your editor, too, Fat, at the repetition of the same old names, but all news is published in the order it is received) Francis Christy has gone to the Near East on business interests until about Christmas—he and his wife Katink headed out for Seattle last summer to see son Arthur on an 8-day leave from command of a subchaser. "Went out for a walk and ran plump into Eddie Mader and his wife—then in the lobby of the hotel ran across good old Joe Converse, West Coast representative of a Marine periodical. Young Christopher was in V-12 at Middlebury.
Ted Hazen reports young Ted entered Kimball Union this fall. (famed Bill Brewster '18 is Head- master) and hoped in two years to be entering Dartmouth. Roger Warner reports, "September 12 I came home on the last convoy of liberty ships, taking three weeks from Naples, in contrast to flying over in a B-24. Have enjoyed terminal leave and will now seek more or less honest employment." .... Cort Hofr of Horder's, Chicago, had important business engagements in Syracuse, New Haven, and Princeton—so of course saw the football games in September N. Y. newspapers carried the following about our LesGranger—"Eager to check on conditions bearing on the morale of the Negro personnel, the Navy has sanctioned a tour of its Pacific bases by a group of Negros, headed by Lester B. Granger, who will make the tour serving as personal representative of James W. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy." .... Excerpt from Dusty Rhodes column, "Make Mine Manhattan"—"This touching scene (Tojo . shooting himself) of melodramatic comics culminated in a U. S. Army hospital at Yokohama while Gls were patching Barbara Stanwyck in a nearby movie. Tojo was a bad shot. Biggest gag was when our Medical Corpsmen, to the accompaniment of 'Auld Sang Syne' from the movie house, began pumping plasma into him so that he might stalk into the dock_ and waste a lot of our time and money to be tried as a quote war criminal unquote. You didn't send your blood to the bank for that, did you? Tojo stumbled at his exit, muffed his curtain lines. A ham trouper, he should have made the cast when they split the atom and scattered some of it over Hiroshima."
On a Congressional investigating committee went Congressman Jay Le Feyre, touching Teheran, Cairo, Rome and London. No report was available as to whether he touched Russia and sampled the Vodka. From Congressman Buck '14, a letter says.....am sure Jay Le Fevre's trip had real legitimacy—I have high admiration for the manner in which he fulfils his duties." .... CliffMeredith, now two years at Spivak, Colo., reports frequent pleasant visits from Freddie Carleton and nice letters from George Stoddard and Harvey Hood. Reports progress but very slow.. . . . George Mcßride is now in Dawson, N. Mex. .... from Maj. Ray Smith, "The only classmate I've seen in months was Col. H.ort Chandler who happened to be coming through Manila in June-he has done a first class job and is much respected for it. My trip covered most of the Pacific points, including Okinawa, I wo Jima, as well as the Philippines and China. I got a thrill on Iwo Jima from standing on the spot where my son Michael (jg) USNR operated during the excitement. Nothing definite on return to civilian life, and it looks like Air Intelligence still for a short period."
G. C. STODDARD, pres., De Laval Co., New York.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
18'25TH REUNION
